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I saw a video of Rhule and his staff talking about trading for Sam. They thought he looked like Matthew Stafford, the guy they really wanted. Matt said he didn't want to come here, and Fitterer went into overdrive to find a vet.

PFF needs to give Christensen and outstanding defensive score of 100 for one defensive play for one sack.

I didn't want Sam to start with. That's a guy you pick up after he's cut and give him a 1 year prove it deal, or pay what you have to on the contract only. I still still don't know why we traded for him. No other teams wanted him.

Teddy could execute our offense, but Sam can't. The scary part is that Rhule and company thought Sam would be able to execute our offense BETTER than Teddy. Think about how bad you have to be in evaluating a QB that Sam, who has never proven anything, is the guy you thought would be great here. No one wanted Sam except us, and we payed a King's ransom. Why not wait until he was cut? No one wanted him. Just bizarre.

Watson is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

For those worried about the cap space and Watson, if we trade for him a lot things will change on the team. We will trade certain players, and let other players walk. Our team blueprint will change from defense oriented and game manager QB, to offense oriented with scrappy cheap defense. That's what the Dallas team that beat the brakes off of us did and it works. Of course it will take some time and nothing is 100% certain.

CMC's hammy will be healed in the next couple of weeks. All logic and common sense points to that.

No I'm asking if you watched. I'm testing the scope of your morality.

DJ and Robby look like turds because Sam is the QB. We are wasting DJ's prime with Sam. We must get a QB soon, or think about blowing this up again.

I wonder why fans think it's just going to be Watson out there on offense alone running around throwing the ball to himself? Did CMC die or something? DJ and Robby were lethal with Teddy, so imagine Watson throwing to them.

I can understand if you won't watch for moral reasons. I assume you stopped watching when Hardy had is problems as well?

Miami is a 1-6 dumpster fire with unhappy players, and a city that will tempt even the most dull players to go out late at night. Charlotte has no identity, and you can fly low here and stay out of trouble and the media firestorm. Plus we have CMC, the best RB in the NFL and very talented receivers. Yes our LT will sack you once in a while, but that's football.

Ask yourself this, what headline can you imagine in the future: Panthers win the SB with Watson Panthers win the SB with Tua Panthers win the SB with Sam Which seems most likely? The answer is obvious.

I would be willing to do an avatar bet that CMC will return this season.

PJ would give us better odds of the 1st pick as he is worse than Sam. CMC will come back at some point, and then we have at shot at beating whichever are the most injury riddled worst teams on the schedule.

Watson, DJ, Robby, Terrace, CMC, and an improving defense. I'd love to watch that on Sundays. I don't want anymore of Sam.

Watson can be our face of the franchise, leader on offense, and all around ace in the hole. CMC is fantastically talented and a HoF level RB, but his body is toast. Without CMC we need more offensive firepower, and that is Watson.

If Watson goes to Miami then that might do it for Rhule and company. They're not going to build a winner with Sam, and Rhule is running out of time.

I don't want Rhule telling our real plans to the media. Do you?

Getting Watson is risky. The whole post was about risk. Whole post. Pick an option.

Jackson and Burns can go. We need to build up the offense, and Burns is totally neutralized by chipping TEs and RBs. Jackson is not needed with what we already have at CB.

Watson should want to play here with CMC, DJ, Robby, and Terrace. He will have an easier time staying out of trouble as well, while Miami is the most tempting city on Earth.

He will have to pan out at guard, or be cut. But it's irrelevant what happens to him so long as we don't have a proper QB. The season is down the toilet unless we miracle our way to Watson.

All the better.

I already made this prediction of being set back many years when Rhule came here. I said if we brought in Teddy we would enter 8-8 QB limbo, with 8-8 being the peak of his time here. Once we dumped Teddy I said our next QB needed to be elite, or have the potential to be elite, and it didn't matter what we payed for him. We went out and got Sam, and I said we would be back in 8-9 limbo, with 8-9 being the high water mark of his time being here. Now it looks like Sam won't have a second season to shoot for an 8-9ish record. We're already ruined. We're never going to have a great team with Sam at QB. N e v e r. Understand that? The best we will be with Sam is 8-9ish if he stays here long term. We already have no future if we stay the course and build around Sam. If we draft a QB, then that is two more bad seasons after this bad season, and nothing is promised once the QB is up to speed. He might be a bust. Watson is known to be a good quality franchise QB. We already know that to be true. That means that we can plug him in at QB and he will elevate the offense, and with a fresh and talented defense we might have a good team, or we'll be really close to having one. If you have a BETTER plan, then share it immediately. Otherwise I vote to get the hell out of QB limbo asap. People talk about risk like we're in a position to avoid it. We in a position where we have to take risks now, or we're going nowhere. Life itself is risky. You might not wake up tomorrow morning. We can't turn this team around without doing something very risky. The time to play it safe is over. Building slowly through the draft doesn't work at all when Sam is your QB. That will not work. Option 1: Draft a QB and lose a lot of games fro the next two seasons with an unknown prospect. Option 2: Get Watson and start winning as soon as he can play. Option 3: Let Sam play and keep losing. Option 4: Get another game manager veteran QB and go back into QB limbo. I pick option two because I want to roll the dice with maximum risk/reward because Rhule has put us in this situation. We have to press the panic button because the current regime made too many mistakes. We would have a great QB right NOW if Rhule would have started the backups in the Washington game. Now we have to panic, or disengage and do something else on Sundays.