MasterAwesome

No one has even mentioned his versatility beyond pass-rushing. He’s also an elite Special Teams gunner, just ask Ron Rivera!

I suspect there's a decent chance Kenny Robinson might "slump" his way back down to the Practice Squad. Didn't seem like they thought particularly highly of him considering they waived/signed him to the Practice Squad during the season last year, only to promote him presumably out of necessity a couple days after Burris was injured. I guess it's a positive sign that he stuck around after Burris returned but he was still primarily relegated to Special Teams. The main thing working in his favor IMO is how little depth we have at safety.

Injured Free Agent o-lineman? Get his agent on the phone NOW!!

True but also I don’t even think it necessarily makes sense to compare Kerr and Jones because Kerr’s release didn’t even coincide with the Jones signing, so it’s not like our FO was thinking of it in terms of a direct comparison. Kerr was released over a month before Jones’ signing. Jones was signed presumably because we had a big hole at DT that was contributed in part by the Kerr release, so it seems pretty irresponsible to have released Kerr before a contingency plan was put in place.

The Zach Kerr release is my #1 by far. The dude flashed a ton last year and was on a very cheap contract.

They didn't have to go that bold...

The majority of Huddlers LOVE living in the past, so I'm surprised they're not eating this up! I guess being middle-of-the-pack is kinda boring...if we were in the 30-32 range, I am sure this thread would be at least 14 pages long.

Linville for the past year: Teddy will never be a franchise QB cause he just doesn't have the arm strength to make the necessary throws. *Panthers trade for Sam Darnold* Linville: Well...arm strength really isn't that important ya know. Just look at Will Grier!!! *mic drop* Le sigh indeed...

But did we practice our red zone offense?

Christensen is already probably trying to fight for LT pay!! (kidding...I know rookie contracts don't work that way)

I don’t understand which part of what you said is exclusive to LT over RT. I’m sure teams want their RT fending off DEs too lol.

Why would arm length be required at LT but not RT?

https://youtu.be/FHBZ6mIB4jQ?t=565 Here's the only game I can remember him playing LT (2019 against the Packers). He was moved to LT late in the game due to injuries I believe, but that link should take you to his first offensive snap in the highlight video. The highlight video on YouTube is all I can access unfortunately, I don't know if there are any videos out there that'll show footage of every snap. All in all there was definitely much more bad than good IMO, but I doubt he had taken many (if any) snaps at LT in practice so he was kinda just thrust into that role. It also rained/snowed late in the game so definitely suboptimal conditions all around for him to be getting his first exposure to the position.

Where are you getting the Ryan Mallett > MVP Cam Newton QBR stat? I am not seeing that. I see him at 55 and Cam at 61 in 2015, which you can definitely argue is WAY closer than it should be but I don't know enough about Ryan Mallett's 2015 season, i.e. his o-line performance, opposing teams' defenses, etc. which again, are all factored into QBR. Tom Brady I imagine has been dinged on QBR for playing in the worst division in football for almost his entire career. Opposing level of competition is one of those metrics that's factored into it. As for Lamar Jackson: I imagine that has a ton to do with it.

I’m not gonna make a value statement about how useful QBR is, but just to clarify: QBR is supposed to be more a measure of efficiency than a flat assessment of their statistical performance. It doesn’t really make sense that you’re simply looking at all the statistics that are included in the conventional passer rating (pass yards, TDs, INTs, completion %, etc.) and ignoring every supplemental variable factored into the QBR and being like “see, QBR makes no sense at all”. QBR is supposed to account for things like the strength of the opposing defense, the difficulty of passes, if the QB was pressured during their throw, their rushing stats, whether they’re piling garbage time stats, reducing weight for YAC, etc. You’re just making an apples to oranges evaluation of QBR based exclusively on the criteria for traditional passer rating.

Yeah I was just being facetious and poking fun at the contingent of Huddlers who start clamoring for us to tank around like Week 5 in October. If Darnold had us in position for the 1st overall pick all season and then “blew it” by beating two playoff teams in the last three weeks, the whining wouldn’t stop for at least 5 years.

Are you trying to trigger the resident haters even more?

Yeah probably...although I'm not sure it'd be deserved. That would make Brady 1 for 2 on QB reclamation projects so it'd be hard to attribute Darnold's success to Brady versus the Jets just being that much of a dysfunctional dumpster fire. You would expect a genius offensive mind to milk something out of Teddy rather than just see him perform the exact same he has in every previous season. As much as people like to absolve Brady of all culpability because of Teddy: a good OC either has to work around the QB's limitations, or, if the offense sputters again and again and again and again because of said QB limitations, then you HAVE to at least try something different. I'm not saying he should have benched Teddy and tried Walker/Grier since that traditionally isn't an OC's call, but hell....try SOMETHING different. It was the same issues every game that never got addressed.

But to be fair, Wilson had Brady “Stonewall” Christensen - greatest LT in the history of college football and future NFL first ballot HOFer!!

One other kinda insignificant change I noticed was Christian Miller from 50 -> 55.

If we’re strictly talking entertainment value, Teddy is about as bad as it gets with his risk-averse conservative style of play. You’re not excited to see a strong-armed gunslinger like Darnold take a crack at this offense with these WRs, after a year of Dinky Dunky Teddy? A common sentiment towards the end of last year was putting in PJ Walker instead of Teddy, not necessarily because he gave us a better chance of winning, but because “at least he’s more exciting to watch”. Whether that excitement translates to wins, remains to be seen. But I guess I’m one of the few people whose enjoyment of the Panthers isn’t entirely 100% dependent upon winning or losing. I have fun watching the Panthers no matter what, although that Teddy offense was cutting it a little too close last year.

Yeah as sad as it would be, I could see Belichick using Cam in certain packages like the Saints had traditionally been using Taysom Hill, or like Baltimore used Lamar Jackson in the first half of his rookie season. People continuously harp on the Panthers running Cam into the ground but seem to gloss over the fact that Cam had the HIGHEST rush volume of his entire career with New England last year...at 31 years old coming off of multiple injury-riddled seasons.

People like to be hyperbolic about this stuff...but no one "boasts" about individual players during losing seasons. It's perfectly fine to recognize and praise the accomplishments of individual players within the confines of a season, or to be hopeful about your team's prospects moving forward because of the notable performances of Player X or Player Y. Unless I'm mistaken and there are Panthers' fans that approach Bucs' fans celebrating their Super Bowl victory and go "Oh YEAH, well we had the runner-up DROY!!!". I remember the specific thread someone made about CMC being the third player in NFL history to go 1K/1K which was just littered with "SO WHAT, WE SUCKED" posts crammed down the OP's throat. Like, jesus...lol.

Tommy Stevens was drafted last year (2020 draft) so his NFL career never overlapped with Joe Brady’s in New Orleans. Brady was last working for the Saints in 2018.

I'd be pretty surprised if NE outright cut Cam before the season. But I'd also be equally surprised if Cam is their starting QB at the midway point in the season. He's their best known commodity at QB at this point, but Belichick obviously isn't committed to him by any means.