CPantherKing

Darnold's 5th in 5 years and 39 opportunities. 1st and likely last as a Panther. 11.4% GWD. I believe he is the lowest of all starting QBs in the NFL. I think all rookie QBs with a start in the NFL have a better % than him.

Saints are giving the game away lol

only negative if you are not of a championship mindset. Positive if you are championship focused.

Saints asked him to miss it lol

Draft position never matters in building a championship team. Championship teams move up in the 1st round to get who they believe is a special franchise players. Most of the time they trade down or out of the 1st round if there isn't any complete player with leadership and immediate impact potential. If all you want is a top 10 to 15 picks, what you want is a perennial loser who farms young players for championship teams to sign 5 years later when they need them.

season ending in 2 minutes

You are now seeing how bad these RBs are without Bozeman, BC, and Corbett as the interior line. If Elf were in there leading Jordan and Mays, there would be no chance of success for the RBs. CMC at least made runs and got positive plays more often than not. CMC with an interior of Corbett, Bozeman, and BC would have been the best in the NFL. All of these RBs are easily replaceable with 3 rookies from the 2023 draft. You could get RBs off the street that could perform just as well with 2 weeks in this offensive system.

I said this last offseason. A 3-5-3 of Karlaftis/Ridgeway/Brown - Luvu/Shaq/Lloyd/Chinn/Houston - Horn/Mathieu/Bryant. Trading Burns, moving Chinn to a flex SS/ILB position, moving Brown to a 3 tech DE, and going without Ioanidis, YGM, Littleton, Henderson, and Woods as starters would have given the Panthers a top 3 defense. Trading Burns and trading down from the 5th pick in the draft was always the key to improving the defense. Burns will never be anything more than a pass rush specialist.

When it comes to the 4th quarter with the game on the line the NFC QBs have the better numbers.

Looks like another 1st round QB about to get thumped in the SB by a 4th, 6th or 7th round draft pick. Again... same story over the past 6 decades Celebrate the 1st round QB and die by not having the rest of the team needed to win due to the 1st round QB.

Leftwich HC, Wilks DC/AHC, Christensen OC What I expect for the Panthers future

Darnold has been and will continue to be a negative return for the Panthers franchise if he stays on the roster.

That was what I proposed for the 2022 offseason. My 2023 offseason wants may be different. Darnold is gone now and returned negative value to the franchise.

You keep digging at this lol. Glass, Ridder, Purdy, and Coan were the only QBs worth getting on the roster IMO. I don't hit all the time, but I hit more than I miss with my QB algo. Only 3 multi QB drafts since the Panthers have been around. 1998, 2012, and 2022. My offseason suggestion for camp was this... Jimmy G/Flacco/Foles (one as vet). Unload Darnold for any draft pick. Bring in 3 of the following... Ridder, Glass, Purdy, Coan. That is how you start the QB room for the 2022 season. Keep the vet and let the 3 rooks prove themselves. Hand the team over to the rook that wins the team for a miracle season run. I also said to use the 1st pick on a #1 WR for a miracle season run too (Garrett Wilson was my 1st choice, but there was a deep list this year). We will see how Glass does over the next few seasons. Given opportunities, I would not be shocked to hear people 10 years from now call me out on BS for Purdy and Glass like they now call me out for Brady and Warner. We will see. The future is never screwed. A good GM/Coach combo can turn the worst team into a contender in 2 to 3 seasons easy.

Fitt is done. He is pulling from the Jets GM playbook. He would have to have 3 years of success just to offset all the damage he has done. There is not much to hang your hat on as GM with what the Panthers have done over the past 2 to 3 seasons. It's not like he found a UDFA Franchise QB that succeeded in his first season, a 1st round QB that would be MVP of the league and see a SB, drafted a complete LT, drafted a young franchise leading center, brought in a multiple playmakers at DE, found the best of the best at LB in the NFL, put in place a franchise WR that scares defenses, or traded for one of the best pass catching TEs in the NFL. Fitt has given away a lot of draft capital and cap space for little to no return. That is all he has done. Do a pros and cons list of FItt as GM and you will quickly want to move on.

28 year old QB with NFL playoff success, a QB drafted in the 3rd round or later, and an undrafted QB that have turned a 2 to 3 star talent team around/taken them to the top at every opportunity (HS/JUCO/UNI/PRO) is the recipe for QB success. Ignore the combine and big school QBs without GWD.

There is no one worth jumping up in the draft for

DId Evans only bring in 4 TDs a season and never developed into a clutch receiver or redzone threat by the end of his 5th season? Oh wait... Evans had 2 12 TD seasons in his first 3 seasons on a bad Bucs team. Moore had 12 TDs by the end of his 4th season. He just got to 20 TDs. Add in the NFC South division championships and SB Championship, and it doesn't seem like those career archs are anywhere near one another.

Steve Wilks hire was Tepper's backup plan. Tepper wanted NFL HC experience on the team in the offseason. Rhule got to choose 1 and Tepper got to choose 1. Rhule chose to work with McAdoo. Tepper chose to bring in Wilks. Wilks was brought here because Tepper already knew who he wanted as interim HC if Rhule did not get control of the team. He also knew Wilks and Holcomb on staff would be leverage to land Byron Leftwich as HC in 2023. Wilks was never a Rhule hire. He was there as a backup plan to Rhule and Snow. Wilks was a transition to ready the ship for Leftwich and already have a head start going in to the offseason. The move to bring Holcomb on with Wilks should have told you everything about Tepper's 2023 HC play. Wilks will still be a Panthers in 2023.

Wilks is not going anywhere. Expect Leftwich to be HC, Wilks to be Assistant HC/DC, and Christensen to be OC.

Arnold would have been more beneficial for the Panthers as a pass catching TE than CJ Henderson is as a CB. Another big miss by Fitt.

Ekwonu cost Baker 3 times, cost PJ 1 time, and will cost Darnold this time all in the 4th quarter with the game on the line when you need receivers and can't give Ekwonu the help he needs.

Ekwonu failing in pass blocking again and again

The combo of Darnold, Ekwonu, and Moore is a recipe for disaster in 4th quarter come back spots

Here come the Ekwonu pass blocking apologists. A LT who can't pass block is never worth a 1st round pick.