OneBadCat

That’s still more productive than Sam Darnold.

Cut Darnold. Resign Cam Newton.

Predictable

If he has a huge year he will be made the franchise QB. Rhule would be making career suicide if he didn't.

I still think we should hang onto him and see if he can play during the season. He was a second round pick and the talent is there. Cut Darnolds ass if we’re that desperate for a roster spot.

I think part of it was honestly Ron being Ron and keeping Norman in the dog house when he very well could have started 2 years earlier and been a big contributor. By the time he broke out and signed his big contract in Washington he was at the eclipse of his prime and he wasn't exactly a man cover corner to begin with.

Unfortunately the old crusty refs wanted to punish Cam for being Cam and allowed him to be headhunted for a second time that game. Still almost won it if not for Gano being a complete grifter of a field goal kicker.

Resign Cam

Maybe if we go back in time and resign Cam to give him the full offseason.

Agree. It’s impressive. But I bet a lot of people can recall the details of pivotal career moments and poo that makes it breaks them.

I don't think they'll dump him for the reasons you stated. I think they'll keep him because they won't be able to move on with his price tag. And part of Rhule is still going to hope that the light will come on. Unfortunately it just looks like the dude doesn't have what it takes in composure and in his ability to see the field. The nice guy Sam stuff gets old. Cam Newton is a nice guy and is better than Sam. Darnold has an NFL arm no doubt and he does have good ball placement. But he can't handle adversity, and he looks like he doesn't understand what's going on. And if he does, he hesitates and makes too many mistakes. That and the leadership qualities aren't there.

Sam getting bodied today and he’s not even playing

I don’t think he ever plays again.

Beat us by repeatedly headshotting Cam with no flags. Not being called offsides on our two missed field goals. The Cotchery catch. All of that would have changed the game. The refs didn’t like Cam and let us know it by hand holding Peyton Manning into the sunset.

The only reason Darnold looked competent last year in the beginning is he because he got all of the reps in TC with the scripted plays. The team was also playing with enthusiasm and a healthy CMC. As soon as he faced adversity and had to adjust he got destroyed and embarrassed.

I thought 2010 was a set up for Matt Moore. He was the starter but Fox never liked the guy fully because he wasn’t all rah rah like Delhomme. They were looking for every opportunity to pull him and play Clausen. Matt was clearly a better player though but he wasn’t given any kind of leash to grow or make any mistakes.

Chubba could be a really solid fringe starter though with another year on his belt. The offense really should have all of the core and peripheral pieces this year. Just need a QB to step up.

I mean the defense breaks when the offense consistently can’t score and sustain drives. Run D was ass though for the most part.

All we really need to do is change the silver helmets from a gloss to a matte finish and it would look pretty modern yet still classic panthers.

That’s pretty sick. Id also like to see us try matte silver instead of the standard gloss silver helmet. That would make a nice update .

Cut his ass and bring back Cam to compete with Baker.

That’s 100% what happened. I wouldn’t even put it past being a subconscious biased against Cam and history of the game at the time and the whole “good ole boy” mentality.

Id feel better about it if we just resigned Cam and gave him a full offseason with the team. That's a bigger pay off then Baker's potential in my opinion. But Baker is without a doubt better than Darnold and has much better composure in the pocket.

I’d teabag the fug out of Baker Mayfield.

I actually like his attitude. He's got a chip on his shoulder coming here which is good and is much better than Darnold on a baseline level. What i don't like though is that it seems he relies pretty heavily on play action. It remains to be seen that he can slice and dice.