He has already started falling off this year.
Additionally, his TO/GM rate is back up to near his career norms after the blip last season where he was below 1/GM.
I think people soon forget that Nijman has had more bad games in Panthers uniforms than good games. He is a backup.
Again, I don't know what it is about this fanbase and backup OL love. It's a bit odd.
I think people look too heavily to where he was and not what he did in the one season he actually was an OC.
Yes, Russell Wilson and Geno Smith were launching long bombs in Seattle but he was just a positional coach. Those weren't his offenses.
Yeah, people have this big idea of Canales being some deep shot, big play offensive playcaller but I don't think he has had to dramatically adapt his offense for Bryce. Bryce just stinks and it's also a pretty middling offensive scheme.
Gotta give it up to our organization for surrounding our only elite tier QB with the tools to fail slowly and painfully.
But, Cam deserves some blame too. He has as much as admitted it. He relished the Superman role to the point that he felt to need to be the guy that did all of it. He sacrificed his body all too often and never fixed bad mechanics that added undue strain on his body.
It was a sad thing in the end. In like a Lion, out like a Lamb.
The market for him will either be extremely small or nonexistent but we should at least try. I would imagine the price would be something around a conditional 6th or 7th rounder. Even if we end up cutting him, just let him move on somewhere else so he can develop and let us move on with our franchise future not being held hostage by a bust first round QB.
Yeah. MVP, 1 loss season and a ring? That's a wrap.
If only we had some hindsight(especially Cam), maybe we protect him more, HE protects himself more and we are talking about the end of a lengthy, HOF career in Carolina.