kungfoodude

A simple Google search would have revealed this to be inaccurate. Where did you get your info for that? Facebook meme?

They likely wouldn't have made the playoffs with the rest of their roster of QB's. Remember, they already tried that. QB driven league, remember. Rivers was the only top QB they have had since the remnants of what used to be Andrew Luck left. That's actually the saddest part about the Indy situation, they built a great team around him but he couldn't hold up to take advantage of it. I would be really upset as a Colts fan.

He didn't pay himself that money. I don't blame any of the players on the team for taking the money they did. Blame the franchise or Hurney or whoever for bungling so many deals. I'll never blame a player for getting the most they can get for themselves.

Yep.....I defended him all offseason and boy was I wrong. He is definitely done.

poo, Rivers isn't the only HOF caliber talent that franchise has squandered. They were the Panthers before we existed.

Yeah. Rivers was really fun to watch with his incessant-yet-somehow clean trash talking and gunslinger style. The kind of guy you hate to play against and love to have on your team(except when he is making Favre-esque crippling INT's). Not many gunslingers left in the league now.

I still remember the Jeff Lewis hype and how Denver was supposedly upset we got him away. Heir apparent to Elway....yada yada yada......and then to watch a man scramble around aimlessly at the snap of the ball..... It was amazing.

Holy punctuation, Batman. Once you read this about 5 times it starts to make sense. And then you realize how much dumb is packed into it. Impressive.

I really don't understand how this could be a remotely controversial take. Does anyone think Taints fans would turn down Deshaun Watson for Alvin Kamara? Vikings fans turn down Watson for Dalvin Cook? It sort of boggles the mind that people cannot simply watch actual NFL games and visibly witness what is not even a remotely new thing in the league......QB's are the most critical component to your success in the NFL. The thing that is so perplexing is that this is literally regarded as COMMON KNOWLEDGE in the NFL.....so how in the world is it missing some of our fans completely?? Do we have hundreds of Hurney children logged on??

Well the justification is probably irrelevant at this point. We are in the classic John Fox, "It is what it is" scenario. I don't think it makes a lot of sense at this juncture of his career(especially at the cost) to be making a position change. He is being paid like a feature back so we should utilize him as a feature of the offense when necessary. I would prefer his overall touches are reduced because we have more weapons to utilize in the offense in general. It remains to be seen if that will be the case. I just hope this spell of injuries is not the classic post-high usage rate year drop off.

I would hope Houston would laugh us out of the building with that offer.

So he is the classic middle manager. That explains a lot.

I generally disagree about that. I don't think he would be that successful. In fact, I remember reading an article around the time we signed him where they specifically did an analysis of him in slot and wide sets and his production was significantly lower and IIRC would have placed him in the bottom 10% of the WR's in the NFL for the time period they chose. I can't remember where I found that article, unfortunately or I would be happy to link it. I think Panthers fans get too attached to his skills as a WR when in fact he isn't terribly different than a guy like Kamara or LT or Faulk. I cannot recall a specific example of a top RB being switched to slot WR or WR in general and becoming a top 20-30 player. If you have one, I'd be interested to check it out. That's kind of my point, we aren't being realistic about his value as a WR. It's likely tremendously lower than what we believe it to be. If you asked me straight up to take a slot WR/hybrid player and gave me CMC or Curtis Samuel....I am taking Samuel 100 out of 100 times. Same thing if you ask me about a pass catching RB, I'm taking CMC 100 out of 100.

Panthers fans get attracted to this idea but it would be an admission that we had made a HUGE mistake in signing him. He isn't a slot receiver. He is an exceptional pass catching RB but he isn't a slot receiver in the NFL. Furthermore, we could get a much better slot guy for less than we paid him. Running the football with him is ABSOLUTELY the best use of his talents. If he can't take the punishment, he'll just we one in another long line of RB's that couldn't. RB's don't have long NFL shelf lives, so enjoy him while you can.

Did anyone notice how many tackles he missed against New Orleans??

Yeah, if he does end up being injury prone from now one......the level of hatred for Ron and Hurney will just grow and grow.

Lol. I mean, I will have to keep saying it....Bill O'Brien isn't there anymore. I don't think there is much of a scenario in which we trade Teddy....maybe to Washington. He has a very large contract for a guy that is basically a game managing backup QB in the NFL. I suspect he'll just end up a free agent in 2021 anyway once we cut him.

The money on that doesn't make a lot of sense, IMO. Teddy doesn't have a very friendly contract and you could probably get a player of his caliber much cheaper in free agency.

That Twat will get deleted by that account in about 3-4 years. If not, be sure to bump it.

If you designate him as a pre-June 1st trade on OTC he generates a TON of dead cap but it is spaced out over 4 years. Post-June 1st makes it a much more tolerable cap hit, so I am guessing that there is a way to transfer some of that to the next team. I am not that up on the new CBA and how that all works out. But the cap ramifications are a HUGE deal in this whole situation. This isn't the MLB where anything goes.