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This isn't said in a mean-spirited way but: Someone like Cam wouldn't miss the opportunity to do so.

I believe that. I also don't think it makes a difference.

Guys, I know it's only been an hour, but I'm not sure I can wait the full four hours before calling my doctor about this erection.

I think it would benefit Sam. But I think the fans have turned on Sam, and I don't think he can win them back. He needs some time as a QB to get his head right. But I don't see him stepping on the field for the Panthers again being met with anything other than boos.

I love Luke enough to say that I never want to see him ever play another down of football. Health and long life to the greatest LB in Panthers history.

Honestly, today's a day to quietly release Darnold. Everyone will be caught up with the hoopla of the Cam announcement, it would basically go unnoticed.

I kinda know what you mean, actually. I never knew how much I really wanted something I didn't want until today.

Well, that settles that then. We know who made the decision!

There are honestly those kinds of days when there's such a big news story that you can just discount the rest of the day, because all I'll be thinking about is the event. This, I'm surprised, is turning out to be one of those days.

This thread's not about him. Positive vibes only.

fug YEAH!!!

NO! But I still want it to happen. In honor of the new Buzz Lightyear trailer: It's not flying. It's falling...with style!

Shh! Maybe he hasn't been watching and doesn't know what the line looks like yet.

Honestly, if anyone from the Panthers organization is watching, this board has been nothing but a doom and gloom bitchfest for the last few weeks to the point of being intolerable. But this thread on a Thursday morning has over 200 comments in less than an hour, and the vast majority being excitement and positivity. PANTHERS TAKE NOTE! THIS IS A HUGE MARKETING WIN! DO IT!!!

Will the Huddle servers melt down if he gets signed? I'm honestly excited for it to happen. I wasn't happy with the way we ended things with him. And I don't want the last time I saw #1 on the field as being a Patriot.

What is "the job?" A championship? We're halfway through the second year of a complete rebuild. The "result" a logical person should expect is improvement and setting ourselves up to succeed in the future. We've got a really REALLY good defense. The only reason we're not #1 across the board is because they only get about 3 minutes of rest while our offense goes 3-and-out. And at the end of the day, we have almost equaled last year's win total in half a season. We are by definition improving. If you ask me, he's getting his "job" done. He doesn't have the pieces needed to be a winning team. So we need to temper our expectations for this year. He'll get a year 3, and hopefully will have the offensive pieces needed to win us games.

Well, not necessarily Greg Hardy'd. He might just get Tyreek Hill'd. Which is the "why the fug don't we talk about the fact that Tyreek Hill was convicted of beating his 20 year old pregnant girlfriend and then broke his 3-year-old son's arm? Is he such a good athlete that we're willing to overlook the fact that he's a repeated, provable and violent domestic abuser?" You know, that old chestnut.

I - Incomplete There are way too many unknowns to evaluate him at this point. Robby went from a 1,000 yard receiver to a non-factor. Is that because he sucks and locking him up was a bad deal? Or is Sam the problem? We don't know. Sam, is he as bad as he looks because he's bad or is he bad because he's being David Carr'd behind this garbage line? We don't know. (Before you say it, no, we really don't) The O-Line, Does the line suck? Oh yeah, it sucks. It could suck a golf ball through a garden hose. Jaycee, could we have drafted a O-Lineman instead of Jaycee? Yeah. But one rookie does not an offensive line make. It all comes back to the line, and fixing the line wasn't a 1-year job. The defense is a revelation. And I'd like to see what the man responsible for it can do with an off-season dedicated to fixing the offense.

I'm not sure I've ever rooted for Slye harder than I will when he could possibly improve our draft position.

We're still 4-5. Don't kid yourself, there's a LONG way down from here. At the end of the day, the only thing different than last week when we won, is our Offensive Line got further degraded mid-game, and Darnold looked terrible against a HOF head coach who has played against Sam Darnold 7 times in 4 years. Are we really surprised he knew how to exploit him? I'm not saying we're good, and I'm not saying we've got a lot to look forward to this year. We're looking rough, and with yet ANOTHER offensive line starter out for the year, I don't feel like we're at any risk of improving. What I am saying is with the talent we have available, I don't think an regime in the league could be doing better. And a regime change is a hard reboot. I'd much rather see the coaching staff that's put together one of the fiercest defenses in the league in less than 2 years have a chance to address the offense this off-season, than start all over again.

Yeah, who doesn't love a regime change every 2 years? I like following the Lions model after all, so I'd be so fuging excited! Anyone rooting for this is rooting for another decade of mediocrity.

It doesn't matter. It's the line. No QB will look good or have the chance to succeed behind our second and third string line, who would struggle to make a scout team for most other franchises. Sam's looked bad, but I still don't think we can evaluate him. As a pro, we've only ever gotten to see him behind a terrible line. I doubt we'll see him next year, because the fans will have soured on him, just like they did with Teddy and demand a change. But until the line gets fixed, it's just gonna be this pattern of bring in QB, QB looks like crap because he's running for his life, fans turn on QB, trade/draft/spend FA dollars on new QB, repeat.

Yeah, the NFL leader in drops is a problem