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doesn't look like they took on the contract. Denver paying 3M. Carolina paying 7M. So Carolina will be paying the bulk of his salary in Denver and taking a 17 m dead cap hit at home lol.

I mean he is a 17 million cap hit this season. That's decent boning.

Well, I generally put everything on the trio of the owner/GM/HC. Fritter might not of been part of it all.....but I'm not giving a pass to everyone on how bad Teddy the experience went overall. We shouldn't of signed him. But we handled it poorly from start to finish. Fritter was part of that ending. It's still young in the Tepper/Rhule era. And we are just starting the Fritter era. There are some red flags IMO about the Tepper era and how they deal with people.

Good for Teddy. Good for us (fans) I think the whole Teddy experiment is a knock on our front office though. From start to finish.

If you don't have a QB, you can't compete in the NFL. Do we have one? I agree with the FO, you can't have too many good quarterbacks on your roster. We have spent years spending first round picks on guys we knew would be backups/role players at RB, LB, DL, etc. And they weren't drafted to be behind a "Sam Darnold" bust/project/lotto ticket. If Sam ended up being a legit lotto ticket that Fields couldn't jump? That wouldn't actually be bad. We would have real value on our roster. To do what we wanted with.

I post on the huddle. I'm going to talk as if David Tepper himself is sitting right here beside me.

Well, that isn't the bar being talked about for a first round draft pick. It is the bar being set for a failed draft pick. If Sam turned into a Delhomme.....it would be worth it from our perspective IMO.

I'm saying this franchise is actively looking for their future franchise QB. That Sam is a one year lotto ticket. They are going to scratch the ticket and see what it is. And I agreed with kicking Sam's tires. Why not. You got a source that says different? That says my take is wrong? If not, I'll keep on with it. Everyone here is sharing opinions. Including you.

Jake was weird. One of my favorite players of all time here. But I initially hated him. But when you had 89....a QB that took risks was the perfect pairing. Took awhile for me to get that.

We didn't draft Sam to be our franchise QB. You don't attempt to build your team around a one year rental( with upside). Sam simply by signing with us in a drastically better scenario for success than he has ever seen. He gets a one year audition.

They knew how Teddy would play in the system. They don't know how Darnold will play in the system. Sam is just a lotto ticket to get them through the 2021 season IMO. Not much more. Everyone in that FO knows we need a future QB and you don't stop looking because you were forced into going the Darnold route this season.

I think Darnold has potential to be Jake Delhomme-ish in the NFL.

maybe we have a Pro Bowl LT already on the roster. We don't KNOW that we don't. I mean all those guys are here for a reason. Coaches got to believe in them too or they wouldn't be here.

Well, based on what the org has consistently said about the QB position for some time.....nothing really supports them not still being in the QB market after signing Sam Darnold.

and after signing him they made it clear that they weren't out of the QB market simply because they are kicking the tires on Sam... and IMO they were forced to bring in a band-aid to replace the old band-aid. The old band-aid wasn't going to work for them in 2021 after being thrown so hard under the bus as they pursued the QBs they actually wanted in Stafford/Watson.

I mean, part of that is simply sales job to a fanbase. He has 32 NFL starts under his belt. Which is more starts than Teddy had coming in to last season. And Sam has logged more wins over the past 3 seasons than Teddy. I mean, that isn't a rookie. Darnold was mismanaged. Darnold wasn't put in a good position for success. But he isn't comparable to a rookie QB. He has 3 straight seasons of live NFL action as a starter and is acclimated to NFL game speed/talent.

a lack of QB talent to work with is the worst problem to have in the NFL.

when we let Star go....run D fell off. Adding Brown was the start of getting it back. Brown just not the force Star was out of the gate. Which isn't a knock on Brown. We lucked into the #1 overall player IMO in that draft who we only landed because of a medical scare.

His list had Brady (with the best weapons of his career) ranked 15th. A broken Cam with no weapons top 10. Simms is basically a huddler looking to get a thread some action selectively putting in some stuff to get it going... again, Fields at 32 is just trolling. He puts that in to get people talking before the draft and to come back to him after the draft.

Horn wasn't very good in 2019 and frankly wasn't very good in 2020. I think he is a better athlete than football player. Even in his best college game (Auburn)....there was a lot of bad play mixed in too. If I ran mainly man to man D, I'd take Horn. But I still wouldn't' draft him in the top 10.

After the first pick it’s either... or...

How do you feel about being trapped on a deserted island with Dave Matthews music?

Oh, I don't think they should of cared. I didn't. But Cam had a ton of noise around him. Probably more than any player being drafted in the last 20 years. All I am saying, if Justin Fields had off the field issues...we would know of them at this stage. No one it makes the rounds with the NFL teams and doesn't get leaked all over the place.

I mean that wasn't even the big Cam scandal. And Cam still went #1 overall. I mean Cam's "alleged" pay for play scandal dominated the college football news cycle the year coming into the NFL. Justin Fields must eat babies or something really bad.