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The game was unreal. I’d say make him walk home but I’m sure Falcon fans would be lined up to give him a ride home

Idk that’s questionable. PJ looks 10x better than Baker has at any point with us and the guy was in the XFL before we got him. I see no benefit to letting him play for us again and I highly doubt he does anything that would cause another team to offer more than they already will to let him hold a clip board

Not sure but I wouldn’t even play it close. Darnold and PJ is a good enough combo to get us though the season. I’ve seen enough after his disaster start to justify cutting him at this point

We should cut him. Absolutely no reason he should take another snap for us and cost us a 4th round pick. Sam is the backup as his money is guaranteed anyway

It does not make any sense to trade a young building block. Someone like Shaq…yeah I could see it but really not really anyone else

And new QB!!

If this has already been posted feel free to lock. Draft picks if the season ended today: Round 1: Pick number 1 overall Round 2: Pick number 33 overall Round 2: Pick number 51 overall (from 49ers) Round 3: Pick number 86 overall (from 49ers) Round 4: Pick number 97 overall Round 4: Pick number 117 overall (from 49ers) Round 5: Pick number 129 overall https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article267671542.html

People said the same thing about Cam

Shaqs contract: 11 million dead cap and 13 million savings if cut

As of now we are negative 3 million. This includes rolling over 10.6 million this year to next. 28.5 million in dead cap but we can easily get above water with a few moves but still not pretty. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/carolina-panthers/cap/2023/

We have a crap team no doubt….but 670 yards in 6 games with a playbook that is the worst in the league isn’t “not doing anything”. If we made a decent hire at head coach CMC could be a superstar with us for his career. He’s a top 10 playmaker in the league any way you spin it. He’s producing on our team when he’s the only person the other team has to game plan for. It just sucks we wasted him under Rhule and I would have loved to see him with an actual offensive minded coach and a number 1 overall QB

Agree with everything posted. He’s 4th in the NFL with 670 yards only 6 games in with this horrific offense and Macadoo calling plays. It’s going to be sad watching him absolutely explode later in the year on that team. They get him cheap salary wise for the next few years, and Kyle will utilize him properly like we should have

Sad day for us fans. Hopefully this brought a smirk minimum. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. PS: F*ck Rhule

I agree, no way I would let Baker take another snap and risk giving the Browns a higher draft pick. We are clearly going all in on the draft. Zero benefit to Baker starting another game

It blows. This feels worse than the pickle Clausen season for some reason and I never imagined that would be possible with the talent we have compared to that year

I don’t think we will look back and feel good about it. No doubt he will dominate in SF which will make it tough to watch, but RB is an easier position to replace production wise. We will never do anything in the league without a franchise QB but it does not feel good at all.

ARTICLE: Tanking happens in the NFL. And the Panthers are now clearly doing it. They’ll deny it. They have to. The first rule of Tank Club is you do not talk about Tank Club. More specifically, through any and all subtle or obvious efforts to embrace the suck in order to enhance draft status, the team needs to claim it’s not doing that which it plainly is. And the league office will look the other way as long as no one says the magic word. Owner David Tepper recently used the right words when asked about striking the balance between winning games now and drafting high later. “There’s no way that every day you can’t go in with a winning attitude, and there’s no other way to be,” Tepper said during the October 10 press conference regarding the firing of coach Matt Rhule. “You have to try to win, all the time. You have to try to win for the players. You have to try to win for the fans. And, yes, I understand what it is about draft picks and getting quarterbacks and stuff like that, and I understand the importance of quarterbacks in this league. But you have to try to win always.” So why trade one of your best players with 11 games left to try to win, if you’re trying “to win, all the time”? The truth, even if it never will be uttered by Tepper or anyone employed by him, is that they’re sacrificing 2022 competitiveness for the pieces needed to make moves in 2023. Since Monday, they’ve stockpiled six draft picks by trading away two players. While the deal that sent receiver Robbie Anderson to Arizona falls more into the category of “addition by subtraction,” the deal that shipped running back Christian McCaffrey to the 49ers counts as subtraction by subtraction, with the hopes of adding better players later. Or maybe a better coach. The assets they’re already added, along with more that could arrive before the November 1 trade deadline, could enhance their ability to de facto trade for a coach, whether it’s Sean Payton or maybe even Mike Tomlin. Remember, David Tepper was a limited partner in Pittsburgh before buying the Panthers. And Tepper knows the value of a great coach. Why not at least make the call to Art Rooney II to see whether the Steelers, Tomlin, or both would be interested in a change, after 16 years together? Maybe Tepper will have his eyes on some other established coach who would be interested in a fresh start, especially if the Panthers can make their situation more attractive by securing the first overall pick in the draft by officially trying to win — and unofficially failing — week after week after week? The point is this. The Panthers are tanking. The Panthers will never say they’re tanking. The league office will never accuse them of tanking unless and until they do. Or, perhaps more accurately, if they do it in a way that can’t later be described with a semi-straight face as a joke. That’s the formula for successfully sinking in the standings and simultaneously scaling the draft order. Don’t say it. Just do it. The Panthers obviously are doing it. And the fans won’t be complaining about it if the Panthers draft a franchise quarterback, hire (or trade for) a coach with a Super Bowl pedigree, and start winning games when they’re actually trying to. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/10/21/the-panthers-slide-squarely-into-tank-mode/

This sucks. I’m not mad about the compensation but I’m furious that we are getting rid of a 26 year old superstar all because we made a terrible decision at head coach and wasted his talent on our team. CMC is a star on a team with very few of them, and is one of the top playmakers in the league. We all would have loved for him to be healthy and play out his career here, but a hire like Rhule ruined that.

Very sad. You should seek help.

This thread has run its course. We should lock it @LinvilleGorge