45catfan

Unless Baker balls this year and we re-sign him, we are back in the QB market next draft. There's no way we can depend on Corral now that he's shelved for a large portion of the season to be QB1 beyond this year.

People (including me) were banging the table for BC to start at LT last season. He was played at guard some at that chapped people's a$$es. Then he started at LT later in the year and played okay. People understood that there would be growing pains. Now? Well, let's move our #6 overall LT to guard because he isn't playing at a Pro Bowl level in preseason, which is top 3 hardest positions for rookies to adapt to at the NFL level. Oh Huddle, you never cease to amaze me.

Yet a camp video posted here of Matt Corral doing a drill and tossing a ball into a net on the run made dudes here have to break out the lotion. The Huddle over reaction to preseason is epic.

We caught Brown in the sixth round; dude was plunging like a rock. He likely would have went undrafted. We love caching falling prospects in a draft and think we got a value. Does the name Greg Little ring a bell? Likewise I remember people here butthurt last year when he wasn't given a "fair chance" at earning a spot in the starting lineup. It's not rocket science to surmise if a player couldn't crack the starting lineup on the 2021 Panthers OL, they probably suck. Brown got blown up on numerous plays last night, not just the one that Corral got hurt on.

Dude has been working with backups and splitting first team reps as a rookie. Forgive the guy for not being Andrew Witworth by preseason game #2.

Wouldn't be the first time a team has IR'ed a player to save a roster spot and to keep a developmental player from being poached. Am I saying the injury is completely bogus? No, but I am saying that if not for this injury there would have been another one which really could have been questionable in another week or two. In short, Corral was going to IR at some point anyway, IMO.

Several...in attendance and watching on TV. The second playoff victory versus the Cowgirls was great one. It's hard to pick just one. But as many have said, X-clown has to be top 3. It doesn't get much more dramatic than a walk off TD in sudden death OT during the playoffs.

I should have put money on this, I was 100% sure Watson wouldn't get a full year. NFL judge goes light, the NFL steps in and flexes it's muscle (wink/nod) and the whole charade is over. The NFL can say they did the best they could invoking their most serious punishment and Watson still gets to play this year. Win/Win, just how it was scripted.

Watched the game at work, which was at a sports bar, but requested the night off for the game. I had recently moved to Raleigh and noticed the lack of Panthers following. So needless to say there wasn't many avid Panthers fans there (like none) but people interested in the game because it was a NFL playoff game. Being half crocked and yelling at the TV made me sort of a spectacle. When X clown happen, I ran around the room dishing out high fives to strangers and co-workers alike. It was awesome!

Upon further review Darnold had to keep back peddling because the interior of the OL got blown the fug up. One of their DTs and right end were at the 15 yard line when Darnold released the ball just shy of the 20. Where was the LOS? Lol, the 8 yard line!!! The 15 yard line is where Ickey lost his man that hit Darnold at the 19. Again, that's 7 yards behind the LOS. You can tell Ickey kind of let him go at that point. He was probably thinking "why is this dude still running up field?"

I saw the replay on Darnold's TD and it was on both players. Ickey was trying to push the edge rusher out and beyond where the QB typically would be. He was beat, but not as bad as it looked. Darnold kept fading back and even further back. The LT's job is to misdirect the edge rusher not shadow them 5-10 yards up field. Had Darnold stayed tight in the pocket, he probably got the ball out before the rusher gets to him avoiding the hit, otherwise it would have been roughing QB.

I think it was painfully obvious to anyone with a functioning brain, basic football knowledge and two working eyeballs that Darnold, PJ Walker and a kid that we caught form falling to the 4th round in a pretty bad QB draft wasn't the answer going forward this season. Call it hindsight 20/20 if people want to, I call it not being a complete moron. That said, I think Fitts pushed for Baker because he doesn't want to sink with Rhule aboard the USS Clusterfug.

We need an end, not a tackle. Sounding like a broken record going back to last year, but we are a Brian Burns injury away form having the weakest DE room in the League. YGM, still unproven. Haynes, a one trick pony--speed rush, and then a bunch of no-names.

Before the Jets settled in on a CB and took Sauce Garner, most mock drafts had Ickey penciled in for the Jets. Sucks for them and great for us that they decided to stick with Beckton.

TE, DE and LB look very iffy. But hey, I've only been saying this for a while.

Time to string Rap up by his toes. He says, Baker #1, Sam #2, Corral #3. TOTALLY unacceptable!!!

That, or he was intentionally left unblocked...such as setting up a quick screen.

Looks like today's practice was pretty uneventful form the updates with exception to the Baker to Anderson connection. Glad I stayed home.

Exactly. So we would be paying $18M for Darnold not to be on the roster. At that point why even worry about a trade? If we are going to eat his entire salary in a trade, just cut him and save the headache of shopping him. OR since his salary is fully guaranteed for this season anyway and he has no trade value, just keep him as a backup. Crazy thought, I know.

You people are aware that it's not unusual for teams to have 4 QBs in camp, right? Heard of the term 'camp arms?' Remember, we had some local kid from Elon as QB4 before the Baker deal. PJ Walker still being on the roster during camp means nothing more than you need at least 4 QBs, minimum, during training camp.

Sometimes you have to take your lumps and move on.

Fair enough, however I'm not worked up, lol. I am not a fan of Darnold. He's clearly a career backup from this point forward, but cutting a backup just because the fan base doesn't like him is kinda futile, especially given his cap hit. Rhule has given every indication Corral is being red shirted, so he is about the future, not the present. Again, once camp is over, Mayfield is going to gobble up nearly all, if not all, of the 1's reps. So the idea of Darnold retarding Corral's growth with the nearly non-existent in-season backup reps is pretty moot.

That is some really strong hope there my friend. I think you are looking at it form the wrong point of view though. The PANTHERS were not willing to take on more than $5M of Baker's salary and the Browns were not eating over $10M. That was the major sticking point. Baker had to eat $3.5M himself (could be made up in incentives) to make the trade work. So if we weren't willing to take on more than $5M to acquire Baker, what makes you think we are going to eat ANY of Darnold's contract just to be rid of him. Also, anything higher than a 6th is a pipe dream.

I get it, but until Rhule is fired we all have to deal with these decisions. In the immediate future we are dealing with Baker as the eventual #1 and Darnold being the veteran QB as the #2 and the rookie getting red shirted as the #3. My gripe, as with everyone, is Baker has already separated himself from Sam enough to be named the #1.

We were (possibly Seattle?) the only ones to bite on Baker's 5th year option and yet some team out there is going to pick up Sam's? LOl!