CanadianCat

Right. Im not saying he is selfish, but he is a business. But getting tagged as a RB is about the worst position to do that to as the theory is to not pay or commit long term to them. So I agree he wouldn't do that during his rookie deal, if he got tagged I could see it happening. Regardless it didn't happen so we are debating a hypothetical situation that didn't happen lol

The guy that sat out of a bowl game for the betterment of his draft status wasn't going to? so dont tell me he is 100% team. Just cause CMC is a nice guy doesnt mean he is not a good businessman. I wouldn't put the opportunity of him holding out at 0%.

I agree. I think the double tag would have been in our best interest but then you also need to worry about a player like that holding out as they know whats up.. The other thing to consider when doing that is the opportunity cost of tagging him and not someone else. But in a vacuum this would be the best thing to do.

I get the point the OP is trying to make. Its just really hard to let a player go basically in their prime. I can see the value to drafting a RB in rounds 1 or 2 but the (theory) should then be to let them play out their contract and tag then 2x, then draft another RB and start the process over again. But there are a lot of theories on how to build a team. The newest is to draft a QB in the first round every year because they almost never lose their value coupled with the importance to find a 'franchise guy'. But theory is rarely reality. So I get why we paid CMC.

I do think there is a possibility that we end up with Bridgewater as QB next year. I would say its 50/50 that happens.. But I would not restructure Teddys contract. We WILL move on from him if not this year then next so if we keep him and cut him next year we don't have any dead money.

I actually really hopeful of this years draft. I really think that Rhule will have an advantage over most tears with this years class similar to Seattle when they hired Carrol. My best case scenario is that we dont trade out of 8, grab a QB and still have picks remaining to take advantage of Rhule's knowledge of this class.

a 'little more' would be YEARS of draft picks..

If you dont understand that every player on the roster is playing for their careers then Im not sure what to tell you. No one plays to lose. The FO can make it harder for their teams to win but they cannot force them to lose. There has been a lot said about this, if you dont get it then go play madden.

Thats not how life works..

I know and beating the Chargers, Cardinals, Falcons, Lions and Washington cost us Lawrence....

Im not a fan of this but if he is the man then this is absolutely worth the trade. Keeping our 2nds is nice.

Thanks for the update. Im 1,500 miles away so I dont get to see any of the local stuff.

Not sure why we are giving him flack, he was a solid player that played above his draft stock and made a good career. I would take a player like him in the 7th round every day of the week!

For me it either Jake Delhomme or Jimmy Clausen. Jake just because I had so much affinity in him. Jimmy because I was totally on the hype train when we drafted him

Well we NEED that position as well..

You're probably correct but I'll after the last draft, I'll trust Rhules player evaluation over any of the Huddle's draft guru's...

Watson is not getting traded.. Its January guys - news is slow.

This is actually good for the Panthers (and maybe the league).. Despite what we do at the QB position, teams are now willing to turn that position over more regularly in order to find a top 5 guy. What this hopefully means for the Panthers is that it resets the QB contract market causing it to drop slightly.

I dont disagree. I would not be unhappy with Pitts but at 8 its pretty rich.

Right the top guys remaining will likely be a MLB or a TE..

Yeah I think the writing is on the wall as well. I dont think you talk this openly about getting a Franchise QB and then some how start Teddy. That said, I would rather have a different QB on the roster to mentor the new guy. A Derek Anderson type guy.

I cannot imagine being Teddy and hearing all of this yet as of right now he is still the starter. I know the entire world wants us to get a QB in the draft but if that doesnt happen then all we can hope for is that all this talk is fuel for him to have a 'tremendous offseason'.

Lets not all pretend that we dodged a bullet here. If we dont draft a QB and go into the season with Teddy as a QB half this board will be saying we should have been aggressive at brining him in..

I would have had no problem bringing him in for a league min contract. Would not have impacted what we did in the draft and given us options if we dont draft a guy.

Right and that worked really well at the beginning when their entire core was on rookie contracts. That seemed to fall apart after they had to sign 2nd contracts..