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I know that was the rhetoric, doesn’t mean it was either true or that it was a good idea if true. I’m sure Cam wouldn’t have had any troubles developing as a QB with Steve Smith to throw to instead of Kelvin Benjamin, Funchess and the clown car full of sub par WRs we gave him between Smitty and DJ.

Meh, he’s the one that poisoned the season. Can’t complain when he suffers the toxicity as well. This was the least enjoyable Panthers season to me in team history.

Agreed. I’m sure he’s all smiles and niceness when things are going his way, but the difficulties during the season and now that he’s sore that the decision makers discovered how bad he sucks have shown his true colors. Comments during the season were the first clues.

The biggest problem with the Smitty and Norman fkups was that it was bad business as well. Both shouldn’t have been cut when they were, much less how they were. Gettleman made some good moves here, but many more bad ones.

This. Aka not Ron’s way

Pipe dream: Wilson Not so realistic pick: Fields, Lance Semi-realistic pick: Sewell (this is my answer to the question) If Sewell is gone, Pitts or the next best OL

Lot of people have been expressing very anti-Darnold sentiments. They’re a mix of people that are just weary from having to watch Teddy last year and trolls.

Teddy had (and has) zero potential, Darnold has potential. I’m not “pro Darnold” per se, but I’m “open to the chance Darnold can be fixed”

Hah that was entertaining. “it’s what they don’t have. They don’t have Adam gase, thank the good lord”

I would rage if we took a gd LB with our pick. We need OL, CB, or WR (assuming Pitts is gone).

But I thought we were the only ones interested and we were bidding against ourselves and everyone is just stupid? This report is just too obvious and believable to be true.

Pretty optimistic. The overall FA moves have been quite good, we haven’t backed up the money truck to anyone and even if some of them end up getting injured, it was worth taking a shot. The QB situation is already an upgrade and if Darnold can be fixed then even better. If not, we still have draft options available for QBs. If Fields or Lance is there at 8, we take him and play it like Mahommes, Jackson and a lot of highly draft QBs letting them sit behind a placeholder. And in that scenario Darnold is still a cheap placeholder that relieves us of having to play Bridgewater.

That’s exactly how it’s being view by anyone with half a ***** brain

There is no “essentially”. A pick between 33 and 64 is a second round pick, end of story. A 2022 second round pick in 2021 is valued as a third round pick. It’s not essentially this or that. It is what it is and its value is what its value is.

Probably not with all the FAs we’re signing

We have an Aaron Rodgers?! Damn, that future 2nd round pick ain’t looking so steep anymore after all!

If you want to call it a smoke screen, it’s a smoke screen that actually has a fire behind it since I said it’s also hedging our bets in case a top four doesn’t fall to us. I don’t think they’d trade for him if they didn’t feel confident they could fix him

And if we do end up taking Fields or Lance, Darnold is also a cheap placeholder til the rookie is ready, sparing us having to suffer through Teddy during that adjustment period.

I think it’s entirely possible that in addition to hedging our bets with Darnold in case a top four QB doesn’t drop to us, it could also have been a strategy to make teams behind us think we’re not going to draft a QB and therefore have no reason to trade ahead of us. Fitterer’s comment about changing nothing on our board might be next level gamesmanship, causing teams behind us to think that if that’s what Fitterer is saying publicly then his real plan is not to get a QB, making it more likely a QB falls to us. if that’s the case, then it was a cheap price to pay to increase the likelihood our guy falls to us. If not, it was a cheap price to pay to take a chance on a guy that’s never been put in a situation to succeed and then surround him with talent.

All three would have failed miserably. More miserably than Darnold? The world will never know.

Teddy was a disaster from the start. He was never going to be better than the milquetoast QB he always has been. Darnold has upside. I think this was a good, not great trade. Low cost, high reward.

Absolutely not. Teddy was a disaster of a decision. Darnold is a low cost calculated risk based on the unlikelihood we’re able to get a better QB in the draft. Even if Darnold fails it wasn’t a bad decision at the time.

I read that we are picking up his option. And a second and fourth in the future is a third and fifth in the now. Not that valuable.

According to Schefter that’s exactly where it started, a fourth. And ended up at a 6th and a couple future picks.

interesting watch