Jimmy Clausen is still trash

[TheRed]

We're halfway through the year 2018, and Cam Newton is our starting QB. Leave Jimmy Clausen in the rearview already guys.

[faultlessjoint]

On 6/8/2018 at 6:23 PM, Cyberjag said:

The guy came here, was put in a bad situation, did what he could.  Not an NFL talent, didn't complain when Cam got the starting nod, held a clipboard willingly.  Has never thrown shade at anyone in Carolina, just wasn't good enough.

Why so much hate?

Exactly. Like I hated Clausen in college. Partly because fug Notre Dame, partly because of his smug goofy face. I wasn't too enthused when we drafted him and knew it would be difficult to cheer for him.

BUT despite my dislike for him he gets unfairly shat on constantly. He was thrown to the wolves his first year. No rookie was going to succeed on that team. You had lame duck coach John Fox and Richardson bracing the team for a lockout. Clausen was dealt a shitty hand but he did his job and never complained the entire time he was here.

Yeah, he wasn't good, but its not like he was Kerry Collins quitting on the team and being an asshole to everyone. The Clausen hate is unjustified.

[Piff]

lol. People are really defending Jimmy because he is a "good guy." That doesn't take away from him being a trash QB. Other players get flamed for being trash but somehow Clausen is off limits. lol. He is a horrible QB by the way.

[OneBadCat]

21 hours ago, Carl Spackler said:

Not only is it accurate, it's completely true.

It's plainly obvious that I was talking about 2010. The argument was that the Panthers were competitive when Moore started in 2010. 

Here's a look at the games Moore started in 2010:

@ Giants
vs. Bucs
vs. 49ers
@ Rams
vs. Saints

So let's look at the scores of those games:

31-18 loss
20-7 loss
23-20 win
20-10 loss
34-3 loss

Now, let's compare the total scores of those games. Holy hell, what do they add up to be? 

Opponents: 125
Panthers: 61

But hey, don't let your stupidity get in the way of a misguided attempt at defending Moore.

To be clear I was using competitive loosely. We were not playoff competitive. I just meant we actually fielded a team with an offense and a defense with Moore. We could actually potentially make use of the weapons we did have like, Goodson, Gettis , and Smitty.  With Clausen, we literally just had a defense, we did literally nothing. Three downs guaranteed to literally go nowhere because we had the most horrid QB in existence. By comparison Moore made them competitive. Chains COULD move, points COULD be scored. Pickles was that bad.

[CRA]

Hated Clausen the player.  Never wanted him drafted to begin with.  Was an obvious dud IMO.

But the dude as a person was solid and WAY better than he was initially perceived coming in. Dude was in a tough spot.  Never once complained.  Never looked to deflect blame.  Handled it all as well as you would want.  Handled Cam coming in on top of him great.  Jimmy the dude was an A+ guy.  Makes it hard to pile on him at this point. 

He got a smokin hot wife and NFL money so I also doubt he gives a fug people are talking about him years later 

[Moo Daeng]

13 hours ago, Piff said:

lol. People are really defending Jimmy because he is a "good guy." That doesn't take away from him being a trash QB. Other players get flamed for being trash but somehow Clausen is off limits. lol. He is a horrible QB by the way.

At some point the meathead fan act gets old. 

[Carl Spackler]

18 hours ago, OneBadCat said:

To be clear I was using competitive loosely. We were not playoff competitive. I just meant we actually fielded a team with an offense and a defense with Moore. We could actually potentially make use of the weapons we did have like, Goodson, Gettis , and Smitty.  With Clausen, we literally just had a defense, we did literally nothing. Three downs guaranteed to literally go nowhere because we had the most horrid QB in existence. By comparison Moore made them competitive. Chains COULD move, points COULD be scored. Pickles was that bad.

We sucked with either one under center. Moore was good about driving us inside the opponent's 30 and then throwing picks in the end zone. Clausen was afraid to throw downfield because he didn't have the arm to make the throws needed to succeed in Jeff Davidson's offense, for which success is an abstract term anyway.