The Final Numbers: 3 years, 63 million dollars for Teddy Bridgewater

[Mother Grabber]

seems pretty clear what they are doing. not sure why there’s so much confusion. they are clearing out older, top $$$ players for younger, good enough, medium priced players to get through a rebuild period.

yeah, you’re butt hurt because the old guard aren’t here. everyone bitched at foxy and ron for hanging on to vets, and now you hang onto vets because it’s what you know and understand.

you can’t get better by just putting the same crap out there. if you want to change the program, you have to change the program. this may work, it may not, but at least it’s not the same thing with a different wig on it.

[GOOGLE JIM BOB COOTER]

hmmm not afraid of competing against the “baby GOAT” though 

[TheRed]

Ya'll are in here really using words like program and trying to swing a stick after today?

Hey I'm trying to be optimistic too, but this isn't college dudes. This is the NFL. We're making big moves. Cool. It's gotta lead somewhere, all these guys are on the clock now. Show us something.

[Jaxel]

Just now, GOOGLE JIM BOB COOTER said:

hmmm not afraid of competing against the “baby GOAT” though 

I mean, why would he go to place he has to compete when he gets the same money and is being asked to start? It's not being afraid, it's being smart.

[GOOGLE JIM BOB COOTER]

3 minutes ago, Jaxel said:

I mean, why would he go to place he has to compete when he gets the same money and is being asked to start? It's not being afraid, it's being smart.

better chance to win. though maybe he’s not so confident in his own abilities to care about that so much. maybe just assumes he will lose wherever he goes

[WOW!!]

2 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

They should. I like Bridgewater but he is more of a game managing type. He didn't exactly light the world on fire playing in an offense with arguably the best offensive mind in football running it. I can definitely see a scenario in which he is extremely underwhelming here given that we don't have nearly the talent on offense that New Orleans does. 

Rodney Pete leading to your future QB next year..

[Davidson Deac II]

29 minutes ago, KSpan said:

I honestly would have preferred Jameis if only for the entertainment value and point potential. The ball sure as hell would have been flying downfield.

Unfortunately, as much to the other team as to our own receivers.  

[Davidson Deac II]

Bridgewater is kind of a meh signing.  If he is the guy, then we are going to have to put a very good team around him.  

[Sandlapper]

I can't imagine going through life with as shitty an attitude as some of you.  There is a certain percentage people who just can't seem to keep track of the fact that sports are supposed to be fun.  I can't wait to watch Teddy take the field. Wanna know why? Because he'll be wearing Panthers black and blue.  Keep Pounding.  

[RASTAN66]

The idea that Bridgewater is going to be a "bridge" QB is laughable.

This guy is a gamer and worst case this year is 8-8...Panthers have no path to a top draft-pick for a player like Trevor.

Teddy is only 27. 

He's a super low-mileage 27 and in addition to being 2014 NFL Rookie of the Year and a 2015 Pro Bowl selection --- he now has 2-years of tutelage under several of the great offensive masterminds in the NFL (Payton, Brees, Brady).

This is going to be fun to watch, for years to come. 

[Vagrant]

i think a lot of people are going to be surprised by how effective bridgewater will be by the numbers in this offense. he plays a very simple style that's very hard to master and it's putting the short and intermediate throws as the priority and taking what they give you. if the system that joe brady wants is similar to what they run for drew brees, they picked the right guy for it. this won't be a shot-taking offense. it will be methodical and chain moving. the goal of offenses like the saints have is to get the ball into the hands of the playmakers in the most literal sense. reduce variance by taking some of the risk/reward out of the equation with short and intermediate passes instead of the high variance deep routes that result in either touchdowns, incompletions, or interceptions. the analytics crowd values time of possession and high completion rates. offenses that hold on to the ball keep their defense off the field. our group seems to be moving in that direction. bridgewater is a highly accurate passer. what he did, or more accurately wasn't able to do, in minnesota was a result of the fact that they couldn't keep him upright. the offensive line there during his tenure was putrid. they attempted to play to his strengths with a high volume, low yards per attempt kind of offense but they couldn't protect him and to be honest the pass catchers even on the 11-5 team were pretty crummy. you need a lot of sure handed targets with twitchy athletic ability to run high volume passing offenses and they didn't really have that formula and not to put it all on them, bridgewater probably wasn't quite ready for it. you have to see a lot at the line and make a lot of adjustments with smaller windows and shorter routes. the style is strongly favored for success in the league now. the chiefs, 49ers, rams, and bears all run variations of the WCO. 

when cam's arm was healthy, he was one of those guys that depended upon success on high variance throws down field, because he wasn't incredibly accurate short to intermediate. he isn't a timing route kind of quarterback. he wants to put air under the ball. to have success in a system that's basically a bit of a west coast offense style, you have to have a fairly egoless quarterback that isn't going to gamble at the wrong time. i don't think they believed cam was going to be able to make the throws they needed for their system to work and wasn't going to be able to keep himself from extending plays instead of taking the checkdown. he's not the quarterback you want if your plan is to dink and dunk. there's a reason that the saints themselves wanted bridgewater. they recognized his efficiency as potentially useful to them in a scenario where they had to replicate drew brees and he was perfect for it. what he showed in his 5 starts was a blueprint for a copycat brees offense, which shares many similarities with WCO that has trended back into relevance. i would almost be certain that our offense will be some form of high volume passing attack. bridgewater is going to put the ball on people in open space and that's great news for our playmakers. DJ Moore in particular. they're going to throw at him 150 times next season. i would also imagine they're heavily, heavily in on eric ebron or another of the top free agent TE. just a hunch. but i honestly don't feel they're making these moves with the intent to tank. they want to compete, but they wanted to do it differently. 

[Arroz con Panther]

4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Said it elsewhere: Basically what they would have paid for Newton this season plus two more years of the same.

Would Cam have accepted it though? I don't know but wanted to pose the question.

[stbugs]

5 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Said it elsewhere: Basically what they would have paid for Newton this season plus two more years of the same.

Actually, $2M more. Of Cam's $21M cap hit, only $19M was "new" salary. Teddy's $21M per year is all new. We'll have the $2M cap hit for Cam regardless.

[Mr. Scot]

1 hour ago, Arroz con Panther said:

Would Cam have accepted it though? I don't know but wanted to pose the question.

A few months ago, I'd have said no. More recently, I'd have said yes.