Most Disappointing Moves of the 2020 Offseason

[AceBoogie]

According to Dan Graziano of Espn
4. Panthers sign QB Teddy Bridgewater.

Nothing Surprising here, most of said this was a bad move going into it. 
 

A few notes from the article:

”Panthers paid Bridgewater $24 million in 2020 and $10 million of his $17 million 2021 salary is fully guaranteed.”

“The Panthers could have kept Cam Newton for $19.1 million, probably not done a whole lot worse than they did, and also not be on the hook for another $10 million in 2021.”

These are the type of dumb decisions that a rebuilding franchise can’t continue to make. 
 

Let’s do what we have to do to land one of the big 4 QBs in the draft and not go chasing other veteran QBs that don’t fit into this rebuild. Time for Rhule and Brady to start fresh and get the guy that will define their tenure here. 
 

Ron can walk away saying he won multiple division titles, a NFC championship, a Super Bowl appearance, and Head Coach of the year because he had Cam. 
 

No more bad decisions at that position please. 

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

one of the bottom 5 FA ever in panthers history

[Captroop]

I don't have any issue with bringing in Teddy this past off-season. He had a great track record, a good upside, and was proven to be a smart, reliable QB to serve as a placeholder and keep us competitive until the team found their next franchise QB.

I'll go to my grave never understanding why we paid him that much money.

[kungfoodude]

I can't remember how many times so many of us said we should have just fuging kept Cam. He had one fuging year left on a CHEAPER DEAL. 

It was dumb then and it looks way, way, waaaaaaaaaaay dumber now.

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, Captroop said:

I don't have any issue with bringing in Teddy this past off-season. He had a great track record, a good upside, and was proven to be a smart, reliable QB to serve as a placeholder and keep us competitive until the team found their next franchise QB.

I'll go to my grave never understanding why we paid him that much money.

Typical Hurney bidding against himself moment, I suspect.

[trueblade]

14 minutes ago, AceBoogie said:

Let’s do what we have to do to land one of the big 4 QBs in the draft and not go chasing other veteran QBs that don’t fit into this rebuild. Time for Rhule and Brady to start fresh and get the guy that will define their tenure here. 

You seem to be saying here that you favor spending assets (players and/or draft picks) to move up to draft one of the Big 4. If we are going to spend assets, my first choice would be to spend them on a young, proven player like Watson. If we are outbid for Watson by teams with greater assets, then I would agree with spending assets to move up for a quarterback the staff has a conviction on. They just better be right.

[OldhamA]

Am I looking at the same Bridgewater stats everyone else is?

[davos]

Teddy was the Sarlac, the team and fans were Lando, & the FO is Han & smart enough to shoot it from further grasp and torture.  Would've felt like a thousand years of mediocrity. 

 

Edited January 29, 2021 by davos

[Zod]

Signing Teddy was the wrong move.

Moving on from Cam was not.

[OldhamA]

8 minutes ago, stbugs said:

Please tell me we aren’t back to completion percentage.

He was middle of the pack when it comes to passing yards - he moved the offence, he just didn't finish enough drives.

The way people talk about him it's like we paid $60m for Mike Glennon. 

He's obviously not the guy for the future - or potentially next year with the rumours circulating, but damn people have zero perspective. He was an ok starting NFL QB last year. 

[AceBoogie]

21 minutes ago, trueblade said:

You seem to be saying here that you favor spending assets (players and/or draft picks) to move up to draft one of the Big 4. If we are going to spend assets, my first choice would be to spend them on a young, proven player like Watson. If we are outbid for Watson by teams with greater assets, then I would agree with spending assets to move up for a quarterback the staff has a conviction on. They just better be right.

Look I’m not in NFL front offices. I don’t know if a QB will fall to 8 or not. I’m saying we should do our research on each of the top 4 (minus Trevor), go through the scenarios and internal mock drafts and see if we have a realistic chance of getting the guy(s) we like. If we do then you sit at 8 and take the best one available assuming you like them all. If you believe they aren’t going to be there you absolutely move up to take them. It will still cost less than Watson and possibly Stafford. 
 

To be clear here I don’t think we have a realistic chance of getting Watson so I’m not even considering that possibility. But hell no to Stafford. 

[Icege]

Not firing Marty Hurney at the start was definitely the most disappointing move.

[AceBoogie]

16 minutes ago, Zod said:

Signing Teddy was the wrong move.

Moving on from Cam was not.

Look I wasn’t against going into the year with Will as the starter. I personally believe we should have let Cam play out his contract, but wouldn’t have been mad if we just rolled with Will. 

[OldhamA]

6 minutes ago, stbugs said:

He had three stud WRs that made up for his mediocrity. How many times did you see Moore, Samuel and Anderson have to break off their route to adjust to a poor deep throw or make a great play to catch (or try to catch a GW TD)? I saw tons. Teddy was mediocre but the may have had the best trio of WRs in the NFL and he still threw for 15 TDs. I don’t think he was even OK. His stats were OK, but his actual play was lifted by his weapons. A non hurt Cam would have had an MVP season with those 3 WRs.

10 QBs threw more than double Teddy’s TDs and as far as I know, none of them said they would have run the ball instead with the game on the line. 

All three 'stud' WRs had the best years of their careers under Bridgewater.

Like I said - the stats don't match up to the hate the guy receives. But it is what it is - it's not a hill I'm going to die on.