Please keep things in perspective IF Jimmy does light it up next week.

[Cat'sGrowl]

He's not going to light it up and we're not going to win

[PandaMan]

He won't light it up. He will have had a few days of practice with the starters. Bradford and Sanchez have had months with thier starters as rooks by this point and neither one looks particularly great.

B-b-b-but Clausen is the Chosen One!

I don't think we'll win but I think Clausen will have a solid game. I think he'll have at least 1 INT and hopefully at least a TD.

[Anybodyhome]

And what happens when he looks and plays the part of the rookie that he is? What happens when he sees actual game speed starters and gets crushed a couple times?

Is everyone gonna start screaming for Moore again? I mean, WTF, people have been clamoring for Clausen, now you got him and it seems the huge, overwhelming assumption here is that he's the next great white hope of Charlotte. The odds are not in his favor and I'm just wondering how long it takes before the Charlotte fickle- oops, I mean faithful- discover they've once again pinned their hopes against the odds.

[HPPantherzfan]

Difference is Clausen is a rookie whom, in my humble opinion, is playing as good as if not better than the Panthers version of a Vet! If we are going to hang up the season, which after losing to the YUCS we may as well, why not get our young, promissing, rookie some much needed game exp and see what he has?

Please explain to me how keeping him on the bench at this point is going to do us any good?

[Jangler]

Hell no, if #2 lights it up I'm lighting my hair on fire and running down the street screeming.

[The Don]

He won't light it up. He will have had a few days of practice with the starters. Bradford and Sanchez have had months with thier starters as rooks by this point and neither one looks particularly great.

He's actually had plenty of reps with the ones throughout training camp and practice after the season started. That's usually what you do with backups. They're always the backup plan, and them not having any reps with the ones would just be dumb.

I personally think he's gonna get Steve Smith his first 100yard game of the season though. They've got a lot of chemistry it seems. Every photo I see of Clausen, Smith's right next to him almost every time. And one of the differences between Clausen and Moore is that Clausen knows how to check it down better than Moore.

[thunderraiden]

They have the best CB tandem in the league and our gameplan will likely be to pound the rock. 12/21 188 yards 1 td 1 int 0 fumbles.

You think if he had those stats everyone on this board wouldn't consider that "lighting it up?" Thats percisely what i mean in this thread. If he has those stats, yes its awesome, but don't go thinking he is the next coming of Jesus Christ to the Carolina's.

[thunderraiden]

Marv can't game plan for noob QB's. LOL

Neither can Fox. LOL

[Happy Panther]

Clausen line this Sunday

25/31 525 5TD (300 3TD to DJ alone)

6 Rushes 98 2TD