My Plan to Draft Luck Next Year

[Matthias]

Here's my plan to draft Luck next year. For those of you who read my plan to win a championship next season, obviously we won't be in position to draft Luck next year. Yet, hold the phone, there is a way we could win the superbowl next year and still draft number one overall. Yep, however it is a gamble and not a sure thing, but if we don't draft number one overall, the only thing we would lose is the chance to draft Luck.

We need to swap first round picks with a bottom feeder team. A team that is usually picking within the top ten year in and year out. Plus with our record this year, teams may feel the Panthers will be weak next year, and would consider swapping picks with us for next year. Now, if I were to pursue this plan, I wouldn't let the trade involve just the first round picks. Even though we were sorry this year, it doesn't necessarily mean we won't make the playoffs the following year. That would lead teams to catch on to our plan, and won't make the trade. So what I would do is add other factors into the trade, and make it more than just the picks. For example.......

A trade between the Panthers and Cardinals

Cardinals get: Panther's 1st next year, 3rd this year, a player, and a 3rd nxt year

Panthers get: Cardinals's 1st next year, 5th this year, and 7th next year

We would watch this season unfold as the Panthers win the superbowl and the Cards go 3-13. Then come april next year, Goodell announce with the first pick, "With the first pick of the 2012 NFL draft, the superbowl champs Carolina Panthers pick, Andrew Luck QB Stanford."

That is the best case scenario for getting Luck! Now, if we don't do this, the next step for acquiring Luck is to sell basically next years and most of our picks the following draft to get him. I personally would do it if it came down to that, Luck has that kind of potential. Plus, I would then build through free agency for the next two years.

[YoungPanthers89]

OR we start pickles

[Matthias]

OR we start pickles

The problem with that is most of the team would then ask for a trade, and by the time we pick Luck, we would have to rebuild the team from scratch. The John Fox era is over, but hopefully we can keep the foundation he left us with.

[Vagrant]

If Luck wanted to play here, he would have come out this year. I don't know why people continue to act like he wanted to play here. We very well could be the reason, the LONE reason, he went back to Stanford considering the coaching turnover and the fact that he has nothing left to prove there.

He should be getting slagged around here for ducking us, but some people still want him. It's nuts.

[Mr. Scot]

If Luck wanted to play here, he would have come out this year. I don't know why people continue to act like he wanted to play here. We very well could be the reason, the LONE reason, he went back to Stanford considering the coaching turnover and the fact that he has nothing left to prove there.

He should be getting slagged around here for ducking us, but some people still want him. It's nuts.

Maybe it could have something to do with the fact that his dad clearly and repeatedly said the Panthers had nothing to do with it and that he knows and likes Jerry Richardson.

OR we start pickles

[TylerVagyler]

If Luck wanted to play here, he would have come out this year. I don't know why people continue to act like he wanted to play here. We very well could be the reason, the LONE reason, he went back to Stanford considering the coaching turnover and the fact that he has nothing left to prove there.

He should be getting slagged around here for ducking us, but some people still want him. It's nuts.

We are not the reason he stayed in school.

[Mr. Scot]

Here's my plan to draft Luck next year. For those of you who read my plan to win a championship next season, obviously we won't be in position to draft Luck next year. Yet, hold the phone, there is a way we could win the superbowl next year and still draft number one overall. Yep, however it is a gamble and not a sure thing, but if we don't draft number one overall, the only thing we would lose is the chance to draft Luck.

We need to swap first round picks with a bottom feeder team. A team that is usually picking within the top ten year in and year out. Plus with our record this year, teams may feel the Panthers will be weak next year, and would consider swapping picks with us for next year. Now, if I were to pursue this plan, I wouldn't let the trade involve just the first round picks. Even though we were sorry this year, it doesn't necessarily mean we won't make the playoffs the following year. That would lead teams to catch on to our plan, and won't make the trade. So what I would do is add other factors into the trade, and make it more than just the picks. For example.......

A trade between the Panthers and Cardinals

Cardinals get: Panther's 1st next year, 3rd this year, a player, and a 3rd nxt year

Panthers get: Cardinals's 1st next year, 5th this year, and 7th next year

We would watch this season unfold as the Panthers win the superbowl and the Cards go 3-13. Then come april next year, Goodell announce with the first pick, "With the first pick of the 2012 NFL draft, the superbowl champs Carolina Panthers pick, Andrew Luck QB Stanford."

That is the best case scenario for getting Luck! Now, if we don't do this, the next step for acquiring Luck is to sell basically next years and most of our picks the following draft to get him. I personally would do it if it came down to that, Luck has that kind of potential. Plus, I would then build through free agency for the next two years.

I understand the effort, but you can't really plan ahead to get the number one pick any more than you can trade a guy to a certain team so that he can get a Super Bowl ring.

Just wait and see what happens and operate next offseason's draft and free agency appropriately. Might not get Andrew Luck, but could still get a franchise QB (pretty much no chance of that this year).

[Real Emotional Trash]

We'll end up with Luck or Barkley next year, I assume, because the team will either be starting Moore or Clausen.

You want to play the guessing game on which team will be the worst next year, though? And willing to throw draft picks at that strategy? Who on this board thought we were fielding a 2-14 team?

No one, I would assume.

How are we supposed to know who will MAYBE draft #1? The Lions are drafting like 13th this year, but I bet if the Lions wanted to trade 1sts with us before last year, we all would've jumped at it. "Really high pick!"

Basically, someone call Miss Cleo.

[Jaxel]

I think Landry Jones is better than Barkley.

[Vagrant]

Maybe it could have something to do with the fact that his dad clearly and repeatedly said the Panthers had nothing to do with it and that he knows and likes Jerry Richardson.

Much easier to say that once you've made the decision to pass that team over and go back for a useless encore at Stanford. It pretty much came down to either pulling an Eli or pulling a Peyton, and he took the latter option and saved a lot of face in the process.

You can believe whatever you want to believe, because it's a free country, but if you think the turmoil that exists here right now, the fact that we're not a team with a lot of history, and the idea that we may not be digging out of this division any time soon didn't play into Luck's decision then you're just fooling yourself in my opinion.

Honestly, who wants to be a hero in Charlotte when you can be a hero for the Jets like Sanchez or the Lions like Stafford. At this time next year, another team will be welcoming Luck into the organization and it will likely be one with a lot more history than ours.

[Chaos]

Remember when Mike Ditka gave away all the Saints draft picks to get the #1 and take Ricky Williams?

How did that work out?

Good times...

[Jangler]

I say we get Jake the Dog and Finn the Human to kidnap Luck and bring here this year. Of course Jake and Finn are good so they might not want to help us in that way.

[thunderraiden]

Here's my plan to draft Luck next year. For those of you who read my plan to win a championship next season, obviously we won't be in position to draft Luck next year. Yet, hold the phone, there is a way we could win the superbowl next year and still draft number one overall. Yep, however it is a gamble and not a sure thing, but if we don't draft number one overall, the only thing we would lose is the chance to draft Luck.

We need to swap first round picks with a bottom feeder team. A team that is usually picking within the top ten year in and year out. Plus with our record this year, teams may feel the Panthers will be weak next year, and would consider swapping picks with us for next year. Now, if I were to pursue this plan, I wouldn't let the trade involve just the first round picks. Even though we were sorry this year, it doesn't necessarily mean we won't make the playoffs the following year. That would lead teams to catch on to our plan, and won't make the trade. So what I would do is add other factors into the trade, and make it more than just the picks. For example.......

A trade between the Panthers and Cardinals

Cardinals get: Panther's 1st next year, 3rd this year, a player, and a 3rd nxt year

Panthers get: Cardinals's 1st next year, 5th this year, and 7th next year

We would watch this season unfold as the Panthers win the superbowl and the Cards go 3-13. Then come april next year, Goodell announce with the first pick, "With the first pick of the 2012 NFL draft, the superbowl champs Carolina Panthers pick, Andrew Luck QB Stanford."

That is the best case scenario for getting Luck! Now, if we don't do this, the next step for acquiring Luck is to sell basically next years and most of our picks the following draft to get him. I personally would do it if it came down to that, Luck has that kind of potential. Plus, I would then build through free agency for the next two years.

I hope you're joking for the simple fact that if we won the super bowl, why would we be in need of Luck?

[Grammer]

Much easier to say that once you've made the decision to pass that team over and go back for a useless encore at Stanford. It pretty much came down to either pulling an Eli or pulling a Peyton, and he took the latter option and saved a lot of face in the process.

You can believe whatever you want to believe, because it's a free country, but if you think the turmoil that exists here right now, the fact that we're not a team with a lot of history, and the idea that we may not be digging out of this division any time soon didn't play into Luck's decision then you're just fooling yourself in my opinion.

Honestly, who wants to be a hero in Charlotte when you can be a hero for the Jets like Sanchez or the Lions like Stafford. At this time next year, another team will be welcoming Luck into the organization and it will likely be one with a lot more history than ours.

except the fact that harbaugh, his dad, and himself said way before the 2010 season started (and as it went on) that andrew luck loved college and wanted to finish his degree. take away that and you have a good argument