Yasinskas: Is Newton's Past An Issue For Panthers?

[Punisher]

I think he was being sarcastic, rayzor.

Or at least I hope so.

More like pray so.

I wasn't being sarcastic. Don't you know who our QB is. Jimmy f*cking Clausen. He has the same initials as Jesus Christ.

[panthers55]

If we draft a rookie in the first, Clausen will still get his chances. It isn't as if he is a 6th rounder like Pike. Many projected him as a first rounder as well.

Drafting a guy this year at number 1 will be different than in the past. You knew the first pick was going to get 60 or 70 million before they took a single snap in the past. They had little motivation to play hard. With a rookie cap, if the rookie gets 20 million instead of 70 million, his big payday will be 3-5 years down the road. He will be highly incented to win the starter role just like Clausen will. There won't be an instant annointing of the rookie as the starter in lieu of Clausen. The money won't be that different. And if either are a bust or get injured, we have the other to come in and pick up the slack.

It makes a wlole lot of sense to try and cement the QB position for the next decade. Sure we can pass and hope for Luck next year but what if we aren't in the running. Then we are 2 years further down the line and we still have to pick the best of the rest. If we are likely going to do that next year as well. we might as well do that this year and give the rookie a year in the system.

[MadHatter]

Clausen was never going to keep the Panthers from drafting Luck, so why should he keep us from drafting Newton? If he can't handle the competition, then he's not the right guy anyway. There is no law that says we can't still root for Clausen, regardless of what the Panthers do either, so for me anyway, hate has nothing to do with it.

Simple.

Because Luck is considered to be a once in a decade QB that is ready now for the NFL Grame.

While, Cam is a run first QB....who played in a one read and then run offense....never played under center...was never required to read defenses....never shoed an ability to go through multiple progressions....with some ?? about his character.

Not even close to the same type of player.

[Tarheels23]

It's funny how non Cam Newton fans can make sense out of other teams falling in love with Cam and doing whatever it takes to trade up and get him, but can't make sense out of us falling in love with Cam and taking him with the number 1 pick. And on top of that the Panthers need a QB worse than any other team in the league.

[raleigh-panther]

I want someone who plays the position without fear, who feels, because of ego or whatever, that they can make plays, make a difference, be bold, not stupid, bold.

I don't see boldness in JC, and that is disappointing. I see him shrink from the moment not grow into it. I don't even see one spark of fire in him, at all. Steve Smith will bark at him as long as JC will take it. It would have done that kid a lot of good to tell Smith to get out of his face.

Newton is far from a polished QB. He is a big risk. No risk, no reward. Risk tempered with probability. If via the film, and the combine, he shows that he can be 'the guy', the Panthers need to take him, pure and simple.