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This is a pivotal moment for this franchise...

Catalyst

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It's almost hard to believe we're actually about to take such a leap of faith with the #1 overall pick. After nearly a decade of ultra-conservative coaching and management we're about to take a player who represents the biggest risk this franchise has ever taken.

One way or the other - whichever side you come down on - this pick is the most important pick - maybe the most important moment in the history of the team. We're at a crossroads here; either we hit on this pick and become the team we all want or we miss and are back in the same situation in 5 years licking our wounds.

I guess my whole point here is that tonight will be as important to this franchise as those last 0:04 of the Super Bowl were, as Jake's playoff meltdown, as our NFC championship win in Philly, as anything we've seen, for better or for worse.

One way or another there's about to be a major shake-up. Here's hoping it all works out for the best beercheers.gif

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Tru dat, but we're gonna be fine bra. You gotta have A Lil faith. You'll see. I think we'll win the division with Cam. I don't expect him to sit behind Clausen either... Not saying he doesn't need it. I just think they'll put the guy who gives us "the best shot at winning" in there from day one.

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I've never been so nervous/giddy/excited about the draft.

Tonight should be interesting.

I think tonight will be very boring. We have 1 pick. The first pick. We know who it is (excluding those who just feel the need to say the Earth is flat).

I think there will also be surprsingly little movement w/ no player trades and a lot of uncertainty about 2012 draft picks (riskier than in normal years).

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I will support him even though I think its the wrong choice. I will just hope to hell I am wrong. The biggest thing that worries me is from this article

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/20469/the-next-chapter-for-cam-newton

2. In some ways, he's not Freeman, Matt Ryan, Sam Bradford or Joe Flacco. Those young quarterbacks all have had early success.

"I sat down with Ryan, Flacco, Freeman and Bradford," one talent evaluator said. "Those are four of the smartest quarterbacks I've ever interviewed coming out of college. You could cue up the film to a certain play, and they'd walk you right through every step of it for the entire offense. I saw Cam's interview with Jon Gruden, and the look on Cam's face when Jon asked him to walk him through a play scared the absolute heck out of me."

The concerns go beyond Newton learning a complicated NFL playbook. Talent evaluators say they're not sure whether Newton can handle pre-snap reads because he didn't have to do that in college and they have no idea how he'll read and react once he takes the snap.

You need to have a smart QB. And this is not the first article that mentions Cam's lack of even the basic knowledge of play design.

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Tru dat, but we're gonna be fine bra. You gotta have A Lil faith. You'll see. I think we'll win the division with Cam. I don't expect him to sit behind Clausen either... Not saying he doesn't need it. I just think they'll put the guy who gives us "the best shot at winning" in there from day one.

If we draft Cam #1, he better get us more than NFCS division titles. Jake was capable of that.

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I will support him even though I think its the wrong choice. I will just hope to hell I am wrong. The biggest thing that worries me is from this article

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/20469/the-next-chapter-for-cam-newton

2. In some ways, he's not Freeman, Matt Ryan, Sam Bradford or Joe Flacco. Those young quarterbacks all have had early success.

"I sat down with Ryan, Flacco, Freeman and Bradford," one talent evaluator said. "Those are four of the smartest quarterbacks I've ever interviewed coming out of college. You could cue up the film to a certain play, and they'd walk you right through every step of it for the entire offense. I saw Cam's interview with Jon Gruden, and the look on Cam's face when Jon asked him to walk him through a play scared the absolute heck out of me."

The concerns go beyond Newton learning a complicated NFL playbook. Talent evaluators say they're not sure whether Newton can handle pre-snap reads because he didn't have to do that in college and they have no idea how he'll read and react once he takes the snap.

You need to have a smart QB. And this is not the first article that mentions Cam's lack of even the basic knowledge of play design.

I feel the exact same way. I'd support him, but its going to make me nervous as hell.

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