Round 1 Panthers Select: Cam Newton QB

[silverbax]

This is the lowest point I have ever felt as a Panther fan. I honestly question if I can even muster support for this team anymore. After all these years of great football, the realization that the Panthers have completely derailed since Jerry's illness has really hit home.

Horrible, horrible pick. Complete waste. We desperately need O line and D line and we go after Cam Newton? Really?!? Are you kidding me? Why are we wasting one second on a another QB who is almost certainly a bust?

It's over. We may never be a viable team again until the team is sold, which might be years from now.

Depressed is all I can say.

[Zod]

Good gravy, cam has not even gotten a playbook yet and you are ready to hang him out to dry? WTF?

[ncmonzta]

Good gravy, cam has not even gotten a playbook yet and you are ready to hang him out to dry? WTF?

This was to be expected we'll see who the true fans are now

[Easyt65]

WITH THE 1ST PICK IN THE 2011 NFL DRAFT, THE CAROLINA PANTHERS SELECT....

C A M * N E W T O N

I have to admit, the queasy, sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach grew larger and larger as I watched such immediate, impact players like Vohn Miller, Dareus, Green, and Peterson being selected after us.

The fact is the Carolina just drafted a PROJECT QB that has the potential to be a great QB and at the same time a QB with the potential to be a complete bust. If they handle Cam as he NEEDS to be brought along, Cam will not get on the field until at LEAST mid-season and possibly 1-2 seasons from now. Cam Newton is NO IMMEDIATE, impact player.

If you look at the rest of the NFC South, every other team made their team immediately better. We made a 50-50 investment that won't pay off for quite a while, if it does at all. Of course, all we have left to do is become 'Cam Newton Fans' and pray Newton develops into a franchise QB.

[Icege]

This was to be expected we'll see who the true fans are now

So the fans that believe the pick wasn't in the best interest of the team aren't really fans? :confused:

[AceMan]

^^Pic made by our O-lineman @RyanKalil

Get used to it!!!

[ncmonzta]

So the fans that believe the pick wasn't in the best interest of the team aren't really fans? :confused:

Calm down. Im talking about the ones saying they hope the team moves to LA and we fail. If you got something on your chest let it off;)

[Captroop]

I promised if we drafted Cam Newton, I would be optimistic, I would try hard to become his new biggest fan, and give him an honest chance as our QB of the future. And I am sticking to that promise, because right, wrong, or indifferent, he is "our guy" for at least the next 3 years.

So I'll try to look on the bright side. After all, he is a dual threat with a strong arm, a Heisman Trophy winner, and a National Championship winner. So I'll try to stay positive, and look past all the negative press, because at the moment his odds of becoming the worst bust in history are about the same as him being the greatest of all time, so we've got that going for us. Which is nice.

I'm not quite ready to buy his jersey yet, or cheer his name, but, as a man of my word, I promise, I will give him at least 2 years before I call him a bust, demand Hurney be fired, renounce my fandom of the Panthers, or any such zealous overreaction.

p.s. I'm looking for co-signers on this pledge.

[Cyclonus]

This was to be expected we'll see who the true fans are now

I'm so sick of hearing this "true fans" bullpoo. Everybody is different. What makes one person more of a fan than someone else? Give this poo a rest already.

[rico6]

So the fans that believe the pick wasn't in the best interest of the team aren't really fans? :confused:

Learn2comprehend

[Fiz]

Nicest suit of the night by far.

[Darth Biscuit]

I promised if we drafted Cam Newton, I would be optimistic, I would try hard to become his new biggest fan, and give him an honest chance as our QB of the future. And I am sticking to that promise, because right, wrong, or indifferent, he is "our guy" for at least the next 3 years.

So I'll try to look on the bright side. After all, he is a dual threat with a strong arm, a Heisman Trophy winner, and a National Championship winner. So I'll try to stay positive, and look past all the negative press, because at the moment his odds of becoming the worst bust in history are about the same as him being the greatest of all time, so we've got that going for us. Which is nice.

I'm not quite ready to buy his jersey yet, or cheer his name, but, as a man of my word, I promise, I will give him at least 2 years before I call him a bust, demand Hurney be fired, renounce my fandom of the Panthers, or any such zealous overreaction.

p.s. I'm looking for co-signers on this pledge.

I agree... he wasn't the pick I would have personally made but I don't run the show. He's a Panther now and I'll root for him to do well... I'm hoping he can come in and be a strong leader and tear it up. He's gonna have issues, but I'm not going to criticize him unless there is a real reason to, not just because I don't like the pick.

The fans thing is like this... if you're cursing the Panthers and saying crap like "I hope he fails..." then you're not a real fan. Go away and root for some other team, we don't want you here.

You can not like the pick but still support the team.

[schermy01]

cam got more boos than the commissioner in the middle of a lock out

McNabb got plenty of boos as well, but led his team to the no. 1 spot in the Eagles' division several years in a row, and took them to the Super Bowl against the dominant Patriots. I like the pick myself, because we finally got a QB who can scramble, who can make defenses think twice about rushing/blitzing. We've been beat up for years by the likes of Michael Vick and recently by that QB in Tampa Bay, and it will be nice to turn the tables on our NFC South foes. What's wrong with a running QB, especially while he's learning the quickness of the NFL and the defensive schemes he's throwing against? He's got more upside than any other player in the draft, and that's why Hurney and Rivera took him. I hope they're both successful, and make me want to go to the home games again.

[Icege]

Calm down. Im talking about the ones saying they hope the team moves to LA and we fail. If you got something on your chest let it off;)

Leave it to people like you to assume that offering another perspective means that somebody is upset.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN PEOPLE LIKE ME!?"

I mean people who's faces were buried so deep into Cam's naughty jungle of love that they really believe he's a franchise savior without him taking a snap yet.

I'm excited because there's competition at QB :)