Riveria seems sold on Cam

[rayzor]

his agent is probably going to try and make it as difficult as possible, but i doubt that will be newton's intention. if he wants to start and play he'll have to sign.

[rayzor]

Man it would pretty awesome if he had buyers remorse after the draft.

"Ohhhh I just now saw the tape on Dareus and Miller; I made a huge mistake. I would give anything to have a do-over at this point. Please God let me wake up."

how would that be awesome?

[Stroupe-a-loop]

how would that be awesome?

He said the same things every coach says about every newly drafted player. I would find it pretty funny if a coach was completely negative on a draft pick. In this case, it would suck for us and be terrible for the team but pretty funny.

I mean he said some nice stuff, but what did anybody really expect him to say about his recent first overall pick?

[jarhead]

I did not realize they could talk contracts until after the CBA? How can we say we will pay Sam Bradford money until the rookie pay scale is defined.

There will be alot of pressure to get these rookies signed but it may still take weeks after the CBA to get them signed

[rayzor]

saying that because he drafted him or drafted him because he felt like that?

[OchoNueve]

So you didn't think that the Panthers were sold on him when they drafted him? You had to wait until an exclusive NFLN Total Access interview to ease your concerns?

That is like waiting on TMZ to break a story for it to become official.

[jarhead]

He said the same things every coach says about every newly drafted player. I would find it pretty funny if a coach was completely negative on a draft pick. In this case, it would suck for us and be terrible for the team but pretty funny.

I mean he said some nice stuff, but what did anybody really expect him to say about his recent first overall pick?

I did not see Fox get excited when Clausen and Edwards were drafted

[Stroupe-a-loop]

I did not realize they could talk contracts until after the CBA? How can we say we will pay Sam Bradford money until the rookie pay scale is defined.

There will be alot of pressure to get these rookies signed but it may still take weeks after the CBA to get them signed

To my knowledge, it was during the temporary withdraw of the lockout. A very real possibility is that the NFL functions on a "temporary stoppage" of the lockout and no CBA using last year's rules while the court cases go forward. It happened before in the late 80's and early 90's I believe. In which case, we would probably give Newton a Bradford like contract.

[rayzor]

fox didn't want them.

fox didn't get excited about anyone or anything and even if he did you would never know because he would spend 5 minutes saying absolutely nothing.

"well...he's a football player"

[jarhead]

To my knowledge, it was during the temporary withdraw of the lockout. A very real possibility is that the NFL functions on a "temporary stoppage" of the lockout and no CBA using last year's rules while the court cases go forward. It happened before in the late 80's and early 90's I believe. In which case, we would probably give Newton a Bradford like contract.

Makes sense

[Stroupe-a-loop]

I did not see Fox get excited when Clausen and Edwards were drafted

Did you ever see Fox get excited? And in any case he still said generally vanilla and positive things about anybody we drafted.

[jarhead]

Yea he would revert to it is what it is .......so nice not having to hear that and watch him call the same boring plays game after game.

I am pumped

[jarhead]

So you didn't think that the Panthers were sold on him when they drafted him? You had to wait until an exclusive NFLN Total Access interview to ease your concerns?

That is like waiting on TMZ to break a story for it to become official.

Did I say that? What else is there to talk about? ....it was on NFL last night and I posted it....The last I heard this was a forum where people post Panther related events and thoughts so go screw yourself

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

Listening to Rivera last night on total access it appears they are tooling the plays around his skill set. My guess is that alot will depend on when the CBA is in place and Cam signed but it sounded as though thier intentions are to play him as ASAP.

One thing that I have not heard mentioned is how long do you think it will take to sign him to a contract after the CBA is resolvd?

Can his agent not start negotiating until the lockout is through--or can he just not SIGN it until it is through? I heard rumors before the draft that they've already discussed contract terms.

I heard the contract is carbon copy of Sam Bradford's