the Panthers GM on the quarterback competition in
Carolina between
Sam Donald.
Maybe Matt Correll. Maybe player to be named later. Here.
He is.
What would the message be right now to Sam? Darn old as to
where he stands
on the depth? Chart level of competition house set in stone
or sand is his number one spot at the top of your roster.
Well, that Sam is the number one guy right now and he has
every opportunity to take it and run with it. We hope he
does. Well,
we've seen Improvement already
under been McAdoo. He's working hard. He's throwing the ball.
Well,
he's just got to take it and run with it. It's got to own
the position. And the one thing we're looking to do is
stabilize the position that and it's been
up and down up and down, and
we're bringing them a Corral.
He jaywalkers already here
and we're will see how it goes. But he's in the lead right now,
but until someone really owns,
Position gives us an opportunity to win
it. Always be up for grabs
is the door, open for him
and you mentioned competition and Sam Donald's. Currently
number one, but
depending upon how he performs house a forms. Could Matt
Correll, be your starter at some point this season.
You know, it's hard to say right now at just how quickly
grasp The Playbook, how quickly he's ready to play. But
the best guys going to play that. Doesn't matter. What be
second year. Third year, fourth year,
one that gives us the best opportunity to win,
will be out there on the field.
Best opportunity to win. Puts a guy in the field. And also we
also talked about the door, possibly still being open, not
just for a trade for a veteran quarterback from another team
because I didn't want to lead him down the tampering road.
Yeah, right. I don't want to
set that trap. Hey, are you still going to
consider trading for Baker Mayfield? Even though he's
under contract with another team? You're not allowed to
talk about that without getting yourself in trouble. Not that
the NFL over cares. Cam Newton is also
somebody that could still bring back still
a possibility. Our set. Hmm. That's interesting.
It is I mean
it all Cam Newton. He has his value for sure. You know again,
I don't know if he would make things better or maybe confuse
things a little bit.
But either way, I mean had that none of their quarterback
questions can be answered, Sam Donald like like Scott Federer
said, you're the leader as of right now, but they can't just
anoint him the star. He's got to earn it,
you know, with the way he played last year, it fell
apart. So he's kind of got to regain the trust of guys on
the team. They Our organization. And then of course prove to
bend McAdoo, the new also see that. He's that guy too.
So I would expect yes. He's got a leg up on Matt Correll.
Certainly coming in, no doubt about it, but Corral's got real
talent. That's her. Sure. That's where it'll be
interesting. But I would expect the day. One starter to be Sam
Donald.
But if it, you know, there's the trips up a little bit or
hits a few bumps in the road. I don't think it'll be a long
leash for him this year. That's for sure.
Hey bottom line is they were 3 and 0 last year to start
the season. Donald had like 17 rushing touchdown, right,
September. I'm exaggerating. But if things were working
well, and I don't,
I don't want to
be a hypocrite because when David Tepper the owner,
the team
had his press conference a couple of weeks ago and was
making excuses. Like, I don't make excuses. You're
a Christian McCaffrey was injured but the reality is Christian
McCaffrey was injured. It's one thing for the team to say.
Oh, hey, we'll see. I'm Darnell was fine. But Christian
McCaffrey guy. Injured that seems like an excuse for people
on the outside to say, yeah, let's give the Panthers a break
there. It was going pretty well until Christian McCaffrey gets
injured. But Chris you
clued me into this.
The idea is that if the offense stagnates, if you don't build
on what you're doing, they're going to figure out what you're
doing and I'm going to shut you down. You got to always find
a way to stay ahead of the curve. You got to be
conscious of your film.
You got to self Scout yourself. You got to have quality
control. You got to have the, I remember when,
Going into year two of the Colin Kaepernick experiment. In
San Francisco. They hire Eric Mangini who was available at
the time
to come in
and basically be the defensive coordinator who was helping
the offense, stay ahead of the curve scouting
the offense to figure out where to take it to the next level
and the Panthers. They'll you know, you bring these guys from
college and they don't know that Matt rule doesn't know
that Joe Brady
doesn't want. Joe Brady arguably who's Rashon paint,
but how much did it was young? Are we on our way? Yeah, right.
Yeah. Yeah, but but, you know, you you're missing some of
the nuances. Some of the details is only so many hours
in the day, but that's how you take it. Next level. You don't
just say, hey, what we did work the first three weeks. Let's
just keep doing it. You're eventually going to run right
into a wall 100%, That's really what happened in my assessment.
You know, they're they're too good and too talented to kind
of fall into some of the,
you know, bad play or losses that they had last year. In my
opinion. They got a lot of young town. When you break down
the Panthers. There's a
position for position you go. Damn.
There's something there, but that was yes, you know,
the number one thing that even jumped out to me during
the three game. Win streak, you know, I just want, man. It's
just, I don't see a lot of creativity. Okay, maybe it'll
improve here. They're just taking it
slow. They're a young team.
But, you know, you said all the right things college, football
is a different animal and especially when you're coming
from the team. That's usually the more talented team on
the field. You don't have to change a lot. You don't have to do
a lot of different things.
You can kind of just go.
Oh wait, I have Jamar Chase and just
Jefferson and Joe burrow.
All those plays. I've been calling all year that are working.
They're going to work this week because they're awesome.
So that that the, you know, that's a different game. But
yes, you know, and now all football fans know the NFL is
a different animal. And with teams and players are so much
smarter.
There's no school. They go to the school of football all day
long. So, when you line up in the same formations, and then
they see, wait when they're in this formation, they run two or
three of these plays
football players in the Modern day and I fell there, what
the Huddle breaks, and they're going. Oh wait. They're in this
formation. Okay, here comes that play that player that
player. Okay. I'm ready for, we're going to and that's what
I saw more than anything is
just total stagnant and creativity. As far as
the offense, is concerned in the whole league, caught on to it
in a hurry.
And I think that defense to the 335. I mean, at first, it's
it's
and if you got great players, it doesn't matter. Yeah, but
You get benefit from the fact that people really don't know
what to do with it. But then they start to figure it out
like anything else. You have to constantly be evolving, and
changing, and shifting, and improving, and improving and
improving. And you have to stay ahead of what you're showing
and you can't get complacent. You can never be complacent.
Ever. And even an amino. This is what happens
in the postseason. Hey, we had a great season. Will you have,
but you got 17 games of tape out there that they're figuring
out. So you better figure out, About what they're figuring out
and get a step ahead of them set them up, use the 17
games of what you've done
to have that that surprise,
right? Show a formation, that you always run out of and pass
out of instead. It's yeah, I, you know, I, I know that these
teams have a lot of coaches and Personnel, but there aren't
enough hours in the day and there aren't enough
people, you can hire
to do all the things you need to do, to be a successful NFL
team week in and week out. And that's the challenge this year,
format Rule and Company, or there could be a lot of people
in Carolina who are looking for work out.