the Carolina Panthers. Who's the quarterback going to be?
Here is Sam. Donald appearing on the bus and with the boys
podcast with Taylor lawand, talking about the uncertainty.
He's currently experiencing at the quarterback position and
Carolina.
It truly is. And this is this is kind of where you're not
going to believe what I say, but just bear with me, I'll be
ready. Yeah,
it truly is like
whatever happens happens
because that's at the end of the day like
it's out of my control.
Yeah, and I know that. And so
I have enough Security in myself to where I can be. Like,
I know I'm a good quarterback know, I can be a good
quarterback in this league. I've proved it
and I know there's a team if
you know something happens, that would want me.
I wonder if he knows that there's a specific team or he's
just saying. Hey, there's 32 of them. Somebody out there would
want me if something happened. It's easy to be
chill about this.
When you're getting 18 point, eight million this year,
no matter what, no matter who you play for, no matter what
you do, whether you're on the bench, where you're on
the field, whether you play great, whether you don't, you're still
getting 18 point, eight million and to be a free agent next
year.
That's where he should be concerned though.
Do you get any money next year? Do you get anything more than
the veteran? Them next year. And what you do this year is
going to go a long way toward determining. If you do have
a future
as a starter or whether you slide into the Blaine Gabbert
phase of your career and you are just holding clipboards and
making good money. Yeah, but not not out there in The Fray
showing that you're a good
quarterback week in and week out. Yeah, it's, you know,
teetering on that time a little bit.
Its first off. I think it's approaches, right? There's
nothing you can do, right? You just got to sit back and you
got to get better.
And you don't know what the Panthers are going to do in
the draft to address, the quarterback situation. So he's
got to be willing to just roll with the punches at this point
and you're right the 18 million dollars. Certainly makes it
a little easier to roll with them.
Also. I don't think we've seen the end of Sam Donald. I don't,
I mean again, it's it's two spots on her out. I defend them
last year and certainly thought it would be more successful
than was and he didn't play great. But I do think there was
things that went into that. He hasn't been in the best
situations. We know that
Carolina, you know,
again, we saw the off.
Coordinator get fired only a few weeks after they kind of
bench Sam. Darla did so that tells you something too. It
wasn't just Sam, Donald as I've discussed during the year. It
would be the second quarter. And I'd go, I've seen this
place six times already and it's not that good of a play
and it didn't work the five times before.
So, that's the issue.
You know, it says he's had that and because he was a top ten
pick or a top five pick. Generally, those guys have nine
lives a little bit. I mean, he was viewed as the number one
pick in the draft by a lot of teams in
football. Say he'll get his chances.
To be at least a backup and then
you gotta hope to
get your chance to play again.
But yeah, that Carolina quarterback situation. Very,
very interesting and Sam. Sam don't know, we'll see where it
goes, but there was some terrible play that's for sure.
Hey, I remember in the early months of our first year
together on this program somebody referred to him as
Sam. D'Arnaud d'Arnaud.
Yeah.
Yeah. Parlez-vous Francais
easier to remember how to pronounce his grandfather's
name. That's for damn. Sure down.
Now, the good old dick Hammer. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Could you
ever forget that? It's the greatest name in the history of
mankind?
One of our, one of our all-time great sign offs, and we should
probably do it every show. He's dick Hammer. I'm Turd Ferguson
will see you tomorrow.
Look,
we talked about this as a relates to
a quarterback's first, stop. And you could argue that Sam.
D'Arnaud,
grandson of Dick, Hammer was
Ruined in New York, on his first stop.
It's also possible. We landed up not an ideal second,
Nick spot, right? You got a former college coach who
frankly has yet to live up to the nine million per year or
the hype that arrived with his Smock that he wears from
Baylor.
He hasn't gotten it done yet.
They haven't shown that they know how
to operate the kind of offense
that
Starts off. Yeah, we see it all the time. Hey, great few
games to start the season. Now, the other teams have tape on
what you're doing. Let's see if you can continue it and get
can't and now you got
pain, McAdoo with his giant. Chris Simms suit
looked and and we seen this time and again
and this is one of the byproducts of doing this. For
20 years. You start to figure out the patterns when you have
a coach that is widely perceived to be on the hot seat
and you have a key position. Like offensive coordinator.
You're trying to fill
Good luck, getting a good offensive coordinator. All due
respect to been McAdoo, but come on, Good Luck, attracting
somebody who has options
because the last thing that guy wants to do is be the guy
on Whose shoulders. Everyone's career is resting. That's what
Ben McAdoo is becoming Carolina
and shamed. Arnold's career is resting on his shoulders, like
so many people
have their future
pinned to whether or not been McAdoo can figure out this
offense and make it something that Keeps David Tepper from
firing everyone.
So it's possible. Sam. Darn. Old ends up, becoming the best
quarterback. You can be on his third NFL team. If he lands in
the right spot, maybe as a free agent, gets to choose
chooses, a coaching staff, A playbook and organization that
isn't dysfunctional and, and has a chance to really develop
and grow. We still fairly young. Yes, very young. I-i'm
not ready to give up hung. I need because it's entirely
possible that it was too bad situations about one to start
his career. I agree with that, you know, again this year
remember how everybody was happy early on in the year
to a degree and, you know, he was having all those rushing
touchdowns, right? Everybody talked about it. And like, oh
my gosh, he's run for like nine touchdowns and, you know, three
games or whatever. It was, it was, it was kind of crazy.
But even then some of those runs it was like, yeah,
nobody's open. Like, I don't know what. So he had to run. He
had to take off. McAdoo will be
an improvement for what they had on the offensive side of
the ball. Am I sitting here really ready to go? All this is
Bill Walsh? No, not exactly but it will be an improvement.
There's going to be more answers and things thrown at defenses
through the McAdoo offense. And there was with Joe, Brady, that
Joe, Brady just wasn't ready for the NFL. He thought it. Oh,
wait a worked in college and you go, you get to the NFL and
you go. Whoa.
These guys are studied up on my stuff and they have 12 more
defenses in their Arsenal than the SEC defense is did. So it's
a different game there. Joe, Brady had to learn it the hard
way, but I'm with you in a not giving up on, Sam Donald. This
Carolina Panthers quarterback situations fascinating.
It really is because As I am still one, even how it fell
apart last year, where I look at their roster and look at
some of the young Talent they got on the team, and I go damn,
they got some players and
they can, they can make some moves and be a pain in the butt
and the NFC with his week. Is, it is, as we know, so that, but
this quarterback situation, damn. I just don't know where
it's going to go, and it's going to dictate a lot of
the success of this football team quarterback and offensive
line. They fix those two things. They can be a different
team this year and being a Different,
you know, spot in the division. As far as where they rank
bottom line. The grandson of Dick Hammer has yet to have
a birthday party during which he blew out 25 candles on
a birthday cake. There you go. Only 24
years old
20, plus years younger than Tom Brady. So it's safe to say he's
got some football. Yeah.