The Carolina Panthers announced another coach that had been added to the staff, Offensive Line Coach John Matsko. Since Ron Rivera has stepped into the Head Coach position, it has not taken him long to start filling in the staff. Currently, it looks a little like this.
Ron Rivera - HC
Rob Chudzinski - OC
Sean McDermott - DC
Brian Murphy - STC
Ron Meeks - Defensive Backfield
Sam Mills III - Defensive Quality Control/Asst. Defensive Line
and most recently added ...
John Matsko - OL Coach
I have been very impressed by the organizations hires in the last few weeks. It seems as if we have a group that could really turn this team around. However one looming questions continues to be brought up about the Carolina Panthers, who is our qb going forward?
I am not posting this to defend or object to Jimmy Clausen as our starting quarterback, but instead posting because out of all the names being thrown around, one seems to be missing over and over and over again.
If you look at a list of the current free agents or quarterbacks that will be free agents this year, you find the same list every where.
Marc Bulger (UFA) - Baltimore
David Carr (UFA) - San Francisco
Kellen Clemens (UFA) - NY Jets
Kerry Collins (UFA) - Tennessee
Todd Collins (UFA) - Chicago
Brodie Croyle (UFA) - Kansas City
Dennis Dixon (RFA) - Pittsburgh
Trent Edwards (UFA) - Jacksonville
Brett Favre (UFA) - Minnesota
Charlie Frye (UFA) - Oakland
Bruce Gradkowski (UFA) - Oakland
Chris Greisen (UFA) - Dallas
Rex Grossman (UFA) - Washington
Caleb Hanie (RFA) - Chicago
Matt Hasselbeck (UFA) - Seattle
Tarvaris Jackson (UFA) - Minnesota
Matt Leinart (UFA) - Houston
J.P. Losman (UFA) - Seattle
Peyton Manning (UFA) - Indianapolis
Luke McCown (UFA) - Jacksonville
Matt Moore (UFA) - Carolina
J.T. O'Sullivan (UFA) - Oakland
Jordan Palmer (RFA) - Cincinnati
Chad Pennington (UFA) - Miami
Patrick Ramsey (UFA) - Minnesota
Chris Simms (UFA) - Tennessee
Alex Smith (UFA) - San Francisco
Troy Smith (RFA) - San Francisco
Jim Sorgi (UFA) - NY Giants
Brian St. Pierre (UFA) - Carolina
Drew Stanton (UFA) - Detroit
Tyler Thigpen (UFA) - Miami
Michael Vick (UFA) - Philadelphia
Billy Volek (UFA) - San Diego
Seneca Wallace (UFA) - Cleveland
Seems like a pretty long list right? Now obviously there are only a few quarterbacks on this list that have been mentioned in the media as being possabilities in Carolina. (I have bolded some of them, as well as placing those quarterbacks that are retiring or will not be let go in italics) However there is one guy that is not on this list that I think could make an impact on the team, bring in some experience, and allow us to let Jimmy Clausen develop. Vince Young.
Vince Young has played 54 games in the NFL (-) has a 57.9% completion rate throughout his career, has 54 TD (42 passing, 12 rushing), 42 INT, and just over 8,000 passing yards. He has a career passer rating of 75.7; however he is coming off of his best season thus far. This year alone he had 10 TD, 3 INT, 1255 yards, and a passer rating of 98.6% in just 10 of the 16 games.
Why is this guy not showing up on the radar for the Carolina Panthers?
I am interested to see what happens once the coaching positions are filled and the CBA has been agreed too... hopefully Mr. Richardson will be writing checks.
GO PANTHERS!
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VY would be a huge upgrade over Clausen, but he is not the QB of the future. You would certainly win more games with him in 2011 (if we have football?!?!)
ReplyDeleteIf you want a franchise QB, best bet is to look for one in the draft - Blaine Gabbert might look good in Carolina Blue.
Gabbert.. ha, definitely not!
ReplyDeleteYoung would be good for 2011, but I have not lost faith in Clausen! The stats are there to prove the ability, but we need to let him sit, watch, and learn!! But then again, now that he has a good amount of starts under his belt... maybe this season will be different all together... and by this season, I mean the 2020 season when we have football again!