Another Possibility for Cam’s Backup

oddly enough, this is prob the most glamorous choice anyone’s put forward. it could work,,,

but you made a nice argument. Really our offense would work best with a back-up who has a good passing skillset. Maybe we have been pigeon-holeling ourselves by only looking at guys who are known runners, especially since several of those guys have not been successful. However, I do think Campbell ends up with a team where he can compete to be the starter.

However, in my opinion he got a bit of a raw deal in Oakland. That being said, if he goes somewhere else, he might base that decision on the chance to be starting. Everyone knows Cam is the guy in Carolina, so the key to finding his backup is making sure they know exactly what their role is on the field.

Campbell would fit nicely in the system, if (as DoC said), he’s willing to accept a backup role along with a backup check. We don’t need to address this issue in the draft, certainly. We do have the luxury here of waiting to see who’s left waiting for a phone call when it’s all said and done.

Anderson is a perfect back-up. If Cam gets hurt or can not play for what ever reason, we will change the offense. not drastically, but it will change, no matter who we have behind him. The basic change the that we will take out the QB runs, which isnt going to have a huge effect. Everyone keeps mentioning that we need an athlete. well we dont, we need someone who can make the throws and reads for this offense. Anderson is a vet who is accustomed to and very experienced/successful in this offense. All we need is someone who can make the reads and throw in a vertical offense. Anderson is perfect for the job.

Instead of the pump and go, it has always been the pump and whoa! with him. That was one of his biggest problems in Washington. He’s had ton’s of coaching by some of the best coaches in the game and he’s never been much more than a mediocre QB. I’d rather stick with D.A. or another more conventional QB than go with someone like Campbell. I’d prefer to keep things as they are or move Jimmy and bring in someone else to be the #3.

Newton doesn’t need to be running as much. This is not his fault because of the volume of quarterback designed runs this season. I still note that Newton still didn’t run the ball on designed pass plays anywhere near preception 49 scrambles out of his 126 rush attemps… Aaron Rodgers run the ball during designed pass plays 9 more times. It is funny really how perception doesn’t match reality in this regard.

In order for the Panthers and Newton to really be great on offense then it needs to be with Newtons arm. That 126 carries needs to be down to around 80 and it needs to come from red zone attempts because that should remain a major aspect of red zone offense. And also allow Newton to find yardage himself with scrambles

The perfect Panther offense would see Newton running 80 to 100 times a year… and that number should drop slowly as he matures. I still believe in order to come out of the NFC during this era of quarterbacks in this conference you need to have either a elite defense. Or your quarterback needs to produce in the 35 too 45 TD range total to win the division. And to me that means Newton has to take a jump in the passing game.

Not trying to be racist but we need to stop just throwing going:

“(Insert black QB name here) should be our #2 QB” Campbell isn’t a great runner at all and wouldn’t be too much of an upgrade over Anderson. I like the guy and think he deserves and will get a chance to start somewhere else