deal may be Madden 24 coins beneficial and what it could mean, it should be noted that I'm still not happy with this deal, for all of the same reasons that I did back in May. I don't see any upside to trading for Mayfield when you're the Panthers. They're probably the worst teams to play in the NFC South, and Baker certainly isn't likely to cause Carolina to take on the Buccaneers for the division championship as well as the NFC remains a death row, specifically on the NFC West which makes it hard to see any wild cards imminent. If this happens to be the secret sauce that ties everything together, what the team will gain is that they'll have to sign Baker an enormous contract to keep him, based on a small sample size, or losing him for nothing.

What it does, however it does is make the Panthers watchable in 2022 when we take the assumption that they weren't going to begin Corral in his first year. The team is probably discussing "open competition" for the time being however, when the main obstacle is a subpar Sam Darnold who already proved he can't be "the guy," any pretense of the actual existence of a QB contest is only for posterity to remember. In 2021. this was a team that was 5-12 and with Mayfield the team could be ... I dunno, 8-9?

If we believe that Mayfield would always be the starting quarterback, that's where this can get intriguing. The Panthers introduced Ben McAdoo to lead the offense. At first, it was a weird decision that felt destined to have the same issues it faced when it was in New York. McAdoo prefers to run an open fake West Coast shotgun passing base which requires quick decisions from the quarterback, and athletic ability to accumulate yards from the ground when you're flushed out of your pocket. A statuesque, aged Eli Manning was the perfectly inappropriate quarterback for this style -- in the same way as a statuesque Darnold doesn't fit.

You know who does fit? Baker Mayfield, and Matt Corral. It takes serious galaxy brain mental gymnastics to think that Carolina was extremely smitten about Corral as likely to be the next big thing for the franchise but they kept waiting until the 3rd round before trading up and acquire Corral. The idea that this team is playing chess this way does not give the team plenty of credit. There is an ounce mut 24 madden coins of hope that Corral might be something more special.