Panthers' QB Situation per Gantt. (permission to pull your hair out granted)

Darin Gantt has, I think, completely evolved into a bumbling Fox yes-man. He wrote this article about Panthers fans "QB dreams"....

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Well if you don't feel like reading it or got so sick of the verbal hand job he gave Delhomme you vomited all over your keyboard, I'll give a recap.

There is a segment of the Panthers fan-base that's irate with Jake Delhomme and ready to replace him with just about anybody. But the reality is, the Panthers QB depth chart is likely to look extremely familiar next year.

...no shit. C'mon Gantt my 5 year old cousin could've told you that they'd walk in with the same fucking QBs. "Replace him with just about anybody" like there's no complexity about the situation. If I wanted to replace Jake with anybody I'd suggest fucking David Carr. That's when you say we'd want to replace him with "anybody".

Basanez said the Panthers offered him a contract before he chose the clean slate offered by his hometown Bears. From the Panthers perspective, that would have brought back the top four spots on the depth chart from last season. If they were serious about bringing in a challenger for the top job, would they have bothered clogging up the works by trying to bring last year's practice-squadder back?

Gee, I don't know Gantt, maybe because there's this thing called "competition" and, you know, you kind of bring in more players than you would require to test them out, and you know, pick the best option at the end?

Gantt contradicts himself here. First he talks about bringing in a challenger to Jake Delhomme and then he says bringing back a practice squad caliber player will muddle that process. What the fuck? You really think they'd guarantee Brett a damn roster spot if they had a few guys that were better?

Delhomme, Josh McCown and Matt Moore are all under contract through 2009. And personally, I think it's more likely Delhomme gets an extension this offseason than shown the door.

Holy shit Gantt you really went on a limb there with that Delhomme prediction didn't you? Did you visit a fucking gypsy to help you come up with that?

We'll see, but all those folks wondering about Matt Cassell or Derek Anderson or whatever "next best thing," they see in the draft shouldn't hold their breath.

Aha, funny. Good one there Darin. I honestly don't know if you're reluctantly making that prediction knowing we're fucked or you still are infatuated with Delhomme like the other 65% of the fanbase are still blindly committed to after that shitter he dropped in the playoffs.

Darin may be better than those idiot Observer bloggers but his tendency to stroke the players/coaches egos even after poor performance really tire me. Seriously, 31 other teams would be out to replace Jake's crawdad ass after turning the fucking ball over 6 times, but this is Pantherland, where there's no accountability whatsoever and we just waltz in the fucking door doing the same fucking dance we did last night.

As a matter of fact I think I can sum up the ol' yearly player evaluation Fox writes up...

Player: Jake Delhomme
#: 17
Pos: QB
Analysis: Well, he turned the ball over 6 times in the playoffs, ...in one game, but he should be QB because after all, at 34 he's still young, with his rebuilt elbow, and he led us to 3 playoff berths and it is what it is.

That's what I don't get. Delhomme's entire body of work, according to John Fox, is probably grossly generalized by the fact that he led us to a superbowl and 2 NFCC games. How about the fact that his last 2 playoff games he turned the fucking ball over 9 times? Does that even make a a cameo in your fucking thought process, John? Didn't think so. I'm so sick of that bullshit SB/NFCC appearance cop out all it does is stop us from giving the idea of benching Jake a second thought. Gee, I wonder how many Bears fans are pissed that Lovie Smith doesn't start Rex Grossman because he, too, led them to a superbowl. No matter how bad he sucks or how much he turns the damn ball over.

Darin is a real trip. He probably reads the carolinahuddle, which I am a featured member of, (pat on shoulder), sees anger in posts, sips his Earl Grey, strokes his chin, and makes these smug write-ups with a grin like he thinks his shit doesn't stink. You know, maybe there's a logical reason behind this madness Darin?

Ever hear of the giant Elephant in the room?

The Panthers' QB Situation is the big fucking elephant in the room. ...And I guess John Fox would be that blue-shirted baboon ass right in front of the elephant. Oh you guys, Foxy, Gantt, Hurney, etc, you guys don't feel the effects now, but when every year feels like the 2007 season pretty soon, you're going to be hoping that "next best thing" drops to you in the draft. Delhomme is serviceable at best, and last I checked, serviceable QBs don't win fucking superbowls and haven't since fucking Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson. Every time the running game was shut down, Delhomme couldn't do a fucking thing. Even with Steve Smith and the savvy Moose running routes, his inaccuracy, errant throws, poor decisions, and tendency to force the ball in coverage have ultimately defeated him.

He should be fucking grateful he plays on the only team in the entire league that routinely tolerates this kind of unacceptable garbage play because they are so fucking stupid sometimes. So grateful he restructures his pay for league minimum, because he certainly didn't earn a fucking thing throwing it to Rogers-Cromartie all damn game.

Darin Gantt thinks we're irate at Jake for no reason. When week 1 comes and he still can't complete a pass then we'll see if there's still "no reason".