Smiling at the Panthers is the correct response following their lengthy flirtation with Mut 24 coins Baker Mayfield finally resulted in a trade. Carolina's hamfisted approach to their QB job seemed to be wrapped more in saving their own egos rather than seeking to sustain success, first attempting to trade for Deshaun Watson Then, they were linked to any available QB in the market, before finally drafting Matt Corral.

There's something truly hilarious with one team currently having the No. 1 . and the No. 3 selections from the 2018 Madden NFL 24 Draft, each of them quarterbacks. But neither has been able to live up to expectations. While trading for Mayfield currently lacks foresight ahead of the most expensive QB draft in recent times but there's a chance where this could actually result in a win for the Panthers -- though it is still to be determined if Carolina has a plan.

Before we look at how this deal can be a good idea, let it be known that I still don't like it, for all the same reasons I had in May. There's not many benefits to trading Mayfield even if you're part of the Panthers. They're probably the worst team in the NFC South, and Baker definitely isn't going to cause Carolina to compete with the Buccaneers to win the division title and that's because the NFC has become such a death row, specifically on the NFC West as it's difficult to envision a wild card being imminent. If this happens to be the special sauce to put everything together, then what the team will gain is that they'll have to sign Baker a huge contract to keep him on based on only a small sample size or losing him for nothing.

However, what this will do it does is make the Panthers watchable in 2022 as long as we accept the assumption that they weren't going to begin Corral in his first season. They may be talking about "open competition" currently and the only challenge is a weak Sam Darnold who already proved that he's not "the person," any pretense of that there is the case for a QB contest is only for posterity for the sake of posterity. In 2021 this was a 5-12 team, and with Mayfield the team could be ... I dunno, 8-9?

If we assume that Mayfield will always be the starting quarterback, and Madden 24 coins that's when things can become interesting. The Panthers brought in Ben McAdoo to lead the offense. At first it was a baffling decision that seemed to be destined for similar issues as previously in New York. McAdoo prefers to run an open, fake West Coast shotgun passing base that requires quick decision-making by the quarterback, as well as the ability to rack up yards in the ground once it's flushed from the pocket. A statuesque, old Eli Manning was the perfectly inappropriate quarterback for this style -- much in the same way a statuesque Darnold does not fit.