I'm not so sure we wouldn't take a shot at letting Jake mentor Newton and Clausen. If the Browns do release him and he clears waivers, we could sign him to a reasonable 1-2 year contract and allow him to retire a Panther at the same time. And seriously, who are our alternatives for a veteran that would be much better? McNabb will become a Viking or Cardinal, and let's be honest, we don't need his pricetag and he's going to want to start. Bulger will probably go back to the Rams and backup Bradford, Kolb is going to go somewhere and become the next Derek Anderson (the bad Derek, not the 2007 Derek). Troy Smith? No thanks. Trent Edwards? Not much of a veteran. Daunte Culpepper? His ship sailed when Chris Harris took out his knee in 2005.

So who does that really leave? Billy Volek's going to get resigned by the Bolts. Matt Leinart? He has no real resume and will also want to go somewhere he can rekindle his career. Tavaris Jackson's not a mentor or a bridge QB. Bruce Gradkowski has had some brilliant games for both Oakland and Tampa, but I doubt he even has a knee left. Todd Collins has been in the league 16 years and has about 10 starts for 4 different teams. He is honestly the best option among everyone I've listed. He's seen every system there is and has thrown passes to all kinds of receivers. Maybe someone like him could show Cam and Jimmy the ropes and also manage a few games for us until Cam's absolutely ready.

Bring him back, I'm good with that decision. He needed to go when everything went down. I mean how many qb's could have sustained that type of drop off and stayed with the same team? The short of it is though, there is no way they would ever bring back Jake-

panthers28034 wrote:

I love everyone on the site, We are all Grown men and we will disagree from time to time and I don't want to step on anyones toes but we are intitaled to our opinions and my is :.

therev wrote:

He'd make a super ambassador for the team and he could retire a Panther.  I think the cost would be nominal.  Just my opinion.