This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Fun show for you guys today.

Danny Kelly from the Ringer. My buddy Danny is going to be joining us a little bit later to talk about how some recent player archetypes might affect the way we look at the 2021 draft class. Also, he's the king of pre-draft comps. We're going to list off a couple of those. Really fun conversation with Danny. Before we get to that, though, I am thrilled to welcome my good friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how are you? I am good, Robert. Our whole podcast plan blew up this afternoon, but I'm here for it. That's totally okay. This is how we roll in April. I would much rather be talking about Sam Darnold getting traded to the Panthers than anything else as my dog rolls around in the floor in front of me. So here we are. We have had a ton of quarterback movement or potential quarterback

movement happened in the last week or so. We've had the Niners trade up and you and I have talked

about all the dominoes yet to fall. And it felt like the Panthers were one of those teams that may

be doing something. I think the biggest question we had about Carolina was, do the Panthers were one of those teams that may be doing something.

I think the biggest question we had about Carolina was, do the Panthers want any new quarterback or did they want a definite upgraded quarterback?

We knew they were in on Matthew Stafford.

They were interested in Deshawn Watson.

We were curious what their draft plan might look like.

And I think that this trade for sam

darnald is definitive proof that they wanted anybody that is not teddy bridgewater because it

does seem like they are committed to sam darnold so now that you've seen the trade which i believe

is a six rounder this year i need to tell you about the races today i've just left the the girls. We had such a nice day. We all wore something pink. Sue made us all wear pink. Josie pulled out all the stocks for the picnic. My sausage rolls went down a storm. And I spotted a jockey wearing pink in the parade ring, so we had to back him. Sue picked the winner in the big race. We got a bottle with the winning. Next thing you know, she's got us all on the dance floor. I've still got the moves. Her dancing was hilarious. We've already booked to come again. Watch out for the ladies in pink. Four million memories made every year. The going is good. Great British racing. Search horse racing near me. And a second rounder and a fourth rounder in 2022.

How do you see this from the Panthers perspective?

Yeah, I mean, it didn't feel like my initial read on it was that this doesn't seem like a ton to give up.

It does by committing to future draft picks, the 2022 draft picks, you have to be pretty committed to him and believe, though,

that Darnold is going to be good enough because if he's not good enough, you've given up the capital that you would have needed to get yourself in position to get high into the draft again.

It's, it is a, they're in an interesting situation contractually with him and we talked

about this on the podcast last week when we kind of laid out some of the we were talking about it

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