The Carolina Panthers have lost six straight games. During the awful stretch, Panthers head coach Matt Rhule has turned to each of Cam Newton, Sam Darnold, and P.J. Walker at the quarterback spot- and sometimes two of them at once in the same game- with limited success. The multi-quarterback system simply hasn't worked, yet Rhule has been insistent on continuing with the ill-advised approach. Rhule was asked about possibly continuing with the 2-QB system and offered an unbelievable response.
“Yeah, absolutely,” he stated in his post-practice presser. “We just got P.J. [Walker] back today from COVID. Cam, we have Cam ready. So what that looks like exactly, obviously we’ll kinda keep under wraps a little bit because the benefit of somebody having to prepare for two or three guys helps us. But, yeah, we would have no problem playing two guys.”
This is ludicrous. Panthers head coach Matt Rhule plans to stick with the 2- or 3- quarterback system featuring Cam Newton, Sam Darnold, and P.J. Walker because he feels it's hard for teams to prepare for that.
That may be, but it certainly isn't hard for teams to defend it, as the Panthers have scored 20 points or less in four of their last five games played while throwing for less than 200 passing yards in three of those games. Clearly, Rhule's strategy of keep-the-defense-guessing between Newton, Darnold and Walker isn't working.
Judging by this unbelievable response, Panthers head coach Matt Rhule is going to keep on sticking with the multi-quarterback system, despite the results giving him every reason not to.
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