Before we get Madden 23 coins into the details of how this deal could make sense make it clear that I still don't like this deal, for all of the same reasons that I did back in May. I don't see many benefits to trading Mayfield in the case of the Panthers. They're arguably the worst team of the NFC South, and Baker certainly isn't going to help Carolina to take on the Buccaneers to win the division title as well as to win the division. The NFC will be no different. The NFC is one of the most infamous death row, especially for the NFC West as it's difficult to envision a wild card being in the near future. If this happens to be the sauce that will put it all together, the reward for the team is having to offer Baker the biggest contract possible for him to stay based on a small sample size, or lose him for nothing.

What this does, however it does is make the Panthers watchable in 2022 in the event that we make the assumption they were never going to play Corral in his rookie season. The team could be discussing "open competition" currently and the only challenge is a weak Sam Darnold who's already shown he can't be "the person," any pretense of the actual existence of a QB competition is for posterity to remember. In 2021. this was a five-team, and with Mayfield they might be ... I'm not sure, maybe 8-9?

If we  madden nfl 23 coins assume that Mayfield has always been going to be the primary player, this is where it gets interesting. The Panthers recruited Ben McAdoo to lead the offense, and initially it was an odd choice that was destined to create the same issues that it had during the season in New York. McAdoo prefers to play an open, faux West Coast shotgun passing base that requires quick decision-making from the quarterback and athletic ability to gain yards on the ground when flushed from the pocket. An old, statuesque Eli Manning was the perfectly not the right quarterback for this scheme -- much in the same way that a statuesque Darnold does not fit.