Before we go into how this deal may be beneficial first, let me say that I'm not happy about this deal, for all of the same reasons that I did in May. I don't see there being many benefits to trading Mayfield for the Panthers. They're probably the worst player of the Mut 23 Coins, and Baker definitely isn't going to help Carolina to take on the Buccaneers to win the division title -- and it's the NFC will be no different. The NFC is one of the most infamous death row, specifically in the NFC West as it's hard to see the possibility of a wild card coming up. If, in fact, this is the key ingredient to bring all of it together, the prize for the team is the possibility of having to hand Baker a huge contract for him to stay based on the size of a tiny sample, or let him go for nothing.

However, what this will do, is at least make the Panthers watchable in 2022 If we go with the assumption that they weren't going to play Corral in his rookie season. The team might be talking about "open competition" for the time being, but when the only obstacle is a subpar Sam Darnold who's already shown he can't be "the player," any pretense of the existence of any kind of QB contest is just for posterity's purposes. In 2021. this was a team with a score of 5-12. and with Mayfield they could end up being ... I dunno, 8-9?

If we believe that Mayfield will always be the starting quarterback, it's going to get interesting. The Panthers introduced Ben McAdoo to lead the offense. At first it was a bizarre choice that looked like it was bound to face similar issues as with New York. McAdoo prefers to run an open, sort of West Coast shotgun passing base which requires quick decision-making by the quarterback, as well as athletic ability to gain yards from the ground when it's flushed from the pocket. A statuesque, aged Eli Manning was the perfectly ineffective quarterback for this Madden 23 Coins in the same way as a statuesque Darnold isn't a good fit.