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Brandon Miller has been cold as ice since the all star break ended

Kon is doing it.. needs help

Bought the NBA Pass since I am out of market yesterday.. I decided to try it since the Hornets are on the up.. close game yesterday.. not as close tonight.. Kon is the real deal.. need some real help with the threes.. maybe White can when he starts to play

I believe getting a QB that needs that much help might not be the best plan. We better be looking. Seriously, we have a crisis brewing up front with this LOT thing. Plus C, and people are mocking TE in the first. That is the effect of the decision we keep sticking with. It is like there is only ever one thought: how can we help Bryce? For years now. The upside of obsessively building the O into a juggernaut is that a pretty meh QB could possibly win in it. I’ll leave it there because what would follow would derail poo.

We were best running right when Christensen was starring. Those were the Dowdle super games

it amazes me how bad nfl front offices are ar evaluating college qbs. i have a better track record over the last few years as an armchair nfl exec lol. i feel nfl teams tend to think they can turn a qb into what they want instead of just believing what their eyes see

10/26 is not a majority. It's not even 40%.

Well Eli did it twice but I guess the trade technically invalidates that. The point remains. I've been saying that for years.

Improve OL Depth?? We need a starter at LT and C. Icky is not playing this season and Mays is a FA. We dont have Rico to channel his inner Beast mode this season either. We will see what they cook up but the offense is going to need to take a big step up for us to eclipse the projected win total.

Most of the super bowls in that time period were won by two QBs, or players drafted prior to 2000. Since when was winning the superbowl the only measure of success

less then 6 wins and another shitty offense and DC needs to hit the bricks

A break was really untimely for them hopefully they get hot again quick

That is true, but I cannot overlook what he has been given at QB. A question that is likely to never be answered: what plays would he call if he had a QB that isn’t so limited?

Stability in terms of culture and whatnot sure we are night and day from the Rhule foolishness. In terms of playcalling and in game management and needing to somehow reflect on the fact he should have kept the hot hand going when Rico Dowdle was playing as well as he was ehhhhhhh. He's also led us to the 30th and 26th passing offenses the last two years. And he needed other teams to do the lifting for us just to win a pitiful iteration of the NFCS. Dave Canales has as much to prove in his third year as just about anyone else in the league.

I'm just saying almost everyone drafted in the top 5 of the draft is going to get multiple years as a starter before the team that drafted them cuts bait. Now whether or not you think they got a fair shake at it or not is a different conversation, but if you get multiple years starting I don't consider that a "short leash". Simply being a high pick almost always buys you a significant leash.

If you don't have the strength to handle the power rusher you have to use his size and strength against him and change his angle of approach to open the holes. Foot speed and agility matter more for that technique. It's just a different approach to hopefully get the same results.

All QBs drafted in the first round from 2009 to 2016 were released from the team that drafted them. I'm not going through the list for you. There are two of them that we should all be extremely familiar with in Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold, however. "Short leash" has a double meaning here. One, not enough time, and/or two, unrealistic expectations of just how much they should be carrying the team. Baker had 4 years in Cleveland, for example, but three of those were very solid seasons. For whatever reason, the fact that he wasn't a world beater meant he should be discarded.

Apparently some in the mediasphere are blowing up LaMelo's accident in his Hummer. Scott Fowler who never wanted us to draft him did Scott Fowler things in an interview and unfortunately LaMelo took the bait. Much bigger concern are these awful games from both him and Brandon Miller. And while I am certainly a believer that Miller has plenty of time to get it figured out the reality is we've been saying the same thing about LaMelo's at times very hot and cold game for what seems like forever now as he is going on into his sixth year. Regardless of the short lived win streak which feels more like a mirage than anything honestly. The Hornets should still leave every available option on the table after the season.

They will be getting the opportunity.... 5-0 usa after 2

Well it's not exactly new information that you don't have to draft a QB in the top 5 to compete for a championship. But the poorly run organizations end up with the first three picks. Most of the QB's drafted there never stand a chance. And then you have teams like the Panthers led by the Tepper's that would rather make a big splash to serve their own egos and get talked about in the media for several weeks by trading all the way up than actually being intelligent and strategic and staying put. Worst outcome in that is if you miss you can try again without mortaging your future. But there is another layer in all this. The league is changing again. Even a guy like Darnold with all his physical tools every box checked in that area did very little in the Super Bowl. Seattle had a stout roster all around. Same thing with the Eagles when they blew out the Chiefs. Yet here we are stuck with the tiniest QB in the league.

Which highly drafted QBs have actually experienced having a short leash? Most of these guys get multiple years of starting to show what they have.

I actually think Cam Newton is directly to blame for the crazy short leash these QBs are given now. He was so good so early in his career that he reset the standard for young QB play. Before he showed up it wasn't uncommon for the learning curve to be a full two or three seasons. The high draft pick guys that had short careers prior to him typically had injuries or off field issues.

As long as it's not another WR or TE.

1. Find a way to get to the QB with 4 2. Build the OL for now and the future That's the only 2 goals I care about currently with high draft capital. Fill the other spots in FA.

Solak at ESPN ranks the best available FAs, good and bad for us. 1. Edge rusher Good year to need ... any sort of edge rusher at all (that's us) Bad year to need ... a truly elite dude (unless you'd like to send two first-rounders for Maxx Crosby) 2. Interior offensive line Good year to need ... a guard (we have our guards) Bad year to need ... a really big center (we need a center) 6. Linebacker Good year to need ... a difference-maker Bad year to need ... a difference-maker and not have a top-10 pick 7. Offensive tackle Good year to need ... a starter for 2027 Bad year to need ... a starter for 2026 (looks like Nijman for us) https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47958363/2026-nfl-offseason-ranking-positions-free-agency-draft-class-deep-thin