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Padded practice underway! Got about an hour to catch up on. Quick summary of what's posted so far: Renfrow (hamstring) working with a trainer before practice, likely on the sidelines today Mike Jackson (toe) back in pads today after missing the last two practices Panthers started streaming a portion of practice @ 10:15am (will drop the link for that later when I find it) Pat Jones (illness) back at practice

In a sense it's good. You want your QB to be able to find and hit the open man. Tom Brady had a hall of fame career doing exactly that. But at the same time you really want to know they can make the more difficult throws as well. I remember watching Lance's tape and being blown away by the talent and arm strength. And then just noticing, "boy, that's like the third or fourth clip in a row where they've said, 'wide open!' That's a little odd." Then I couldn't stop noticing. Not to re-litigate this, but watching Stroud, some of those throws I just wouldn't think are even humanly possible.

That was one of the concerns I had with Bryce's tape completely independent of the concerns about his physical tools. Watching a lot of his play those dudes were absolutely WIDE ASS OPEN.

Trey Lance was the reason I came up with the completely unscientific "Trey Lance Test." When watching a QB's college highlight reel, what percentage of the highlights are accompanied by the play-by-play announcer saying, "Wide Open!" With Lance, I think it was like 60%.

Really good, but that's a pretty bold use of a trademarked name. I hope we don't incur the wrath of the house of mouse.

I think a D1-AA program producing two highly drafted QBs within the last 15 years or so is pretty incredible. That's it, that's all. No one is trying to say any college team would beat any NFL team. Dafuq you talking about? LOL

He had plenty of tools but was a big project in a really hard time to evaluate talent with the crap covid did to that season. Him going in a really weak class, maybe historically bad QB class, pushed him way too high. That's the kind of backup I would love to draft later behind a solid established starter. Yall put way too much into schools. They are all just practice squads at best. Even Alabama at their height couldn't pull a win from any NFL squad.

That was quick. I hope he is but....

He was one I didn't get the hype on at all. I remember watching that nationally televised game he had right before they shut their season down and was baffled. Like, this is just TEMU The Golden Calf of Bristol. I think a lot of the hype is because Carson Wentz had just come out of NDSU a few years prior which let's be real, for a program like North Dakota State to produce those two QBs is still pretty incredible.

I hope the young guy lives up to the hype and billing. If not this place will be insufferable.

Neither AT or Coker IMO are really ideally what a team wants in the slot. I like Coker as a backup to TMac or XL. No point trading Coker. He doesn’t have real trade value and it wouldn’t be getting rid of a solid developmental guy that good by a really nice role player for us

Arch probably doesn't even come out this year. The Saints will be bad, they'll end up with Nussmeier and unite him with his dad. Love to see Penix struggling (in one tweet at least). After ATL traded next year's first, would be beautiful if Penix is bad.

This consensus that Arch is gonna be this surefire #1 overall prospect is pretty wild to be honest.

I remember being so high on Trey Lance coming out, I bought into the hype. He looked a serviceable backup last night, I kind of wished he was on our roster.

Sleeper? They're tanking for Arch Manning it's the most obvious thing I've ever seen in my life.

Gettleman sure could draft after the first round I'll give him credit there. If they continued with his style the players would have all hated each other too.

First game of the preseason in JULY and yall out here talking sh*t about second stringers lol

That’s actually really cool and creative

This guy?

While I agree that we won't really know how good he is until we see him in action, I would hardly call his college numbers just ok. He was top five in the nation in receiving yards his final two years, number three in his last year. None of the other receivers drafted in the first round came close to matching his final year numbers from a statistical standpoint. He had 1300 plus yards receiving in his final season and did it in 12 games. The next two guys drafted in the first round had fewer total yards and played in more games.

Considering how our starters last year struggled against the Bills third string defense I disagree. Live reps are live reps. No matter who you are going against. Our starters need to play. If that is against backups so be it.

Any expectation for starters to play first preseason game? I don't think they will.

He signed a one year deal with the Bengals today

The team posted this one on social media today and it's just tooooooooo sweet, I'd pay some good money to get a signed copy of this thing.