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Sellers will absolutely not be a late round anything. He'll go 1st round based off traits alone.

They need both next year. It's looking like PS Hooker and zip at this point. So just zip really

And there's no guarantee some other team's reject is going to be our prize. We've tried that a few times. I'd sooner bet on a draft pick than a veteran having a resurgence in Carolina at this point. And yeah I think a big veteran QB signing as if this is a win now roster would be shortsighted

I'm simply talking about the overall expenditure of resources on offense vs. defense which is the subject of the thread. We have a LOT more resources both in terms of cap space and in draft capital spent on offense vs. defense.

Canales does this alot with our TEs too. Unfortunately Sanders and Tremble were out there catching blocks while the JAG's TEs were blowing folk up.

Yeah, you can clearly build a good NFL defense with either scheme as the foundation. I personally prefer the 4-3 simply because I'm much more familiar with 4-3 concepts. Both schemes offer advantages and disadvantages. I feel like the main reason the 3-4 became prevalent is that 3-4 OLBs are easier to find than 4-3 DEs. Finding an elite 4-3 DE with the size to put his hand in the dirt every down and the bend to get around the edge is tough. It's easier to find a smaller guy who can stand up and covert speed to power. But then the 3-4 forces you to find an absolute unicorn in the form of the 3-4 NT who can hold up to constant double teams. Without a stud at NT you're really fighting an uphill battle.

QBs get overdrafted due to importance and lack of supply. Does he have the physicals and can he be coached? If so then he will be a top pick. If not then he may be a Panther...

Linville... really?! The OGs were an overreaction from 2023 when they played like 8 guys that will never play another meaningful snap in the NFL. But the others? Moton, Ickey and Chuba were in Carolina before Bryce. So they had nothing to do with him. Who was the #1 WR heading into 2024? After 2024, who was the #1 WR heading into 2025? I'm not saying they haven't put resources into the offense. I'm saying this narrative that the team is sacrificing the rest of the team to make BY look like an NFL QB is just... a bad take. They are trying to bring in and keep talent on a roster that was/is/TBD mostly void of NFL level players. Now if they would have gone out and overpayed/overdrafted for ex-Alabama players Bryce had chemistry with, then that would have been trying to make Bryce look good to the detriment of the team.

If not for Jaycee blowing up the block intended for him and tripping up Dyami, that jet sweep might have ended up being a house call. The design and flow of Coen's play calling impressed me, especially with the way he was presenting different looks and using plenty of motion + misdirection.

He needs to improve his progressions and not look to run every time his primary target is covered. If he does, Sellers could be the number 1 overall pick. If he doesn't, then he'll be a later round flier and the NFL is littered with running QBs that are so so at passing.

I think Igo put a minimum post count on the TB to avoid trolls. Not sure what it is though.

The internet lacks any nuance. BY actually played good I'd say 90% of his snaps. I went back and watched every play. The 10% that was bad though, was REALLY bad. I'm hard pressed to put blame on him for everything though, like the 2nd int and the time where XL ran the wrong route and it looked like he just sailed the pass. I think I counted 3 or 4 bad throws in the game which were on BY. The fumble is 100% on him. That is like the exact same situation as in the Dallas game last year. Same with the first pick. He didn't see the safety, just like that Atlanta game. There were many passing yards lost due to drops. The Renfrow throw (50/50 Bryce imo but Renfrow had his hands on the ball), Tmac drop, and XL not getting his feet down. Those were all chunk plays. Bryce didn't play bad, just wasn't elite and when he made mistakes, they were colossal mistakes. Honestly, I think we should move on, I don't think he is IT, but too much blame for this game is going his way imo.

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Yeah. I was responding to another poster, and only to the poster’s spin i think all of us are sick of it, all of it we just want to be proud of the team we support and enjoy the game played st the highest level on sundays and cheer them on With the current owner, FO, players, it is hard to imagine that as a possibility

Anyone that's willing to run the limited scheme he requires will be a laughing sstock. The NFL isn't school

I dislike that this is the perception being made. Some of the most successful defenses deploy a base 3-4. And everything is very scheme fluid these days with how safety, nickel and LB roles have evolved over time. I agree, it takes time, but we simply grabbed the wrong personnel. It's not the 3-4, it's that we're playing a scheme without suitable LBs for deployment. We don't get good enough edge setting at OLB and don't have the smart & alert ILB play. Compare to what Evero learned in. That had Willis/Bowman...we had a guy in Jewell who knew how to do it and pretty well, not from Evero but straight from Vic. The best we could find was Rozeboom and are trying to develop Trevin (threw him in with the wolves) which is not ideal. Meanwhile, the vets at EDGE do not have the run stopping chops you expect.

This is why I laugh at the narrative that If stroud and bryce switched teams the texans would be just as good.

redshirt soph I hope he keeps getting better this year and the Sec is the place to do it

He feels more like Richardson. I don't know about his passing intangibles, he's also only a sophmore i think?

The browns are full of poo. They have him on the active roster because they wouldn't dare put him on the practice squad. Gonna be interesting what happens once watson comes back, they are just capitalizing off all the attention but it won't last long.

So we may be on our 4th option at the slot already

Yes. He needs to work on turnovers and accuracy. https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/usc-football/article294024634.html

The Browns wouldn’t do it

Some of this was good offensive playcalling against our front (the 4 & 1 for example). But interesting on that one it was our 3-4 personnel but we technically had 5 with hands in the dirt. I wouldn't call that a 5-2 but it's what 3-4 teams do in these run commit scenarios. So that playcall restricts us from having 1 more guy to be more fluid in space on the strong side, and we lose lateral containment. Good job by our new safety to call it out presnap, but bad execution by Wallace and Jackson IMO. Trevin with the error. He saw the motion and shifted but took an initial angle towards the handoff not the anticipated location. Bad field awareness. So he was now behind and the Jags had 2 guys to engage Jackson & Moehrig on the outside. Jackson just kind of sloppily engaged Strange. Outside of that, one of the biggest things I'm noticing is a severe, and I mean severe, lack of presnap communication on our defense. It just seems to be Moehrig. He had some iffy angles this game but was far and away doing the most to get our guys in the right place presnap. I think Moehrig is trying to do everything and then some so he's going to be caught out of place because of this. Rozeboom and Wallace aren't doing that (and other things) which is a major concern. Rozeboom took such a excessive first few steps in that last clip, he just gave the Jags a cozy opening to float in a completion. You could see he was pissed. The 2 ILBs in our scheme need to be communicators and quick decision makers. Trevin has the quickness but not the awareness or decision making. Rozeboom doesn't have the quickness and is just average/below-average. We need help there if we want any sort of decent defense this season. The line and OLBs have the ability to stop the run, but not when these 2 are making terrible decisions and allowing teams to play in the middle of the field.