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Wait so we didn't get this guy?

If you can show me a presser or interview where someone with the Panthers said they feel like Luke's skillset translated well to OLB, I'll concede the argument. They drafted Luke as BPA and figured out the fit afterward to get him on the field. In fact, one could argue that Luke Kuechly is the gotdamn poster child for BPA. We had an all-pro MLB and drafted Luke anyway, and now Luke is the best MLB in football by a wide margin. Had we reached for need we'd still have Beason (no disrespect, but he's not Luke) and someone like Mark Barron because we would have reached for need. Draft good football players first. Your needs will change every single year.

But the entire crux of the BPA argument is that your strengths and weaknesses don't stay constant from year to year. We went from Terrell McClain and Sione Fua to KK and Star in one year. Go look at this board at this exact date last year and the general consensus was that CB was a HUGE need, maybe the biggest on the team along with offensive line. Fast forward to today and it seems absurd to think of CB as a weakness. This is why you draft the best players that are there and figure out how they fit into your scheme afterward. Because while it might seem like a glut at one position all it takes is a retirement, decline in play, injury, free agency departure, etc. to all of a sudden be thin at a position. If we draft a stud DB and then Norman has a great year and leaves, all of a sudden it doesn't look like a bad idea. You can't draft based on your strengths and weaknesses every year because it is a constantly changing, fluid process.

Lol no he didn't they tried to make it work but Luke was always gonna be a MLB.

Or Cyrus Kounihodojo

Which is the exact reason why the team drafts the B.est P.layer A.vailable They can come in and contribute immediately.

He was the Best Player Available to the Panthers that's why it took Gettleman 3 seconds to turn in a draft card for him. Just because Mel Kiper's Board doesn't show him as best available doesn't mean the team doesn't have him as BPA.

If they truly believe Gurley will be a beast then it's not that outrageous of a pick. Stewart might be entering his last season here, and if Norman balls out this year he might command a contract we can't afford to pay him. It's not as outrageous as it sounds.

That hardest part about the Huddle being so awesome and popular is that every year we have the same arguments about the same poo because people come on that weren't here for the same exact argument last year. I think it was me and Proudiddy or Growl that had a pretty heated discussion about this for about 25+ pages last year.

That time he fuged our team out of $13MM while rapping at home and in Miami was pretty cool. Thanks Greg.

Not a done deal until new thread is started. It's a rule.

Makes sense. Stew may not be here after this season, and is injury prone. Maybe they pick up a talented RB to share snaps with 28 and then see how he looks and see if he can be the feature back moving forward. Hopefully just not in the first.

God bless you for putting this in here and not thinking it deserves its own thread.

I dislike 49er fans from long before our playoff loss. So we can't make fun of a sinking ship wanting to sell the farm for one of our franchise studs? What's the good of being a fan if you can't enjoy the misery of fans from a team you don't like?

Ok this thread was fun when it was laughing at SF fans but now that people are actually entertaining the thought of trading Luke Kuechly it's just gotten sad.

He's only 23. Probably 6 years/$60-$70MM with probably $30MM guaranteed. That's $5MM/year for signing bonus with an escalating annual salary of $4MM-$5MM-$6MM-$7MM-$8MM-$9MM with a max salary of $14MM in 2021. Mind you I have no clue what I'm talking about.

Luke Kuechly will be given a long term, bar-setting deal for a MLB LONG before there is even a chance of another team offering him anything. I can say with absolute certainty that he isn't going anywhere.

Interesting that you say that. I know some people here bring it up all the time, but do you really think the organization needs to prove to Cam they're willing to get him some weapons? I always kind of assumed he understood the whole "it's a process" thing. But then I also still believe it's possible to have a happy thanksgiving dinner with my family every year without fighting, and then like clockwork...

I wouldn't say he was average at best. He had 3 sacks as a rookie without starting. 4 the next year. Then 11. Then 15. He's in his prime and could have had 16+ this year.

That's really shitty. I can't believe we got screwed out of an all-pro, the team lost the money, and because of some BS technicality we won't get a comp pick for him too. Goodell can lick my balls man that guy is garbage.

They're America's Team. They have a line across the country for sponsors. If someone is appalled that they'd sign Greg, they'd quickly fill the space with someone else. Makes sense. Fug you Cowboys.

I respect Deangelo. I do. But I'm getting real tired of guys acting like divas here like they're too good for everything and everyone and then leaving and acting all humble like oh I'll dry bens hands if that's what it takes to win a title. Well screw you guy. If you had a little bit of that in you while you were here, you'd still be here helping us.

I was camping a couple years back and a brown bear came into our campsite and I was really drunk (and very stupid) and tries to rationalize that the bear wasn't much bigger than an Olineman and I got into a fight with a college Olineman a couple years prior to that so I was gonna go get the bear out of our secondary campsite. I was piss drunk on Chivas Regal and my buddies were egging me on like hey I think you could take that bear. So I stumbled up to it talking drunk smack to it like you ain't poo bear. My buddy recorded it on his phone but it was basically just pitch black and muffled. The only thing you could make out was me asking the bear "does a bear poo in the woods? It does when I'm here motherfuger" but in a very slurred drunk voice. I got lucky I guess because it took off and went to another campsite (and ended up really messing up the camper shell on my buddies truck to get to some trout). I only know the details my friends told me and showed me because I don't remember it at all.

Not really. Edelman took a shot in the Super Bowl that even my daughter said wow daddy he got hit really hard he's having trouble getting up. It was clear to anyone that watched it that Edelman just got concussed, but he kept going. Happens all the time in the NFL.

That's awesome that you wrote a book. Pie!