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You want Pickett to take the top off the defense, and if he were good at that you'd see him go number one overall. He's is not good at that. He is Teddy 2.0 but with much better scrambling and throwing on the run imo. Teddy and Pickett will both move the ball down the field with their good medium and short passes. The thing is Teddy is now a backup. You have to do more.

Pickett is not all bad. I love his scrambling and mid-range and short passes. Pickett reminds me of Teddy Bridgewater if Teddy could scramble really well. Pickett is Teddy but with great legs imo.

Pickett doesn't like it when the safeties are moving up and down pre-snap. He becomes conservative when he sees that.

He has deep ball problems too. He is waaaay off like Sam on many deep throws.

Pickett was told he'd e a 5th or 6th round pick and that's why he went back to school. Even with all the time he's been playing QB he's still not good at processing things. The things is this is a bad draft for QBs, so desperate teams will want to take a shot.

Pickett reads the right half of the field against more competent defenses, and throws to the guy he's eye ahead of time, or checks down. Watch Pickett against Tennessee. Pro defense will eat him up.

We will know soon enough assuming he comes here.

He may be coming here so we can revisit this post.

Mac Jones is more cerebral and makes his reads at a high level. Pickett is like a one read check down QB.

We're in a terrible position because we're without a decent QB. Want to know which teams will be rock bottom in the upcoming season? The Panthers and the other teams that don't have a QB. Even if we draft a 2022 QB, they are check down QBs. They'll look like Sam out there, or even worse. This is a QB league, and the QB shows you what will happen to your team. Line up the best QBs and there are your best teams. Line up the worse QBs and there are your worse teams. We're epic bad until we land someone great or draft one of the quality prospects in the 2023 draft. My point is that 2022 is basically a lost season that is useful only in that we did some rebuilding. That would change if we land a really good QB, but that seems very unlikely at this point.

Unfortunately Tepper, Rhule, Fitt, and our other scouts don't know how to evaluate QBs. So we're basically taking a wild guess that Pickett will be good enough to be our franchise QB. Maybe we take Pickett and he pans out, but he looks like a future clipboard holder. I sure as hell hope not.

This is what happens when you have a team led by guys who are not that bright. First, they failed to fix the o-line problem that clearly existed last season, now they go into overkill mode and try to spend too many resources on the problem. Classic Panthers blunder. On the other hand, we're not really in trouble unless we draft a 2022 QB. I'm somewhat ok with this overkill, but just don't draft any Pickles level QBs in this draft.

My gut tells me 3 tackles will go off the board before we pick, either that or I've eaten too much for breakfast. We could be looking at a top DE or CB falling right into our lap. That would help us to trade down if we don't pick a mediocre QB.

I sure as hell hope this isn't evidence that we're looking to draft a QB at 6th. The 2022 QB class looks like a collection of backup QBs at the pro level. Those guys are going to be holding clipboards.

We'll do cheap trade for Minshewmania.

Then that tells me Tepper thinks 3 LTs are going to be picked in the draft ahead of us. In that case we can take BPA, and that might be Kayvon Thibodeaux

In that case the better option is to draft a rookie QB in 2023. We'll get our LT in this draft. Things are coming together without breaking the bank for Watson. Now about the 2022 season... I have some bad news... we going to get our asses kicked.

I had a bad feeling when Vegas greatly increased the Saints odds of winning the SB, and our odds stayed the same.

Double post.

Yeah Minshew would be fine for cheap. He can be the placeholder until we draft a QB in 2023. He's spunky and sure to entertain if nothing else. Or hell send Sam out there and let's get into a rage and call for his head. 2022 is a wrap either way. Just find something entertaining about the season other than winning.

I'm perfectly fine Minshewmania for a cheap price. Hell if nothing else it will be entertaining to watch him run for his little life in terror if things don't go well. We're not doing anything in 2022 regardless, but if you love watching Minshew play then sure I'd go along with that.

His mistakes of Bridgewater and Darnold are more than enough to fire him now. He's still here because he got a 7 year mega contract imo.

So now we have to take our medicine in the 2022 season. We're going to get destroyed, but our franchise will be rewarded with one the top picks in the 2023 draft. That draft has the potential to yield a franchise QB, unlike the 2022 draft which is poop for QBs. I wanted Watson at a fair price, but Watson knew better than to come here. I wouldn't come here either if I were Watson. This is the time when we need to painfully take a beating on Sunday with the future in mind. The 2022 draft should give us a LT for the rookie QB we draft in 2023. We pay the price now and throughout 2022, and then we hit the home run in 2023 hopefully. Slow, boring, disappointing, soul crushing, but the end is in site. The 2023 draft is everything at this point. If Rhule trades our 2023 first round pick, then I will leave the forum until he is fired.

If Rhule trades away our 2023 first round pick I won't have to worry about Rhule because I'm done.

The worst thing we can do at this point is trade away future draft picks for a washed up veteran QB. Our future could be bright if we can land a top QB prospect in the 2023 draft. If our first round 2023 picks is traded away then I will go on a long rant here, and then I'm leaving until Rhule is fired.