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Joe Person @josephperson · 52m Tre Boston and Kurt Coleman are at practice today. The Panthers could use another safety. Just saying. Joe Person @josephperson · 49m Xavier Legette has his cleat off and is getting his right foot looked at by a trainer. Joe Person @josephperson · 38m Xavier Legette back out participating in team drills. whew

Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye · The only players I don’t see are Amare Barno and Tommy Tremble. Jimmy Horn (hamstring) is here in a practice jersey but doesn’t look like he is participating in drills.#Panthers

https://x.com/daringantt/status/1932478667524837553 Darin Gantt @daringantt Alumni day at minicamp. Beason, Short, Muhammad, Tolbert, Munnerlyn, Charles Johnson, and more. Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye · #Panthers OLB DJ Wonnum (back) taking part in individual drills today. He was absent the past two open workouts. Joe Person @josephperson · 54m Derrick Brown (knee) and Jimmy Horn (hamstring) are in uniform but not taking part in drills. D.J. Wonnum is practicing after missing time with a back issue.

if Jaycee gets hurt we are screwed. I know the board thinks we are another year away, but I think we're closer, and I'd love to get a FA corner. Constantly losing destroys a teams confidence and desire. Winning helps build the team...the lockerroom gets confidence, and energy breeds off that. I think the team will develop more as a unit when we win more. And that will move us forward exponentially. The Saints comment after we beat them the second time last year...."that's not the same team we played earlier in the season" is true. The players bought into Canales, even those who went through the Rhule bullshit. We just missed out on beating the defending Super Bowl champs last year. Our WR and RB rooms are stacked. Our big problem was the DL and we certainly addressed that this year. Go ahead and build on defensive depth, get another CB. Let's go for a winning record this year, it will help build our culture. Finally a new culture. It's been missing since Riverboat.

dawgs

amazing how we got the guys we wanted. well done Dan

it's beautiful. What Dan and Dave have done is to quickly fix our OL so our young QB gets a chance to grow. That was our big need. Now we've fixed the DL with some good vets. In the new few drafts, we'll get young replacements when the free agents contracts are up. Games are won at the line. When I think about Rhule and his seven year plan...well let's just say he's gone and that's good. Look at the Saints when they got their franchise QB with Brees. At one point I think their OL was all first rd picks with one one second rd. Brees was a small guy as well. But he was talented. Protect the QB. Last year we spent the money and by the end of the year, our QB showed that we may actually have found our franchise QB. We're building the right way. I loved our draft. I really like our spending on the lines in FA. Hang in there guys. We are closer than you think.

Pitts is being talked about in trades. Falcons fans don't think he cares about football. Could be that a change of scenery would help. If I had been drafted by Atlanta I'd be ready to get out too. This is why you don't draft tight ends in the top 10. I think they took him in the top 5. And followed that up quickly by using a top 10 on a RB who is setting the world on fire either. Falconing.

when do we get the video version of this? did I miss it? or is now considered TMI to let out

so dang funny https://twitter.com/i/status/1928199231543636390

gives a good update on the Saints salary cap situation. While it gets better, but their dead money situtation is frightening, and will continue for another 2-3 seasons. and this little excerpt about the Falcons is pretty much Falconing: Some of the worst decisions franchises can make come when the team's incentives aren't aligned with the people who work for the team. Seven years removed from their last winning season and with a quarterback who has all of three career starts under center in Michael Penix Jr., the Falcons should not be all-in. There are reasons to be optimistic about what the future might hold, sure, but they were not one player away this offseason. General manager Terry Fontenot, though, might have been one player away from having a new job. After the disastrous, virtually inexplicable decision to guarantee Kirk Cousins $90 million in March 2024 and draft Penix a month later, and its natural conclusion with Cousins being benched by the end of his first year in Atlanta, the clock has been ticking on Fontenot's time with the Falcons. With the former Saints executive batting about 1-for-8 (Drake London) on his Day 1 and 2 picks in 2021 and 2022, it seems as if Atlanta is treading water. He is only the seventh GM since 2000 to start his career with four losing seasons and get a shot at turning things around in Year 5. good summary on what we did, including this part " Carolina Panthers The superlative: Most likely to have definitely solved their problem this time, for sure Unlike the Falcons, the Panthers seem insistent on addressing their weak spot every single offseason. Since trading DJ Moore to the Bears as part of the deal for Bryce Young in 2023, Carolina has thrown asset after asset at wide receiver in an attempt to get its young quarterback some playmakers. Its moves for veterans have produced mixed results: Adam Thielen has been a reliably solid option and averaged a team-high 1.9 yards per route run over the past two seasons, but Diontae Johnson's brief run will probably be remembered only by obsessive Immaculate Grid users. The draft is where the Panthers have focused their efforts. After drafting Jonathan Mingo in 2023, Xavier Legette in 2024 and Tetairoa McMillan last month, they have invested top-40 picks on wide receivers in three consecutive drafts. They're the first team to do that in 20 years, but even they haven't gone to the heights that the 2003-05 Lions did: Detroit used three top-10 picks to add Charles Rogers, Roy Williams and Mike Williams. Two years later, the Lions added a fourth who stuck around slightly longer -- future Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson. The Lions went 1-for-3 at best with those three consecutive picks in the top 10. The Panthers are on pace to go 0-for-2. Mingo was dealt to the Cowboys before the end of his second season. Legette averaged a middling 1.3 yards per route run as a rookie, ranked 134th in ESPN's receiver score and generated 104 receiving yards below what an average receiver would have done with the same targets in 2024, per NFL Next Gen Stats, the 17th-worst mark in the league. It's perfectly reasonable to be patient with Legette and see what he can do in 2025, but it's also realistic to point out that he wasn't an impact player as a rookie. His most notable moment was dropping what would have potentially been a winning touchdown reception to beat the eventual Super Bowl champion Eagles. The Panthers will hope McMillan makes more of an instant impact. It's clear they're attempting to build a bully-ball group of receivers by adding Mingo (6-foot-2, 220 pounds), Legette (6-3, 227 pounds) and Jalen Coker (6-3, 213 pounds), an undrafted free agent who arguably outplayed Legette last season. At 6-4, McMillan is another big target for Young. At Arizona, McMillan was consistently able to leverage that frame into making tough catches. His massive catch radius and ability to create after bringing in the ball would be huge pluses for the Carolina offense if they translate quickly to the pro level. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45318618/2025-nfl-offseason-nfc-teams-best-worst-deals-contracts-draft-picks-superlatives

What could that unknown information possibly be? The theory most Panthers fans may rush to might involve three-time All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who is seemingly on the outs with the Miami Dolphins. Ramsey appears likely to be traded in the coming weeks, and raised some eyebrows with his recent praise of Panthers defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero. Or perhaps Bates was thinking about another kind of defensive back. The Panthers should still be in the market for a starting safety, and have already met with free agents Julian Blackmon and Marcus Williams earlier this spring. Or, maybe it's not even a big move at all. Only Bates, and obviously a select few, would know. But whatever that information is, we may be very close to finding it out. https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/panthers/2025/05/29/panthers-nfl-rumors-daren-bates-jalen-ramsey-dolphins/83924733007/?taid=6838ada5733f4c0001828c7d&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

the thing about the failcons, you don't have to make say or do anything...they do it all themselves

Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye · 2m Xavier Legette said the goal is to win games and whenever you can add a “masterpiece like that” (re: McMillan) “it’s great.” “It’s all smiles,” with McMillan, per Legette. He said he watched film with Rob Moore after the season. He said getting open wasn’t a problem, catching was.

Joe Person @josephperson · 1m Bryce Young had been around Tetairoa McMillan before their offseason throwing session, played vs him in HS. Said it was “music to my ears” when Panthers took him at 8. Joe Person @josephperson · 15m Dave Canales says he’s seen Xavier Legette smiling a lot this spring, so he knows he’s in a good place. Also: “He looks big and fast.”

Joe Person @josephperson · 3m Other injury notes: Jalen Coker (soft tissue), D.J. Wonnum (back). Both precautionary more than serious. Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye · 5m TE Tommy Tremble had successful back surgery last week, per Dave Canales. They fully expect him back for training camp. OLB DJ Wonnum had his back flare up so they kept him off the field. WR Jalen Coker is dealing with a soft tissue injury. #Panthers

Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye · 2m #Panthers will have joint practice with the #Texans in August, per Canales. He said heat will be good to prepare for with Jax in Week 1. eason game at Houston.

Joe Person @josephperson · 3m Practice ends with a Bryce Young completion to rookie tight end Mitchell Evans. Keep it here for post-practice updates. Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye · 4m Bryce Young hits Mitchell Evans for a diving 15-to-20 yard completion to end 11 on 11 work and the OTA workout.

Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye · 2m No, typically they mix and match in OTAs so everyone builds chemistry. Quote Palpably Unfair Acts @Palpably_Unfair · 9m Replying to @mike_e_kaye Should I be reading anything into the fact that Sanders was playing with the 2nd team? Joe Person @josephperson · 3m Kicking on tight goalposts or not, rough outing today for Ryan Fitzgerald.

Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye · 1m 7 on 7 ends with Jaycee Horn breaking up a short pass by Bryce Young to Tetairoa McMillan. Legette and McMillan obviously getting a ton of targets today. #Panthers