Growl

this has evero written all over it

guys who don’t produce in college rarely if ever get a bit of magical coach em up and become 15 sack monsters at the nfl level Williams was theoretically hobbled by an ankle injury but Stewart has no such excuse

there hasn’t been anything to actually link the panthers to shemar stewart, the Mykel Williams stuff feels real though

also this was probably all fake textbook twitter attention account manufacturing an almost big story that’s about to happen follow me quick follow me now get your news here and oh my inside sources are reporting this fell through

metcalf set the market for expectations and I’d guarantee it irritated Cincy. You’re not paying more for tee Higgins than you were DK metcalf and the bengals have notoriously delusional expectations for trades.

bengals are known for being just as unreasonable in trades as they are in contract negotiations. this is probably fake and they’ll probably have to deal with both guys threatening a hold out at some point

Devin white hanging around as an intriguing latter free agency option. guy who always had a knack for making plays but was never consistent on a down to down basis.

you know I’ve been meaning to start a thread for some time on extremely obscure panther facts involving just this sort of thing

“you gotta build through the draft, this ain’t madden, losing teams sign free agents”

I mean the money they are throwing around is probably more indicative of a pass rusher, as well as their seeming lack of interest in any of the big names on what is otherwise a pretty big spending spree But it does kind of feel like TE is a real possibility.

maybe but I’m getting some offensive vibes mike Kaye said recently that he feels it’s a near certainty they take a TE in the draft doesn’t have to be at 8, but…

this was one of the worst free agent pools we’ve seen in a while, especially after a bunch of teams scrambled right before kickoff to get guys home. It was never going to be too exciting.

perhaps they’ll conceive some sort of collegiate draft

deep safety class, really would like for r2 or r3 to be a safety, spending on two high profile safeties seems pretty foolish. Get one and start identifying the profile of guy you’re looking for in the draft.

this is one of those glue guys who you win super bowls with.

legal tampering has done nothing to combat illegal tampering

speaking of elephant dung

can we get a gif ban in this thread to keep it focused on what we’re all here for, nobody wants to have to sort through all the garbage to find the information

So id actually be curious to see the sets they could drum up with another move guy in Evan engram, two moveable Y pieces that are both geared towards different things could be pretty vicious but they’ll probably stick with sanders especially just given what they had to pay, and JT did enough to earn a real look

Norris had speculated he was probably about to make a lot more money than people expected on the open market. Guy a lot of teams really liked coming out, and has started to come on.

the horror

if they do spend big it could potentially be an indicator that they intend to draft one early spending ~20 million avg annually on the position group sounds a whole lot more economical and rational than spending <~20 avg per on one guy

I like both of these guys but the more I hear sensationalist commentary on James Pearce jr the more intrigued I become. he’s the only other “clean” edge rushing prospect in this class, he comes out and destroys the combine and the immediate “leaks” are “yeah, no, not even a first rounder.” that’s suspicious to me. He was talked about as a possible number one overall pick coming into the season. He put up major production. He’s tremendously athletically gifted. Those guys don’t last until round 2. in any case I just want the team to gauge his personality for themselves and not make any hive mind decisions regarding him, this is absolutely the kind of thing where we pass on him and fancy ourselves really clever up until the moment Philly runs the card in to take him at record speed.

With an asterisk for Bruce Matthews, JJ Jansen appears to already be the all time games played leader for a long snapper. Would like a to see a little more juice on punt team though. He’s valuable because he knows special teams the rule book inside and out but he was a little late to the corner a couple times last season. Glad to have him and his experience back though. edit: also Eddie basically said this in his post season wrap up interview, not really a surprise.

scouting department should be completely swept clean if they can’t identify a defensive star in this draft class Talent isn’t determined by who’s projected to go ahead of us in YouTube mock drafts. They don’t mean anything, especially at this stage where the coaches and pro scouts haven’t even gotten involved in the process.