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there’s nothing fantastical about the idea that the team improves to mediocrity and strands themselves there, it happens all the time and is usually the end result of playing the cutesy minimum investment plays we’ve made at the QB position. honestly the panthers have been pretty fortunate so far, they’ve absolutely made the moves to solidify themselves right in the center of the draft. Keep building aRoUnd ThE QuaRteRbaCk and you’re likely to entrench yourself there.

The rams may indeed have a better roster. but panthers fans shouldn’t get too hung up sensationalizing the roster as a whole after last season. Poor QB play leaks it’s way into every component of the team. Good QB play elevates those around them, it just elevated the Rams to super bowl champions, and the Bengals to a spot in it. Robbie Anderson didn’t just turn into a bad player overnight.

As a matter of fact this team has a number of individuals who are well regarded as personnel evaluators. All the same it wouldn’t alter the reality of opportunity cost that drives the draft either way.

It feels like this every year, but the math points to the likelihood that there is a guy in this bunch. Identify him. That’s the job they’re paid to do.

Probably pretty far. The Rams have had that roster together for a while and it’s all been for naught. It was a franchise QB that finally made it all worth it. to reinforce that, most of their major players were brought in as high priced free agents or blockbuster trades. You’re gonna see more and more teams be more and more willing to part with major assets. the problem with the panthers pursuing Stafford was never Stafford, it was the opportunity to draft a long term franchise QB, something they foolishly ended up bypassing anyways. can’t make the mistake again, if the super bowl proved anything, it’s just how futile your chances are without one. burrow took an average squad and led them to a super bowl. an elite squad floundered for years because they had an average QB and finally triumphed once they got one. If Dave tepper doesn’t see the obvious now then there’s no helping this organization as long as he’s here. no more cutesy minimum play investments. It’s time to spend massive capital one way or the other for a guy.

It goes back a lot farther than that tbh the past two teams just managed to acquire a QB and thus highlighted it

lol he just carried his team to a super bowl youre a loser and we all see through the shtick

All those draft pick trades, all those free agents, all those high profile trades. It’s what the game is now. You’re gonna see more and more teams willing to part with a bit more after this.

Why don’t you tell us

Don’t worry pal I got you covered https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401282683

Man, this is so long overdue and yet could not have happened at a more perfect time. Congratulations Sam. You deserved it and more.

tell me you started “evaluating” at senior bowl week without telling me you started “evaluating” during senior bowl week.

that’s purely conjecture, retroactively so. I wanted the team to understand where they were at as much as anyone, but that meant making a big push up the board for the QB they liked, not pinning their future on some delusional hope that they would have the first overall pick.

He has never demonstrated any of these issues he can throw the ball in a window on the 5, he can drive the 8, he can push it deep on the move. this is just something you made up because you heard “small hands.”

Okay, great, but you’re still not getting Trevor Lawrence with the second pick in he draft. Getting Trevor Lawrence was the goal of everyone here, just as getting #1 overall and “waiting for Bryce young” is now.

That’s great and all, but the panthers still weren’t going to get the number 1 overall pick. To insist that they were is fantasy.

it’s crazy to look back and see just how convinced people were that waiting to get the #1 overall pick the following season was a legitimate business plan the worst part is that the same posters are still operating on the same strategy

lol here’s me predicting Derrick brown “the extreme unlikeliness of this only complements the real point here: who cares? Which player are you so sweet on that it isn't worth the gamble? the solid but unremarkable DT? The linebacker? Maybe it's the CB who won't get a second contract here when the team inevitably refuses to give him the 90 million he'd command come contract time? The panthers can manage without those things None of that is in the same galaxy as the chance at obtaining an elite franchise QB”

The hilarious part is that it’s the same people who never learn their lesson At no point does it set in “wow maybe I’m just not very good at evaluating”

Was thinking more Justin Herbert

honestly sincerely impressed there are still people willing to post this after how often this dumb thought process has been laughed at ”wait for a generational QB” like lol

This is from pfn’s report on the guy and I’d say it’s probably a big part of the appeal, as was the case with Wilson last draft “Going further with Pickett’s elasticity, he flashes the ability to adjust his arm angles on throws. Pickett generates velocity off-platform and delivers accurate throws on the run. Even off his back foot, he creates impressive momentum. Furthermore, he can methodically place balls according to receiver leverage downfield, and he improved his consistency in this area in 2021.” being able to make throws off center Is So Hot Right Now, combine that with his frame and he’s definitely going to be a high draft pick. id really be looking hard into Willis and Willis is definitely going to have an easier path to OROY but I get all of the above.

lots of teams get “generational” left tackles every single year, and they all stay terrible. You’re not “getting a player to build around” by drafting another position, you’re just getting a guy to tread water with until you find a franchise QB. the opportunity cost of a meaningful swing at the QB position *buries* a “sure fire” selection at any other spot on the field. opportunity cost is defined by rarity, and there is always an opportunity to find a good player at every other spot on the field that isn’t true for QB

I always lol when I hear the “drafting the wrong QB can set your team back 10 years!!” bit like lol what? Why? How? there's about a two year evaluation period, you’re either going to have a franchise QB or you’re not-you might have one if you draft one and you definitely won’t if you don’t

Well on the one hand giving out the #1 jersey again so soon would be seen as disrespectful, on the other hand, an ongoing icon of the Panthers starting QB always wearing the #1 jersey would be a brand and would keep every loser college linebacker or wide receiver from constantly wanting to wear that number specifically would just be icing