CPantherKing

No to Pickett. Looks like he may be falling out of the 1st round. Here are the QBs ranked by the interest coming out of Charlotte. 1. Malik Willis 2. Sam Howell 3. Desmond Ridder 4. Aqeel Glass 5. Kenny Pickett 6. Chase Garbers 7. Carson Strong 8. Bailey Zappe 9. Matt Corral 10. Cole Kelley One of these QBs is catching fire among front offices. In the past 3 months, he went from undrafted, to a 6-7 round pick, to a 3-5 round pick, and now there may be a few teams willing to take him late in the second round. First round hype for QBs in 2022 is stale. I am excited to see how this large pack of QBs will fair from the 2nd to 6th round. None of these QBs are worth a top 15 pick.

Does Rhule have his offensive and defensive core/leaders in place to build around? No. Burrow, Boyd, Bell, Bates, Hubbard, Mixon, Chase, Williams, and Hendrickson are the foundation of that team. Mixon, Boyd, Bates, and Hubbard were in place year 1. Added Williams year 1. Added Burrow and Bell in year 2. Added Chase and Hendrickson in year 3. All of them have a high level of leadership ability that was apparent in college. The former leaders were wedged into those roles and played the hero too much. They were removed. Rhule had Thompson, Burns, McCaffrey when he arrived year 1. He added Chinn and Bridgewater year 1. Rhule dumped Bridgewater when Bridgewater stood up for his teams preparation. Bridgewater out. He added Darnold in year 2. Burns is a hero and not a leader. Darnold was also forced into a leader role. On top of that, the foundation and leadership was so thin Rhule had Jackson, Paradis, and Moton wedged into leadership roles. Darnold, Burns, Jackson, Paradis, and Moton were not top leaders in college. They followed leaders or their coaches in the NFL. Rhule has assembled a core of soldiers and yes men. The need for leadership in this organization was never more apparent than Cam Newton in his return. The team needed that, and Rhule made sure to crush it when he was outshined by a player. So, going into year 3 Rhule has Thompson, Chinn, and McCaffrey as the only championship level leadership. That is too thin to build a playoff team on. You think Rhule can park his ego and find 6 NFL leaders this offseason that everyone will mesh with and give the Panthers a fighting chance at the playoffs? It's difficult enough to find 2 leaders to add to the puzzle in one season once the foundation and culture has been set. Can't go any further with a team no matter how many hero players you have if the foundation and culture has not been set. Or worse, has been set, fractured, and needs to be reset.

If you can't set the foundation to compete in 2 years, you have the wrong coach/gm. Year 1 is coach/gm pairing and finding the core leaders. Year 2 is surrounding them with complimentary talent. Year 3 is being in the contender talk. When you trip up, you start all over again. When you succeed, you can tackle the more difficult task of a decade of success. If you go with a plan that is close to a decade, you will miss every window you have with the talent the team has managed to attain. Thought most would have to realize that after the Gettleman experience of so many missed windows and a waste of talent.

Sustaining success comes after you win a championship, and it is much more difficult to attain than a SB victory.

So much for Jimmy G managing the game. Pressure in big games shows if a QB can consistently win the big games. Jimmy G blinks first. Stafford survives.

Notice how many games for a championship team come down to the final 4 minutes of a game? Teddy figured it out and voiced his concern with Rhule, because Teddy wants to win. When will Rhule figure it out? Prepare your teams to be a champion coach

Too bad Rhule can't hire Shannahan as the head coach when he gets Jimmy V

7 year plan! It will work. Trust in Rhule. Has never completed 7 years anywhere, and he still knows his 7 year plan will work. Rhulestradamus

Curious who they assigned the tackle to on Mixon when he was never touched and celebrated before the play was over. Tackled by teammate? lol

Refs whistle blew play dead. Reid wanted to review Mixon tossing the ball down without being touched. And the refs allowed that illegal formation. Refs get F. lol

Should be Chiefs ball. Refs F

Mixon was never touched. Dumby

That was a fumble lol

Send the Chiefs home. Play smart.

Hit him in the hands too. Wow. What a drop.

KC getting to SB on coin flips and OT rules. HAHA Lets see if the Bengals D goes soft ala Bills or attacks.

Bengals win the coin toss this week and lose in OT would be great

Must be nice to have a kicker like Butker that you trust. If only the Panthers could find a kicker like that.

Why not throw the ball out of the endzone? What was that?

Must be nice to have a QB you can trust with the game like this. Not a Mahomes/Chiefs fan though. Respect.

Interesting way to run clock. lol

Miami will get Watson and Harbaugh. Panthers have Willis at #1 among QBs, but 4 other players rated ahead of Willis.

Bengals D going soft this entire drive?

Calling him a gambler is talking poo? sensitive a little.

Burrow is looking for big play or running now. Greedy and risky Joe.