CPantherKing

How can a catch be great when it was a bad call or missed call. Physics say it was not a catch. Bad judgement by officials and coaches say it was a catch. How is that great? A great phantom catch maybe. Good sell and execution of getting the next play off.

I think they are just testing him out to see if he could come in if Johnson gets injured. He was throwing some. I doubt we see Purdy unless they make something happen with the medical at half time.

Well that huge coaching mistake to not challenge or call a TO and discuss the challenge with the officials before challenging is unforgivable in the playoffs. He needs to hope his team bails him out.

So many Eagles players on the field without their helmet on. No DJ Moore, no flag I guess lol.

Jobe should have been ejected

Ray Ray McCloud and Eli Apple too

Yep. Pay someone millions to not challenge that in a critical game. 49ers coaches and officials just spotted the Eagles 7 points. At least call a TO and then challenge. They've given back those TOs before in that situation.

Remove your poo from my post please lol. I saw that all the way.

49ers coach screwed up

He didn't. Bottom of ball hit ground and he body caught with his hands coming off the ball after it hit the ground. 49ers coaches messed up.

These 1st round picks get so many chances to fail with multiple teams. Complete waste. If a 6th round pick were to play like Fields, he would have been gone and forgotten after year one. Brady and Purdy never stand a chance if they'd perform like Fields or Darnold in their first year as a starter. Case Keenum and Brian Hoyer are better than Fields in their 30s. Go get Cooper Rush or Taylor Heinicke in their prime. Forget about Fields and Lance. Let other teams do the Darnold/Mayfield 1st round failure experiment with them.

What if I told you a higher percentage of 6th round or later QBs get to the playoffs more than 1st round picks? What if you found out 1st round QBs win the SB for the coach and team that drafted them at the same rate as 6th round to undrafted QBs? Now, I will offer you a deeper pool of candidates to choose from with less competition. You can also develop them at your own pace. And for all this, I will offer you an elite skilled position player, 5 star defensive playmaker, or 4 extra mid round picks to pair with your QB of choice. You still want that 1st round QB with a top 15 pick?

Is that your goal with a #1 pick? Experience? A show? Short of winning a single SB, that is a bad pick. All that draft capital and cap space wasted when you can get the same production from handing the keys to a 6th round to undrafted QB. A #1 QB no one wants after 8 years in the NFL? Not even the fans of his own team. Reich is about to show us how it's done with Eason and Foles.

I'm sure Reich will be democratic about it. Matt Corral - Tepper guy; wants him developed Jacob Eason - Reich guy; been developing him for 2 years Davis Cheek - Fitterer/Morgan guy; keep bringing him back and want him developed Aqeel Glass - Senior Advisor/Advisor/OC/QB coach guy [Tom Moore/Clyde Christensen/Jim Caldwell/John Defilippo]; been working with him since last year and have him going into the USFL. Nick Foles - a veteran fall back that Reich would like to have on his roster if the Colts release him. My guess is there will be no QB drafted with this class, and Reich will focus on developing his QBs. He will want to focus more on drafting offensive weapons and defensive players. Likely 2 TEs and 2 LBs in the draft. Reich and Ballard saw more value in waiting for a UDFA in the draft last year and this class is weaker than last years. Would that be disappointing?

Trading up for a QB in the draft is a death blow for the current HC. If they find a franchise QB, chances are better that the QB stays when Reich is fired and the next coach inherits a developed QB they can build around before a championship is won. Expect a decade before a move like this pays off in the Panthers current situation.

Foreman did not replace CMC or will the Panthers to the door step of the playoffs (he disappeared in 36.4% of his games this season). Losing CMC hurt. Replacing Elf with Bozeman was the big boost to the run blocking up the middle. You never want to lose an elite receiving RB. Foreman is easily replaceable. A CMC or Faulk type RB is not. This is mediocre team thinking. Championship level discussion includes making sure you have a receiving threat coming out of the backfield that can run between the tackles at RB in today's NFL offense.

Drafting a 1st round QB may bring hope for the fan base (the mythical 1st round savior), but remember that drafting a 1st round QB in the top of the 1st round is the end for that coach. Since 1990 and the start of modern free agency in the early 90s, only 1 QB has led the team and coach that got him in the draft to a SB championship - Eli Manning. 63 QBs have been drafted in the top 15 picks. Mahomes and Roethlisberger were 2 successful QBs that won the SB in 1/2 seasons, but they were dropped into a team that was already established to contend with their coach. Free agent signing or drafting a QB later in the draft is the best way to go for a new HC. Trading for a QB is just as risky as drafting a 1st round QB. Inheriting a starting QB by a new HC has also been successful for a few coaches, but this can take a decade to accomplish after replacing the coach that drafted and developed that 1st round QB. Stay away from a 1st round QB unless his last name is Manning. I would like Reich to succeed and not have to wait for the next HC to win a SB with Reich's 1st round QB.

Reich thought he could solve Wentz's problems. I could see Reich brining Foles with him, but I don't think Reich goes with Wentz as a starter again. I could see him taking on Wentz as a backup. Reich is likely ready to move on to focus on developing a new QB. Who could that be? Reich has a history of going with QBs he has chosen in the past and developing them with a passion. Rivers, Wentz, and Foles all followed him to the Colts. Reich wanted Foles with the Colts when he became a free agent following the 2018 season. Foles chose to follow Reich's QB coach with the Eagles, Defilippo. Foles went with Defilippo from the Jags to the Bears, and with Defilippo choosing to take a year off from coaching, Reich finally got Foles in 2022. I expect Foles to be in a Panthers uniform as soon as the Colts part ways with the QB. Reich is invested in developing Eason. Seems someone in the organization likes Davis Cheek as a developmental QB. It just so happens that Davis Cheek was brought on to be developed under Reich's Eagles QB coach as a back-up to Defilippo's chosen starting QB Aqeel Glass in the USFL 2 weeks ago. Defilippo had his back-up QB in place with Zach Smith, so this late addition is unusual. We may see Defilippo hired in some capacity with the Panthers following the USFL season to assist in developing the QBs and passing game. We also may see Clyde Christensen hired in an advisory role following his coaching retirement. Mike McDaniel was going to hire Christensen with the Dolphins, but the Bucs blocked it last year. Christensen and Defilppo are invested in Aqeel Glass. I am expecting to see Matt Corral, Jacob Eason, Davis Cheek, and Aqeel Glass (especially if he lights up the USFL under Defilippo - Glass trains with McNabb and Fields) in training camp. I could see Nick Foles in the QB room too if he is released from his contract with the Colts. In 5 years with the Colts, Reich has favored mid to late round QBs or trading for 1st round vet QBs. I would expect Reich to favor building up a defense and offensive weapons with the draft picks.

64 QBs have played in a SB. 33 have been 1st rounders. 19 1st rounders have won. 14 1st rounders have lost. 13 1st rounders have won for the team that drafted them. 12 have lost the SB for the team that drafted them and never won a SB. 7 6th round to undrafted QBs have won the SB. It's interesting when you see all the numbers. 1st round picks get a greater percentage of franchise QB opportunities handed to them. These opportunities go longer than they should when they fail to produce. No matter which QB a team gives the franchise opportunity to, 85% of franchise QBs make it to the playoffs - favoring the 6th to undrafted (82% 1st rounders; 85% 2nd-5th rounders; 91% 6th to undrafted). When it comes to drafting QBs to win the SB, only 8 (7.7%) 1st round QBs have won it all with the coach and team that drafted them. 4 (5.8%) 6th round to undrafted QBs have done the same. 3 (4.1%) 2nd to 5th round QBs have done the same. 19 SB champion QBs have been inherited from a previous coaching staff, signed in the offseason, or acquired in a trade (only 2 of these SB QBs) by their SB winning coach. Drafting a QB is highly overrated. Drafting a 1st round QB in the top 20 is a complete waste of resources. These QBs take away from building a team, lose a lot of playoff games, and get many coaches fired. Finding a QB should be a patient and widespread search that saves draft capital and pairs a QB with the offensive genius of the coaching staff. A GM should draft a QB selectively, conservatively, and purposefully.

This is a myth. Always focused on QBs that talking heads whisper in our ear about while they are average at best. Meanwhile, we forget about the quarterbacks having more success but never being talked about in the media. Anyone who paid attention knew about Purdy and saw how well he performed in games post collegiate showcase games. I doubt very few people could list 57 first round QBs who have won in the playoffs over the past 57 seasons. I know no one could list 90.

Rhule should have thrown Robby Anderson under the bus for not be able to execute a bubble screen. We all know Robby Anderson could do no wrong in Rhule's eyes.

I don't think the point was about Arnold being an All Pro TE. This was about Fitterer not realizing the pass catching TE is very important to the development of a QB. Wesley Walls > Jermaine Wiggins > Jeff King > Dante Rosario > Greg Olsen > Jeremy Shockey > Gary Barnidge > ??? BTW Manhertz and Arnold were both TEs that Fitterer dumped for what? I don't care for Baalke, but he is doing a much better job than Fitterer. Fitterer is just giving Baalke value in exchange for players Baalke sees no long term fit for a division winning playoff team. I'm sure Darnold would have enjoyed Manhertz and Arnold over Thomas and Tremble. There have been some good TE options available too and Fitterer just passes on them. This draft has a few more TE options that will get teams that receiving TE they have needed. Will Fitterer make it a priority or does he think he got it right in Tommy Tremble?

Fitterer is pulling from the Jets on how to build a franchise. This perpetual rebuild every season since 2020 has been the weakest rebuild in Panthers' history. We've been through the 1995, 2002, and 2011 successful builds and after 2 years of those GMs the Panthers were set up to contend with the best in the NFL. The 1999 rebuild started off strong and stalled (with a defensive championship coach, the Panthers should have given the rebuild 3 losing seasons before reset). There was not any rebuilding in 2013 (if anything, the team was terribly maintained and then slowly deconstructed from 2014 to 2017). 2018 was not a true rebuild; more like internal struggles during transition beyond the team on the field with no direction from either ownership group. After 2 years of Fitterer, the team needs to be rebuilt and he has done little to nothing to add value to the franchise. The team needs a reset which means bringing in a GM and HC together who want to work with each other like the Bills did with Beane/McDermott, the 49ers with McVay/Walsh, the 49ers with Lynch/Shanahan, and the Chiefs with Dorsey/Reid.

Team Kafka since 2020

No QB is worth that trade