SmokinwithWilly

I wish we could replace Morgan. I genuinely don't know who we're going to get. This team has a terrible owner that thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and while that may be true as a fund manager, as an NFL executive he's in way over his head. But anyone who is seriously looking at this job will see his fingerprints all over the way this team has been run since he bought it and nobody wants to work for a micromanager.

I've always wondered how I'd do as an NFL GM. Based on the Carolina Panthers bar, I could retire a millionaire never having accomplished a damn thing.

This team will never be competitive with David Tepper as the owner. The building is toxic and no one with any real ability to turn it around wants to come here. Morgan and Canales are the result of only one person applying for the job.

I was torn about the Harbaugh hire. On one hand, I didn't want him leaving Michigan because fug the Buckeyes. On the other hand, he would have instantly made the Panthers 3x better than they had ever been under Tepper. Bittersweet for sure, but still, fug the Buckeyes.

Just think, if we had stayed put in 23 and accepted the Burns trade, we could have had JSN in 23, Daniels with the 1 in 24 and BTJ with the Rams 1st and still have had another 1st this year.

At least Sir Purr knows how to jump on a ball.

I guess not everyone has a vet teammate to beat it into them.

Curious as to what the cap hit for DB would have been with the guaranteed money from his recent contract plus the contract to Parsons. Could have made it too rich for our blood without even considering the picks.

Looks like he knew Evero's defense sucked worse than we did.

Parsons to Carolina made no sense if we were going to try and give him what he wanted. If it was 2 1sts, DB, and that contract, there was no feasible was to build around him in the next 4 years, especially with Bryce still lacking a full season of productivity. GB has their QB. We aren't certain yet, though the end of last season was reason for optimism. Parsons is an elite talent, but unfortunately we're not in the position to make that type of move for him. That's a put you over the top SB window run type move.

My only concern is if we're not actively trying to get better which we don't seemed overly concerned with doing. That's more of an organizational thing than a player thing. Great teams and coaches are always looking to find the smallest gains. We're content to settle. That bothers me.

Im sure he had to pass a physical as part of the deal. The Packers had to have known to pay a price that high. If they didn't, there's no lemon law in the NFL.

The Panthers make the Hornets look like geniuses sometimes.

A competent GM could have turned that Burns trade into 4 or 5 day 1 picks and still ended up with BY. Fitts was just so fugging bad.

Hes talking about turning down 2 1sts and a 2nd for Burns

I think back and what we could have done with them. If we had traded those 2 1sts with Moore for BY, kept our 1st and had it available for Jayden Daniel's if we so chosen or what we could have gotten in trade. Ah the possibilities from simple common sense found on a fan message board.

I saw two 1st rounders. Didn't see any additional picks so far. Fittershits was exceptionally stupid for rejecting the Rams offer for Burns.

Everyone says AT was old and slow but the one thing he could do consistently was get separation. That takes skill and it's been a huge issue in our WR for years. And while Moore may be a great locker room guy and our WR coach may be a 12 year vet, he's not playing in the game. Vets like AT do what they do because they can see things others don't and exploit it. The DB interview I mentioned before was with Stephon Gilmore after his DPOY season. He was pulling the younger DBs aside showing them things you wouldn't even think you'd be able to tell from the way the receiver was standing. Seeing what a DB or LB is biting on in game that can give you that half step advantage is huge and we don't have that experience in our WR group right now and I think it could end up hurting us. None of our receivers have lined up against NFL corners successfully on a regular basis. Having someone that can walk over and give you a tip to get a half yard separation can be a difference maker.

But Frank had the option to choose his personnel. He wouldn't have to adapt his scheme for Stroud nearly as much as Young. It makes no sense to draft a player then have to redesign everything you do when your boss isn't known for patience in delivering results. Plus his demeanor changed after the draft. He lost interest. Frank wasn't my choice for HC, Ryans was. It's all really irrelevant at this point, Bryce is our QB and if hope he's successful.

That's why I never understood the Bryce pick for Frank. He never fit a Reich offense. Stroud was far more of a fit for Frank than Bryce ever was. Thats why I always thought Bryce was a Dave/Nicole pick instead of a coaches pick. It never made sense from a scheme perspective.

THE David Moore !?!?! We're saved. I expect TMac to have 200 catches, 3k yards, 20 TDs and be uncoverable this year with all the information he can get from watching our HoF WR David Moore.

Been my thought as well for a while. Got to address the QB2. Dalton is meh as a backup but we really need to try and do better. Unless you luck into a Brady, Dak, Cassel, etc you're not likely to get a starting caliber QB, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We don't have a lot of luxuries after years of bad drafting, but we can't ignore it forever.