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It was yo gabba gabba Blaine Gabbert, but yeah equally dumb. I remember him being head over heels for Jake Locker, too. I remember thinking Mallett would be a great QB and wanting the Panthers to draft him, but hey at least nobody pays me for my opinion on this stuff.

Ok but is anybody investigating the media pranking Shedeur into believing he was a top 10 pick?

Well glad that is decided, thanks!

Corbin Burns?

Thanks for the exact quotes, I just went back again to refresh myself because the overall sense I got from it was that Tet was “their guy” before the draft even started. I still get that when watching that whole presser as a whole, though there is certainly some ambiguity and room for interpretation. The question before he was talking about the couple days leading up to the draft and nit-picking Tmac’s film and how it was cool to come together with Morgan and know “unless somebody blew us out of the water, we weren’t gonna let our guy pass.” Sure he could have suddenly transitioned from talking about before the draft to the moment they were on the clock with the 8th pick, but I don’t know. I just think if they were hoping for Graham, his language would have been slightly different. Not in a way that anyone would think anything of it, there’s plenty of room to still be coach speaky about getting their guy and whatnot and nobody would bat an eye.

Time will tell, but this seems like a home run draft as of right now. I don’t spend my time analyzing 200 prospects pre draft like some of you, but after learning more about these guys post draft these all make total sense and it seems like the team did an exceptional job matching BPA with areas of need. Starting with Tmac, the team came into the draft needing a couple different types of receiver: a true X and a speedy vertical threat. Tmac is a true X receiver and the clear top dog of this receiving draft class. He is capable of being the X from day one with this team and will allow all the other receivers to fit into more natural roles and play to their strengths. Just a truly perfect fit that changes the whole receiving corps. Scourton I think is capable of being a 3 down OLB/Edge right out of the gate, though as of right now I see him in more of a rotation with Clowney still on the roster, which is a great spot to be in. He plays the run well and has a couple really good pass rush moves (a spin and a chop) that he can rely on while he develops his full tool kit. I’ve seen some speculation that his busy hands could lead to some increased penalties early in his career so that could be something to watch but overall I’d rather have a guy who has to learn a little more restraint than a guy who has to learn to work and fight harder. Umanmielen is a taller, leaner Edge who I have seen described as very bendy. He should be able to contribute right away on pass rush downs and has the frame to fill out and develop a little more strength against the run. I was originally a little disappointed in the Etienne pick as I know many on the Huddle were as well. Part of it for me is just philosophical in that I’d rather just draft o-linemen every single year and make sure that depth is always refreshed with the knowledge that even bad running backs can look good behind an excellent OL. But, after learning more about Etienne’s game, I get it and he seems to compliment our RB room very well. It sounds like he will be the best receiving back on our roster day 1 while also adding value on special teams. I also like that he has relatively low mileage from college. I think this is where it is helpful to not be tied to pre draft mocks and big boards because this and especially late round picks in general the teams just maybe valuing completely different things. So if you liked x running back better, you may be right and that might be a better running back from a pure run the ball standpoint, but that guy may have been a completely wasted pick for our team and what we were looking for. Etienne seems like a very complimentary back for our roster. The TE (Mitchell Evans or Evan Mitchell I forget which) also seems like a great compliment to our current TE room with a lot of upside. He is more of a true inline TE than either Tremble or Sanders (especially Sanders), and should be a great combo with Sanders for years to come. His 2024 season he was returning from a torn ACL and his production increased as the year went on so we may have gotten a total steal here. Ransom I know may have some redundancy in skill set with Moehrig, but it’s late in the draft you just have to go BPA and realize we are more than likely drafting backups at this point. Love the 5th round DT, just a huge body run stuffer. It’s late round and size plays. And the 6th round WR is just another skill set that we needed more of in the WR room who can play special teams. All in all, I love this draft. Sure, it would have been nice to add another CB, or a free safety, or an OT or Center, but you can’t realistically do everything in one draft. I thought they did a good job sticking with BPA, making moves when necessary to secure highly rated players with high emphasis on doing that in earlier rounds when it mattered most, while also getting guys who could fit specific roles that we needed. It felt like they had a very good feel and understanding of how the draft was playing out and when runs would start happening as there were a couple times (Scourton and Etienne I noticed very clearly) that the team got ahead and selected the player at the beginning of the position runs. A+ from me.

Based off their comments, I absolutely think it was Tmac the whole time and the only thing they weren’t sure of is whether he would even be there at pick 8.

Seems like there was a good chance of Jacksonville taking TMAC at 5 had they not traded up. Schefter was making the rounds in the day or 2 before the draft saying the Jags wouldn’t be taking Mason Graham. I know it’s hard for people to come off of what the media big boards said, but TMac appears to have been one of the small group of coveted players this draft. Morgan and Canales said in their presser they were happy when the Browns took Graham because that meant there was a good chance Tmac would fall to them. Not bummed Graham went off the board, excited. They said it would have taken extra to entice them to trade out of that spot when Tmac was available, not a discount but a premium. Very encouraging.

Don’t be too hard on OP, he was just going along with the accepted huddle group think of the past 2 years and thought he would get pies and grumbles of agreement.

For the love of all that is good SOMEBODY needs to take care of this place. I haven't been able to get in my account for like 6 months because I forgot my password. Password recovery email never comes through. Hell, I even tried creating a whole new account multiple times and the new account verification email never gets sent. The security question for creating a new account is still "Carolina Panthers head coach _____ Rhule". There are many reasons why this place is dying, one of them should not be that people can't do basic things like create an account or reset a forgotten password. I finally got on my computer browser here to try a bunch of different passwords and got in, and let me tell you this site is absolute cancer. Completely froze or crashed my browser multiple times. This will probably be the last time I log in on anything other than my phone. What a mess. A sports forum shouldn't be worse for your computer than an early 2000's nudey site.

Lol you’re trying so hard to be Sigmund Freud after getting embarrassed trying to be a know-it-all on what projection is. Good god imagine creating an account just to literally bully people by dead threading to make yourself feel superior and crying about bullies. What a joke. Can’t wait for my next high school level psychological analysis.

Yeah I think Teppers problems have been mostly the opposite of what people usually bash him for. I think he’s been too patient, mostly stemming back to Rhule and Hurney. 1. Should have never given Rhule that much power. 2. Should have never let Rhule go into year 3. 3. Should have tied Rhule and a GM together instead of keeping Hurney an extra year if you’re gonna go that route. That would have solved having to go into last season not knowing if Tepper was a good GM because you gave Rhule so much power and probably changes a lot. Going into non-Tepper decisions, we should have let Cam play out the final year of his contract and draft a QB instead of starting this QB carousel with Bridgewater. We’ve just compounded bad decision after bad decision on top of those few early bad decisions. But hey, at least we have music in Charlotte now.

There you go projecting again. Any perceived passive-aggression from the 4 words “Whose alt is this?” Is a reflection of your own insecurities. Relax, nobody was attacking you Mabel, it was just a logical conclusion that this is probably somebody’s alt account. I mean yeah, we all know alts are lame, but my original assumption was you had a banned account, which is less lame than somebody just hiding behind an alt. If I actually wanted to make a personal attack, there’s plenty of material there for somebody who created an account the day after the worst opening day loss in Panthers history just to troll and resurrect dead threads. You sure seem pretty insecure to be deflecting this much over a simple question.

Lol, do YOU know what it means? I’ll spell it out for you. See, my implication was that you yourself got worked up and hissy over a simple question and attributed those feelings to me. Just stop trying to be clever and answer the question it was a simple question.

That’s a lot of projection, but I don’t get worked up over obvious trolls. Just answer the question I’m curious.