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I guess you haven’t been paying attention

They will absolutely make Iowa State the final 1 seed if UNC loses to NC State.

You should cancel your PSLs again over this affront!

Wtf does the Bears trading a pick they didn’t even get from us for Keenan Allen have to do with us? People need to get a grip.

Honestly I was a little down on him before the past couple years, but definitely appreciating him more now for what he is than caring about what he isn’t. Part of that definitely has to do with him agreeing to be paid for what he is and not what he isn’t though…unlike some guys who are no longer with the team.

Steelers country, let’s weld!

We’ll, to be fair, there were a lot of people at the time who didn’t think there was a first round prospect in the class.

And here I was thinking I had opened a thread about Kenny Pickett getting traded to the Eagles. Remember that time the guy got banned for making every thread into the same issue?

Camp body.

This is what happens when you over rely on the Jimmy Johnson trade value chart.

There’s no way. Owners would fire Harbaugh before they would let that happen.

Texans trade Vikings the #23 pick and a seventh to get Vikings #42, a 2025 second, and a sixth…

I refuse to believe this is a serious post by an adult who watched the Panthers play in 2023.

Thanks for the reminder! Time to find which local pizza places I can get food deals from.

Uh oh somebody better put injury faker Scam Jordan and roid man woman beater Sean with an hawne Merriman on suicide watch.

I don’t know the full details, but I do believe Kendricks just did that switching from an agreement with the 49ers to the Cowboys. I think what is likely happening is that most people have this inner code that they will not renege on a deal once they have agreed to it, whether it is official in writing or not. I say this as somebody who works in sales and sees it all the time. Also, they may worry about their reputation throughout the league for future deals.

I’d love to get Clowney, tbh. Yeah he’s a mercenary, but he can play either standing up or with his hand in the dirt, and is the definition of playing the run on the way to the QB. Always been a great run defender. Get him and a younger pass rush specialist like Wonnum for cheap, add Haynes coming back from injury, DJ Johnson for depth, maybe draft a guy, and I think that is a lot better than our Burns/YGM combo last year.

Yeah I forgot about YGM. Bell played 3/4 of the season and was solid if unspectacular at best. Low impact was my wording I believe. He graded as a bottom half of the league safety.

Here’s a fun exercise. Apologies in advance for the formatting, for some reason the copy/paste came in with this black background. One of these guys is Brian Burns and cost $30m/yr. The other 3 are free agents that will cost significantly less. Where would you rather spend the money? STATS 25 Tackles; 7.5 Sacks; 0 FF; 15.5% Pass Rush Win Rate; 64.6 Run-defense Grade STATS 50 Tackles; 8 Sacks; 1 FF; 11.6% PRWR; 56.3 Run-D STATS 62 Tackles; 8 Sacks; 0 FF; 8.2% PRWR; 65.7 Run-D STATS 43 Tackles; 9.5 Sacks; 2 FF; 14.2% PRWR; 74.4 Run-D And as an added bonus, here’s a free agent who has already signed with a different team for less than Brian Burns, and if this doesn’t tell you the Giants got hosed I don’t know what does: STATS 83 Tackles; 16.5 Sacks; 4 FF; 15.8% PRWR; 61.5 Run-D

Call me crazy, but I’m not seeing the huge dropoff in defense. Here’s the moves so far: Luvu gone hurts a bit and I think we’ll miss him. Replaced with Jewell who may be an overall step down, however much cheaper and hopefully a little more well rounded. Luvu was terrible in coverage. Burns gone. 8 sacks can be easily replaced. We aren’t talking about replacing 12.5 sack 2022 Burns because that’s not the Burns we got last year or would get this year. We’re talking low effort, playing not to get injured Burns. DJ Wonnum had just as many sacks and forced fumbles in 2023 and won’t cost half as much. The team was right to get rid of Burns and use that cap space more wisely. Donte Jackson for Dane Jackson seems like a wash unless I’m mistaken, Dane Jackson officianados feel free to correct me. At least their numbers last year look near identical. Zero interceptions, 5 passes defended. Dane Jackson had less tackles but maybe that means he wasn’t thrown to as much. Adding A’Shawn Robinson is huge IMO. Legit set the los, run stuffing, 3-4 NT. I think this is the move that changes the whole defense. Our run D looked terrible at times last year. Our DL looks like it will be a major strength, which will make our LBs and pass rushers look a lot better. Getting Shaq back will help. He hasn’t lived up to the expectations of typical Panthers first round LBs, but he’s a solid presence in the middle who can coordinate the D. From what I’ve read, one of Jewell’s strengths is also coordinating the D, so we should have some strong voices in the middle of the field calling the plays and getting everybody on the same page. Vonn Bell and Jeremy Chinn were both low impact players for us last year and should be easily replaced. So overall, the losses should be easily replaced for cheaper, in some cases have been already, and the addition of A’Shawn Robinson will have more impact on this defense than Brian Burns did. They’ll add somebody to replace bum Burns’ 2023 production rather easily, whether Wonnum, Young, whoever. And if, big IF, Horn actually stays healthy for a season the secondary could easily be better than last year.

100% chance the writers for that site typed in something like “Predict Carolina Panthers as Super Bowl winners” so they could generate clicks. Either that, or they ran it over and over again until the AI predicted something controversial.

? So you saying you meant this in a positive way? Lol. Also, not just you, I did say a few posters and this post you made put you in that category. Again, what does Young’s size have to do with anything here? The clear implication you made is that the investment is based on Young’s size. Not based on OL being the worst unit on the team last year. Not based on helping the run game. Not based on helping any QB under center next year and moving forward. Not based on the previous personnel not being able to execute the blocking scheme of the new coach. Not based on both previous starting guards coming off back to back long term injuries. Not based on being able to move Christensen to swing tackle where he may be able to execute a wide zone blocking scheme better than Ickey. You specifically mentioned Young, and only Young, as a reason we had to make investments in the OL, with the implication it was a gratuitous and unnecessary investment that would not necessarily need to happen with a larger QB.

I too was leaning Stroud before it became clear the team was drafting Young, but I’m sure I would get painted in the Young fan category since I recognized the team was drafting him and admitted I was not a professional NFL scout so I looked for reasons to be excited rather than angry. I found myself having to defend the possibility of the team selecting Bryce Young against absolutely absurd takes like he wasn’t a legitimate first round prospect, he wasn’t the consensus #1 pick, the team didn’t know how much he weighed or how tall he was, etc. We all would have preferred to talk about other things, but it was all absurdity. There were one or 2 guys that would start a Bryce Young bashing thread with any random tweet from a joe schmoe they could find. Multiple per day. There was some CJ bashing, the Ohio State QB thing, S2 score, etc., but it was rarely as vitriolic as the Bryce Young size stans, and CJ was the majority favorite on the huddle. It was fairly clear what was going to happen. The Bryce hate even when everybody knew he was 95% going to be the pick was apparent. But they said “Oh we’ll be his biggest cheerleaders if the team drafts him, but until then…” it was all bullshit.

There’s a few people on this forum trying to paint signing OL as a negative because they don’t like the QB and it makes absolutely no sense. Last year was the worst OL I have ever seen and you are actually complaining about signing a top 10 guard and another starter. This forum as a whole has wanted the team to take more action in fixing the OL since Jordan Gross retired, back when we had a 6’6 Greek god at QB. Now we make completely necessary signings after the worst year we’ve ever had at OL and it’s all of a sudden a bad thing because certain people are absolutely deranged when it comes to our current QB. It’s not holding his water to point out that fixing the OL needed to happen regardless of who the QB is.

You didn’t want him. If anybody would have traded literally anything for him our GM would have jumped to get rid of his contract. I’m pretty sure he’s still available doesn’t look like anybody wants him.