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If teams just trade for equal value now why don't we just trade our 7th rounders for the next 3,000 years for the #1 overall picks?

I wouldn't be opposed to a pass catching speedy RB early in the draft. A lot of Bryce's magic at Alabama was escaping pressure and finding Gibbs as an outlet.

3 hours ago, frankw said:

If someone is offering us a first next year then yeah you heavily consider and likely take that. But that does seem like a bit of a too good to be true scenario.

I'm just not keen to buy into trading down in general after seeing the aftermath of Fitterer's wheeling and dealing. Just about everyone loved that poo at the time. Now his former best friend is our GM.

I'm more than okay with just taking whatever top talent is available at our respective picks if that's what we do.

This. People are underestimating the value of pick 33. That's a fugin first rounder basically. Somebody from the first round is going to fall to 33. Trading that away just for an extra mid-2nd next year is so damn stupid to me.

5 hours ago, top dawg said:

You must look at the value. If your draft is not value-driven, then you probably aren't doing it right. 

We come out behind in 2024 draft value in this trade. Instead of picking up someone who absolutely will have a 1st round grade at pick 33, we're swapping them for a future middle of the round 2nd rounder next year. It's just a dumb trade.

Trading a quarter for 2 dimes, when we're in the middle of a rebuild.

Swapping picks just for a second next year is fuging hilarious. Trading down is for suckers.

Trading down is for suckers

On 3/27/2024 at 10:23 PM, Shotgun said:

 

This dude is going to whiff on so many tackles in the NFL. Takes like 10 seconds to drag the QB down on every sack, and in the open field relies on thumping and never wraps up.

Mingo has never jumped or fought for a ball in his Panthers career. You guys seeing him in Legette are wild.

It has strangely always felt inevitable that Clowney would be a Panther some day. The vibes were always  there. Even after the board tried to force "downey for Clowney" as a follow up to "suck for Luck" and it felt almost as cringe and forced than this year's "Gerber" thing.

I know the team has plenty of holes but I wouldn't even be mad if they double dip on WRs with the two 2nd round picks.

1 hour ago, frankw said:

I can safely say that 99.9% of the Carolina Huddle would be thrilled and relieved to see that even the detractors. Winning cures all.

What's wrong with waffles? They're fuging delicious.

Probably more like 85%. Not even 99.9% of Huddlers were happy to see Cam win MVP. Sunk cost fallacy will be a thing, some people have decided that Bryce will never be good, so even if he becomes good they'll have to convince themselves he's not to save face.

Brad Nortman was also pretty good for us in the 6th round. If you gave me the choice between drafting a solid punter in round 6 or having Justin Fields, I would pick the punter every time.

The Bears are still going to be 4th in their division so who gives a poo

7 hours ago, MHS831 said:

People get on Mingo like he was a bust, but in this offense, he had over 400 yards as a rookie--now, those are TE numbers, but he had a catch in every game, I believe. 

He was one of the least open receivers in the league by a wide margin.

Check out our new guy all the way on the other side of the chart.

4 hours ago, strato said:

That’s the biggest quality I’d be wanting right now. 

Same. Something that made Wilson so great in Seattle is that he could lob up a wounded  duck and his WRs would come back to the ball and fight for it and come down with it. If Bryce did that it's an automatic pick 6. He needs some dogs throwing elbows trying to help him out.

2 minutes ago, Aussie Tank said:

I’m pretty sure he’s one of the best separators in the NFL 

Good to hear.

Looks like he's a solid route runner. Not blazing speed and doesn't have a lot of separation even in his highlights but doesn't seem to need it. He fights for the ball which is something Carolina desperately lacks.

36 year old coming off an achilles tear and was never all that good in the first place. Doesn't scare me.

Reminds me of the headlines from this time last year. "DeAndre Hopkins will only sign for a Super Bowl contender."

People listed all the same reasons Deandre Hopkins wouldn't come here last year. We're irrelevant, we don't have a great QB, he'll only sign for a Super Bowl contender, etc. And then he signed to play for one of a small handful of teams equally irrelevant as the Panthers to be thrown to by Ryan Tannehill.

Big name players don't always sign for the top teams.

Cautiously optimistic

I think after only 1 rookie season the chances are much greater than, for example, when David Carr left the Texans after 4 years of getting his ass ate and people thought we'd magically fix him.

Just now, TheSpecialJuan said:

https://x.com/dnewtonespn/status/1750567825549197484?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA
 

That's definitely reason to be optimistic. Tbh the main thing separating Wilson on the Seahawks and Bryce Young was that Wilson could close his eyes and throw up a wobbler, and one of his WRs would actually break off his route and come back for the ball and come down with the catch. If BY did similar it would be ugly.

Us losing to the Bucs both kept the Saints out of the playoffs and got us our new head coach. Double win.