Mr. Scot

Tepper has every right to play with his "toy", just like Dan Snyder, Jerry Jones, Mike Brown and the Spanos family do. Everybody understands that. The problem with the "running your business" scenario is what if you're lousy at it? You can keep stubbornly running it yourself if you want to, but if you have any brains you'll step back and let somebody who knows what they're doing run it for you.

Depends on who else is there. It wouldn't so much be people upset with taking Sewell as it would be people upset with who we didn't take.

We're not talking about the decision. Tell me who's making the decision. If it's Fitterer and Rhule, I'm on board. If it's Tepper, not so much.

Which is a big reason why some of their drafts have gone to sh-t. Eagle scouts have complained that they'd have a whole draft board set up, be ready to pick the next guy on it and then Howie Roseman would just go completely off script. Some believe he was covering for Lurie. That's not much different than Jay Gruden complaining that the personnel guys would do all the research, have their plan in place and then watch Dan Snyder come in and tell them who to take instead. I'd like to hope Tepper is smarter than to pull sh-t like that, but we don't know.

I would never bet on everyone being happy with whoever the Panthers pick. Not on this board

My first reaction to the title was "Who is Farley and what is he back from?" I didn't remember us having a player by that name. Took me a second to figure out what he actually meant. Glad to see I'm not the only one

I'm with ya.

Regardless of what the situation is, the most he should do is nod his head and say "okay".

Same place mine is

Whether he will or won't influence the decision, don't know. What I do know is that he shouldn't, and if he's smart, he won't. And to be clear, we don't know for sure what he wants, but I'd say that even if he agreed with everything I think they should do. I'm not gonna change my opinion on owner interference depending on whether he agrees with me or not. It's bad either way. Let the football people do their jobs.

Person did get better when he went to The Athletic, but he's still limited. But hey, Aaron Wilson is a free agent right now. I'd take him as the Panthers beat writer in a heartbeat.

I could see that. He's been pushing Fields pretty hard. If they don't take him, he looks silly.

Side Note: I thought he was great in "The Shaggy DA" and "Herbie goes to Monte Carlo".

Technically that approach was hope, pray and screw up the entire previous season.

Person is now saying that the opinion of Fields within the building is "mixed" with some thinking he's really good and others questioning his pro readiness. It all comes down to how Fitterer and Rhule feel of course, and on that topic Person doesn't know.

Pretty much. The way I put it was that you don't want the least knowledgeable guy in the room to be the one driving the decisions. That's how you wind up being the WFT. Tepper stated at Fitterer's press conference that he knows he's not an evaluator and he's not going to try to be one, so I'd really rather not see him going back on that statement. You're a businessman, not a football guy. Let the football people do their jobs and butt out.

Breer pointed out that Pat Stewart has a lot of connections in the Patriots front office. Likely also has a few with the Eagles.

It's true. We've all seen players we disliked flourish and players we believed in totally bust. I don't know how it's going to go down this year, but I know I'll hope for the best. Till then, I can feel confident and hopeful in at least one thing. Marty Hurney's not running it anymore. If there's anything the vast majority of us can come to an agreement on, I'd say it's that.

Multiple sources have hinted that we're not high on Trey Lance. One or two suggested that we didn't like any quarterbacks other than Lawrence and Wilson, but one of those same sources (Joe Person) later suggested we were "intrigued" by Fields. I've read enough to believe the Panthers non-interest in Trey Lance is probably fact. Whether or not they genuinely like Justin Fields or it's just a smokescreen? Don't really know. Ask me on Friday. I know Verge doesn't see us taking a first round QB at this point.

Would still prefer a tackle like Sewell or Slater, but I do grant that corner is a need.

I think I saw this in "Chinatown" with Jack Nicholson.

I kinda doubt Simms truly believes it'll happen. I think he's probably just being douchey here.

Lady Cowboy Fan has some pretty bad back issues. I had some minor issues when I was young but haven't for several years. Got a frozen shoulder though

Everybody knows who the Jets are taking. Everybody knows who the Jaguars are taking.

To be fair, this board was capable of totally devolving conversations long before the virus hit.