Mr. Scot

... is the guy playing Andre the Giant on The Rock's new show. That's probably about as good a choice as you could find for that role.

A standard trade, maybe not. But if you give up the kind of things we're talking about giving up, you better win a championship.

Yes I did. You give up a third round pick and that doesn't work out? It's salvageable. You give up a first round pick and it doesn't work out? That gets you a dirty look from the owner, but it's still manageable. You trade more than one first round pick and it doesn't lead to a championship? You're on thin ice...at best. You give up some of the ridiculous trade packages we're talking about here and you don't win a championship with the guy you gave up all that stuff for in short order? Your ass is fired.

We traded a third round pick for Olsen. Think we can get Deshaun Watson for a third round pick?

Bill Voth posted this... ...a clip of Steve Smith throwing a crushing block on Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway. That tweet later received a fun response from a surprising source.

It was a hypothetical example. Teams don't generally come out and say "we made bad decisions and had a sh-tty season", but they still do so pretty frequently.

I'm saying only blockbuster trades that helped a team win championships can truly be called a success. If all you can say is "we gave up a sh-tload for this player and afterward we were...pretty good", then you didn't reach the goal.

I'm not trading away the kind of package we're talking about just to get the best player at the position. If the answer to the question doesn't include championships, then no it's not good enough.

The trade packages that are being discussed now are exaggerated to the point that about the only comparison is the Herschel Walker trade.

Articles like this are basically just sh-t flinging. They don't really look at the details.

McCaffrey, Burns, Anderson and two first round picks... No way in hell.

Maybe teams don't like it? I know NFL Shop prohibits certain things (Carruth jerseys, for example). Could also be that people have done that in the past and then tried to get refunds when it didn't turn out.

I get the sense that if Panther fans spend months salivating over Deshaun Watson only to see us wind up with Mac Jones, this isn't gonna be a happy place to visit.

I think they do that sort of thing sometimes around free agency time. Not sure what the harm would be but that's their thing, I suppose.

The problem in most of these places is they're seen as quarterbacks who just happened to be on exceptional teams rather than exceptional quarterbacks. And yeah, previous draftees have lent a lot of support to that idea.

No argument. He wouldn't be my choice, especially not at 8, but if we take him I'll hope for the best.

"I'll take 'Things Nobody Needs To See' for a hundred, Alex."

I think Jonathan Stewart nailed that one.

Well, technically he's not here right now because the Texans still refuse to trade him. I have no trouble believing Watson would like to come to the Panthers, as well as several other teams. The idea that he prefers the Panthers seems a little sketchy to me, but I don't think he'd block a trade here either. None of this matters unless the Texans change their mind, of course.

Joe Person's latest Athletic article is better. He asked three NFL personnel executives to rank the top ten Panthers players they'd want to trade for.

Today is the first day that NFL teams can officially start applying the franchise tag. Expectations have been that the Panthers will franchise Taylor Moton. Players from other teams that are heavily speculated to be franchise candidates include Dak Prescott (Cowboys) Chris Godwin (Bucs) and Allen Robinson (Bears).

I'm waiting to see whether Matt Rhule is a good as we think, whether Scottt Federer is as good as his reputation and whether David Tepper will keep his hands off and let the people who know football do their jobs. It absolutely has been a poorly run franchise for pretty near all of its existence. Those factors will determine whether or not it still is.

Don't think so, either.

I know he mentions Tepper in his comments, but part of me wonders if the intimidation thing wasn't necessarily about him. Remember a while back Igo was saying that Rivera and Hurney were basically afraid to say anything negative to Newton? That was a big reason why the stories were coming out about Ken Dorsey not being a true quarterback coach. That'd definitely qualify as being "intimidated".

Heck, he was hired because he had a connection to someone who worked well with Carson Wentz.