Mr. Scot

Look! We're not the worst!

My dad once told me (in great detail) about how the most beautiful women he'd ever seen were from New Orleans. I told him that I didn't really care to hear my 60-year-old dad talking about women other than my mom

McAfee again... Looks like he was a big fan.

Basically a hard-nosed, no-nonsense player / coach type working with a colossal football nerd whose spreadsheets could probably tell you what a player's favorite breakfast cereal was at a gven age ("my analysis shows that around age seven or so he started to prefer Cheerios; had a brief flirtation with Corn Flakes but it didn't stick")

Meanwhile, at an OL in the Midwest... That's gotta hurt

I'm in agreement

Not that one

How many teams in recent years won championships following that method? It's ben a good trend.

Pretty sure nobody's expecting to hear me complain about prioritizing large men who are also ugly... ...nor should they be.

Now that's ugly

Seriously

For what it's worth, there is a coaching connection here. During three of his years in Los Angeles, Panthers DC Ejiro Evero was a secondary coach on staff. As I recall (vaguely) Ramsey and Evero have each spoken highly of the other.

Extremely difficult (damn near impossible) to do a complete front office overhaul in a single offseason. On top of that though - and perhaps more important - you don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Not everybody sucks. (mind you, I do think this last move successfully rid us of one who did)

I hated that too. And I'm not interested in any "player safety" bullsh-t coming from a league that keeps trying to add more games and refuses to prioritize grass playing surfaces.

He's ranked ahead of some pretty decent names. I didn't honestly think Center was the most ideal spot for him (still not sure) but that's cool. Yeah...ugh

That, to me, is the key point of the whole thing. Both teams ended up with their choice of franchise quarterback. The question is who got the better of the two. Yes, they were given more tools to build with, but what did they do with them? That argument will play out over the next several seasons.

If they felt like it was a "too many cooks" situation, bringing in somebody new would defeat the purpose. Morgan's title certainly makes it sound like he's the man now as far as football decisions go. It's been said that Morgan is an old school "watch film" scout where Fitterer had embraced a more analytics style approach. That could mean things are being reshaped to fit what Morgan prefers (not to say analytics will be abandoned, mind you). And of course, there's the addition of Tilis. Hard not to imagine he's had a voice in all this. Especially true given he's the second most powerful name on the org chart. Between the two of them, Morgan and Tilis are certainly acquainted with some "rock stars" or potential rock stars in the scouting world. Still, If they feel they have the people necessary to do the job right now, that's good.

I take "absorbed internally" to mean basically that someone already on board will take over their duties. I suppose technically that could make it sound like they were redundant. I'll grant it could also mean someone will be promoted but that's not how I took it.

Couple other things from a quick scan of the staff page... Morgan is now listed as President of Football Operations. I don't recall seeing that particular title on him before. Ifit was there, I missed it. Jared Kirksey - a former Jags and Bucs scout hired a few years back - now has Cole Spencer's old Director of College Scouting title. Former safety Juston Burris is now listed as one of the team's Pro Scouts along with Adam Maxie, the son of one of the original Panthers safeties (Brett Maxie). Maxie isn't the only one on staff with "dad" connections. Mike Trgovac's daughter Jordan is now our Mid-Atlantic area scout. She's working alongside West area scout Caden McCloughan, the son of former Redskins GM Scot McCloughan (the guy who basically drank himself out of a job). Been a while since I've looked at this page. Definitely been some changes, and it won't surprise me if there are more.

Spencer was hired as Director of College Scouting under Fitterer and has run that department ever since. I thought it was kind of a head scratcher at the time because there seemed to be better people available. Can't say I'm sorry he's gone. There have been a few changes made now, which makes sense. We might be seeing a rework of the scouting department under Morgan and Tilis.

Most definitely not Juan has certainly done his share of those, but this isn't one of them.

Also...

On the flipside, despite being expected to pass, the proposal to ban the "tush push" play actually failed, reportedly due to some last minute politicking from the Eagles. Mind you, the results did come down to a razor thin margin... Would seem the Panthers voted to ban it.

UPDATE: Apparently didn't even make it to the vote...