Mr. Scot

Trusting Marty to lead the head coaching search.

FYI: While they may have interviewed half the league, general consensus is they'll end up hiring from within, either Omar Khan or Brandon Hunt.

I'm not in favor of tagging Reddick...unless we were to switch to a 3-4 (which there's no indication we plan to do).

Probably has to do with Gilmore and Jackson both being free agents.

Don't agree with this being a panic move any more than I bought into the notion people suggested last year that he was just insurance in case we missed on one of the draft picks. Hell, if it was a panic move, we might have reason to be more forgiving. But nope. They sat down, discussed it, reviewed the tape and went in eyes wide open, fully believing that they could make this work. I think what they saw is what I characterize as an "every few plays" type quarterback. It's a certain style that tends to be average to mediocre on most downs but occasionally makes a big play. That's basically PJ Walker too, although his "in-between" plays are worse than Darnold's. The "in-betweens" are what you have to fix with a quarterback like that. If you can create some consistency on those while not losing the occasional big play shots, then you've got something. For about three to five games, it looked like they'd been successful at doing that. And then, well... But this is why I always say people shouldn't fall in love with highlight reels. They watch film of a guy making a few spectacular plays and think "wow, we need that guy" when if you actually watched the full game tape, it'd tell you a different story.

This is pinworthy.

It's never a bad or useless thing to improve any spot on your team. We have bigger issues than QB though. As long as we have an incompetent head coach, the Titanic metaphor applies.

It's been said by one source that he's "a year away from being a year away". Similar comments have come from others

He thought Marty Hurney could handle that part.

If we parted ways with Robby Anderson, I wouldn't exactly be upset. I suspect I'm not alone in this.

Word today that a Miami player has criticized Tagovailoa, saying that they're wasting his career by hanging on to Tua. Wonder why that got out

And the same guy who made last year's bad decisions is now in desperation mode.

FYI: If you're not familiar with them, The 33rd Team is a group of former coaches and personnel guys that cover the game. They're a good follow. I'd throw in that if you're interested in OL related stuff, you might like Brandon Thorn and his "Trench Warfare" thoughts.

Carolina Panthers Free Agency Preview (The 33rd Team) Key points... Carolina’s Impending Free Agents: CB Stephon Gilmore C Matt Paradis QB Cam Newton EDGE Haason Reddick IDL DaQuan Jones S Juston Burris RT Trenton Scott CB Donte Jackson RG John Miller LB Julian Stanford CB Rashaan Melvin RB Ameer Abdullah WR Alex Erickson P Lachlan Edwards K Zane Gonzalez S Sean Chandler WR Brandon Zylstra TE Ian Thomas EDGE Marquis Haynes LB Jermaine Carter Jr. IDL Mike Panasiuk (ERFA) Potential Franchise Tag Candidates: EDGE Haason Reddick (expected $20.186 M) Top Team Needs: Quarterback Entire Offensive Line, except right tackle Cornerback WR Depth The biggest need for the Panthers this offseason is the signal caller under center. Sam Darnold did a decent job the first few games of the year, but he quickly fell back into his old habits, while Cam Newton and P.J. Walker just could not put sustainable drives together at the latter end of the year. Carolina may be willing to work with Darnold for one more season, but it may be just as a bridge for a younger QB. Aside from quarterback, the Panthers need help all along the offensive line, aside from right tackle Taylor Moton, with two starters as free agents this offseason and an incumbent left tackle and left guard who should not be counted on for the foreseeable future. With both Stephon Gilmore and Donte Jackson as free agents and Jaycee Horn coming off of a season-ending foot injury, the Panthers could look to expand their cornerback depth, especially if they cannot retain Jackson and/or Gilmore. Lastly, Carolina’s wide receiver group was inconsistent last year with D.J. Moore garnering a lot of targets, especially at the beginning of the year. Once teams started to key in on Moore, the offense stalled and did not have their star running back to bail them out in crucial downs. Look for Carolina to add more pieces in that group in order to be able to spread the ball around more this upcoming season.

One of them might not be leaving... This is not necessarily bad news for us.

We were expecting this year to have loads of cap space too, and we did before free agency and dead cap took it away. Now, we have a head coach who's desperate to save his job and has full power to do whatever he wants. If you think we're likely to go into next season with anything close to the cap (or draft capital) we have now, I have some bad news for you.

Remember saying this last year?

It'd take about five of those ten years at least to be able to build anything, and that's assuming he doesn't get hurt behind the sh-tty O-lines we'd be trotting him out behind before that. It's just not realistic.

With the roster we have now, the offensive line we have now, the cap room we have now, the head coach we have now and what we'd have to give up to get him, this notion is pure fantasy. This isn't Madden.

You could make an argument that what Houston is asking is a fair price for a franchise quarterback. That said, I still wouldn't pay it.

I think there are folks here who believe this is actually possible.

Actually, the only source that reported that was Florio.

Multiple other sources have reported the same thing.

For a guy with his legal issues, approximately not a damn thing.

Typical conversation with my grandson, age eight... I want that. We can't afford that I still want it. It wouldn't be a good idea. I still want it!!! The conversations with adults who want Watson on this forum follow pretty much the same pattern.