Mr. Scot

Adjustments... or basically coaching.

Nobody has an issue with mobile quarterbacks. The problem comes in when people can't differentiate between those who are great quarterbacks vs those who are merely great athletes. Being able to outrun people at the college level and throw the ball really hard or really far idoesn't make anyone a great quarterback at the pro level. At the pro level you need accuracy, intelligence, the ability to read defenses and quick mental processing speed. If you have those traits and are also a great athlete, that's fantastic. If you have those traits but your athleticism is merely decent, you can still win in the pros. If you don't have those traits, it doesn't matter how great an athlete you are. You're not going to be a great NFL quarterback. You'll probably produce some fun highlight reels and maybe even phenomenal stats, but that'll be your highest achievement while better passers are winning championships. Basically, don't assume that just because a guy makes highlight reel plays in college that he's automatically gonna succeed in the NFL. He might, but only if he's got the qualities that make a great passer first.

Not how I'd phrase the question. History shows you can win a Super Bowl with a guy like Trent Dilfer if you build a good enough team around him. If you're asking whether or not Jackson is an elite level quarterback, my answer would be I'm not sure yet. His physical traits are definitely elite, likely a step above Newton as both a runner and a passer. He's clearly a dangerous run threat and has a rocket launcher for an arm. As far as accuracy, based on what I've seen I'd put him above the Newton / Farve level but a few steps below the Brees / Brady level. With regard to other intangibles, it's harder to say. He certainly wins plenty of games during the regular season, but also seems to fade during the playoffs. He'll need to get past that before he can really be thought of as up there with the others. Whether or not he does will say a lot, but I'm not ready to predict either way.

How many people will be off the board already if we pick #1?

I've seen some pretty crazy comparisons with Willis, everything from Cam Newton to Lamar Jackson to now Steve McNair I guess... Willis was nowhere near as good a college player as any of those guys, and all of them faced much better competition. There's more projection going on here than in a twenty cinema multiplex.

One thing I'd say regardless of your feelings about the cap. This narrative I see people carrying around about how we're going to have tons of cap room next year and we can just fix everything then via free agency and pay all our best players big money to stick around... Let It go.

If we were bros, they'd have given us Stafford

Except when he has to take a sh-t

I'm a lot less concerned with whether he does what I want than I am over the fact that his results have consistently sucked.

You positive we're picking at #6?

Fair enough...

Figured You're missing a decent show if you don't, though.

And it was these clips specifically that changed your mind, of course

Damien Woody chimes in...

I've seen way more Willis mania post pro day than I did post Senior Bowl.

Couple clips courtesy of Brandon Thorn and others... Pad level, foot movement, hips, hand punch, overall agility, and that big? (insert Ron Simmons meme here)

That's actually not a universal consensus. I have seen some say that Willis looked the best, but also others that said Pickett did. The most common analysis I've seen since the Senior Bowl though is that it didn't change a lot of opinions about the quarterback class. Mind you, depending on what you search, you can find pretty much any opinion you want. There was a lot of variance.

On topic... The Panthers won 11 games in 2017 and made the playoffs but lost. Since then, they've won 7, 5,5 and 5 for a total of 22.

We went undefeated. You just couldn't see it

Yes, there actually was. Plenty of people thought Richardson should speak, though it came to be understood that he never would. As far as the Hornets, I'm not a basketball fan but there are some on the board who could probably answer.

I wouldn't necessarily call it a smokescreen, but I would say that at this point the decision is still incomplete. Scott Fitterer mentioned that the next step in the process is going to be to go back and review game film on all of the players they're looking at. A pro day setting might favor Willis, but I'm not so sure the game tape will.

He fired Hurney only to hand the reins over to a college coach with no NFL experience. That doesn't show improvement.

You're referring to the team whose head coach / top decision maker needs to save his job?

An acceptance of accountability...