Khyber53

You can't have enough good offensive linemen. We've had too few before and we never want to be there again.

Don't bite the bubbles, man. It has always been about Young and Stroud since we made that leap, otherwise we'd have gone for the cheaper run at the Cardinals' pick and would have been able to keep DJ. And I'm willing to bet that three years from now, we're going to see that the 3rd best QB in this draft wasn't even taken in the first round, much less was it Richardson or Levis.

We did not trade away everything we did (the picks AND DJ) to trade down and take a guy that we had a shot at getting with the number 9 pick anyway. This isn't a smokescreen, these are fart bubbles in a tub -- don't be the guy who bites at them.

Prayers for continued recovery man, so glad to hear you're out toughing the massive difficulties. Stay strong!

He's one of the most intriguing guys out there. He's monstrously large and monstrously athletic. And you nailed the knock on him right there... does he have the skills to match up against very motivated professional players in the NFL? Still the intimidation factor alone... and the potential to be a TE or OT is a rare thing. I'm of the "if he's there in the second for us, we should roll the dice and take him. His floor seems to be back-up OT who can really make the Tackle Eligible announcement really screw up the defense's call at the goal line.

While Cam was great, he also really, really emphasizes how that kind of player can have both a dramatic, quick impact on a team and can also have a dramatic, quick exit from the league. Love him for who he was, but Cam was the proverbial bottle rocket... flew to the stratosphere and then bang, it's over and done with. It was a heck of a ride but this league eats up people, even the great ones, who are out there taking the hits.

I just don't want us to spend our pick chasing Cam Newton 2.0. There's only one Cam and we aren't resurrecting him with this pick.

And the last letters spell ULHOSS. IMBACK -- I'M back ULHOSS -- your loss Really, let's just move on.

And that, more than anything might be the tell of the tale. Was he just a business guy? And if so, Tepper probably has others he'd rather see there at this time. There's a lot that has gone on in those offices since they hired then fired Rhule than we will ever know. Being a holdover from the Richardson regime says a lot for him in that he stayed in the organization this long. Still, ends happen for everything. Best of days ahead for him.

^This 100 percent... don't promise someone the pick and then have to back out because something completely unforeseen happens. Let it be known a couple of days in advance of the draft and shift the attention to Houston. Until then, our name keeps being brought up on all sports channels, websites and twitter feeds. It's good, free public relations.

I think we are at the verge of a draft that may have the bulk of the next generation of great QBs. There are five guys with tons of potential and serious first round possibilities. And maybe even couple more good ones down in the 3rd and 4th rounds that could make some noise if they see the field. I think that if a team misses out on getting a QB this year, they'll regret it down the road. Not all of them can be winners, can they? Or maybe they can...

Cam sort of allowed us to run a triple threat option rather than a true RPO. That being said, I still think that over the long run the QB with better processing ability will beat out the more gifted athlete. So many times the athletic mobile QB creates a game of one vs. 11, rather than 11 vs 11.

They could also be rotating the heck out of them, providing even a Jumbo package on the DL at times. Or it could all be competition for the spot. That's going to be a stout grouping... like they can't all sit on the same side of the bus kind of thing.

Good insight!

Ding ding ding we have a winner here. Barno, Horn and Luvu are going to become names known around the NFL rather than just here in the Carolinas. Burns, Brown, Chinn and Shaq all have league-wide reputations. I think they will live up to those reps and thrive but the three you mentioned will really explode onto the scene if this goes well. Wouldn't it be nice to be a feared defensive team again???

He really did strike me as a genuinely good, responsible, well-thought out person. Everything I've seen about Bryce says he's one, as well. Honestly, I think we are going to do great with whichever one we choose. I'll cheer for either of them. Happily. And I think we have the coaching staff to keep them as who they are and grow them as players and leaders of not just a team but their community. Character really, really, really counts. And these young men have excellent ones. (From what I have seen at least.)

Worst thing that could happen to WWE was Vince coming back. And it has been a trainwreck since he did. Wow. AEW gets another shot at pushing their way to the top. Good luck to them!

Exactly.

It's now beginning to feel like Cam needs the paychecks. I still say it is disastrous to have the most charismatic person on your team as your back-up QB. Even if all of Cam's other skills have faded with age and injury, that charisma still remains, if not shines brighter.

I remember just waiting breathlessly until Thursday nights as a kid to watch Len Dawson and Nic Buonocoti(sp) dissect the games back in the early 80s. That NFL Films footage and the fantastic soundtrack and voiceovers... man it just made the game greater than it was. Hate to see the show has become orphaned again and that it has gotten worse for the wear.

Can't argue with that assessment. A massive bank account does not insure intellect or wisdom. Or a system of ethics...

The mid-card, as with all of the WWE shows, is the strongest part of their presentation. The top end stuff has gotten stale.

It was also a generational change in leadership going from Richardson to Tepper. Old school owner versus the new style of owner. Old money vs new money. And Rivera might be the youngest of the old school coaches out there. How he came up in the business speaking to ownership/management may have been extremely different from the younger generation of coaches making their way in the system today. Now, he's in the coaching chair as another old school-type owner is on the way out and a new school type of owner is on their way in. I think Rivera is referring to the need to be able to speak in a different method than just x's and o's to whoever takes ownership of the team. And I think he's facing the reality that if he doesn't learn the needed language, he's going to go the route of John Fox, Jim Caldwell, Lovie Smith and other relic head coaches that won't grab the head coaching gig again and will be relegated to advisory roles or the C-team on ESPN2 weekends. I like Rivera as a person, I think there's a really first class guy there. As a coach, he's a player's coach who tries to develop hard-nosed, scrappy teams heavy on grit. The teams are throwbacks, as he is at this point, and he's got to find the secret formula to getting someone else to believe in putting the franchise in his hands again. He mirrors Washington's organizations in soooo many ways -- a relic direly needing a total makeover, a record that is meh and one that is starting to billow in the winds of change. Good luck to him, but I think the task before him isn't going to work out in his favor. There's an entire sea change happening to Washington and I don't think he can find the magic.

The money could be spent better elsewhere. That's what the Chiefs apparently said. They'd know.

Especially when you are looking at installing an entirely new system with a new coaching staff and expectations. The system isn't just the QB and the Coach, it's also adjusting everything from line building to comeback drills to rushing formations to even strength and conditioning issues. So many things are having to be built from the ground up here. If you've got a guy who has to have fewer adjustments made on his behalf, that saves bandwidth for the rest of the team building process.