Khyber53

Let's just walk away and let this play out elsewhere. The risk greatly outweighs the potential for gain for us.

I just want it to be a blow out either way. Either team could end up firing their coach after this one and both are more attractive landing places for Sean Payton than we are. This really is a loser gets Sean match. Eff-em both, though.

Why is Tepper so damned determined to make a deal with the Devil? New Orleans will be a decade paying off the bokkor's curse that Payton left them holding.

Without a doubt, but the motivation to make them believe the adjustments would work... that's something else! Talk about buy in!

There are many connections beyond work/college ones among NFL coaches. There are a lot of friendships made along the way and friend of a friend introductions are really commonplace. My thinking is that he's being interviewed here as part of getting back to the Panthers identity and reinforcing what Wilks has been rebuilding. Or it could be a Frank Reich thing just as easily.

That must have been one helluva halftime speech. I mean, pulling the QB back from one of the most epic collapses in a playoff game is one thing, but he also got the defense to quit acting like they were pushovers, too. Masterfully done and we could have had Peterson if Tepper would have fired Rhule in January rather than October.

Purdy looks like he belongs not just out there, but looks like he belongs as the leader of that team.

It's lasted so far. I think he'll make it to the NFC Championship. The kid is making the reads, he isn't scared and he not only can move, but he knows when and how to move either in or out of the pocket. He also knows when to bail out of a play, that's wise beyond his experience. Not saying he doesn't have great weapons and protection around him and a defense that helps immensely, but we've all seen guys who had all that and couldn't do much with it.

Last guy picked in the draft. Kid plays like he belongs out there. It's going to be hard to get him back on the bench, any bench.

Dude is eating the Seahawks alive today. The 49ers are thinking they got everything they paid for and more. Good for the kid!

No, we need someone who can open up the field and give a QB a working target on every frikkin' play. First round. Spend the pick, get the man, move on and win. There's not a great QB that deserves a 1st round pick this season, grab someone in the second or third.

Niners and Jags in walkaways. Man, I love the playoffs. Next year, man, next year...

Never chalk up to malice what is probably just incompetence.

And probably broken down before he was 30 as well.

I think we pass on the first rounders, none of them look like world beaters. If Stetson Bennett is still sitting there in the third round, I think we take a flyer on him. The guy is smaller, but you've got to take a winner when you see one. The kid wins against the best competition in the NCAA. That has to mean something.

The guy was straight up money when you look at the big picture. And Zane, who was injured in the preseason, was mighty good as well the prior season. Both were great finds. But, you really shouldn't have two kickers on the roster at the same time. And kicker cuts are often just quickly made and the team moves on, kind of rough on the guys but that's the nature of the business. Right now I say Eddie won the job, but there could be contract considerations galore in this. Whichever one we keep I'll have confidence in and I believe the other will be snagged pretty quickly in the free agent market. We had a string of bad luck at kickers there for a while, I'm glad to see we made it through that. Now if we could just have that kind of renaissance at QB...

I hope we get to see him starting at guard to start the season. I can only imagine he'd be one of the best pulling guards you could ask for. And if we stay with the run heavy offense, then he's going to be invaluable there. Good kid, he's got a heck of a future ahead of him. And I really want to see Bozeman signed to a long term deal AND see Corbett and Christiansen heal up completely. We have the makings for the best Panthers line of all time.

Oft-injured and wanting a huge fully guaranteed contract? Hmm, what could be wrong with that, right? Had this been week 6 when asked, I'd have a different opinion. Now, I just don't think you pony up MSRP for a car when the wheels are falling off and the mileage has gone up. Let's pass on this.

If you get your man, it's not a wasted pick.

I'm not looking for the new Olsen. I'm looking for the next Kelce, Gonzalez or even Gronkowski.

I'd think about it really hard, then head over to the phone on the desk, pick up the phone and throw it in trash can and then go out to lunch. Screw trading up.

I remember when they said Luke Kuechly was a reach at #9. And that 8th was way, way too high for some white kid from Stanford, CMC. Trust me, make the TE pick at #9, don't get fancy with trade backs, take the man and move on.

TE first round (Mayer out of ND), DE in second. We also need a good nickel.

If we don't keep Bozeman, then it won't matter. And I think Mays is Corbett's understudy and eventual replacement. The kid has a lot of potential and has learned a lot from the addition of Corbett and Bozeman to the linemen's group.

Nope. Take him there, don't eff around and miss him. We need a receiving TE more than just about anything else here. The lack of a good tight end has left the middle of the field to the defenders and is one of the main reasons DJ, TMJ and Laviska can rarely get open. We can't stress the seams enough. In the past, we could rely on CMC to do that work some, but those days are gone. The only other potential spot I'd draft is DE at #9 but only if one of the two best somehow falls to us.