kungfoodude

I definitely don't believe the draft process will be as kind to Richardson as some think but you are 100% correct that we will go QB. I am just not seeing a scenario where we opt to not take a QB in the first. Not a logical option anyway.

Hard to say. Andrew Luck returned when he would have been the #1 overall pick. Unless Penix decides to spill the beans, we are just left to speculate and take him off our personal mock draft boards and QB rankings for 2023.

Well he flirted with the Vikings last year and his buyout is very low. Make no mistake, it is just a matter of time before he is back in the NFL and his contract at Michigan was structured to make that happen. He just happens to have the luxury of being able to be pretty picky.

That is what I mean, maybe he didn't get the info that he would be an early pick. Also, remember that risk is less with the NIL. Insurance policies for athletes have always existed, so they have that protection but now they have the ability to add some potentially serious cash in their pockets in college, as well.

Or he did have good information, hence why he returned.

This is the classic fan mistake. One game does not a career make. A few games does not a career make. Panther fans seem to be particularly susceptible to this in our post Cam Newton QB desert. Will Grier, Kyle Allen, Taylor Heinickie, Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Darnold, PJ Walker, Baker Mayfield, Matt Corral.....people keep prematurely jumping on these bandwagons in desperation.

After reading this, I had to go look at the performance because this post makes it seem like they have been a perennial top 15 program. The actual reality is that despite the unreal wealth of talent Mack Brown is 30-21 in his recent stint. Including only being ranked in the postseason top 25 once in his tenure and currently 1-3 record in bowl games and championship games. Also, these results are strikingly familiar, as they should be. Because they are slightly worse through 4 years than what Larry Fedora did, including an ACC Championship appearance.

The problem is there is basically no precedent for that kind of turnaround for a first round bust QB. There are dozens of failures of his type and I cannot recall a single one that ever rallied to have much more than a middling career. I get trying to see that some people can be salvaged but that is also ignoring that, well.....most people can't be. It just is what it is. Sam Darnold is about the clearest and most obvious example of this I can recall in recent memory.

The total control I agree with. I don't want to see us ever make that mistake again.

I mean....he is obviously better than Rattler.

I am saying is that is the only source saying that.....maybe not the most accurate take. Personally, I will take Harbaugh in a heartbeat. Hard to think of a better hire we could make short of Sean Payton.

Deion Sanders? I mean.....listen.....

I mean.....surely we are not still pushing the "he's only" narrative anymore, right? Baker Mayfield is only 27, should we keep him around? Johnny Manziel is only 29, maybe give him a shot? If you want a bridge guy, there are ample amounts of Teddy Bridgewater's, Jimmy G's, Jacoby Brissett's, Taylor Heinickie's, Geno Smith's, Tyrod Taylor's, Andy Dalton's, etc, etc that can fill that game managing veteran role for us. There is quite literally no reason to keep players that have time and time again, unquestionably proven that they are not NFL caliber players. No matter what direction we go in this offseason, one part of it is going to have to be a decent veteran QB. Even if just as a backup.

I almost spit food on the screen reading that.

Yeah but Darnold is one of the worst possible game managers you could have.

Oh I completely agree. The UNC homers were doing this same poo with Howell. Maye is a super talented kid but he might regress or just not improve in three years. Let that all play out.

The question is how far they drop TCU. I still say they stay ahead of Bama.

I have never seen a dark horse Heisman campaign tank as hard as Drake Maye. In three weeks he went from a very real shot to not even a prayer. UNC needs to put a team around him or he will eventually leave.

Dabo is either an evil genius or as dumb as he sounds. It's unreal they have started that kid as long as they did. He was very clearly the biggest problem on that offense. I mean....VERY clearly.

I mean, if they wanted to win it all it was gonna have to happen anyway.

Well DJ plays like he's 7.

Hey, you wanna be the best, you gotta beat the best.

Yeah, he doesn't have an high level NFL arm. I like the kid and I would gladly take him as a development QB.......as a backup.

Drinking Budweiser.

I would put my money on Clemson handing out the stomping but it could go the other way. That Clemson QB is atrocious. It's gonna depend on if the last two weeks have out enough tape out their for Clemson to stymie Maye or not. If Maye can't put up numbers, it is gonna be ugly because that UNC defense just got torched by two QB's no one has ever heard of in consecutive weeks.