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This smells of Tepper cuckism. But, by all means, don't let anyone get between you and the penis you so desire.

Eh...depends on price. Corbett is a MILES better player than Mays but availability is an ability. Does it really matter? Ideally, we get a real center(highly unlikely. IMO) and we jettison Corbett. If it comes down to it, keep Corbett first because he is better(IMO). Mays is a great backup option but, per normal, we Panthers fans WILDLY overrate him as a player. He's a bottom 10 starting center. He's a great utility backup OG/C, however.

That's the part the copium crowd are missing. The fact that Huddle consensus is leaps and bounds better than the Panthers FO isn't a point of pride, it's fuging rock bottom.

I genuinely think that is unlikely. He is probably the most NFL prepared QB since Andrew Luck. The biggest issues with him are his physical ceilings. He is has an elite QB understanding but a moderately above average NFL QB skillset. I am curious to see how he works out at the NFL level. I would say Geno Smithish.

We need to kill in the important rounds(1-3) but we have a bunch in the "depth" rounds(4-6). We need everything.

I think this is the rare, "answered your own question."

Caleb is a good comp, honestly. Ward is a lower level passer, IMO.

Yeah, that is the fear part.

Or is Ward a Mayfield/Stafford "ball control" gunslinger?

I am not even hyper focused on the positions necessarily(DE/Edge seems like a must given depth) but get three fuging absolute day one competitive players for a starting role. This seems like the draft like this should be a thing.

Cam is Jameis, IMO.

Dude, this class is so loaded at DE and EDGE it would be CRIMINAL to not trade down provided one of the big boys doesn't drop. I want three picks in the top 60. Period.

Interesting amount of defensive turnover.

I also thought this was a solid signing but nice to see a pivot quickly rather than our usual hubris of "well we are smarter" and a double down. I still believe Dan is an average or above average pro personnel guy. I just wish he had any clue in the draft.

My fear is literally we fall in love with a guy like this. This is my nightmare. Even Carter is excusable but Pearce is not better than the next 10 guys at EDGE, IMO.

I know but I am talking the whole totality. It's just...bad. Look, the physical skills still pop even at the NFL level. The throws he can make are absolutely bananas. But....he makes them too infrequently and the other decisions are so insanely bad.

TBH, he is kind of a one year wonder(natural red flag) and his skill level has never even this past year matched his production. He was also a very "sugar or poo" guy. Either he was dominant or he was nonexistent. It's a little tough because Penn St. has such a crazy history of guys being busts or being utilized completely differently than their NFL fit. He just scares me a lot and I really, really want nothing to do with him at #8. Give me him as a trade down at 15-32, brother I am all in.

I disagree generally. He was SOOOOOO bad on tape. His misses were by a country mile, much like they are in the NFL. You couldn't possibly drop enough balls to justify a sub-55% completion percentage especially when that has historically been a fairly decent indicator of lack of NFL success(as in, rarely do you get MORE accurate in the NFL). Richardson seemed like a Cam Newton/Kyle Boller hybrid to me.

IMO, Carter. I just do not buy into him at all. I do realize I am at risk of looking foolish but I just do not see the hype OTHER than physical traits. He seems like a poor man's Brian Burns, TBQH.

It's not necessarily less informative. The public only gets to see small amounts that matter. The interviews are a big deal if you do them correctly. Also, the combine tends to be an information bubble. So, if I see an Underwear Olympics MVP but had an underwhelming college career, does something on the tape pop out? Was he not being utilized correctly? Was there some issue that wasn't the players fault? Or is this an Ian Thomas practice MVP? The combine gives everyone an idea about the physical and athletic capabilities of an athlete but not necessarily how that translates to NFL success. That is a vastly more complex problem to solve. It involves tape study, player interviews/interactions, doing background research, etc, etc. The old school Al Davis "Combine Star" method does not work. At all. It's basically what we have done in Carolina for quite some time.

I don't think there is a guy at that position in that class of bust. Richardson has strong Jamarcus Russell vibes. I will never understand how people were fooled by him. I will say at QB Cam Ward is a little scary. He leans gunslinger, so the bust risk is just naturally higher, although his physical abilities are clearly the best in this draft at QB.

This is an eye of the beholder draft because of the lack of elite options, IMO. I think it might be one of the wilder drafts in the first two days.

How about good at football? How about likes to play football? How about wants to be the best at football? Seems like we mostly ignore those guys.