kungfoodude

The NFL doesn't care about suitability if you haven't noticed. They care about including as many of the wealthiest people on the planet as they can collect as owners. It helps protect the product in the long term.

100%. It wouldn't matter if Sam Darnold had the three most talented coaches in NFL history, it wouldn't change his ability to read the field.

It's just more excuses for a talented guy that has a ten cent football IQ. I will never understand why people do this but what do you do?

I was in until "Used to getting hit." I mean....you don't want to be getting hit that much as a QB. His father was an all time great fighter. Especially athletically. Very fun to watch.

We will see how he recovers. It could be the single event that opens the floodgates or it could just be a blip on the radar.

I will dislike losing Necas but if we can unload KK too, that would be worthwhile. It gives us a ton of flexibility moving forward.

If we gave Bryce an extension after 2 years of a 5 year deal, you can just shut the doors to the facility and move the team wherever you want. I mean, I would say that about just about any rookie we have. That's just plum retarded.

Yeah, I don't give two flying fugs about Cam dressing like a Harry Potter character or Sam Darnold supposedly being nice. One of these players is the best QB in franchise history and the other was arguably the worst. Hence why I say the logic test and the football statement. If people want to root for the guy with the better social media or the one that gives the best interviews on some dumb show on ESPN, that's cool. Just understand that you aren't actually a football fan. Football fans care about football above almost everything else. The stuff that happens outside the lines, I couldn't really care less about. This is essentially just the Taylor Swift fans watching KC. Zero of them cared about football. Same with anyone who got all butthurt about Cam's goofy dressing or his goofy celebrations.

No, it's a very simple logic test for a Panthers fan. One is one of the best players in franchise history and our only NFL MVP. The other is a typical first round complete bust. If you really have to get in the minutiae of their personalities or what they are wearing, once again, football is just not really for you.

I think KK stays and we try to move him mid-season or next season. That contract is going to require some salary cap jumps to make it more palatable. Super amped to keep Chatty around. Majorly underrated player on our team.

Extending a player that hasn't played for us yet would be a very Panthers move.

IMO, the single team cities shouldn't really count. They are barely pro sports cities.

He said right now and the Lions are an overwhelmingly better franchise at the moment, so it would be CLT that is worse if you are talking recently. If you are talking historically, it's even more overwhelmingly CLT because the Pistons have multiple titles and were a power team spanning many years, despite their current dumpster fire status. Plus, historically the Hornets/Bobcats/Bobnets have collectively had some of the worst owners in the last 40 years of NBA basketball.

The Tepper Panthers aren't playing poker, they are buying scratch offs.

I was a luxury pick because IMO because it was reaching for a position at a time that just wasn't necessary. I am all for BPA but I don't believe Brooks will be significantly better than some of the other guys in the 3rd to 4th round. Not enough to warrant passing on better players of higher positional value. That's not even touching the roster needs specifically. That was always my problem with the pick. It's, once again, the team projecting that they just know better than everyone else when that has so very rarely proven to be the case in the last few years.

I get the sentiment. Our franchise is literally in shambles and there is really next to no hope of any improvement. As our former coach loved to say, it is what it is. I hope that he doesn't end up a bust because we really can't afford to keep reaching on picks like we did with Brooks and then whiffing. I wouldn't expect much, if any, impact from Brooks in 2024. Even if the ACL is healed, it isn't abnormal for players to take several weeks or months even after they are 100% to fully "trust" their knee again.

Honestly, he's a RB. It isn't that relevant that he even plays in the short term because he was a luxury pick in the first place. We just need him to heal up and stay healthy afterwards.

I will never understand how we have a portion of our fanbase to hate Cam but also a portion that loves Sam Darnold. There is no better logic test on the planet than that. If you fail it, football is not for you.

He is developing better there than he would in the NFL. Let that continue and in a year or two, maybe he is ready

And boy did we not understand how good we had it too. Man, if I only knew then.

Well, the thought was also that he would be broken instantly by his preseason detractors when actually the most physically impressive of all of the drfay prospects was the one who got so thoroughly broken in his rookie season. Bryce certainly proved to be more durable than most anticipated but.....that's not a long term success strategy. Doesn't matter how tough you are, those hits take a toll. He needs to learn to play smarter and avoid contact like a lot of the smaller NFL QB's do.

Yeah and maybe it was more the hits than the wear and tear, I guess we will never really know. I personally don't think it helped being such an arm thrower most of his career.

The thing is, he was pitched as a lower risk, lower ceiling QB that was basically ready to play out of the gate. Turns out, the higher risk, higher ceiling guy in Stroud was the actual ready to play QB from that draft. I realize that there is no reasonable scenario where we make that trade and sit Bryce Young but the reality is, he would have benefited perhaps the most from largely being a 2nd or 3rd string QB for 2-3 seasons to work on all his flaws and get adjusted to the NFL level. I can't say he'd be an elite QB at the end of that, but I don't think he would be trending bust as rapidly as he currently is.

And quite a bit of that was him never really tightening up his throwing mechanics until his arm was already shot. He said he bought too much into that Superman mentality on his podcast. I think that was another element of that. His arm was so fuging strong that he just never really thought he needed to focus on tightening up that aspect of his game, IMO. Well, literally not until his arm had already been destroyed.