kungfoodude

I expect improvements but ultimately fan dissatisfaction on offense and slight improvements to the defense which leaves the fanbase loudly calling for Evero's head. That's my prediction for short term path. Which, I can be okay with that. I just need to see that we have more OBVIOUS core players emerge. If that happens, I am good.

Yeah, I am not gonna freak out if we have another losing season, depending on how it looks. People are really getting ahead of themselves with thinking this is a good roster. It COULD be a good roster, just like it could easily be mediocre or bad again. When you tear the whole franchise down below the foundation, it's bound to take a considerable amount of time to rebuild it. IMO, we still have at least two more offseasons of solid building before we are in a position to be a consistent winner. And that's assuming we have a lot of success this past offseason and some of our potential core players actually pan out(Bryce, Ikey, XL, etc).

I am not surprised. I remember looking at all-time franchise rushing in the past couple of seasons and being pretty amazed at how paltry the totals really were. For CMC, I think people just forget how injury prone he became, hence why his numbers seem low. From 2020 to 2022 he played 16 of a possible 39 games. In fact during that timespan he never again went over 500 rushing yards in a season for us. The the leaders on that list were far bigger impact players due to their longevity.

Have we ever had a draft trade up work out under Tepper?

He isn't gonna break out. This is why taking an older, project player is goofy.

I think he was an Evero type player. I suspect he was a guy that Evero asked for early on and is still one of "his" guys. Another in a long list of reasons why Evero will eventually have to be canned.

I think the rub is being a dumpster fire team. Same issue the NYG have being on that list.

I did really think he was an upgrade from Tremble, on paper, hence why I didn't like the pick. But, it does make more sense knowing we need another blocking TE with him potentially out for a bit.

I am gonna say that this makes the TE drafted make a LOT more sense now.

I assume you were drunk posting yesterday, so I will give you time to read through that entire arc so you can remember.

Yeah, the NFC South is basically at a laughingstock level post-Brady/Brees.

I mean, I never once made the comparison to our 15-1 season culminating a Super Bowl appearance. I did say, numerous times, how completely unhinged that is. However, you doubled and tripled down on it. Lol. All this is available to read in the thread above. But, keep digging that booze hole deeper. It will just make a very funny aside later in the season.

Well remember the division was on the decline at that time. We won it at 7-8-1 the year before. We were the only playoff team and team above .500 in 2015.

I am not going to be upset, I just really won't understand the thought process unless he is interested in sticking around long term. I definitely am not going to buy Super Bowl tickets if it happens, which I am assuming you are browsing just in case we do trade for him?

I don't think it will make a HUGE difference because of the low hit rate but it is a great way to tilt the scale in your favor when it comes to signing. Makes me wonder if eventually the NFL owners will get mad and tighten the rules on UDFA contracts.

Matt Rhule and Scott Fitterer also thought they were always a couple of moves away. How did that work out? You are conflating two INSANELY different scenarios in a syphilitic fashion. We have zero winning culture here. Arguably we are in the infancy of even establishing a clear football culture of any sort given the ridiculous turnover rates. We are very lucky that Morgan resisted the need to do what fans like you want and spend like drunken sailors on aging veterans for the "win now" mentality that Rhule/Fitterer had. It appears that he is smart enough to realize this is a long, difficult process to completely build a winning franchise from the ground up with zero foundation to build upon. Hence why we leaned towards younger FA's and didn't make a bunch of panicked and ignorant draft moves(not that I agreed with all of them). There seems to be an actual blueprint in place for the first time in years. Now, I don't know the result or if they will even be afforded the time to execute it but going full Fitterer is the last thing we want. Hell, we are just now finally recovering from that period.

Yeah, no one could have ever thought a very talented team that went 12-4 two years prior, had lost in the divisional round of the playoffs two straight years in a row and won the division two straight years would be at all successful. I will give you 15-1 and Super Bowl was unexpected but comparing them to this team is absolutely, lightspeed insane. I get it was a holiday weekend but that level of drinking seems unsafe. Also, history is very likely to be unkind to that prediction. By all means, please tell us about upcoming Super Bowl appearance and 17-0 season.

I am not sure what triggered you to keep replying to the same post but we all knew the level of talent on the team at the time AND in hindsight in 2015. How it came together was anyone's guess but these players were not unknowns: Cam Newton Jonathan Stewart Greg Olsen Ryan Kalil Trai Turner Charles Johnson Star Lotulelei Kawaan Short Jared Allen Luke Keuchly Thomas Davis Josh Norman Kurt Coleman That's just the list of KNOWN entities even at that time. Guys who might start on that team? POSSIBLY Brown and probably Horn? Maybe a couple of OL? It's such an insanely better roster at the time AND in hindsight that it's laughable to literally compare them. Not to mention....we already had a winning culture in Carolina. There isn't a single player on this roster that we have drafted that was on a winning team outside, what? LS and RT?

I like Ramsey plenty but I don't think this fits for us or him unless he just wants to be here for some strange reason. In that scenario, sure. I suspect it is more likely that he has no desire to come to Carolina at all.

I mean.....I hate to burst your bubble but we have perhaps a tenth of the talent that 2015 team had and I am being VERY generous. That is honestly one of the wildest comparisions I have seen on the Huddle in long time.

I certainly hope they have finally come to the realization we aren't very close. That seems to be the general direction of our entire offseason when we avoided so many pricey veterans very similar to Ramsey. I think they finally are taking a realistic and long term view of this roster building. I have no idea how it is going to turn out but it's way better than nuking our future season after season in an attempt to make that "one last move" to put us over the top.

Yeah but why even waste ANY draft capital on a short term rental? Especially on a bad team. It's Fitterer/Rhule era "WE ARE ONE GUY AWAY" kind of BS. I would rather just keep the draft capital, roll the cap space and continue to try and build through the draft.

An expensive veteran that doesn't want to be on a bad team? I fail to see the logic.

I just don't think it makes much sense for anyone involved. He isn't likely to want to be here after downgrading franchises in comparison. Nor does it make a lot of sense for us to have that much potential money tied up on a player closer to the end of his career than the beginning.

I can understand the projection of MacCarthy over Maye BASED on the coaching and team but that also makes it not truly a a pure QB projection but an evaluation of the situations they are in.