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but again, to date, what the biggest test Jaycee Horn has seen and successfully shutdown? the only actual good QB/WR duo he has been on the field for......he wasn't tested as the game was a blowout from the jump.

we have done it in the past with a lot of guys. Deangelo, Kalil, Boston, etc. Just a money game designation. You can cut them in March. Jackson ain’t worth the money. You get 2 of those designations. His contract looks right for it.

I'm not sure there is a single metric you can argue that point and use. and Tua was across the board better as a rookie and the 2020 Phins weren't anything special offensively.

I'd cut Jackson as one of my post June cuts. Brings the hit down to 5M.

The Matt Rhule era Panthers went after BIG12 players 2nd only to the SEC.

I'm sure assaulting people on the regular, being the last batch from the look at me diva era, being a legendary a hole (despite fans embracing it and finding it fun") is going to work against him with the types that vote vs....folks like Reggie Wayne/Holt who also having icing on the top rings. Not really caring to argue if it should it, shouldn't matter. I think it clearly impacts things. it took TO 3 tries to get in. I think Larry is going to jump all the WRs who are in line. And 89 is 3rd pre-Larry entering the mix.

Tua and Bryce aren't really clones though. I don't think giving Bryce a bunch of vertical threats is some magic fix.

I take it as.... taking a note to be used for later.

maybe if the dude behind C was different.

and frankly, Sanders, Hurst, and Thelien, and Tuttle.....don't really need to be here.

Legatron or Bersin

I'd go with HOFer. Peppers. I mean, I guess that technically should be the go to vintage player at this point. At the present, he uniquely stands alone now in our history. *replace the missing, cheap one.

Got to think Luke gets in before 89. Who is in front of Luke at this point. 89 certainly looks to have to wait on Wayne and Holt at a minimum at this point and no way they go in together. And Larry likely jumps 89 too

HOF voters really dislike Cortland Finnegan more than Ken Lucas?

which means Fitt and company also liked him. I mean, Matt Rhule was clearly in the backseat at that point which was largely discussed in real time….and fired a couple games in. Practically a dead man walking that season. I mean Baylor isn’t Temple. Those dudes do get drafted. Matt Rhule is a doofus that was asked a question about Brock and wanted to make himself look good because he is probably self aware at this point how bad he looks….I don’t see it as much more. What he says is largely based in truth if he offered receipts IMO. He ain’t my boogeyman anymore. Scott Fitterer had more to do with our current sad state then Rhule

Stealing a line from Gantt, Matt Rhule has made people stupid for some time. I mean, Rhule is dumb, which helps out. Rhule in simple terms said a QB who beat him and he played against several times should be in their board…and he was told no or ignored on it by the folks who put it all together in the end. Which isn’t outlandish at all. That probable scenario likely happens all the time in the NFL. The, this random kid I like is someone I think should be on our board and doesn’t make it. Teams have all sorts of people arguing for guys that don’t end up making the board. I mean, that’s how a board is formed. every coach, scout, GM has a list of players they could say they liked and if only the rest listened…. Matt Rhule is an easy target. Because he is a floundering coach at this point. And he had always been dumb with the mic. I would assume he largely is speaking a truth, which is why he says to check the receipt on that and offers it up. That doesn’t mean he is as fighting for Purdy. Just that he mentioned a kid he knew….and was ignored in a draft he clearly was in the backseat on at that point

sort of interesting who you got to start rooting to get in if you want Panthers in the future. At this point, you need some of Wayne, Johnson, Holt to all get in likely before 89 has shot. That's going to delay his time you got to think if they don't soon start to go. Clearly, the voting types have put them ahead of 89. Wonder of Luke can leapfrog Patrick Willis given he is already in line.

Peanut Tillman is ours.

and Fitterer followed that up w/ the 2023 nightmare. 2 first and DJ Moore for a middle schooler. Trading up for DJ freaking Johnson. Overpaid Miles, overpaid Hurst, etc. all of which were outplayed by dudes like Hubbard, Tremble, etc already on the roster. The more we saw of Scott Fitterer....the more I still think all signs point to Scott Fitterer being the worst of all the bad. Got to remember the one season Rhule was paired with Hurney the Panthers still overachieved...and tons of folks on the roster had the best seasons of their career. It was flawed. Issues. Everyone was green so it made sense. But there was positive and hope for a minute. Scott Fitterer is the one constant to all the comical nightmare that got barfed up IMO. He singularly should rank at the top of all the idiots (Tepper obviously excluded as he is the technical answer).

Here is what I imagine it was really like. the Matt Rhule/Fitterer era: Matt Rhule brings something the table. Fitterer is like yeah. Sounds great Matt. Matt Rhule brings something else stupid to the table and Fitterer is like.....hold on a second.....let's do something even more stupid instead. And then they do that. And it's just a back forth of two incompetent people doing horrible things. the Frank/Fitterer era: Listen Frank. We got this. We got our sea legs now. We know what we did wrong. I'm going to give you a bunch of people you don't want and don't fit what you do....and you coach it despite being dead inside.

Oh, yeah, in the official rankings. Frank/Fitterer has to rank worse than Rhule/Fitterer. No way around that outside of using gymnastics of the unknown to argue otherwise IMO. Rhule's 2020 alone sends Frank/Fitterer into first place. I mean, if it's just a Carolina ranking. Frank might of been a better overall coach in the grand scheme. But in terms of in Carolina, the Frank/Fitterer shitshow rules supreme.

I mean, there is an argument Scott Fitterer was a worse GM than Matt Rhule a HC. * and Matt Rhule was one of the worst coaches in the couple decades.

I think most rightfully equate Peppers as a Panther. Drafted here, finished here.....majority of his HOF production here. But we claim Kevin Greene. So it's not like we don't do the same thing.

decent odds Purdy's name got brought up tons of places once every team was looking at 6-7th rounders and UDFA. I mean, Rhule probably was more familiar with Purdy than any NFL HC. He faced him multiple times in college. Rhule most likely is taking a grain of truth of running with it at Super Bowl time. I'm sure there were probably people in just about every NFL org that mentioned nearly everyone drafted at some point to some extent. That's how UDFA get picked up in seconds once the greenlight happens. but all this is sort of refresher of why I wanted a clean slate. Everyone found it convenient to pretend Matt Rhule was dictating the complete roster with an iron fist and Fitterer wasn't doing any of the bad stuff. Fitterer was doing a lot of the bad during the Rhule era. Rhule has pretty consistently called out that bologna narrative that the people who remained when he left weren't part of it (and there was never any leaked pushback to it.....and we know now we also employed a poo GM with our poo HC). But this time it's different. We are keeping just the good parts.....again.

GM basically said it too. Ignoring the guys in the room and saying they needed players like JStew and all the old dudes