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Finally got to finish that great video backup with facts.

My biggest take is the big picture approach and recognizing the known pitfalls. Look at the money, look at the value but realize the situation. I was impressed too. Fritts was part of thr trade back school for sure. He just had no positives as a GM. I can't remember one.

It's not desperation to see the reality of the situation and take a discount. Again, a 3rd would be fine but a 2nd would be best. I'd also be fine with their 3rd and flipping 2nds if they have an earlier 2nd.

I started watching this and I'm about half done. He starts at the beginning of the concepts and keeps building upon it. I almost walked but then he kept expanding. I can't tell where he is going yet but it's well done to the half way point.

Whatever. I am so ready to not see any more mock drafts until there is a draft worth talking about in the 1st. Even the top 2 guys in this draft are underwhelming in comparison.

https://www.qcnews.com/news/local-news/panthers-take-next-step-in-building-uptown-practice-facility/ Smaller but fine from what I have seen. Most of Rock Hill was a residential and commercial mixed development around the facilities which were expanded with office if I remember correctly. I can't belive it's 2025, the team is worth billions and the team still doesn't have a finished practice facility. Not bitching just saying wow to that chapter finally coming to a close.

Agreed. Neither are a good fit. Trade back or take a better fit if forced to do so. It's not like the talent is really that different 10 and even 20 picks later.

Best description yet. It doesn't exist and it is completely subjective process.

I still like EZ over Williams. Not mad about passing on Walker either.

I just hope the Panthers don't fall for that trap. I have no idea how the Pats don't go oline with a young QB but I also haven't looked into Campbell much but he looks like a solid LT.

Yup. It's such an huge yet ignored red flag. If he could back up his current value he would have done at least the more favorable proday. Still people are simping hard the week of the draft and all I can think is that the options have fooled people into think that entire teir isn't teir 2 for a reason.

Turning around after denying a once a long career trade option to tell that same player he isn't worth the top money was the chef's kiss for me personally. I honestly belive they thought he wouldn't take those trade details to the negotiating table lol.

I don't agree. Olsen looked like a noticably quicker prospect with the same size. Olsen would go top 5 in this draft would be my guess vs 31st. He ran a 4.55 and Warren looks 4.7+ (or 4.6ish if his school did it at his proday). There is a reason he didn't work out at the combine or his proday and it's obvious. He is a solid but not great TE prospect. He only has room to lose by showing his real numbers.

Bowers was a 1st round tallent and even he didn't go top 10. Warren's speed and size will not be the positives they were in school. People have just fallen in love with a typical 2nd round TE in a draft lacking talent at the top. Even Olsen was a late 1st and he was quicker than Warren.

It explains why this team is sub .500. Get a franchise QB in 2011 and miss on every other pick. Don't agree with 2011 being 3rd but with that much yuck it's not worth arguing over.

A huge chunk of the early guys are overrated and just filling the void of top talent in this draft. Doesn't make them bad players but comparing them to other drafts is going to look like bad value. Also don't draft a RB in the 1st still....especially when this draft is loaded with RB talent later.

It's worth more than anyone available at 8. I don't care about the trade value chart with that pick. I would be happy with more but it would be enough this year for me to understand. I agree with the article that there are 2 teir 1 guys, no more. Then it's just preference for a while after that and the 2nd is way more attractive in value to talent. I have been vocal about wanting an extra 2nd this year so I'm great with that as the floor.

Best news of the offseason. I still want an extra 2nd but a 3rd would still be worth it given the options at 8. I just hope someone bites.

I was always fine with that deal but some people still use it as a negative because the haul wasn'tenough in their minds to justify trading him away. The haul was fine but it's still debated even if I agree with your take. That's why I said that one was complex and weird in my previous post. They absolutely would have blown those picks, Fritterer was our worst GM to date. Still even a broken clock and all of that.

IDK where he is health wise so a 2nd could be the moon. Being on deal with 1 year left with noncontract talks screams volumes people around here keep ignoring.

Both CMC and Burns were leaned into because they kept missing at so many other places so when it came to contracts they both got weird. CMC wasn't healthy and isn't healthy still while Burns was never a core guy because he just doesn't produce like a core guy. I never got the CMC crying. He is a beast when healthy but he isn't healthy enough and regardless we won more without him than we did the year we traded him away. RBs just don't have the value fans what to see. Even the Eagles got their RB for just cap in free agency lol. None of us have to like it but that's the value of the best backs in the game right now. The other trades were positives because they moved on and got anything they could but I agree with what you said and would add that the poor drafting just compounds it all looking worse and dysfunctional at the end. Fritterers needless trade backs for lesser talent left a hole that Rhules obliviousness to how the NFL is run started IMO.

Getting a 2nd for Moton would flip how I look at Morgan. His values are too dated and that would be a 180 IMO.

I'm more interested in an additional 2nd this year but with none it would have to be a first next year. Not a good move for them but I would take that trade this year on the Panthers end. If they were going to put Tomlin in a position to have to do a trade like that in a QB class like this they should have just fored him and let a new coach take a mulligan of a 1st year and swing for QBs hard next yyear. Already getting involved in the Rogers mess after his last stint shows how desperate and stupid they have already reached there so none of this would be surprising even if it's all dumb.

It's all so unpredictable this year. OT is a better option than any other offensive position at 8 but that teir 2 clump is so similar with their 'but's so positional value should enter the discussions where OT holds strong IMO.

I would be fine with an OT early. It would just confirm why none of those guys are under contract at this point past this year. Not idea which way all this breaks but it's wide open this year.