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The first round pick needs to start.

So either a TE, DL, LB, S, or maybe CB.

OL in the 2nd or 3rd.

I bet a DT or OL falls. 

Someone good will be passed on. Take them.

2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Would love to know what the expectation/plan is for Icky. I'm glad we're not counting on him to return to form. Potential switch to RT to replace Moton long-term?

Back to LT or L guard. My money is on LG.

13 hours ago, jfra78 said:

Feel like Proctor is too big and should be a guard 

Proctor is a no go for LT. Very slow and to heavy.

4 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

We are going to draft Lomu OT (1st) and Stowers TE (2) in this draft.

I think so too. I think they planned to go Defense in the draft, but had to pivot due to Icky’s injury. Not terrible, since we’ll need an OT eventually to move to RT or slide in at guard. Icky will probably spend the rest of his career at guard. 

12 minutes ago, strato said:

The lack of left tackle being next to TE and nickel in that first line is just baffling to me. 

Finding half decent LTs in free agency is rare.

Going to have to draft it.

6 minutes ago, frankw said:

So we paid 18.5 million for a turnstile?

Dan Fitterer baby!

Based on what I’m seeing, turnstiles put up more of a fight than this guy.

Nothing magic here.

Bad orgs ruin good QB prospects. Good orgs can make mid QBs work.

As a whole, the NFL gives up on QBs far too soon.

The bunny is indeed quite bad.

I wish we had drafted Maye. Local kid. Would have been perfect.

Anyway, defense wins championships.

1 hour ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

Gets on a show that is completely overt that they are a "Football First Show" and this dipshit spends the first few minutes of the show talking about his shitty soccer team before the Panthers ever even get mentioned. 

He’s one of those people who feels the need to give too much detail when explaining something.

Been a roller coaster the past 24 hrs for him.

2 hours ago, CRA said:

Sam Darnold is still very much Sam Darnold.  That's been evident all season long. 

The Seahawks simply are a better team than the Jets and Panthers were. 

He’s a great example of building a good team around a limited QB.

Something we can definitely do.

Remember when we all thought Sam was a bad QB?

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Icky is gonna miss a good chunk of next year with no guarantee he'll return to form. Moton will be 33 next season and there's too much smoke around the whispers of his chronic knee issues for their not to be some fire there. OT pretty high is imminently defensible. 

It is. I just fear he won’t.

14 hours ago, MHS831 said:

LT is a need.  Big un.

We should draft an OL high, but we probably won’t.

I don’t think Dan is that ruthless. He’s a player friendly guy, who isn’t going to cast off a hometown guy due to injury.

Not the right choice, but I suspect he’ll grab a backup quality LT in FA or very late in the draft. 

50 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Trading him was honestly the right move. We needed draft assets to build around at that point much more than we needed a huge money RB that had missed a bunch of games the previous two seasons. That we did a ton of terrible drafting for years on end is totally different conversation.

Was it though? Draft picks are lottery tickets. We traded a Ferrari for a few power ball tickets.

The odds were never good for us. It only makes sense if we couldn’t afford him. Given our lack of QB or any real talent…we could afford him.

Great players make other players great. A concept our past GMs never understood. 

3 minutes ago, onmyown said:

I think people are missing the difficult part of doing this and that is having a competent FO that has the skill/ability to draft and fill out a roster. This isn’t easy to do. The Steelers have that ability. A few teams do/did (49ers/Eagles). The Panthers absolutely have and do NOT.

That’s because Steelers ownership has been willing to give their staff the time to do that.

Most owners like Tepper demand wins immediately. Guys don’t get the time to build a real team and then develop a young QB. Thats when you get coaches and GMs mortgaging the future of the team on Hail Mary trades and FA acquisitions.

He and TD are employed by the team. They are going to say what the team wants them to say.

33 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

His wife will take over, if she hasn't already. 

Yep, we’ve got a least 30 more years of Nicole.

17 minutes ago, PootieNunu said:

Do they want Evero as his replacement? 

They might. They love young defensive minded HCs

6 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Okay, that sounds a little better than I expected. That was basically a non-answer. 

Listen, if you're considering handing out a franchise QB contract that's not something you're caduakky talking through. That's top of mind, first thing on the docket stuff.

I imagine they will start to explore what his side wants so they can be prepared.

It didn’t sound like something he wanted to do.

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Understandable. Buys us time. 5th year option? All things considered I'm fine with it. A long-term franchise QB contract talks need to be completely off the table though.

Dan just said a long term contract for BY this year is still an option.