Stuart Smith

Ken Lucas, Steve Smith broke his nose, also Anthony Bright’s nose.

Who loves Steve Smith?I have always respected his skill set on the field, but his character has always been a red flag for many.

“If Tepp makes the right moves” will require him to defer to someone that may not agree with him but has a solid track record of success. So far his ego has prevented that. However, we have to hope.

Yes! I hate we might lose him.

Listening to Kyle Bailey also. What I heard was was that Tepper was furious, but nothing imminent happening. That may or may not change. J I could go with E.E. Missing key pieces on defense and still playing lights out. This ain’t on the defense.

I don’t understand some of his takes. I don’t know if he does not want to get the Panther Brass upset with him, but something doesn’t make sense. I have listened to some of his comments on draft picks. Steve was real high on Shi Smith, also Jonathan Mingo. Steve had some credibility with me because of his career. He is fast losing it.

This is true. I probably drove the 130 miles to see the Panthers for the last time this year. UNC and Duke are filling up their stadiums with fans hungry for a winner. A lot of PSL owners and others are turning to attending more college football.

No telling how many super bowls Jerry Jones would have won if he would have had a President or simply not ruined things with Jimmy Johnson.

I agree with this. We can compare other quarterbacks in the most recent draft all day long, but Bryce is the Panther quarterback for the immediate future. He can help himself in the offseason by getting in the weight room. He can’t get any taller, but he can get stronger to avoid some of the shoestring tackles.

He has to have the vote of 3/4 of the other team owners to move the team. It will not happen.

Left tackle is more of a concern for me right now than quarterback. Is Icky a bust at left tackle? Do we have to start the search for a left tackle again? It appears this staff did not realize that the reason this offensive line was geared towards a run dominated offense. It would appear this is as big as issue as anything right now. e?

I am not sure if we realized how much missing the starting guards would set this team back. This line was put together as more to run block than pass block. That was one big change from last year. The Offensive tackles have probably been affected by trying to compensate for ineffective guard play as well.

It looks like Reich would have this team prepared for the noise.

If the players could tackle…so many whiffs

For whatever it’s worth Foreman played behind a healthy offensive line too.

If I was the owner of any team at this time I would like to know who is available that has a proven track record as a GM and has drafted successfully. I never hear anyone mention that when the discussion turns to firing our current GM. Do you hire someone that you think might make a good GM with no experience? I think of that more often than I look back at past GM’s of the Panthers.

This is documented in several places if you Google it. It was on Panthers wire as well “McAdoo pushing for Corral.”

I did not say they let him pick him. There were several articles written then that stated that that was who McAdoo wanted. They must have considered his input.

From what we were told then Ben McAdoo was an advocate for drafting Corral. I will agree that was a mistake, we agree on that. If we had not drafted Corral I still am not sure that the choice would have been Howell. Howell had a fantastic sophomore year at Carolina. His junior year he did not look very NFL worthy. He lost 2 running backs to the NFL, he also lost 2 receivers. He did not have the supporting cast on the UNC team to support him and it was reflected in his draft ranking.

How do you blame Fitt solely for not drafting Howell when he was pick # 144, a fifth round pick? You seem to give a pass to the other quarterback needy teams who passed on him for 4 rounds. We don’t even know which of these young guys will prove to be the answer for the team yet. Somehow after one game you give up on our current quarterback. Makes no sense.

An “average” offensive line is far better than the turnstiles we had 3 years ago. We need to put the players around our quarterback.

I hope Howell works out for Washington. Sam Howell was pick #144 in the 5th round of the 2022 draft. Yes, the Panthers passed on him, but so did other teams, multiple times. After Michael Trubisky was the 2nd pick of the Bears in 2017 most teams may have backed away from Anyone from Carolina, who knows. What is a fact is that in his last season at Carolina his production dropped. His 2 running backs and 2 receivers he depended on moved on. This hurt him without a doubt. To be fair, if Sam Howell turns into an all pro it will not be on Fitterer, but Fitterer and 31 other General Managers. It is still mighty early to come to any conclusions about the success of these young quarterbacks.

This years draft produced a starting quarterback and in all likelihood a starting lineman. Please give this group more than one game before throwing them under the bus.

Sam Howell was a fifth round draft pick. Every quarterback needy team passed on him several times. If Howell does turn into a quality quarterback several teams will be saying “what if….”