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If the Turk does come for him and this is the reason why, I can understand Smith's hesitation to do so but it would be great to lay out the seeming hypocrisy in that manner.

While not inaccurate, I'm sure it would go over like a lead balloon.

As has been said many times before, this is Tepper's own doing since he made himself so visible early on and frequently spoke about team matter, e.g. the QB situation. His current silence is in stark contrast to when he acted like he was getting one over on the rest of the league and is reasonably perceived now as hiding.

I don't mean to sound shallow but H. Jon Benjamin's, er, Fitt's jawline is even less visible than before. Dude sounds like he knows what he's talking about but it's fascinating.

Which top 10 QB will be coming to Carolina?

Guy's a weapon for sure, but I've always seen him as a bit limited in his route tree and feasting off of his speed and the deep ball. Tua and Teddy aren't the guys to make that happen.

Why? You aren't winning anything with a QB like that, and guys like Trubisky, Minshew, Winston, etc don't cost 15% of the cap. Also, the 6th pick contract is worth 30 of so million so it's more than 3%. The gap is not as large as you make it out to be.

I don't see a middling QB on a rookie QB as an asset - they're still a middling QB and draft capital has been wasted. Plenty of current QBs are middling, so get one of them and put the draft capital to better use.

Foreman is a Mike Davis-level signing who has never factored into a passing game and is most definitely not a full-time starting option. He will not he replacing CMC on the roster, and if CMC were to be moved Carolina would be stuck without a receiving back on the current roster. Other than that, reasonable assessment IMO.

For better or for worse, apparently.

I live in KC and watched him a fair bit. He played a Sam type of position and wasn't great. It helped that Anthony Hitchens made him look better by being so bad.

I'm not meaning to dog the signings themselves here since this looks like an actual NFL-caliber FA strategy vs what we saw last year, but I wonder how/if they plan on addressing improved run defense in the front 7. Neither Ioannidis nor Wilson were/are particularly strong in that regard.

That one was one of the best.

Sure, he said that, but if he had it written into his contract and was a deal-breaker elsewhere then you think he didn't exercise that power? None of us outside that inner circle can know for sure but there sure seems to be an actual NFL-level personnel strategy being executed instead of throwing money Day 1 at 'versatile' guys like Erving and Elflein. Fitterer's tone at the end of the season and so far in the off-season seems to hint at differences as well, e.g. his barb about arm length in contradiction to Rhule's point about it.

Chinn at safety is such a waste.

Meh. Still a fairly decent player but after watching him whine and moan on and off the field in KC, he comes off as a baby. His kid plays in our local baseball and basketball leagues so, so there's that.

I don't see Cleveland trading Mayfield at this point unless he's truly going to refuse to play. They're still a competitive team, though the AFC is even more stacked now, and there's no need to blow it up for a rookie QB and go back into that purgatory. They screwed the pooch with how they've handled some things but if they can still salvage it, they should. That said, I'd take Mayfield for that deal, but the wild card is just how much Rhule will suck this year. Would be bad to give away a Cam-esque pick a la Hurney's attempted trade up for Clausen back in the day.

I see no reason to sign both, and potentially not even either one of them at this point if the prices remain high. Let them go elsewhere, play Horn, Henderson, Taylor, et al, and see if comp picks don't shake out.

Carolina could easily be 2-0 and have a pair of Lombardis.

For Davante, going from Rodgers to Carr is gonna be a big change.

Meh, Tyrod is an even more vanilla Teddy. He would be a better option that selling the farm for whatever flavor of the week pops up once Watson goes somewhere else though.

That would be a very nonsensical move outside f Rhule trying to save his rear. Unfortunately, that's probably also exactly why it would happen.

The team also had a brand new head coach and fresh blood throughout. Somehow, not the case this year.

If there's one area that Carolina needs to invest in, it's mediocre and/or underperforming WRs.