BrianS

The guy is a one year rental to remove all excuses and copium from the BY situation. No way he stays after this year. I'm a lot more interested in who we draft.

Trading back when you can instead take what is potentially a couple first round talents who slid because of how the board fell is nuts. We need more starters. They don't have to be stars, just good solid NFL starters. Mike Rucker, Mike Minter, Deshaun Foster, Taylor Moton. We need a couple of those type with our two second rounders this year. It would go a long, long way toward setting us back on track.

You don't trade down for straight value when you need players like we do. You trade down if someone makes a SILLY offer. Give me 52, 99 and a second next year and we can talk.

I can't understand a trade down at all. Picks 33 and 39 should, on most teams, be starting quality players. We can use those. Once you get to the third round, you don't find as many starters.

Next year you can cut him with the June designation and save $17 million, with 12 million dead. Or you can work out an extension. But this year, let it ride.

Arm talent is easy to see and understand. It's one of the easiest parts of a QB evaluation. Not sure how anyone looked at Bryce and thought he had high end arm talent.

It's all just guesswork, but honestly I do hope this plays out. It will eliminate all doubt as to where the problems are with our offense.

Honestly, it's all speculation until September. I take everything our organization says with an entire shaker of salt. I will continue to hope for our success, but I won't get excited about it until we actually see it on the field.

He needs a nickname, maybe that will help. Never forget: "Philly catches the ball. Corey is a nice young man."

Mediocrity. It seems so attractive now that we've had Tepper for a few years.

To me what's even more frustrating is all picks that were traded away. Just in the drafts he oversaw, the guy traded away 12 picks. We're still suffering for this year and next with picks he traded away. Is it too much to ask that our GM just, you know, draft some guys? Oh, and with the exception of Bryce, the guys we traded for are no longer on the team. Is it any wonder we have a talent deficit on the team?

This sounds a lot more like what probably happened.

I think the original premise is flawed. I think a stronger correlation can probably be drawn between drafting and success. How many of your draft picks make the team? How many of them contribute meaningful snaps to the team? Seven successful picks per draft and you can turn over half your roster for free in four years. Hopefully you follow up by retaining the ones who want to be there and let the guys looking for bank walk. The premise is easy and obvious, but executing it seems like what separates the good teams from the bad.

MC's physical tools were never in question. It was all down to him putting it together above the shoulders, and while with us, he didn't. Wish him nothing but the best, his situation while with us was far from ideal.

I think Canales is being over optimistic if he thinks any vet worth having is going to want to come CAROLINA to be the THIRD guy in the room.

It's revisionist history that's say Bryce Young was the "consensus" number one. He was absolutely not. People were split between the two. I do think that there was a lot of media hype for Bryce, but league sources were very guarded.

That catch may be better than the OBJ catch. Serious.

Somewhere, Billy Beane is smiling.

Hope it works, but he was unhappy with a QB who couldn't get the ball downfield . . . and we don't exactly have an Elway / Farve / Stroud arm as our starting QB. We shall see.

The actual separation stats, no cherry picking.

That seems . . . unwise of him. He was never very good in space, but man he was great in the box. Oh well, not our problem any more. I liked the guy, seemed like a good kid.

Last couple years he's been a tackling machine in Denver.

It's a shame we kept trying to make him a position-less player instead of telling him his rookie year "Hey man, we need you to put on weight and play LB".

Been trying to say this for months now. Our defense was among the worst in the league last year in the one stat that actually matters: scoring. Know what we were dead last at? Taking the ball away. We had 11 all year. Sure, we had big injuries on that side. Yes, it was Evero's first year here. I accept all that and am willing to watch and see how we do this year. But bottom line, our defense was not good last year. We are simply the victims of a narrative people want to run with that it was good.

This is where your thinking goes off the rails. Evero didn't have a choice. He was under contract. Each coach has a contract with the team. Unless the team releases him from that contract, he can't go anywhere except to a higher job. For Evero, that meant getting a head coaching gig. The Panthers were the ones who made the choice to keep Evero. Not the other way around.