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Random drunk thought here but how would you feel if the following scenario played out….. ***We win the next two games and win the NFC South. Home playoff game*** What direction would you take if you were make believe Gm this upcoming offseason?? Here is mine: -Steve Wilks is signed as our next head coach -We sign an exciting name as OC and have Macadoo back in another role with the team (our offense has been much improved lately) -We re sign Darnold to a one year deal (he has has a 104.3 rating currently) and give him an opportunity to COMPETE for a starting role or be our top tier backup QB. We go into the season with Darnold, Corrall, AND rookie QB as our depth chart. -We re sign Bozeman to a 4 year deal, Foreman to a 1 year deal -Extend Burns (which will also help cap next season) -We sign a top tier TE (such as Schultz, Ertz, Gesicki) -We use our draft picks in round one, two, two, three, four, four, five on BEST PLAYER AVAILABLE that could be any position of need Off-season decisions/needs -Add one year to Shaq Thompsons contract to decrease his cap hit or cut him? If you keep him you are set at LB, if you cut him you have to sign a FA or draft LB high -DE to start opposite Burns must be a draft pick. If we re sign Burns we will have good money tied up in the position. We have good depth with gross Matos and Haynes but both are depth only. We don’t have the money to sign a good player in FA so you need to draft one using a 1st or 2nd round pick depending on how the draft falls. -Is Marshall our WR 2 for next season? -QB? Do you draft one in round one? If not do you take another shot with one of our two second round picks.

ARTICLE: When the Panthers named Steve Wilks their interim head coach in the wake of Matt Rhule’s firing early this season, team owner David Tepper said that Wilks could hold onto the job on a permanent basis if he does an “incredible job.” Tepper didn’t specify what would qualify as an incredible job, but going from 1-4 to NFC South champs would make for a pretty good case. The Panthers can do that with wins in the final two weeks of the regular season, but defensive tackle Derrick Brown said on NFL Network that Wilks has already convinced the locker room that he’s the right man for the job. “I’ll speak for everybody in that locker room and say that we want coach Wilks to be our next head coach,” Brown said. “That’s for sure. I think every single week when we come in, he’s gonna tell you exactly how it is. He doesn’t sugarcoat nothing. He keeps it plain Jane, per se. He lets you know exactly what’s going on. You can be one of the best players, but you walk into that building on Monday and he’ll tell you exactly how he felt about how you played. That level of clarity — that’s exactly what we want.” Tepper has given no indication about his thoughts regarding Wilks’ chances of retaining the job into next season, but they should be pretty good if the players’ belief in their coach translates to a couple more wins. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/12/28/derrick-brown-we-want-steve-wilks-to-be-our-head-coach/

We are signing him because he is our best opinion at CB who is a vet and familiar with the system. We have a must win game coming up this week and we very well could face the cowboys at home if we win the division. Not many guys we can pull of the street and expect to play in 5 days

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The proof is in the pudding. Boom no ban. If you are suspended we all riot

Lol Marshall was about to be cut or ride the bench all year under Rhule. Same with Bozeman.

1 year - 3 million projection from Spotrac

You know he made an impact on the team when his teammate was crying just hearing the news. It was awesome

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We cut the guy after this season and we save 4.75 million. Roll that money over to the beast Bozeman and call it a day

3 year - 36 million dollar deal according to projections from Spotrac. Yes he needs to be priority one to re sign in my humble yet correct opinion. I don’t care if his PFF score is a 20 or 100, I know that this man passes the eye test, performs well, is a fantastic teammate/leader, and is a throw back to the big nasty hog mollies of the past. Our line is a great mixture of young and vet, and by signing him we can solidify this line for years to come. Please think back to last year and how our like made you feel compared to this year. The man didn’t have an opportunity to work most of the preseason and was benched as a backup by Rhule yet he immediately came in and was the difference maker we all expected when he got a chance. Him and his wife have already planted roots in the Carolina’s and he turned down more money to be here this off-season. This is the type of player you reward, he’s 28 and can get a nice 3 year deal to lock in our line and build with a rookie QB or Jimmy G/Carr/Bobby Boucher.

SIGN BOZEMAN

I don’t know if he would get a huge deal, but It will be interesting to see. I would love to have him back as he has been a bright spot, but it’s not a good idea to spend a lot on that position.

What say ye fellow Huddle make believe GM’s? Say another team offers Foreman a long term deal this offseason… Do you match a long term deal (say 3 years) for good money, or do you let him walk? I say Bozeman is priority 1 to re sign, then you have to decide if it’s worth spending money on Foreman. When Darin Gantt was ask if we will re sign Foreman, this was his response: “Foreman was genuinely wondering if he was ready to retire and get on with his life's work at a certain point, as injuries kept him from ever establishing himself his first three seasons. But in the last two seasons, he's shown that if you need to replace an All-Pro running back in midseason, he's your guy. The job he did last year replacing Henry in Tennessee, followed by his jumping in and becoming a bell-cow back after the McCaffrey trade this year, has been impressive. He's a free agent this offseason, one of the few non-quarterback free agents the Panthers have. He's earned the right to see what the market bears for him, but I could see keeping him around if the price is right. He's a physical back, and I think because of the beatings he administers (and receives), you'd probably be wise to keep him in tandem with another back or two (like Chuba Hubbard and Raheem Blackshear). He's a big Newton's second law of motion guy (Isaac, not Cam). If force equals mass times acceleration, having 235 pounds of faster-than-he-looks Foreman behind a literal ton of offensive linemen (when they go with seven or eight on the field at a time) sounds like quite a problem for other people to solve.” https://www.panthers.com/news/ask-the-old-guy-hope-for-the-holidays

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https://instagram.com/stories/brianburns99/2991293343027539892?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://instagram.com/stories/brianburns99/2991293471381720785?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= He was in great position and came around to get in front of Geno and prob would have had the sack on his own if they weren’t chasing from behind. I don’t know why we go out of the way to hate on Burns when he is the best player on our defense other than Brown. He is just 24 years old and already a captain/leader of the team, and is putting up pro bowl stats.

I can almost promise you if he were to be interviewed and ask about our turnaround he would stick with his original story that he played a huge part in developing and building our team and that he wasn’t given enough time to see the turnaround. He will never realize that his coaching style was the problem and that he could never get an NFL to rally around him like they are with Wilks.

All of those things you listed are things needed to have a “perfect team” on paper. You do not need every single piece to be compete….he’ll we are competing right now even though we have had a disaster season by all respects. We control our own destiny December and that is with a revolving door at QB, a temp head coach, half a coaching staff, trading away our best player, etc. I realize QB’s don’t grow on trees, but my point is that we only need mid range QB production in order to be a caliber playoff team. Absolutely no way we need anywhere close to 5 years to become a playoff caliber team.

Darnold is still bad (as the game went on he always looks worse and worse) but all others parts of the team held up and showed out. No question Wilks is doing an incredible job with not only the coaches that he has had to make his own (even after many have left) but also the players he inherited/ones that were traded away. He is winning despite having one of the worst QB rooms in the league. Props to him, he has me actually interested in watching Panthers football again. I did not care under Rhule, as it was some of the most boring, uninspired football that I have seen in our history.

Lol we are a coach and QB away from competing my dude. No way it takes 5 seasons to build a team. In 3 years he will only be 27

Case killing them. Feet never stops

Yeah I know it’s a long shot but still excited about his play. It has dipped over the last two weeks but he has been injured I believe so idk if it’s the rookie wall or the injury but he is still already one of the best we have had at LT and it’s not even the end of his rookie year