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Good price for him. People can’t complain much based on what we are paying him, he’s a below average starter for cheap and is fantastic depth. 

5 hours ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

This was an excellent production, well worth your time 

Excellent video! The birth of ICE Young

Article:

Bradley Chubb is available to sign with any team right now and the prospect of the Panthers pursuing him came up during General Manager Dan Morgan’s press conference at the Scouting Combine on Tuesday. 

Chubb was released by the Dolphins earlier this month, which means a team can add him to their pass rush options before free agency opens at the start of the new league year. The Panthers had 30 sacks during the 2025 season and Morgan said that he doesn’t think a team can ever have enough strong pass rushers in general before answering a question about specific interest in Chubb. 

Morgan said Chubb is “still playing at a really good level” and indicated the team is looking into the possibility of adding him to the defense.

“I don’t think anything is going to be off the table,” Morgan said, via the team’s website. “We’ll explore that, we’ll talk to his agent, but I wouldn’t say anything’s upcoming, but we’ll definitely stay on that, and we’ll see where that goes.”

Chubb missed all of 2024 with a torn ACL, but returned to record 8.5 sacks for the Dolphins last season. Derrick Brown and Nic Scourton tied for the Panthers’ lead by recording five sacks each during the 2025 campaign.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/panthers-gm-dan-morgan-well-explore-signing-bradley-chubb

12 hours ago, jfra78 said:

Pff says we should go after Leo Chenal, so thats probably what we do

 

Leo Chenal

• Best Landing Spot: Carolina Panthers
• PFF Free-Agent Ranking: 12

After playing a limited role as a situational run-stuffing and blitzing linebacker to start his career with the Chiefs, Chenal is ready to slot in full time elsewhere. He has posted a 70.0-plus PFF run-defense grade in each of his first four seasons. But it’s his improvements in coverage — headlined by a career-best 72.6 PFF grade in 2025 — that should make him an enticing option.  

The Panthers' linebacking corps failed to produce a single player with a PFF overall grade above 55.0 in 2025. Adding Chenal to headline the group as the new green-dot communicator would project well for a defense that ranked 23rd in EPA per play allowed this past season.

Sign them both!

I definitely wouldn’t overpay. He’s an okay fill in, in my opinion he looked better at RT when filling in than LT but if he is willing to come back at a fair deal you absolutely have to. I wouldn’t count on him anything other than depth, he has proven throughout his career he can’t be depended on to be a full time starter. The plus is that he already knows our system. 

2 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

Watching Luke go into the HOF despite a short playing career is a testament to how damn good he was when on the field!

 

how this team didn’t win a SB or even post back to back winning seasons despite having an MVP on offense and a MVP on defense will forever be a pain for me

It’s a pain that will never go away 

He got benched for THE……P.J. Walker 

I would like to have him back (he was solid) but by no means should we consider paying him larger money. We have too much tied up in the line already and need to draft someone 

36 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.

I respectfully disagree. Pro bowl player, A+ leader and locker room presence who sets the tone for the entire team, 1k rusher, 1k receiver, would be the perfect weapon for Bryce, we later spent a second round pick on a RB, and have spent big money on Chubba who was benched at one point this season, and none of the resources used still don’t come close to matching the production we got from CMC when he was with us. Sure he got injured (although some missed games were the coaching staff protecting him at the end of the season) but he was still young and you cannot replace a guy like him. This team would be a hell of a lot better with him, DJ and even Burns still on the team (we would kill for a double digit sack guy much less 16.5 and he’s #10 highest paid at his position currently 

The Raiders have completed a second interview with Panthers defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.

The team has complied with the Rooney Rule after interviewing Evero and former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, who appears headed to the Chargers as offensive coordinator. That allows the Raiders to hire a new coach at any time.

Evero has served as the Panthers’ defensive coordinator since 2023, first taking the job under former head coach Frank Reich. While Carolina finished at the bottom of the league defensively in 2024, Evero helped turn the unit around to finish No. 16 in yards and No. 15 in points allowed in 2025.

Evero has coordinated two top-10 defenses — first with what the Broncos in 2022 (No. 7 in yards allowed) and then with the Panthers in 2023 (No. 4 in yards allowed).

He has also worked for the 49ers, Packers and Rams.

The Raiders also have Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady, Broncos defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, 49ers offensive coordinator Klay Kubiak, Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak, Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur, Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy, Rams passing game coordinator Nate Scheelhaase, Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula and Broncos quarterbacks coach Davis Webb among their candidates.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/raiders-complete-second-interview-with-panthers-dc-ejiro-evero

22 minutes ago, strato said:

We have more important holes to fill than to be dropping pick 19 on a TE, I would be upset. 

If he's a game changer like Greg Olsen was for us it’s, a great idea. I'm with you though, I think the odds are much higher that we can get an impact LT, LB, or D-Line player that would fill a much larger hole than the three man rotation we have now in the TE room. 

36 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

He doesn't. He is also one of the extremely few effective pass rushers.

He’s okay….but that’s still a pretty high cap number. He only had 2.5 sacks, and  was 35th in hurries. He’s good at batted passes at 3 which is 13th best but all his stats were basically down year over year. He’s still good at run defense, and I honestly think he’s a good locker room presence, and would be happy with a 1 year extension at a lower salary to level it out. I also would not be surprised if they decide they could use that 9.5 million to upgrade another position group, or use that money to help get a higher profile FA like a top tier LB, OLB, DE, or speed WR

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

He also left for an offensive HC and won there. Not sure if you have paid attention but he didn't exactly have the best Bill Belichick relationship on the way out. Also, this.....

 

Belichick & Brady together: 219-64(0.774)

Belichick without Brady: 83-101(0.451)

Brady without Belichick: 32-18(0.640)

 

Seeing a bit of a pattern?

Yes…..that they had the best results together. Also Brady went to Tampa due to the makeup of the team, not because he wanted an offensive head coach. Hell he basically was the coordinator in Tampa. 

1 minute ago, strato said:

It makes better sense to go offense with a new QB. To me. 
But I wouldn’t mind the distraction of a DC search for some entertainment. 

I agree but if you get a proven coordinator like Brian Daboll (or someone similar as an example) to pair with the #1 pick, suddenly it does not look so bad, especially if they see Evero as someone young who they will be patient with to be the long term guy who builds a program. 

Everyone saying Tom wouldn’t pick a defensive head coach but he played for one and won many super bowls with that formula 

3 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

After the Rams offer was published, we were screwed permanently. It was either pay him an exorbitant price or trade him for nickels. All remaining leverage was completely gone. The return on the draft picks is a larger issue with completely incompetent front office personnel. What can you say that hasn't already been said on that front? It just is what it is.

I will again state he would likely have been very, very underperforming here. This should be obvious when you look at his pressures and sacks which were at career lows for seasons which he started more than 4 games. He isn't the only pass rusher that can immediately show dips in pass rush production when they are playing in Evero's scheme. Clowney, Wonnum, etc.

I gotta be honest, it's going to be hard to find a double digit sack guy in an Evero defense. In his 4 years in the NFL he has only ever had one player break 6.5 sacks for a season and it was Burns at 8.0. 

 

I agree we were screwed when we didn’t take the trade but at that point we should have kept him and signed him to a long term deal. We can only pray to have someone with the production he has this past season and he’s only 27. If he played well after that, we could have traded him later if we really wanted to for more picks rather than nickels. I know the money at the time seemed like allot but he’s only #10 highest paid right now and we have spent more than that trying to get a sliver of that production on people like DJ Wonnun, Wharton, Patrick Jones etc. and are still searching for answers. It’s similar to the CMC trade, we did nothing with the picks, and people complained about what he made, yet we paid Chubba, benched him at one point, spend a 2nd round pick on another RB, and still to this day we would kill to get his production back, much less mentioning his skills as a WR. 

46 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

You should absolutely trade any home grown, pro bowl talent for 2 firsts and a second.

Everything after that disastrous mistake was inevitability.

Also extremely glad not to be paying Brian Burns. He would not be producing in this defense and we would all be furious about it.

I meant for what we did. We got almost no return for those draft picks and I disagree with you. He’s the 10th highest paid edge rusher in the league right now and was #2 in sacks. We paid his salary with players who have had almost no impact (see Tershawn Wharton and Patrick Jones). Burns is 27 and yeah….we absolutely could have used a player who got 16.5 sacks. At this point I’d take any player who could sniff double digit sacks 

Yeah we should never trade home grown pro bowl talent no matter what people on this board say. Burns and the CMC trade both turned out to be bad for us and I would take both on the team right now in a heartbeat. You can’t tell me we don’t miss someone who can get double digit sacks.

Yeah he would be perfect, that would be an amazing pickup and would fit perfect in the role we need. With that being said I highly doubt he hits free agency. 

11 minutes ago, Tbe said:

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

 

Like I said before…a return mid season is possible if his quad strength is at a level they are happy with. 8-12 months is the expected return time. Let’s all pray that’s the case and that his age is a factor in the healing process being expedited. Someone in a skill position would be much more impacted so I hope the young man can make a full recovery. 

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

We know.

Lol suck an egg dude. You are the ultimate troll. Tell me one thing that I said, that you disagree with….also…..sources:

https://www.sanfordhealth.org/-/media/org/files/medical-professionals/resources-and-education/5-patellar-tendon-repair-rehabilitation-guideline.pdf

https://www.resilienceorthopedics.com/knee/patellar-tendon-surgery-recovery/

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21573-patellar-tendon-tear

https://www.sanfordhealth.org/-/media/org/files/medical-professionals/resources-and-education/5-patellar-tendon-repair-rehabilitation-guideline.pdf

I know this is a message board but there is a lot of misinformation about the injury as well as outdated or misleading statistics posted. I know some of you will blow a gasket if I tell you to ChatGPT it but you really should look into it. As long as he can rebuild his quad strength there is a chance he can come back and play by mid season. Holding him out the entire year is not necessary after the surgery as long as his quad strength rehab goes well. Controlled football stress actually helps tendon remodeling, much less his overall confidence. He will be at 8 months post op come week 1, and will be on PUP with a likely return mid season. 

3 minutes ago, Tbe said:

The odds of him returning in any form that resembles a starting OL are slim.

Expecting him to return would be beyond stupid. By the time he recovers, he’ll be a free agent and will need some type of contract to play. I wouldn’t pay for that.

We need a LT for the future. Icky is gone.

Lol wut? It’s a very serious injury but he’s 25 and can absolutely come back from this. You don’t give up on home grown talent….franchise left tackles don’t grow on trees. You don’t remember the absolute disaster that position has been other than J gross? He will likely make his way back in the middle of the season.