45catfan

Yup, He had a close up view of Williams and said, " I can work with this kid." Not to mention the rest of the roster has some good parts. Kind of like Harbaugh fell into a ideal situation with the Chargers. Not often a HC opportunity opens up with a borderline playoff team and a young, established QB with talent.

They have a cap debt to deal with. Tanking won't be hard to mask in the name of getting their financial house in order. They are 30th next year in cap room and a dumpster fire. If they want to get that under control, FA is an afterthought. Why do you think their QB room looks like it does now? No desire to upgrade.

TE is never a priority in the Tepper era. 3rd, 4th, 5th rounders along with some street FAs. You get mediocre play from mediocre picks.

The Saints will tank a season or two, if needed, for Arch. Apparently they want to bring back a Manning really bad.

Remember this is one of three teams that were all-in on Deshaun Watson. The Falcons bailed because the money got to high. Tepper bailed because the contract had to be guaranteed in full. Only the Browns were dumb enough to agree to that. Had the Browns bailed, Watson would be a Panther. Don't underestimate this team on shying away from absurdly laughable deals.

All bids start high. It will most likely be a 2nd and a player, maybe as low as a 3rd as part of a bigger package.

Yeah, he told Tepper to go F himself. He didn't want any part of this organization.

The League has good tape on the second half of Bryce's season last year. I think defenses will adjust.

Why would he do that? He can hold the clipboard with his good arm and keep the money.

Point being we were a player or two away in 2015 and that ended up in a SB run. That staff knew it. This staff is throwing mud at the wall to see if anything sticks just to save face. Another crappy season and things could get really ugly in the front office, potentially with the coaching staff as well. Besting last year's win total by a game or two isn't going to cut it. No amount of spin can gloss over another losing season.

When we got Jared Allen--an elite pass rusher on the wrong side of 30, it made sense. This makes no sense.

We are nowhere close to competing for a deep post season run. If we make this move, it's about someone in the front office or staff trying to save their job.

LOl, I looked at their roster and taking one of our better players would be a downgrade for the Bengals.

The Panthers front office has to poach talent elsewhere because they certainly can't draft and develop players here.

Where do they need help? Moreover, do we have any players they would actually want?

Traits, flashes and "untapped" potential>>>>>>than actual production in Tepper's scouting department. Until this changes, we will remain in a purgatory of suck.

The overreaction was from anyone thinking this year's Panthers were gong to be anything marked better than previous squads under Tepper.

Most of us wanted McConkey. Turns out most of us were right (again). He was still available and we could have drafted him right in front of the Chargers at #33 had Dan not panicked.

XL's first four years in college before his break out 5th year season. I would have taken him in the second round,, but trading into the first to take him looks to be a dumb move at this point. Nearly 500 of his 1200 yards in his final year came versus Vanderbilt, Furman and Jacksonville State. Breaking it down even further, in those games he had one or more splash plays for HUGE yardage. Point being, he's flash over substance and in the NFL he's not running away from DBs regularly for these massive break away plays.

This is why you stay away from drafting 1-year wonders in the first round.

Mays is on a 1-year deal. If we keep him as backup and re-sign him as a backup on a multi-year deal, then happens to win the starting spot...I consider that a win for the front office. That still doesn't preclude us from drafting a C/G type in the draft. The only starting caliber players on the OL we have under contract for longer than 2-years are Lewis and Hunt. The '26 OL will look closer to revamped than what it does today.

Yeah, we have to start drafting O-line as these FA guys we have acquired contract's start getting absurd. We have the most expensive OL in the League and until we start leveraging that money to other spots like LB and DBs, we are going to stay deficient in those areas and hope to hide the flaws by scheme. That's with the franchise LT still on his rookie contract. I think Moton is done as a Panther. A RT can't be your most expensive OL piece unless you have a left handed QB. Bryce better enjoy this season, because he definitely will not be getting back his entire OL completely intact again in '26.

Hey, at least we are ahead of the Saints who are all in on tank for Arch. If we don't sweep the Saints this year, it will be the ultimate humiliation...losing to a team in full tank mode.

Just groom Mays for Corbett's eventual departure. Remember, Corbett wasn't even a center until we made him one. Mays, while not a true center, at least played some there in college. Better yet, draft one in the spring. Dumping a ton of money into center is money not well spent. I liken it to paying top dollar for a punter. Are both positions important? Yes, but there are many other positions of greater importance.