45catfan

I just got home from watching practice. Robby's one-handed grab was the highlight of an otherwise short and uneventful practice. It's hard to glean too much since they stay on the far field almost exclusively.

Of the UDFA's, only Brown and Fisher are left, correct? I think your crystal ball needs a tune up.

Larkin getting cut too with an injury settlement is a bit surprising. This is why we should have used one of those 11 draft picks on a DE. Linebacker a DE were two missed opportunities from the draft. To that point, look at the spots we keep churning.

I'm usually a fan of the small-school guys, but being an undrafted small-school guy, he had a major uphill battle to land a roster spot. I thought he'd at least make the practice squad.

They decided they didn't need him any Moore.

To be cut from our OL is pretty bad. His small-school game probably didn't translate to the NFL.

So when preseason is over, does that officially put a lid on this stupid Watson talk? He's NOT a Panther and, in-season, this forum is dedicated solely to the Panthers. At this point, it's PURELY click bait until we get to the regular season...I get it. Hopefully the mods will end this non-sense in a few weeks. Currently Watson threads are worse than a re-occurring rash.

So does anyone still think Hurney made the picks in the 2020 draft? Over a decade of pure crap drafting, outside of the first round, and then arguably the best draft in team history in 2020. Different draft class, but I was very much against drafting Greg little. Moving up was just insult to injury. Hurney 2.0 though!

I go back years wanting us to upgrade the TE position, ever since Olsen's FIRST foot injury. This year wasn't the deepest or most top heavy draft for TEs, but at least we got one. I was heavily on the Dallas Goedert bandwagon. What was that, like 4 years ago?

Called for this cut once we signed Arnold to a nice deal and drafted Tremble on day 2. Thomas is overpaid for a backup TE. Footnote: I also said he wouldn't amount to much either.

That was Horn's main red "flag" in his scouting report...WAAAAY too handsy. Agreed, he needs to get that figured out quickly.

I wanted us to spend a day 3 pick on LB in the draft. It would have been better than, say, a LS and a 3rd string DT, right? We were thin there last year and even with a couple of FA signings, it still isn't very deep. If we have a couple of injuries there, Chinn may be moving back to LB full time.

I looked it up; it was Grant back in rookie season in 2000. They thought he would never play another down in football. Luckily he made it a back and had a decent career playing for several different teams. Yeah, training camp injuries suck and we are due for one or more every camp; one of which is usually a starter. KK was last year. Ryan had a pretty clean injury history until then and was never the same afterwards.

Eh, there were a few people that wanted Vick after he served his suspension for dog fighting too. People do deserve second chances in certain circumstances, but let some other organization take that risk. I mean we will always have the Rae Carruth stigma associated with us. After the Greg Hardy and Jerry, you would think the organization would steer clear of anyone associated with sexual maleficence. Yes, that would even include franchise QBs.

Regardless of what people thought of Jerry Richardson and his relative effectiveness as the owner of this organization, I remember some folks here were ready to march down Mint street to BOA with pitchforks and torches to yank his but out of his plush office at BOA for the casual Fridays fiasco--aka "jeans Friday". These same folks are either mum on Watson now or in some twisted way in favor for trading for him once his suspension is served. Jerry couldn't play QB at a high level though... Point being, wrong is wrong and twisting logic into a pretzel trying to justify Watson here after throwing the founder of this organization to the gators as chum bait for similar, but WAAAAAAAAY less serious offenses is beyond mind-numbing.

Yep and remember at least one of the women isn't just accusing him of a rub and tug, but actual sex that she says was NOT consensual, but she was too scared/intimidated to stop it. That's rape, period. Sure, let's make him the face of our franchise after the League smacks him on the hand.

I was there the day a safety broke his hip bone in TC. You could literally hear it snap. The screaming was heart-wrenching. It was Charles Godfrey or Dion Grant, I can't remember...

Lol at the final rank. I'm sure Igo will catch some flack for that one.

Here's to a camp with no serious injuries, all work and no drama. I am going to try to make it to Sparkle City on Monday. Last year broke my streak of attending training camp going back almost 20 years.

Now I rooting for Darnold double-fold. Obviously I want the team to succeed, but I really don't want to be part of a organization that preaches equality, zero tolerance for sexual harassment and then goes out and hires the poster-child for such offenses. Hypocrisy is only one of the many words that come to mind.

We beat the Watson-led Texans in Houston the last time we played them and that was when their team was actually good.

Nope. I didn't want him before the mess because of the ridiculous asking price and now he's damaged goods. It's funny how people can have different takes on the exact same subject matter when it comes to hot button topics depending on who the person in question is.

The last couple of times we brought in a QB from elsewhere to either be the #1 or compete for the #1 QB slot we got Jake Delhomme and Steve Beuerlein. We tend to acquire veteran QBs better than we draft them. Cam (and perhaps Collins) being the exception, but missing on the #1 overall pick would have been pretty atrocious. For that reason...and the Jets factor, I'm fairly optimistic about Darnold.

He is still dancing of course....

Is there cohesion between Darnold and the top 3 WRs? LT, LG competition and is Moton is lining up at LT or RT. Are we using a true FB? Who is getting the bulk of the reps opposite of Burns? Who is getting most of the snaps next to Brown. Is Perryman getting the defensive calls or is Shaq? How are they doing getting the defense set? Is Chinn playing more in the box or truly playing the back end? How is our first rounder looking? Where is Pride Jr. fitting in? Outside depth or nickel? Are we really cutting Jansen or does the rookie LS need some grooming? How does Joey Slye look?