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That one is on my radar too, but if it didn't happen today, it's probably not going to happen.
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With Panthers cleaning house how safe is Bryce
45catfan replied to Frank9999's topic in Carolina Panthers
A legit one? Not at all. The rouse this camp gave that away. Bryce took a couple days of first team reps and managed to replace Dalton as QB1? Lol, right! -
One less opening. We may just be looking at the current 5 vacancies. If so, that's fewer that most years. I would still keep an eye on Belichick. There's not an urgency to move for Kraft even if that's in the cards.
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Breaking, Ian Rapoport: Fitterer Fired
45catfan replied to NJPanthers12's topic in Carolina Panthers
You don't understand how this works and it shows. NO TEAM has a full roster signed next year at this point, or the year after or the year after that. Yes, we have dead money on the books, but so DOES EVERY OTHER TEAM. The 2024 roster is what it is at the top and again, other teams have under-performing players on the books too. Let me spell this out to you, good teams are generally cap poor because they have top players to pay. Should be we higher? Somewhat, but just because we are a 2 win team doesn't mean we should have the top cap space either. it's not a direct correlation. -
Breaking, Ian Rapoport: Fitterer Fired
45catfan replied to NJPanthers12's topic in Carolina Panthers
That's on the GM mainly. The GM acquires the players and the cap guy has to make the numbers work. The next 3 years, in order, we are 13th, 8th and 1st in cap room as it stands today. Not bad at all. Obviously you don't remember the Hurney days when we were always at the bottom in cap space with crazy generous contracts. -
Breaking, Ian Rapoport: Fitterer Fired
45catfan replied to NJPanthers12's topic in Carolina Panthers
Suleiman is our cap guy, correct? Our cap space is the one of the ONLY bright spots on this team. -
That's a ++++ for me now. I bought into the young phenom hype at QB in the past and got burned multiple times. I'm over it. There is nothing really all that special about Brock Purdy other one thing, wisdom through reps in games. There is one thing that prepares a college QB for the NFL more than any other and that is game experience. No amount of reps in training camp can duplicate/simulate that for a rookie QB.
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I agree, I just don't have to like it. Now if McCarthy is the best one left, I'm not saying take a QB for the sake of taking one and we should pass. If Penix Junior or Nix is there at #33, we'd be dumb not to take a swing. It's a talented/deep draft and if Williams and Maye weren't in it, both of them would be top 10 picks.
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Hey, I can hope for a QB at #33, considering the right one is there. Nix is becoming my favorite there now. Penix Junior will be gone, especially if he has a monster game tonight.
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I'm wanting to see more of the QBs. I have my thoughts on both. McCarthy to me is a system guy who needs a ton of support. In other words, he would SUCK here.
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Not really, we've taken 3 top QBs and only 7 in other rounds. That's including '10 with a rare (only) double dip. Truth be told, even though Clausen was a second rounder, we took him with the intent of him becoming the franchise QB and the reason we took Pike later in the draft to develop as his backup. So six drafts with swings on developmental QBs in 28 years?
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This is why you take swings on QBs after round one. At worst they never develop. At best you find a franchise QB. Then you have the possibilities in between which is a cheap serviceable starter or a decent backup. The point being, we don't take enough swings on QBs in the draft unless we are a top pick to ever develop depth.
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With Panthers cleaning house how safe is Bryce
45catfan replied to Frank9999's topic in Carolina Panthers
And that is all that matters. -
Breaking, Ian Rapoport: Fitterer Fired
45catfan replied to NJPanthers12's topic in Carolina Panthers
Hard to tell With all the DEI going on. If this were ten years ago you would have said she rose through the ranks on merit alone. I'm sure that would be the narrative now, but exactly how accurate would that be? -
Breaking, Ian Rapoport: Fitterer Fired
45catfan replied to NJPanthers12's topic in Carolina Panthers
That sealed it for me as well. Until then, I was still on the fence with Scott, albeit on the other side hanging on by one arm. Throwing Frank under the bus was the final straw. At that point, I knew he was in 100% arse saving mode and would say/do anything to keep his job. Once in survival mode like that, you are functionally inept in your job capacity because everything is viewed through the lens of "will this save my job?" -
Dan Morgan should be seriously considered for GM
45catfan replied to NAS's topic in Carolina Panthers
I run ideas past my boss all the time, it doesn't mean he uses any of them. It may be sad, but a billionaire and lackey can be stubborn. -
I think Kraft is listening to trade offers before pulling the plug on Bill. Almost a quarter century for a HC in one job is mind boggling in today's NFL. They haven't been much without Brady and Kraft know this...now. He needed some time to figure out if it was Brady or Bill behind the success and it was mostly Brady.
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who played their last game for the panthers today?
45catfan replied to Sean Payton's Vicodin's topic in Carolina Panthers
David Carr would sign off on this statement. -
Dan Morgan should be seriously considered for GM
45catfan replied to NAS's topic in Carolina Panthers
I think Frank bent to the pressure in the building. I think he knew where other people were at even though they 'supposedly' didn't know each other's pick. That's the reason both Frank AND Josh got fired because neither were firmly in Young's camp. I think it was well established that McCown was smitten with Stroud during the pre-draft process. -
is there a worse destination than Carolina for a GM or HC?
45catfan replied to rayzor's topic in Carolina Panthers
The Jets ans Browns always managed to find another victim, uh, head coach. If the buyout is big enough, even a good candidate will want to take a swing. -
who played their last game for the panthers today?
45catfan replied to Sean Payton's Vicodin's topic in Carolina Panthers
Yes, it was a slippy slope. Fallacy #1: We were only a QB away. True, the defense was in good shape and would need some time to adjust to the 3-4, but the offense was not nearly as complete as Scott had thought. Fallacy #2: Thinking Bryce was mentally ready to start day 1. No rookie QB is. The best you can hope for is to insert him into a complimentary system with nice weapons at his disposal and let him grow while taking his lumps. Fallacy#3: Our offensive weapons were 'good enough.' Scott honestly thought that what he brought in this offseason was good enough to support a rookie QB.