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My guess is that Ben Johnson and him aren't getting along but someone is leaking these trade rumors for sure

I agree, unless there is a young talent available that fits our timeline I would just hold steady at the trade deadline

I should also add the compensation we would get back would probably be abysmal

this is one of those madden trades that makes sense in a video game but not real life for starters Dowdle is on a one year deal second, if Dowdle gets injured then you have DeeJay Dallas and a rookie as your primary backs for the rest of the year third, Chuba is a leader in the locker room and a culture setter You can't complain about us having a bad culture then trade away one of the few guys who is respected and does all the right things Finally, we have found our formula for winning- run the ball well and stop the run. If you trade Chuba you inherently hurt your ability to do that.

When he takes Arvell Reese in round one next year and we have the next Micah Parsons on our hands he will cement himself as the best GM in panthers history

I wonder what Chicago would want for him I've seen a lot of rumors but nothing with a price tag associated

Is it fair to say that paying him scares me? On the one hand he has all the talent in the world, actually loves the Panthers/playing here and you definitely do not want to be in the LT desert. On the other hand he is still inconsistent and still has problems with speed rushers. I think the best plan is if you are planning on extending him do it now before the LT market takes another price hike

Scourton is the perfect edge two in this league and princely is a perfect edge 3. We need a true dominant pass rusher. If we get that, some help at LB and a FS this defense will be locked and loaded

draft arvell reese in april

Rico was incredible today Rookies are balling Defense is much improved Great team win I am still very concerned about the long-term future of this team with Bryce and Canales at the helm

Some of y'all owe Dan an apology this rookie class is killing it so are our FA this year

The other option is to be patient and wait and see if a good HC gets canned from his current team. No way Minnesota fires KOC but let's say they have ANOTHER bad season next year. Maybe we could trade for him. I doubt it but at this point I really want someone with a proven track record of success.

great write up OP but this confirms but my suspicions that there are a TON of names on that list that either don't excite me or straight up terrify me Of all the options listed. Flores, Minter and maybe maybe Morton get me excited we've tried the college HC, we've tried the retread HC, we've tried the upcoming offensive mind. All of these can work but we've simply picked three bad options What we haven't tried is a culture setting CEO type like Dan Campbell. I believe Brian Flores can be that. He will need a good staff around him on offense but at minimum guys will play hard for him. The best success we've had under tepper was with Wilks, it wasn't always pretty but guys played hard and we were competitive. The same can not be said for any other stretch under him

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I guarantee at minimum we would have a good locker room culture and the guys would want to battle for him I don't think Luke wants that though. reading the tea leaves on almost every interview he's done since retiring is that I think he likes being retired and dabbling in his hobbies and doing the Panthers radio. I don't blame him, I'd be doing the exact same as him

Cam Ward's draft. I'm not getting into another last year debate on the huddle the last one cost me minutes of my life

also TB got BETTER once he left lol

I feel like me and you would be friends IRL

When people are about to get fired, fingers start getting pointed both in the media and behind the scenes.

do yourself a favor and do not look at the DJ johnson trade, nor who we drafted him over

someone will be available that no one anticipates right now. Geno was available last year for example

yea as bad as we are I really don't think we will be worse than those three. Now that being said if the NYJ come to town and beat up on us and we drop one of the Saints games who knows

inb4 the leak from Joe Person "sources say behind the scenes Bryce was disengaged and often didn't participate in meetings, preferring to study on his own"

More than anything we need to become a serious football team again. I'm not saying we need to be contenders. But we need to be competing in nearly every game Right now we are the laughing stock and punching bag of the league

Been mulling over this for a few days bear hands so as always good post First is i think we need to move on from Canales. My inclination is to hire Brian Flores as HC and see if Mike McDaniel would be available as OC. Although I could see both saying no thank you to David tepper Second is trading Bryce for whatever you can get. Third id sign a veteran QB this off-season. Nothing more than a 2 year deal. Maybe Justin Fields, maybe the Raiders move on from Geno Fourth I either take the best defensive player with our round 1 or ideally trade down for future draft capital Five FA I would target LB, a veteran WR 2/3, and FS Six as a gesture of goodwill to the fans and players reinstall grass at bank of america (he won't do this this)