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On 1/22/2025 at 8:10 AM, AU-panther said:

I hope we don't pass on a great player because of the "fit" of a coach and system that might not be here in the future.

 

Even if we go back to a 4-3 Graham could play tackle or end

7 hours ago, NAS said:

Yes wait until the next bad game or less than stellar performance, they’ll come out of the woodwork 

The line didn't help him out in the 2nd half either.

6 hours ago, Jmac said:

Mason and Abdul may very well be gone by 8. Would you pull the trigger on Williams if both are gone?

• Nic Scourton would be a better fit if we stay in a 34 defense. If we go back to a 43 he can play the opposite side of Brown

On 1/6/2025 at 9:09 PM, tukafan21 said:

Maybe, but they were always going to be an impossible team to accurately mocked right now.

They have an absurd amount of cap room, what they need right now will not be what they need come draft day.  They can make multiple big splash signings and even make trades for players who need new contracts and their teams don't want to give it to them.

OT and WR might be their two biggest needs right now, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to think they could go into the draft needing neither of them.  I think a LT will be their top FA priority, also think they're going to make a big offer to Higgins, and I could see them being a team in the running to trade for someone like DK Metcalf as they need a WR like him and they have the cap space to give him a big new contract.

I know that Metcalf wasn't too happy with the way they were playing him this year. Going to NE wouldn't be too far fetched.

18 hours ago, MHS831 said:

All of our edges should be former Gamecocks or Nittany Lions.  Seriously, we'd have 3 on the roster from Columbia, YGM  (last year) and now Carter--

I was reading on FOX Sports that Nic Scourton of Texas A&M could be our first rounder with James Pearce as the 2nd pick.

I don't haver a problem with signing Tremble. He is developing into a good blocker and a pass catcher this year.

Just now, Captain Morgan said:

2 edges?  I'm not against it.  Our DTs will be better with the return of Derrick

and yes to Fannin.  We have a ton of picks, let tremble go and draft someone better cheaper.

Not against 2 edges either, but I see ILB as a pressing need too. I was looking at Walker out of Georgia as 1 and Kennard from SC as 2.

Reading this on the Fanside today. 

1st Carter out of Penn State

Kennard out of South Carolina

Fannin Jr out of Bowling Green

With Tremble being a FA this year maybe it is a need to draft another TE this year to play along side Sanders.

17 hours ago, Loyalty4Life said:

Love it!!

Bryce has shown he can be really, really good.  Now, he working on showing it consistently while continuing his upward trajectory.  

Canales has proven to me he was a very good hire and potentially franchise saving depending on how much credit you give to him for helping Bryce improve.

This team is becoming a team before our eyes.  They've all kept pounding and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

The only thing I would like to see him work on is slide when he takes off. I love it when he fakes and jukes but sometime a slide is better than a juke.

8 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Yea!!!!  We won yet another meaningless end of season game that hurt our ability to draft a better player next year.

Honestly, we do this every single fuging year and the fans somehow never learn.  How many times do we have to do this before the fans start to realize it's a vicious cycle that you can't break until you embrace a rebuild?

Again, 2 OTs just dropped us from 1st to 8th in the draft.  Which in the end, probably cost us an additional 1st round pick, maybe a 2nd First, and probably a couple of other middle round picks as well as we'd have been able to trade back.

In no world is that worth the 2 wins that do nothing but provide a temporary enjoyment for those too shortsighted to see how it's not a good thing for us.

One too many beers today? Building a winning tradition is just as important as the #1 pick. We will do fine with the 8th pick. Just look at the first two games of this season and how we played then and how we played today. Atlanta lost more than we did. 

3 minutes ago, Jackson113.2 said:

Lost a top 10 draft pick

Going to hand Bryce the job next season 

Miles Sanders probably here to stay

Set back the franchise another half decade. 

got to be drunk.

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

Or possibly McMillian the WR.

Yea Leggette is not having the rookie year I assumed he would have, but I have the feeling Coker will be the man in Carolina for the next two to 3 years unless we get McMillian, but I see the Panthers needing defense more than a 1st round offensive player this year.

4 hours ago, Bear Hands said:

CLE and NE are ahead...highest pick is 3 if we lose.  

Games with implications w/a loss:

3 win teams (we have lower SOS than both so leap frog if we lose, they win):

Titans vs. Texans - Texans sound to be resting their starters.  Although, unsure if they want to limp into the playoffs.  And Titans could still lose to backups.  But winnable game, they did beat HOU this year before the Texans defense made a turnaround.  

Giants vs. Eagles - Eagles are resting certain starters vs the Giants.  Again, a situation where the Iggles backups could still take care of things.

4 win teams:

Jaguars vs. Colts - I don't know what will happen here.  But both teams are in disarray.  

Jets vs Dolphins - Tua is out but the Dolphins still have a chance at the playoffs with a DEN loss.  Interesting one to watch for since we have the same SOS right now. 

Raiders vs. Chargers - Chargers have playoff seeding on the line, could clean up.  

Bears vs. Packers - Seeding is on the line, Packers are not resting starters.  

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TL,DR: There's so much going on, I'm just going to split it and say we stay around 6.  There's no particular guy we're missing out on in this draft IMO.  There's no "OMG we have to get him" talent.  I don't think Graham, Johnson, or McMillan are that.  We end up where we end up.  

I wouldn't mind moving up to 5. The two defense guys I would like to see us have a choice on would be Johnson or Graham out of Michigan. 

I wonder how we became such a poor tackling team. I know we are playing a lot of subs, but these guys were taught from pop warner all the way through college how to wrap up.

On 1/1/2025 at 1:01 PM, MillionDollarCam said:

Just not a fan of Carter; even watching him again last night against an inferior team he didn’t display any unique pass rushing moves.

He’s a quick edge with good bend and there’s definitely something to work with but with as high as we are going to be picking we need a sure thing.

If we go defense then Will Johnson or Mason Graham should be the pick.

I agree could you see the headache Horn and Johnson could bring to the throw happy QB's of the NFC South. Graham and Brown could anchor the line for a long time. I would take either one over Carter.

On 1/1/2025 at 12:20 PM, kungfoodude said:

I don't really see why people are still high on Carter, TBH. 

I am liking either one of the Michigan players. I think Graham or Johnson will fill needs, I could see Graham and Brown be a solid foundation to the front 7, or Johnson and Horn being 2 corners that all coaches would hate to pass against. We could pick up a good DT or Edge in the 2nd round.

5 hours ago, Admiral Ackbar said:

very real possibly we have top 5 pick, at worse something like 9. Could be as high as 2 if Jags, Gaints and Jets win and we lose against the Falcons.

My hope is we are inside the top 5 with a team like the Giants or Raiders chomping at the bit to get a QB and they trade up so we can gather some top picks. Would be a nice to "recoup" from the Bryce trade and still possibly get a top edge rusher. 

And if that doesnt work out, hey we still will probably get a top defensive player inside the top 10.

By Sporting News we are at #6

5 hours ago, CRA said:

Panthers sitting at #7. 

Giants just fumbled the bag.  How you going to play a QB that just don’t give a fug like this guy and think you are safe lol

1. New England Patriots: 3-13 record; .465 strength of schedule
2. Tennessee Titans: 3-13; .509 SOS
3. New York Giants: 3-13; .551 SOS
4. Cleveland Browns: 3-12; .537 SOS
5. Jacksonville Jaguars: 4-12; .472 SOS
6. New York Jets: 4-12; .496 SOS
7. Carolina Panthers: 4-12; .498 SOS
8. Las Vegas Raiders: 4-12; .546 SOS
9. Chicago Bears: 4-12; .553 SOS
10. New Orleans Saints: 5-11; .513 SOS

I saw in Sporting News rankings we were Number 6 now

11 hours ago, MHS831 said:

Speaking of draft position, this was curious to me--Any background information that would justify a 4-point swing in the line (making New Orleans the home dog against the 3-win Raiders)?

Rattler looked like Young did in their last game against the Packers. If I was a betting man I would pick the Raiders after that performance. It was as bad of some of Young's games last year.

On 12/23/2024 at 12:42 PM, Crixtala said:

if Carter is still there, he's gotta be the guy at this point. don't love him at 4, but at 7? sure, pull the trigger

no Carter? Mykell Williams from Georgia

2nd round, I'm looking more and Deone Walker than the edges. If he's there to provide a big body in the middle, D Brown (if back healthy) should eat

I'm also enamored with Landon Jackson, simply on measurables. Seems more a hand in the dirt, 43 end than a 34 edge, but maybe he slides in a 34 DE on passing downs. Similar feelings (despite the crazy measurables) on Jack Sawyer.

If we're focusing on pass rushers from more of a stand up position, I'm also looking at Donovan Ezeiruaku and Kyle Kennard 

Then there's Dani Dennis-Sutton, Jared Ivey,I've, Mike Green and was watching Patrick Payton, but looks like he's headed to LSU instead of the draft

When we were picking 5 they had us going after Carter and Graham being picked at 7. Graham could still be there at 7. 

On 12/23/2024 at 12:04 PM, cookinbrak said:

Abdul Carter is the one.

He didn't show me much in that win over SMU.

23 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

Mark me down as someone who saw yesterday's win as pointless

I prefer the competitive losses then the pointless wins. We are now outside the top 5 and while we are more than one player away from turning this team around sometimes that one player CAN turn the team around

2020 

#6 Herbert

#7 Brown

 

2021

#7 Sewell

#8 Horn

 

 

We needed that win against the Cardinals. We needed it because the week before we play so badly against the Cowboys. It also showed we can win against equal teams instead of coming up short now. So we dropped two places. We got a win after a loss.

On 12/21/2024 at 12:14 PM, flagfootballcoach28 said:

Let’s see what Abdul Carter has in this first game of the day. Looking forward to watching him play. He needs to dominate this SMU O-line. 

Watched that game. He really didn't show a lot. We will see how he does in the next round of playoffs. Waiting to see Graham out of Michigan next. I rather have Graham over Carter at this point.

I wasn't pleased to see how Carter played against SMU this past weekend. I want to see what Graham from Michigan can do. Maybe we can get a better picture of Carter in the next game.

1 minute ago, Khyber53 said:

No one in their right mind looks at how Bryce has performed since coming back and thinks we need to drop another first round pick on a QB in the upcoming draft.

If you're watching the games, and you should be, you can see that we need help on defense more than anything else right now. Bryce is showing incredible growth as a QB and I wouldn't stop that growth right now when Edge, LB and DT are so desperately needed.

 

 I so agree. I would love to see a WR1 drafted but I would take the Graham out of Michigan over Carter of Penn State. Carter didn't show me much against SMU.