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The Panthers? No they aren't.... When you are 1 or 2 players away, you sign big name guys for a playoff run. We haven't been doing that last off-season, nor the current one. As far as right direction, that means more wins than the previous season, right? It's been 1 season, sooo.....

Eh, this place is more of a glass half empty kinda place. Don't hang out too much or it starts rubbing off on you.

I'd agree, maybe going to Marshall? Or maybe the oline ran the wrong play, because Grier had 0 seconds to get that ball out.

Considering how religious he is toward his diet and taking care of his body, I'd be shocked if he dipped.

Not good enough. Looking at both weeks so far, our red zone issues do not seem resolved. I'm starting to question if it's Joe Brady. Slye has to go asap.

1. We have an aging long snapper that could be replaced for cheap. 2. Fletcher could be a "special" long snapper. (As special as a LS can be) 3. We had a plethora of low round picks to throw around. 4. He can be protected on the practice squad and not have to play this year. Imagine if we could have protected Butker. Bad comparison because the importance of the positions, but eh.

I think IDL is a little low. Edge is very low; I feel we have elite starters and solid depth. The secondary is hard to say. Starters might be good, might not and depth looks good in camp and preseason...but that's camp and preseason. Looks like Overall isn't an average of all these position groups, so that's way too low. I think that should be around 20.

Yep 2. So now we have 7 total picks - missing the 2nd. Sidenote, our 4th seems like we don't know who's original pick this is. At least I can't find that info.

I think anyone in this category is safe, unless they did not play due to "injury." *cough*Perryman*cough*

No reason to go out and put our ones vs his twos. Sure watching our 1st string dline destroy some guys would be fun, but would be even less meaningful. Sam throwing against lower tier players is just as pointless behind an oline that would look elite against that D. It'd be like an NFL team playing a college team. Sam and the 1's aren't gonna get any meaningful reps from that. Beyond that, what does that do for the Colts watching his 2's go against a much higher talent level? Eason would have been sacked 19 times. Why would Reich agree to that? Some of y'all don't think.

I think that is what will happen at some point. Might not be week 1. Might not be till next season, but I'd bet sometime this year.

I think this has been the plan all along. Build the team, throw darts at QB. If we don't have the QB position figured out by time we're ready, then go all in on the right guy. I think that happens next year or the year after if Darnold is not the answer. Personally, I wish they took Fields. I don't see a problem with throwing more darts every year instead of 1 at at time.

He definitely was better than expected, but Tremble in the passing game is worth mentioning for biggest surprise as well.

No.

Additionally there was drama between Carter and Rhule beginning of last year. There literally was no other option on the roster than Whitehead. Once Carter decided to grow up a little bit and squash his beef with his HC, he started and the defense improved immediately.

Agreed. He looked better today than last we saw of him...in 2019. PJ also looked improved from last year...mostly better decision making which is great. Those 3rd string guys were so bad. I did not see every play, I have a 3 year old, but what I saw he was mostly accurate and the receivers dropped a lot. He went 6/10 and from what I saw good decision making. I saw two drops, which would have made his stat line 8/10. I did see the throw on 3rd down go over the guys head. I thought he played a bit tepid overall. I think people saying he's the worst backup QB in the league are out of their damn minds. Compared to his play today, I've seen worse.....this week.

Great post. I came here a couple months ago or whatever, mostly because it's pretty damn active here in the offseason. Over the last couple weeks, I've learned that a lot of folks here are dumb as fug. Or just trolls. Can't tell yet. I do appreciate those with measured, reasonable opinions though.

He did well overall, but there were a few snaps were he was straight beat, like just a speed bump. PJ got the ball out quickly on those plays, but would definitely count as pressures allowed and could have been sacks if PJ held on another second.

Three receiver drops fwiw. I'd say, a lot of promise there, but not ready to start yet. Soon though, imo.

It was a beautiful throw, but was only 45 air yards give or take. He's the guy I would have wanted if he fell to us though. That 80 yard bomb comment up there was misleading lol.

I wonder if Marshall will be WR1 tomorrow? If so... Actually, kinda wonder if they'll play all the rookies tomorrow?

I read today he recently went 11 of 24 in practice with two interceptions. In 7 drives their offense scored 3 points. I'm assuming this is 11 on 11 evaluations. Somehow, I think their defense isn't THAT good. I feel bad for Wilson. He could have used a year to sit. He's gonna being seeing ghosts soon.

I wouldn't be surprised to not see a single 1st string guy out there if it can be helped. Tomorrow's game is about bottom of the roster guys getting on tape. 5 guys are getting fired this week and Sam Darnold has 0 chance of being one of them so there is 0 reason for him to play. The guys playing tomorrow are playing to keep their job. It's nice we get to watch bottom of the roster evaluation games. That's what they are. They aren't practice for 1st stringers, not these first two games anyways.

Their backup QB's (that's all they have right now) torched us in red zone. Over and over again. Overall, I think they were very, very good stat-wise. I think no ints.

Chinn did the offense's job for them as much as a single LB could.