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Would you want to draft Caleb Williams/Drake Maye and move on from Bryce? The Bears were in this scenario last year. I guess they could have taken Stroud and moved on from Fields but I’d say taking our idiotic deal was probably best for them. I would probably trade down and get more weapons for Bryce.

So is Devonta Smith. A few weeks ago he was “Mic’d up” and his entire segment was him joking about not wanting to block anybody, or participate in the “tush push” because if his small frame. He is still a dog and worth a 1st round pick. Most WRs don’t particularly enjoy contact. Steve Smith is an incredible exception to the rule.

Williams, when he has played has looked like a first round WR. He’s had like 3 incredible TDS called back for penalties. His career has been weird but the talent is actually there. If we could get another 1st I don’t see how you don’t pull the trigger

It seems like this will be his last year in NE. He’d probably want 15-20 million a year and Tepper would probably be one of the few owners willing to pay that. He could resurrect his legacy by building a winning somewhere outside of NE, where better than Boston-South in Charlotte.

Honestly the damage has been done. We’ve traded away a generational RB. Second best WR in the history of the franchise. Passed on a great QB prospect this year, and passed on potentially taking one of the generational QB talents in next years draft. His keycard should already be deactivated

It was eye opening when he wasn’t able to get to the sidelines on his scramble on the first drive. It seemed like he had a lane, and able 10 yards between him and the corner. Like damn I feel like even I would have picked up more than 3 yards there.

Try 9

That feels like winning the Super Bowl

So we net 20 yards of field position

Bryce is surprisingly unathletic

“Teachers know that the teaching profession is low paying before becoming teachers , therefore no teacher should ever even bother with inquiring about a pay raise”

It’s embarrassing when any draft pick struggles. That’s life. Doesn’t mean anybody should be force to live and work somewhere they personally don’t want to. The only other industry this is applicable to is the fuging Military. It’s stupid and exploitative.

I’d argue that there already is a lack of competition in the NFL. How many blow outs have there been this year? About 20-25 teams have no shot at winning the Super Bowl any given year. “Any given Sunday” is literally just marketing. I’m not quite sure what you mean about the NBA.The last NBA Championship was won by a team whose best player was drafted during a Taco Bell commercial. The correlation isn’t high draft picks = success. The FO has to first make the right pick and then manage the roster in a way that gets the most use out of the players.

Ok, I’m all hears, explain to me the difference. Other than the fact that society actually need’s qualified lawyers.

“It’s simply not how it works”..I really don’t see why. Whatever industry you work in you have the option to choose where you work. The best lawyer in law school doesn’t get drafted to the worst firm in the country, they go work wherever they want. The draft really only benefits the owners who can field terrible teams year after year and then ruin their prospects.

I kind of feel like this is his plan. Destroy the team, kill morale…ask for a subsidy that he knows he won’t get, then move or sell the team. The hedge fund special.

He'd be the 3rd or 4th best WR in franchise history

Maybe I'm insane but I think Justin Fields would look like Jalen Hurts in our offense. Assuming we would have kept CMC and Moore, we'd have a nice power running game and legit receiving threat. You can say "Fields can't throw' but out of the 5Qbs that have started games for the Panthers in the last 5 years, Fields is no worse than 2nd. TLDR: We'd be in a better situation had we just drafted Justin Fields

The Raiders did the same thing. The team was a dumpster fire, the intern comes in and the team looks respectful again, they fire the intern to hire a retread, the team returns to being a dumpster fire. Why not ride the hot hand? What sense did it make to erase the oasis own as the Wilks era to hire a guy Jim Isray did not want to keep employed. Like the Raiders we are a bad organization. BOA will also be 70/30 opposing fans every Sunday by 2025.

And if history is any indication he will be the head coach of the Panthers in 20 years...

This is why it was worth it to draft him imo. IF they can figure out a way to make it work we would have a sustainable path to contention for the next decade, maybe more with the way QBs are protected in todays game. Him not needing to rely on his physical ability to win FOOTBALL games is an absurd trait to possess and impossible to defend. But if also isn't a complete statue in the pocket either. Bryce may pan out, he may be a huge bust, but he was always worth trading up for and drafting.

If you look around the league most fans have the same complaints about their “owner” that we do Tepper. How many times do we hear “it starts at the top” in regards to multiple NFL teams and their everyday struggles. Half of the league has “issues at the top”. What NFL franchises other than maybe the Steelers and Patriots (Because of Brady) can honestly say that the owners of the team add value to the franchise and to the sport of football? The incompetence of NFL front offices would be a complete non story if these same people weren’t also robbing the tax payer blind. It is absurd. Mind you, the NFL isn’t “health care” or “education” or “emergency services”. It’s no different from WWE, or anything other trash reality show on TV. It is essentially a big TV show, yet they receive billions in subsidies with no clear financial benefit to anybody other than the aforementioned owners. The tax payer sees no return on the stadium subsidies, and I would argue that the average person is actually made poorer as a result of subsidies as they artificially drive up prices. So you get fuged two ways. This is also called a “train”. If municipalities are willing to spend billions in stadium subsidies, why not just buy the team? 3 months ago the city of Nashville gave the Adams family 2 billion dollars to build a new stadium. Why not put together a bid to buy the Tennessee Titans so it can be publicly owned, profits used to fund public work projects, and hiring/staffing decisions can be transparent? You probably can’t even imagine a completely transparent NFL. How much more interesting would the NFL be if the Green Bay Packers model was actually a real thing, and “shareholders” could vote on hiring and firings, draft picks, signings etc. I’ll make a few assumptions. 1. Americans love professional football 2. professional football will generate billions of dollars in revenue each year 3. The competence of any organizations front office is largely irrelevant as it concerns profit/loss 4. Municipalities are willing to spend billions of dollars in subsidies to these organizations 5. The outcome of the games are largely irrelevant to world affairs Assuming these 5 assumptions are true, there is no reason why NFL teams shouldn’t be publicly owned. You would get a more engaging product and more equitable share of profits to generate the public at large.

If this was the scenario than Reich is weak and not a leader of men. He is already a millionaire and likely set for life. He doesn’t need to kiss the bosses ass as if he is a part time McDonald’s employee desperate for more hours. He has all the incentive in the world to bang the table for “his” QB if he favored someone other than Bryce. The idea that he would blindly go along with David Tepper and his fuging wife infuriates me for some reason lol

I think we are going to get killed

I think this is a huge factor too. I had the 49ers-Ravens Super Bowl on as background noise the other day and towards the end of the game the 49ers wanted a PI call. Chris Collinsworth says “it’s the end of the game, it’s only human nature for the refs to not throw the flag”. That was what 10 years ago? The last two super bowls have been completely ruined by terrible officiating at the end, not the mention the loads of other regular season and playoff games with “questionable” calls to end the game. Last year I literally turned off like 5 games after abysmal roughing the passer calls. So either the refs are terrible and their incompetence distorts the outcomes of games, or they are rigging games, distorting the outcome of games. Either way, what is the point of investing 3 hours of my life when the product on the field doesn’t reflect the outcome of the games? Also, the majority of those 3 hours are beer and truck commercials, refs huddling with one another, commentary talking amongst themselves, or camera shots of the sideline. There is only like 20 mins of actual NFL Football being played. I think the older I get the more I realize that we the fans are the “product”.