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Considering that Brady Christensen is going to test free agency, retaining Corbett as a veteran body is best for assisting with OL continuity imo. He'll either win the starting position at center, or he'll be a high-level back up that will be touching the field even if it's just to be OL6.

Vince Wilfork just recently said this on a podcast re: Brady. Said Brady was not an athlete but because of his preparation and competitive spirit were elite so was he.

Thank you for the good faith back and forth. Are there some things that users here have rallied against that they proved to be right on? Absolutely. Has the Tepper era been successful? Far from it, but let's be honest: anybody expecting there to not be growing pains just isn't living in reality. An individual with no background in professional sports takes over the team, spends the first year working on the business side of the house, and then pivots to football ops where he makes two back-to-back awful coaching hires. Like... this isn't exactly breaking news to anybody with basic critical thinking skills. If we look at the hiring decisions though, we don't see the same mistakes being made. We see them being learned from. Tepper went the Jimmy Johnson/Pete Carroll route and went for somebody that had successfully built college programs and thought they'd be able to do it in the NFL. Rhule and his crew though just couldn't get away with their usual plan of recruiting the best athletes to compete in year 3, especially when the league is full of those top guys already (it also didn't help that they basically acted like a glorified frat house according to reports). The Reich hire was a sprint in the opposite direction. We went from little-to-no NFL experience to SO MUCH NFL EXPERIENCE... but there was also a distinct lack of unity that even the Rhule staff had. Too many cooks started arguing over the recipe and the ingredients, factions formed, and the poo all rolled downhill. Tepper doesn't wait until the middle of year three though to pull the plug, he ripped it out midseason. This is continued evidence of learning on Tepper's behalf. Now the latest staff... Tepper stepped back and outsourced the hiring (as many fans demanded). Canales was brought in and so far I believe it's fair to say that we've got more hope than we ever had since the takeover. They went with a young offensive mind with prior success in turning two QBs' careers around, let him build his staff with his folks, and allowed them the freedom to make the decisions they needed to make (ie: benching Bryce). For an owner that was excoriated for being too meddlesome, that's a huge shift. Does understanding the nuance in situations between these different hires mean that I don't think the Teppers have done anything wrong or that I agree with every decision they made? I can't see how anyone can jump to that conclusion unless they're a dipshit that still blames drafting Bryce on Nicole hugging him... I just prefer to try and understand the thought process instead of being focused on why I "knew" otherwise. It makes it that much easier to be prepared for what comes next when we're not making predictions on how we're going to be miserable. All of that said... as much trust and faith I have in myself, I still wouldn't recommend putting me in that room over Dan Morgan and Brandt Tilis. That'd be insane... but the scary part about that is that it immediately makes me more qualified than most other Huddlers. I'd be okay with ForJimmy, Mr. Scot, and Bear Hands... but those other spots are gonna be tough to fill.

I trust Corbett more than I do Zavala at this point. Solid depth that can start anywhere on the interior while also being affordable.

I don't think I'll be watching as closely this year as I have in the past (more so due to time constraints than interest), but I'm hoping to catch a good chunk of the DL/EDGE drills as well as see how the DBs test. Fingers, toes, eyes, and ears crossed that the team picks up a DL, an EDGE, and a CB. Maybe even find a guy that can play outside and rotate inside as well.

Or, and don't get ahead of me now, we could just have a rational conversation instead of you being a dismissive twat?

How in the hell did the topic turn to my dong and your weird obsession with getting cucked? This is exactly why you morons shouldn't be allowed near the front office.

What did I list that was untrue? I keep hearing "the good/smart ppl" but uh... who would that be? Hopefully not the same folks that were screaming to ship Bryce off for a scratch off ticket and some jenkem. And there was a looooooot of them... Have you not seen the last 6 years of brain drain here? Knowledgeable posters have bailed in favor of other hubs. Instead of DOGE, you could call it DOPE though. It'd be oddly fitting.

https://www.panthers.com/news/panthers-announce-staff-additions-coaching-staff New hires Renaldo Hill (DB coach) AC Carter (OLB coach) Keyshawn Colmon (offensive assistant) Kevin Peterson (defensive assistant) Title changes Mike Bercovici (offensive assistant -> assistant QB coach & pass game specialist) Mayur Chaudhari (defensive assistant -> assistant LB coach) Jim Caldwell (senior assistant coach -> senior coaching advisor)

Current cap space ~$28.6M (will be higher once the 2025 cap is finalized)

Good on Dan. He had pounded the table for Dane in Buffalo and then did the same to bring him here. Mike Jackson outplayed him, and Dan is cutting ties rather than holding on to a guy that was outperformed by other guys on the roster. Best of luck to Dane. I'm sure he'll get picked up somewhere as depth at least. Worst case scenario, he'll make a practice squad.

I remember the Huddle consensus over the course of last season and the previous one. Lots of Bryce is a bust, we should've drafted a 4th slot WR, should've kept Wilks, should've kept an armless Cam, etc etc. So... yea... already thought about that. I wouldn't trust the Huddle to detail my car, let alone run a multi-billion dollar professional sports team.

Dorian Strong, CB, Virginia Tech

Idk man... if it were up to some Huddlers, the team would be trading for Matt Stafford and signing Justin Fields to "improve the QB room" while signing an RB/LB that attended Trident Tech because "RB/LB are plug and play positions." All before they cut Taylor Moton. Nooooo thank yooou.

For me, idk if it's players being off the board as much as it is the deal being offered. If somebody is offering the mother lode, scooooop!

Trigger me timbers!

Pretty funny that the Bryce haters are upset by this.

This is a weird take. Were you this upset when DA was re-signed as Cam's backup/mentor?

Let's fuging gooooooo

I'm optimistic because one of the major knocks on XL as a prospect was being a one-year wonder that needed to level up his route running... and he did. His routes were night and day compared to his time at USC, though there was still some of that awkwardness that Mike Kaye wrote about when he said that XL seems to make every catch more difficult for himself somehow. He's shown the ability to get open deep as well as absorb shots over the middle. I think that Canales & Idzik are going to be trying to mold him into the team's X... which will hopefully include sticking him out on the jugs machine with Chuba (and Tommy, should he be retained). Having said that... few things are more concerning for a WR than inconsistent, unreliable hands. Stick Coker's hands on XL (or give Coker XL's athleticism) and we've got a bad ass Frankenstein's monster to march out there.

It's a little silly how the Huddle slid right from "CJ > Bryce" to "Ladd > XL"

I hate how much this made me chuckle.

My brothers in Christ, we have had search engines since the 1990s. BEHOLD, THE ANSWER YOU SEEK tldr; looks like he might still be waiting but did have a procedure on his foot (for those that don't recall, he had hurt his foot in training camp).