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Boone looks rough right now. Stay safe y’all.

I have a khaki carhart hat I wear doing yard work or for randomly wearing on the weekends. A simple logo black dry fit for the gym. That’s about it. Have a white Proehl and Kuechly jersey in the closet I haven’t worn since the 2010s - only would wear a jersey to a game, so they’re just sitting there. I’m about 50-50 Panthers-Bears merch.

Yep. I mean, he's the standard age for a senior in college. Juniors are 20/21, seniors are 21/22. He's at the tail end of a typical senior. Absolutely nothing "old" about him. And yep, younger than Jayden. There's a walgreens receipt-long list of notable players drafted at an age older than Ward. I mean, Eli, Palmer, Burrow, Kirk, Russ, Carr, Tannehill, Wentz, Penix, Pickett, Levis, Hooker, Bennett, the list goes on

Not really. The average drafted QB age last year was 23.24 y/o.

This has been one strange as hell thread

Old man? He’ll be 22 when drafted

Well hot diggity damn Anyhoo, elsewhere, I wonder if this Crumedy will be effective or anything. Haven’t been hitting late rounders so would welcome some sort of interest there.

He got dinged up last year and then this year but it hasn’t been that much lost time. I’m still a bit hopeful (for a tad longer). He’s still here for a reason I suppose

https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2024/09/25/panthers-injury-updates-jonathon-brooks-dj-wonnum-dave-canales/ Looks like it's only a matter of time. Could be looking at weeks 5-6 for some of these guys. Wonnum and Barno are welcomed boosts to the pass rush. Would still love to see if Barno can develop into something. With Brooks, I think we're all excited about getting the first RB selected in the draft on the field. Happy Thursday.

Cam Ward thread...is apparently about Shedeur Sanders haha

I’ve been watching him since year 1 at WSU — I thought he was gonna declare last year and have been excited to see his development over the years 2 seasons back, Oregon vs Wash State was one of his big turning point games. It was back and forth, and he had that energy of putting everything on his back, played great but made some forced/aggressive errors trying to do too much. But showed some awesome awesome promise. Overall, has a great build, just a real brick of a dude. Not towering or anything but a few main checks: He has the size, release, and arm strength. 3 biggie quals. Is also agile, elusive, but can stand in the pocket and push the team downfield. He’s not a looser goose pocket bailer. Last season, his awareness and decision making improved a ton. Really grew as a passer. Sando, Brugler and the Prospects to Pros guys had some good discussion on him. Accuracy still left scouts something to be desired so rumor was he was perceived in the 2nd-4th rounds. So he stayed in school another year and transferred. And this year, the accuracy is looking somewhat improved. I just love when you see a dude that has the physical traits and the leader gene steadily get better like he has. He has a ceiling he’s still working towards which would make him a pretty high reward pick if he turns out.

If be surprised if he played even 15% of our offensive snaps this week but it’s a great opportunity for him to convince the coaches to bring him on full time This is honestly a really big moment for Mingo to step up more than anything these next 4+ weeks. People are rightfully excited about Legette and Coker, but Mingo — this is where you show your development and if Andy can elevate you in Adam’s role.

Bengals just lost Trent Brown for the year so Mims is being thrown in the ringer sooner than expected. Hope we can take advantage of that.

I want to end the Bengals season this week. 0-4 is a mighty impossible hill to climb. Let’s go

I wonder if Hunt knowing Wilkins' tendencies during their 2+ years together in Miami helped as well. That's a lot of practice time where they squared up on the line. Awesome to see Icky doing better. He looked very confident in the run game again, much more like what we were sold on. These young LTs can go through ebs and flows.. I.E. Cross is starting to crush it it, Andrew Thomas is finally playing a bit better.

Before he made the decision to return to LSU last year: @Tepper get at me lol

It’s just a tough scenario. We drafted a guy for the new 2023 staff, thought he could excel, be this rare undersized phenom, regardless of his shortcomings. Ended up being the furthest thing from the truth. A new staff comes in this year to check him out, and it probably looked just as bad to them. It had to of been noticeable but you can’t go into year two with the benching of 1OA. They waited to see how it really looked and noped out for now — I imagine because Tepper is probably more open to it after last season’s trainwreck where he probably made Reich and then Brown start Bryce. He’s open to seeing what the staff wants to do. I’m willing to buy he’s softened his leash and is indeed more backseat with the occasional driver shouting.

Yeah I mean what Bryce ended up doing in games should have been without a doubt noticeable at practice for coaches and players alike. They know what a good or at least average QB looks like, much like Reich, Campbell and McNown did.

Rhule’s wife has been our best scout in the past 10 years.

Great interview

I have no clue. Would love to see Andy keep this up. People are still disrespecting us so I hope they’re still taking that seriously. Time to bully the crap out of the Bengals. Andy’s revenge game. If he can make noise, let’s see what shakes out the rest of the season - maybe we land a new rookie or young backup behind him. Bryce is out IMO. We’ll continue to be cordial and nice to him from a PR perspective, but he’s out

Not defending him but Fitterer thought he did and he claimed as so much in the presser post-trade up. They brought in defense under Rhule initially, then built up the offense (terribly)… He thought Icky, Brady, Bozeman, Corbett, & Moton were the line, and that they performed well down the stretch for Wilks. He thought poorly though, but that was the assumption and why going into the 2023 draft, talking heads thought we were the better situation than Houston. But our lovely trade up gave away DJ, Bozeman fell apart, Brady got injured, Icky regressed. Plenty thought our OL going into Reich’s year was in a good spot and had been built.

Too early? Corral is out the league and Willis was gone when we picked.

What we did with the run game was awesome and what Miami is now missing in a big way. You need more than just speed and play design, you need the trench warriors and these guys looked sharp as hell. I am STOKED to see what this looks like with Brooks.