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To be clear, I don’t think I believe him. I know he’s close friends with Sean but this sounds like maybe someone connected to the org might have been like “what’s Sean doing, think he’d come to a place like Carolina?” and Glazer puffing it up.

It's not like Robbie needs to learn the offense for tonight...just throw him out there on 10-15 snaps on go routes and take a couple shots to see if he can outrun his coverage.

Anyone who's thinking you're getting more than maybe a 4th for Shaq is insane. Front offices are balking at giving up a late 1st for a superstar talent like CMC, why the fug would they give up a 2nd or 3rd round pick for an aging, slightly above average off ball LB? LB is probably tied with RB as the two most devalued positions in football.

I think he's the definition of average. Maybe slightly above replacement level. He consistently gets dinged up and misses a couple of games a year. He doesn't bring much as a pass rusher and his coverage skills are overrated (he averages ~4-5 passes defensed a season and has 3 career picks in 106 games). I absolutely think a 4th round LB (e.g. Brandon Smith who we drafted in the 4th this past year) could probably give you 80% of what Shaq does while bringing more pass rush juice.

At the end of the day, while I think Shaq is a fine OLB, I think it's prudent for the Panthers to deal him if they're going to get a 4th/conditional 5th (or better obviously). This season is already done so not having him isn't going to impact a playoff race. Cutting him in the offseason is going to net $13m in cap space even with the dead money hit. If you can get some draft compensation for him from a team like the Commanders, Packers, or Bills (not even sure if the Bills need LB help), it's worth it because it allows the team to throw Brandon Smith in the line-up and gives the FO 10-11 games to decide if they've got something with him or if they need to dedicate potentially a day 2 pick on a replacement going forward.

Shaq's base next year is ~$12.2m so it's more like $13m for 1.5 seasons. Dead cap doesn't matter honestly, might as well take the poison in this lost year because he's likely to be cut in the offseason if he doesn't take a drastic pay cut anyway.

Shaq to Washington for their 2023 4th. Let's make it happen.

One small nit with this - pretty sure what Wilks meant was PJ is the starter THIS week and after that (i.e. “moving forward”), the position will be evaluated “week by week” in terms of the starter.

Dennis Allen has a career head coaching record of 13-41 (.241). That's actually worse than Rhule's 11-27 (.289). I'll believe it when I see it.

Saints constantly pushing the limit when they have Payton and Brees made sense. You're seeing how dumb that was this season when they're 2-4 with the poo poo platter of Jameis and Dalton at QB. They screwed themselves by trying to free up cap space for Watson when they had to restructure and push a bunch of money into next year's cap and are currently $55m over next year's cap. That's why they had to trade away players like CGJ and will have to cut a bunch of guys this offseason.

Before the season we had Horn, Jackson, and Henderson locked in as the starting CBs. It's a two way street, Bradberry would have to want to come here as well. Just because he took a fairly cheap deal with the Eagles to be a starter on a team coming off the playoffs doesn't mean he'd be willing to take the same deal to be the #3 or #4 CB for a team that was coming off its 3rd straight 5-win season.

You do know that salary cap space rolls over to the following year, right?

Moms are moms, not professional athletes. CMC is a professional and knows this is a business. Anyone is available for the right price. If someone offers the front office what they believe is the right price for CMC, he will be moved. I don't think anyone is going to and I think the Panthers are content to keep him around. We'll know in 2 weeks.

Joe Person put out an article in the Athletic this morning where he asked the beat writers from the 49ers, Bills, and Rams to submit offers for CMC. Here’s what they suggested: 49ers: 2023 compensatory 3rd, 2023 4th Bills: 2023 2nd and Zack Moss OR 2023 3rd and James Cook Rams: 2023 2nd, 2024 3rd Person’s reaction? Not blown away by those offers, so pass on a trade if that’s what’s out there

...without question. You think a guy who's a 6-year vet that's worth a late 1st round pick or 2nd round pick (in your estimation) wouldn't have gotten a 2nd contract? His deal would've been up after his one injury year and it's more than likely teams would write that one year off as a fluke.

I'd prefer if the Panthers went with an offensive mind for this HC hire. I think it's long past time we try someone from that side of the ball to lead the team. And that's with me really liking candidates like DeMeco Ryans and Raheem Morris. It seems we're finally going to take our medicine and draft a rookie QB and it'd be best to keep that QB paired with a play caller for the duration of his career, if he's as good as being picked in the top 3 would merit. If we hired a DeMeco Ryans and he brings along an OC that makes a Bryce Young, CJ Stroud, or Will Levis look great year 1, you run the risk of that guy being scooped up as a HC himself. I really like what Steichen has done with Herbert and Hurts in limited time, and I also like what Waldron is doing this season with Geno, and Ben Johnson with the Lions offense. Like I said, yes, these could all be one season wonders, but that's just the nature of the business. You interview folks and make an educated choice, but at the end of the day any HC hire is swinging for the fences - more often than not, you're going to strike out.

Isn't it common sense then that CMC would have more receptions if he has more receiving yardage? Why'd you then say he only has more receiving yardage because he's used as a receiver more as a knock but didn't mention him having less rushing yards because of less rushing attempts? I guess I'm just confused as to why you think one point is a knock against CMC while the other is...also a knock against CMC?