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He so is far from being what people claimed he was. What he was, is we hope and pray for consistently average in year 4. That’s what he is. We should just move on if that’s the best he can be.

I am gonna believe it wasn’t us if the 4th round pick price is accurate. We needed 225 points to get from 19 to their pick. 875 at 19 to 1100 at 14. Our 2026 4th was valued at 56 points I think. A future 4th has less value. So that wasn’t close to enough. It would have taken our third and our fourth. Comes within a point of even. Now, moving to their spot in the second round we could have done but after Miami took Rodriguez why would we?

He probably drives a Vega. You get the good ones.

If he gets fired I am going with the QB taking him down. This one or the next one.

Sad is not the word I would use. Anyway I might have something pretty insulting to say about the people who are happy about it, unless he truly earns it.

And if he did, he doesn’t have the QB to use them right. Sadiq… if we took him we would be like the guy that puts fancy rims on his Vega.

I have been doing the boards since at least the old Charlotte.com days. It was always the first place I would look for news even when I wasn’t interacting.

A man should be able to press charges on a woman who lies to him on the paternity of a child that isn’t his. And then to name it after the real father? Man she is full on narcissist. That is one of the worst things a woman could do to a man. IMO. And no it didn’t happen to me, that’s not why I think that.

I was looking at the roster and depth chart out ourladds. Yes, it has to be Mapalo Mwansa. https://www.ourlads.com/nfldepthcharts/player/54802/

That’s fair but that best ball needs to come up right out of the gate. He hasn’t cut it so far. To people saying he isn’t slow, maybe not but he plays slow. I always see him around the pile not at the bottom of it. He is late getting to the ball, or has been. I hope being around Lloyd helps him and not having the green dot definitely won’t hurt him.

On offense, QB and RB are a thing. QB needs to improve a fair amount, and the RBs have me unsure if they can match last year’s level. Brooks being the big mystery. It seems like they think he is good to go, they didn’t do that much to add insurance. You have to think the defense will be better. We are young in a lot of places and can hope for some growth from a few guys, as the season progresses. Plus Phillips and Lloyd are on another level compared to who was out there for us last year. I think other teams in our division helped themselves too though. Every single one of them picked in front of us for three days and took players we might have taken over who was there for us.

https://www.panthers.com/news/nfl-announces-2026-offseason-dates-panthers-to-begin-april-20-otas-minicamp I don’t see anything there until the end of May. I was hoping we’d get a look at them the next day or two.

We don’t know these players will succeed so I am not counting chickens but it was crazy how we met just about every pick at the intersection of needs and BPA.

Loosely related thoughts .. I really do feel for Icky but if he had been healthy no way we take Freeling. I think the big extension he was in line for and was getting, would have been an overpay. So in a way this might be a break. Depending on Freeling working out. If I were offered an even money bet on whether he returns to form or is a shadow of what he was, I am going with shadow. I just wouldn’t count on him for anything if it was going to cost market value. G, RT, whatever. To me, he needs to sign an incentive laden short term deal that doesn’t leave us on the hook if he can’t cut it. Go from there. He caught a horrible bad break but at least got 17.5 mil as a consolation prize. Or 16.5 or whatever it is.

Name me a team that can run on anyone with little to no help from the QB/passing game. People do not fear being beat deep. And deep these days is only 20 yards. Every defense cheated up towards the line. Every secondary. The Rams, even after being burned because they didn’t respect and protect against that, didn’t protect it again. Like it was a fluke. It sort of was. If we can’t scare anyone passing we will struggle mightily to run the ball against decent defenses. The flukes need to become the day to day outcomes. Not a couple of times a year.

I don’t see it that way. I see it like if we have guys coming on the back half of the year and maybe project as starters next year it will be just fine. And there are several guys from the 7 that have a real good chance to do that.

I feel like Bryce is 3rd best QB in the NFCS, at best. FWIW. Not that any are great. Atlanta, he might rank over their options.

If the first two guys pan out we are ahead of things and it’s house money from Brazzell all the way down to the LB.

Okay, as badass as Dowdle was for a couple of games, who remembers his PFF score after like 300 yards? It was pretty average/good but not what you would think after that type of day. Reason is he had holes. There were some huge holes for him. It isn’t he is any kind of exceptional talent, he is good and just ran really hard and got good blocking. And he knew how to use it. And this is why we needed to keep the OL strong. If Brooks is healthy and Chuba is healthy we have the backs - if the OL can just block it up for them. Having Bryce go downfield and loosen up the defense at least some, would Lao be very helpful.

Yep. I was hoping for and calling for a day three guy. But I didn’t research the position to say if we should or should‘t have jumped at a particular guy at a particular spot. And everything I read said it was a poor draft for RBs depth wise. I guess when Seattle takes a backup RB in the 1st, that kind of backs that up. I definitely think we should keep 4 running backs and if King can play well enough then keep him too. I believe I heard Canales say we are a running team (talking about drafting a WR he will be needing to block as well as catch). Well if we are gonna be a running team by identity we don’t need to stock the WR room to overflowing. If one room has to sacrifice, it should not be the RB room given our circumstances.

It is due diligence at that point. Irresponsible not to take him. Crossing my fingers on this one, he has everything you look for except experience.

I thought he sounded hoarse. Maybe he is a little under the weather.

Yeah. If he is a dumbass again in the same areas he will have proven to me that he cannot get even the basics. I don’t see the talentless nincompoop others see, I see a talented nincompoop that is struggling to live up to his job description. You can’t blame his mental shortcomings, spatially and awareness wise on anyone but him but Bryce does him no favors.

I am pretty confident in Morgan and Tillis making these decisions. Dam’s player trades have worked for us just about every time. A lot of times teams just want a little something before releasing a guy and getting nothing. If Dan wants to use a 5th or 6th or whatever on a guy I will go with it. I

Yeah I know. Especially with all the LBs that were drafted. Or maybe a player trade. It is what it is at this point. Maybe Wallace benefits from seeing Lloyd work, and does something to help himself. And not having the green dot to worry with. I think he thinks too much he is usually slow to the ball.