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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.

Well there have plenty of people calling for the heads of the scouts over the last couple of years and I had a hard time with it because I wasn’t sure they even knew how it worked. I sure didn’t. So getting some insight is good And as far as that goes I heard nothing in the three I watched that leads me to believe the scouts are making the decisions. They are vetting and building a database on these guys and in the actual on the clock draft days are probably only called on to pipe up when someone has a question about a player. Shows me how much teams put into this. These scouts have followed the players for years at this point.

I have watched three of the four. Have not seen that from anyone else. Putting the scouts forward like that. It is pretty cool.

Yeah he said Luke was his favorite player. Now he will be in the building with him. Seeing them get their dream to being a reality Is almost the best thing about this week.

Oh yeah. I didn’t catch that either. I guess whoever the current roster exemption is for the foreigners might be who they mean. Apparently the guy is the Euro or International scout along with the NE. Too tired now to run it down. well I looked but it is a bit of a google maze. I see the name Junior Aho but I don’t think that’s the guy he meant.

What else are you gonna do with a 7th besides gamble it on a long shot? They are just about all long shots that late. But getting a solid ST guy that can be LB depth, I would consider that a win. Odds are that even if he somehow gets to be a starter he won’t be a long term starter. They’ll upgrade. He could eat off of being a ST/depth guy for a while though.

Only real concern I have is weight/strength related. He seems a little light and the guys across from him are huge and strong. Hoping that him being in between Hunt and Lewis will help him out.

From memory, the S from SC that was still on the board. Forget his name. Pretty sure that’s what you are asking about. He said he didn’t want to speak on him because he didn’t scout him. Sidestepped.

7th round. Trade chart value near the bottom. Afterthought. He has good size and excellent speed and is a willing special teamer. Position group he joins has probably the lowest floor of all our groups. He has a great chance to make team. If he does, he’ll have eyes on him for ILB snaps.

The worst thing he did was trade up 2 slots. Which I don’t consider bad at all but some people were raging. The overlooking of ILB was unfortunate but if you are gonna do that, at least do it for your front and that’s the way it went. As far as the players, nobody knows the future. They were all sound decisions.

I never thought they used him right.