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It would be nice if you are right.

I didn’t expect to see Freeling at 19. My plan was move back, take one of the guys that was still there and use the proceeds towards trading up in round two for Rodriguez. Freeling sitting there blew that all up. I knew there would be no trading up after that. Because don’t mess around, take the gift. And the ILB that I wanted in the second, over DL, that was me wanting something shiny. I think Hunter probably was the more responsible pick just like Freeling was.

A few people think it is because he would have showed him up.

At the same time some of his mistakes are what helped Georgia back in that game. He just doesn’t look that appetizing to me. And I am hungry as hell. But I am glad they are at least trying to upgrade from the likes of Jake Plummer.

He basically said he is here as a QB and then what I said already. It is in the E White video, the first of two posted here

The little bit I watched he does look a bit awkward. Also just an FYI because I have heard talk saying he will be used like Taysom Hill - Morgan says no he doesn’t see him as having that skill set.

Evans needs this year to see how he grew. Sanders had a sophomore slump. Both are in their evaluation windows and have shown promise. And personally, I do not believe our QB can utilize a stud TE to the point that major investment is warranted. So there is that.

I see him being better and most of that is a few downfield passes that were seemingly non existent. But it is what is around him that has dictated the trajectory more than the quarterbacking. He is game manager level and unable to dictate to defenses. And even if I am wrong and he is the reason we ‘upwarded’, we are bumping our heads on the ceiling and only making meager gains. If it is an incline it is awfully shallow degree wise. Like a finance graph that tracks your progress and hovers around the rate of inflation. Barely breaking even. Is that where you want your money? We make up these deadlines expectations and generally he does the minimum of what he needs to do to hang around. It does not encourage me to believe that when we get into a game against a good run d that we cannot break down with our run game, to believe that we can pivot to the air and successfully counter their strategy. But they run it back again. Of course I am gunshy of a repeat of the same thing we have watched for three years. oh, and yes his durability is his most impressive positive for my money. I fear the other shoe dropping on that and the contractual consequences that will follow. Last of all, too late to edit my mistake here but would like to acknowledge it: the last three years has done very little to convince me that I was not wrong in not wanting him. One too many “not”s.

This groundhog day movie happens because the QB has not removed doubt. And there are commitment decisions on the timeline that put this question squarely in the crosshairs. And they affect out future. For me personally the last three years has done very little to convince me that I was not wrong in not wanting him. We have a few nice games. Yet now we are committed for two more years.. which in reality is actually only one when looking at the long term future because of the extension question. Who the hell wouldn’t over discuss it when the dust has settled from FA and draft day and it is all there is to ponder? It is the main pondering event. And in the end, arguments in favor of him having shown enough to be the future are simply bereft of enough convincing evidence to stem the tide of negativity over his Short comings.

And it’s going to stay that way until late July at the earliest. So… almost three months.

And that makes you right.

I guess you could ta’k the perspective of, if he can make a roster that wins with Bryce Young at QB, he is a genius.

Our waiver position has to be pretty far back in the line.

Oh yeah. And the only way we got in was a sort of miraculous Atlanta streak and their making it a three way tie. Because we had lost the tiebreaker with TB and were out otherwise. All those must win games which we couldn’t win, there should be a harsher term than ‘backed in’ to describe our accomplishment.

And receivers. And they just signed a big back.

He craps on himself through stuff like 54 yards passing. We just complain about it. Luke will never crap on a current Panther. He just wouldn’t. And that also likely includes ex Panthers. I’ll say it again: if we’d drafted him where he realistically deserved to be drafted he would be an underdog and I would be rooting for him. Except he would be gone already.

He made the playoffs! I heard, at least twice and from different sources, about our late season playoff push and the actual words “playoff run”. And these were media analysts. I don’t know how these narratives take hold but they do. (It is like big time throws and deep balls lol).

More like if you eat those magic beans you will believe he has those tools.

I would look at them sideways if they took a TE in the second over filling the hole they made by cutting A’Shawn. And secondarily (if DL wasn’t really there), placing TE over ILB in that round.

Well, yeah. It is hard to know what is the whole truth is there. Like what I said initially, coach speak. The players are listening. And that word ‘apparent’, it makes it seem apparent. Still may not be what it seems.

I understand that. I have said that multiple places. Commenting on all the ‘big man’s game’ and wanting to introduce competition to every room comments that are at odds with his Beyce comments

It is pretty confounding that we are seeing this apparent double standard. One for everyone else, a different set of standards for Bryce. From size to performance they hold him to lower standards than they hold the other guys to. I say apparent because we don’t know for sure and coaches and by extension GMs do the coach speak shuffle . because know the players are listening.

I watched the EWhite one last night there are a few nuggets in there.

No saying he mostly sucks is saying that he doesn’t suck the minority of the time. Like if he took 17 tests and had a couple of really good showings and a handful of pretty good scores sprinkled in among the typical sub par results. Like a golfer who went out and shot an 89. There will be some real nice shots sprinkled in there but at the end of the day it is still 89.

That is a great effort to document it. I had forgotten about the 5th year part up front. It was a great listen so if people have time you should maybe do that.