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I expect I’ll be disappointed but if they don’t come out of this with Rodriguez or Golday, I will think they dropped the ball. 

I heard Bryce’s dad thinks he’d be a good backup.

If I am at 5 and Styles was there? Bang, that is my pick not yours. 
Now, at ten with just two or three first found grades still hanging on the rack, you might take something for that. Should be some good offers. 

51 minutes ago, TD alt said:

And what analysts are those? The ones I listen to say that this is the year to finally get our answer about whether he's the future or not. As a matter of fact I haven't heard anyone endorse him, it's all based in hope for the nice guy.

I am talking about draft analysts. 1-1 comparison. And the easier question to answer would be: which analysts did not endorse the worthiness of Young? It was near unanimous. 

24 minutes ago, CarolinaLivin said:

Lol Falcons, I bet Pierce was half their grade. And no pick this year, heh. 

It will be pretty hard to equal the impact in the broad sense of immediate returns across the board, of last season. 
The higher the floor sits, the tougher it is to raise it. 
So in a sense last year was a lot easier than this year. 
 

We still have a few spots that are low hanging fruit.

I have looked at these WRs a little bit. If we can’t get the USC kid, what is the point of 1st round WR? They either don’t really have the hands, or they are just carbon of what we already have, I don’t see the attraction. It seems to me that a lot of the BPA people are all over WR, which I believe they see as a need. It is basically incognito need drafting unless you really get a big time guy. 

1 hour ago, mrcompletely11 said:

The darnold narrative is making folks lose their mind

What’s the context? That we better not let Bryce go because he will be a backup somewhere for a year and then go play .800 ball for two different teams? 
 

People can’t look at the two players and see a difference? 

On 4/17/2026 at 1:40 PM, TD alt said:

That's pretty stupid, considering that plenty of football analysts say that we should pick a WR high. So, believe it or not, you're the one in the minority. Tells you how smart you are. 

That’s pretty weak. How many analysts endorsed Bryce Young? Almost all. Yeah I am gonna use them to back up my opinion.  

Bringing a pen knife to a sword fight. Haven’t we had enough of that poo for the last three years? 

Yeah it was good. Bogged down towards the end but a lot of finer points of the process were covered in a way that we don’t see enough of. 

28 minutes ago, chknwing said:

would be great if Evero liked to play rookies.  This is why the defense was handled in free agency.  Id say safety in round 2 or 3.  Because he wont start under Evero, he wont be an impact player out the gate and Carolina has stated they want an impact player in round 1.  Round 1 will be offense.  Expect Sadiq or a WR.

That isn’t wrong about Evero and rookies. But he will play them. Played Scourton. I think if there is no one to keep you down, you’ll probably play. If he has a vet to use, it is much harder to move up. 

1 hour ago, Swaggasaurus said:

I’m actually looking for a new Brady. Hopefully Trey Zuhn, maybe Parker from Duke. Brady has been an asset, but he’s endured a broken ankle biceps tear, and now Achilles tear. Last year we got 4 starts on a 2.8 million 1 year deal. Rookie deal sounds better to my ear.

I am all about drafting OL. That swing guy is the 6th OL. I am a little worried that Dan is losing sight of what makes this team go.

The OL and the ground game are what made us relevant. And give that little QB a chance, I don’t see how he has one without them.  

20 minutes ago, Stuart Smith said:

If we do not draft an offensive lineman I hope Brady Christensen gets resigned. Even if he is hurt now, it’s a long season. 

I think we should expect that, maybe regardless of the draft. I mean even if we do invest in OL. 

No I want one of those LBs in the second. Right or wrong. 
I think this is said to be a down class of RBs. I would hope there would be a run of the mill stud somewhere later though. Out of all the young men in the USA who played RB, there kind of have to be one or two in there somewhere. We just need one. 

Wonder if we draft a RB. Seems like a lot of eggs in Brooks’ basket right now. 
And the OL, no kidding. If that running game goes to hell with what we have at QB, you can forget competing. It is so much more important than sticking another wideout on the field. Take your wideout later. 

7 hours ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

I think for Dan to have gotten the GM job, he had to be involved pretty heavily as Fitt's assistant. I've been an assistant and I've had them. If all Dan did was agree to whatever Scott said, then he was nothing more than a coffee guy. I'm sure he was doing evaluations, draft boards, going after FAs, all that stuff. Fitts couldn't do it all. How much Fitts listened to him we'll never really know, but I'm sure he was giving his input. I condemn him for being part of that group and part of the results of the results of that team.

His first year drafting was horrible, very reminiscent of Fitts drafts. Reaches and projects. His 2nd year was better. We'll see what happens this year and how his team building overall comes together. Right now I think we're a 7-10 team, very limited by our QB play. Hopefully Bryce either turns a corner into a franchise QB or tanks so spectacularly we have no choice but to move on. If he rides that roller coaster again, I hope Dan can admit it's time to look elsewhere. 

I have lots of different thoughts on it. This argument, the primary thing is I don’t like seeing him or anyone, being convicted on hearsay and/or pure speculation. Which some are doing. 
I don’t care That much about defending Morgan as I do about the criticism being fair minded. 
 

You sort of assert that Dan was just a yes man. I don’t think we know if he ever pushed back against Fitterer but I have this instinct thing that needs me to satisfy the question of: if Tepper was so down on a Fitterer as to fire him, why in the world would he hire his carbon copy? I guess maybe he wanted a yes man.Like I said, lots of different thoughts.  
 

I am just not gonna judge him that harshly based only on speculation. I am sticking with what he has done starting when he was hired as GM. Maybe I am more lenient because the first season for him and Canales, I gave both a pass. Said I would judge them after the first year. Stuck to it. If you can get to the reality that neither were ready for the job and say okay give them a year get their feet wet, it looks a lot better. 
 

And we are not bound to Bryce yet. Yes, for yet another fuging year he can probably marginally improve and slide by like he has been doing. But if they add even more people and he regresses? I think we could see some relief. 
 

The QB room? As I understand it, Pickett was Canales’ choice. If we need to blame people for poo. In a sense, he is very Bryce like. So makes a good plug in. I get that a little bit. We still have the draft. If they do better than Jake Plummer or Hooker I’ll know they are trying. 

1 hour ago, SOJA said:

so I just want to get something off here. 

Is cheating bad? Yes. Should you do it? No

But the amount of blood lust I've seen for people coming after Dianna calling for her to be fired is astounding. People are obsessed with tearing others down but I gurantee all of those people have done poo in their life too and would cry foul play if someone called for their jobs 

Ehh, she should have be fired. Or resigned. What I said in the post right before yours I am quoting gives the reason. There is no rage involved. Just standards. 
As far as your point I agree that the level of hostility in a lot of opinions is high. I see hypocritical blood lust level of self righteousness everywhere in society today, and it isn’t going to sit this one out. It is everywhere. 

2 hours ago, frankw said:

You know once upon a time some people responded this way to others about Scott Fitterer too. Ultra defensive. Angry. How dare you say those things etc. And at the end of the day. All this bluster for a guy whose resume is one terrible draft and one solid draft. And overpaying free agents and assembling the highest paid OL two years in a row just to achieve middling results. And trading up to draft Xavier Legette who is basically a clone of Terrace Marshall Jr and Jonathan Mingo. We aren't talking Ozzie Newsome or Howie Roseman here. But no worries. Keep your fantasy alive brother. Blessings to you.

You can play it that way if you want, but I am not the angry one. That is you. And fantasy? As if You have the facts? Where did you get your facts? Because my whole point with this is that you are condemning Morgan for something you really don’t know anything about. I don’t either. That is the point, that I won’t condemn him for things that were on Fitterer’s watch and you will. 

27 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

I was surprised there weren't a few more with jammed or broken fingers. I know they say catch it with your hands, but with Cam, a body catch might have been the safer bet, at least for the fingers. 

It was always one setting, smoke. Until he got hurt.  And watching him try to take something off on a flair or outlet or screen pass, you never knew where it was gonna go. Over the head, at the feet… 

He had few flaws but that was a big one. 

1 hour ago, frankw said:

I have no idea who ya'll is I responded about the opponents.

There is no way we are getting past the likes of the Lions Bears Broncos Seahawks Packers Browns Steelers and Eagles without a godly running game because we certainly aren't going to pass all over them.

Maybe you should ask your buddy Dan Morgan to bring in some real QB competition pal.

You want to call me out for one thing and out of nowhere insert your Morgan obsession into it. You be you. 

Doesn’t seem to matter how many times people try to hip you to what an assistant is, you just won’t accept it. You are apparently hard wired into believing an assistant calls the shots and keeps his job by disputing the boss. And if he doesn’t do that, well he is just as bad as the boss. 

I don’t know if you will ever learn that yes you can disagree with the boss, but once you make your argument and he doesn’t buy it, you are done. There is nowhere else to go with it, either get behind it or you’ll have problems. Because you will be a problem. I think you probably do know that but for the sake of your anger choose to disregard it so you can keep ranting bullshit that you have no proof of about Dan Morgan being Fitterer. 

1 hour ago, rebelrouser said:

Interesting. His 40, vertical, and broad were pretty damn impressive.  

I saw someone else talking about it. Apparently he didn’t do the position drills. The stuff like 3 cone, the stuff that you would need to be solid in planting the foot and driving left or right. And people think it means he isn’t exactly right. 

Division, not Conference.  We have 6 division games and then the NFC teams are conference games. Y’all making me dizzy.  

20 hours ago, Basbear said:

Gun to my head, NO scares me the most......the upside of that team and the coaching staff(I feel the best in nfc south).

Plus they are getting a stud at 8, just no way around it. I just hope its not Love, if so.....DL needs to picked in alllll panther picks....They are likely getting a OSU stud and that hurts no matter what. please no love ....

Yeah I think we are long term trouble there. Their QB came in and looked like an NFL QB right off the bat. 
Ours takes yearly baby steps towards that. 

41 minutes ago, JawnyBlaze said:

I’m not mad about 7.5, but TB at 8.5 and the other two teams tied with us is ludicrous. We should be at least a game higher than the rest of those scrubs. We won the division, we got better, TB and Atl got worse, NO is NO. 

That should be the perception, I agree. 

19 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

We've needed a true returner for a long time. We seem content to throw whoever back there. Returning kicks is a craft that is heavily undervalued here even though it can greatly impact a game. Devin Hester was feared for a reason. It's a lot easier to drive 40 yards than 75. 

With these current kickoff rules, seems like we are getting a lot more returns. Whereas for a few seasons the KR was pretty devalued I guess you could say, with all the touchbacks. So I didn’t really complain about it. 
I believe they might have brought that position back a little now with encouraging the ball be kicked to a place it can be returned. So treat the KR as a true weapon, not just a sure handed fair catcher.