LinvilleGorge

Yep. I was thinking the same. It was past time for us to part ways with Ron the football coach but I've always like Ron the man.

It's not about being sold on Hubbard long term. It's about him vs. a 4th round rookie on a roster full of holes and short on draft capital. Unless we're entertaining trading CMC, RB should pretty much be off the board unless there's just some unbelievably tremendous value available.

And that was his problem. Snap, emotional judgements. Sure, it worked out great on a few players but it led to a really awful overall batting percentage. Everyone considered by the NFL has some nice college highlights.

There isn't value of there isn't room on the roster though. I have a hard time seeing a 4thbround rookie making our roster over CMC, Foreman, and Hubbard. Mid-round picks are also where the value is often found with LBs and IOL. I'd rather spend picks there where a rookie would have a much stronger chance of sticking.

Agreed. Honestly, taking a RB doesn't make sense otherwise. It would be difficult for a rookie to make the roster with CMC, Foreman, and Hubbard already here and given our lack of draft capital we need to be taking guys who we are very comfortable can make the 53 even with our late rounders.

I really think that they would ideally like to trade down to get more picks to make up for the lack of a 2nd or 3rd round pick and take a QB later than 6th. I just wonder what happens if someone trades up to take a QB in front of them? Would they stick to their guns and still trade back or would they panic?

I agree with the Mayfield physical comparisons. The big difference is between the ears and Mayfield didn't fall out of favor because of lack of physical ability.

So another slam dunk losing season? Fitts had alluded to it. At some point, you have to stop pushing the chips off to the future and start swinging at QB and keep swinging until you get a hit. And as we've found out, cast off vets have by far the lowest batting percentage. The vets we actually want want no part of us.

Fields/Gardner for sure. If Fields was in this draft class he'd be the slam dunk #1 QB prospect which was a point I made last year around this time - Fields had the make up of a #1 overall draft pick in most draft classes. Last year's QB class was just extremely strong on paper. I do have to wonder though... just how bad were his interviews, OSU coach feedback, etc? Because him slipping to 9th overall still doesn't make sense to me.

at the sad little state fan reacting

Where you been? Everything we've been doing at the QB position in recent years has best been described as "next level stupid".

If Darnold is under center we're gonna be lucky to match the five wins of the past three seasons considering we've lost our sack leader and best CB from last year's team.

Retaining Rhule for a third year isn't a promising start to the learning curve.

I was really hopeful about Tepper in the beginning too. I'm just seeing virtually nothing to cling to in order to keep that hope going at this point. He's brilliant in the world of investing. He seems like a moron in the world of running an NFL football team.

Not much of that wealth increase is due to the Panthers. If you had disposable wealth at the beginning of this pandemic and you don't have significantly more now, then you missed a LOT of low hanging fruit. There was a huge transfer of wealth as there always is during any sort of economic hiccup.

Kind of a dick statement about a former UDFA who has carved out a pretty successful career as a fringe NFL player for nearly a decade.

at the premise that Tepper "won't start making bad business decisions now." You have to completely ignore his tenure as the Panthers' owner to still be clinging to that pipedream.

Howell being "down" is baffling. The NFL is really fuging up this evaluation if someone doesn't take him in the 1st. But, that's why there are steals and busts every single year. They do the best they can, but the NFL fugs up a lot of draft evals.

Because that's what it is. Homicide doesn't automatically mean a crime was committed. It just means the death of a human caused by another human. Until they figure out exactly what happened, it's going to be an open traffic homicide investigation.

It's an hour and a half without traffic. You don't want your day to day office being an hour and a half from where you play. You kinda force your players and coaches to live halfway in between or closer to Spartanburg. A lot of players want to live in the city. You aren't commuting three hours everyday and that's without factoring in I-85 traffic. It's way too far away for a headquarters.

I just don't think people grasp this. Oh! Restaurants and retail! Yippee! Low paying service jobs!

You can't have your headquarters that far away, especially not with the traffic on I-85 that's only going to keep getting worse.

I'll repeat. When you're a top 10 pick and you're traded for much less a year later, you ARE a bust. Josh Rosen is a bust. CJ Henderson is a bust. We hope that we can salvage Henderson's career but early returns don't look good.

Schefter is an NFL reporter. He's reporting on a news story from an NFL perspective. Be mad if you want but you're missing the context.