LinvilleGorge

Kick the tires of all else fails. I'm definitely not pushing for Mayfield.

Agreed. We were getting blown up in the middle.

He can want whatever he pleases. He ain't gonna get it.

Yeah, it really is. If we were winning I wouldn't like it but I could see an argument for moving on to something else. But to put up three straight five win seasons and trying to strip the very foundation of what has become the Panthers' culture? Yeah, Tepper can go fug himself. He couldn't do a better job of trying to gut this fanbase if he was actively trying to do just that. "Keep Pounding" is basically the only thing we have left to hold onto.

I think the NFL realizes he needs a big ego checking and they're giving him one. It won't shock me if the Browns end up having to outright cut him and he has to sign a low cap hit prove it deal.

I don't think we make a pick at #6. Fitts lives to trade down and lives to trade in general. We have a serious lack of overall draft capital having no day two picks. Add it all up and it screams trade down IMO.

Tepper wants rid of anything and everything that predates him. He's making it very, very easy for fans to say fug it and throw in the towel. It honestly wouldn't shock me if he started pushing for a complete rebranding and changing the team name/mascot.

Enter Kenny Pickett.

At first, we went with the smart, physically limited QB in Teddy. Then we went with the physically talented but mentally limited Darnold. Going with a Jimmy G would basically just be regressing back to our initial QB mistake.

Entitlement makes you think you can make every throw.

I agree but it's because of his entitled attitude. Is that fixable? Eh... I doubt it.

Put Jimmy G on this team and he'll look like Sam Darnold. Put Mayfield on this team and he'll probably be an absolute cancer. If you could combine Jimmy G's attitude with Mayfield's talent you'd probably have a QB. Unfortunately you can't.

Nah, serious. Everything I've heard about him says he's the perfect teammate. I just wouldn't want to pay that cap hit for a veteran hand holder.

Everything about Jimmy G suggests he'd be a great vet mentor.

Insert whatever bum on the Niners roster at QB and he probably has playoff stats.

They're both under contract. It would be yet another trade for a cast off level vet QB.

This "he's a winner" stuff has to stop. He sucks. He's a subpar QB who has been fortunate to play for some really good overall teams. Look at his playoff stats. They're Darnold level bad.

If we could get Mayfield for that I'd rather go that route than Jimmy G. Mayfield with an ego checking could be a good QB. The only two vets I'd consider are Mayfield (for the right price) and Minshew. Minshew would preferably be brought in as a bridge while we develop (the thought of this staff developing a rookie QB ) a rookie.

I said a long time ago that Jimmy G would be our QB. Everything about Jimmy G screams "Matt Rhule QB".

It's literally "The Brand".

If this was created by a professional marketing team, then our marketing department might actually be worse than our football department.

Honestly I think it's driven by Tepper. He's been trying to downplay "Keep Pounding" since he bought the team. He wants rid of everything that was from the pre-Tepper era. By extension, I have to assume that he wants rid of the prior fanbase as well because holy poo, he couldn't be doing much better of a job of running us off.

I don't follow the NBA anymore but Matt Rhule and Phil Jackson might still be the worst 1-2 combo.

I feel vindicated that when I finally get to the point that I throw in the towel that I didn't quit on the Panthers. The Panthers became a completely different thing than the Panthers I'd always rooted for. We just grew apart.

It's so unfinished. I would think it was a work in progress with "The Brand" standing in for what the slogan was actually going to be except for that super cringe dictionary pronunciation key for "brand" underneath. This is HS project level marketing and that might be an insult to decent HS students.