LinvilleGorge

Arguing against the next war is like betting on the sun to rise in the morning. You're just guaranteed to be right. LOL

Overall I'm happy. We've never drafted a receiver this high and that's probably a big part of the reason why we've only had one elite tier level WR in franchise history. Scourton looked like top 10 pick material playing at a lighter weight then bulking up hurt his sack number while he overall still played well. We're going to play him at the lighter weight. Princely is a guy a lot of folks were hot or cold on. Hopefully the hot folks were right. But he has NFL measurables, had double digit sacks last year, and most importantly to me he showed steady progression as a player throughout his college career. The arrow is pointing up. Etienne surprised me. I wasn't expecting us to go RB this early but I think he's a solid compliment to Chuba and most of us expected us to draft a RB at some point in the mid to late rounds so it's not shocking. I don't love the Ransom pick simply because he's not the type of safety I wanted us to draft. I wanted us to draft a deep coverage specialist. But, that's the type of safety the Panthers have never seemed to value and it doesn't seem like anything has changed there. It is what it is. I didn't expect us to wait this long to add a DT in this strong DT draft but Cam Jackson was a guy we showed a lot of interest in throughout the pre-draft process so this clearly wasn't a panic move with DTs flying off the board. This is a guy we liked all along. Mitchell Evans is a well rounded TE that probably projects as an NFL backup which is fine at this point in the draft. Like Etienne, he's another guy with an elite 10 yard split time. What he lacks in downfield ability he makes up for in initial suddenness. That can end up being a lot more important on a football field than deep speed. Horn seems like a guy added at least as much for his return ability as his receiving ability. I like that for a late round pick. It gives a guy multiple paths to making the roster.

The Panthers did briefly have a forum for the fans on their site. Yeah, they probably got tired of getting clowned on for doing dumb poo and just shut it down. LOL

I came over from the old Scout Inc. site. Quite a few of us did. Not sure how many folks are still here from there now. It all kind of runs together in my head at this point and I can't really distinguish one from the other anymore it's been so long ago.

If Caleb Williams doesn't work out it's definitely his fault because the Bears are ALL IN. They went out and got an offensive coach and they've put an embarrassment of riches of skill positions talent around him. It's on him at this point.

Highly likely.

Cool. Sure seems like all the media talk about T-Mac slipping leading up to the draft was just flat out misguided and we drafted the guy that the actual NFL talent evaluators had as the clear WR1. Good.

Yeah, we kinda found out didn't we. A lot of the people who whined constantly left and a lot of the toxicity just magically vanished with them with zero changes in how we moderated the site. Wild. It's almost like the folks who were constantly complaining about toxicity were causing a lot of the toxicity. Listen, some folks were unhappy here so they left and created a place where they're happier. Good. That's how the internet should work. That's the beautiful thing about the internet. If there isn't a virtual place that you think should exist you can create that place. But you really have to stop trying to drag us back to that place of toxicity. If you like the Discord group, cool. If you still like it here too, great. But don't keep dragging up this bullshit. Do you see me going over to their group and calling them a bunch of whiners? No. They created the place that they wanted and I'm genuinely happy for them. Participate here without constantly bringing that poo up or just leave and stay over there.

oh good lord... LOL

Cool for him to sign here but damn, with our absolute logjam of young WRs I would've thought there would be a better opportunity.

Eli's play in those two SBs runs was off the charts though. Two rings > none.

True. But at the end of the day you make the big swings at the top of the draft for a QB for one thing - rings. That's it. The Giants got 'em. The Chargers really didn't make much post season noise at all going 5-7 in the playoffs with Rivers.

I mean, you can't accuse us of not being serious about improving the WR corps.

It may take a decade to figure out. Early on it sure looked like the Chargers won that Eli trade. Rivers looked at least as good as Eli and they got numerous other high quality pieces. But when it was all done, 2 rings to none says the Giants clearly won.

Like what? Set up as few auto-pays as you possibly can. It's wild how much people spend on auto-payments that they largely just forget about. I think I have a grand total of three subscription services and all my other bills come as bills. I ain't giving out my CC number or bank account info for them to just charge me all willy nilly. Fug that

You can always report your CC lost or stolen and bingo, fixed

Say what? Funchess caught 3 passes for 32 yards in his entire non-Panthers career.

Can't imagine his dad gave him the contact info. Kid has to have had his dad's phone for something and started going through messages or something. Or maybe his dad sent his son something stupid Shedeur had sent in a text chain not realizing that his son was weapons grade stupid and would do something like this.

It was just a dick move. Evidently Tyler Warren got prank called too when the Jets were on the clock.

Kiper's meltdown over Shedeur and the rest of the ESPN table basically just having to tell him to STFU was an all-time draft clown show moment. LOL

Smitty's response is exactly the problem a lot of people have with Smitty. A college position coach is just sticking up for his kid and Smitty immediately takes it personally and just outright attacks him. At least he's doing it on YouTube now instead of breaking noses but it just shows that Smitty hasn't grown in that regard.

I sure hope so. Post-2017 has been a rough ride. People tend to forget that we had an 11 win season two years after the SB loss, but after that it's been a suffer fest for sure.

THIS I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again in the future so when I'm wrong, let it work out on a way that's positive for the Panthers. It ain't gonna hurt my feelings.

If he really did that I would avoid him like the plague if I was a recruit. So if things don't work out for me at Washington for whatever reason and I have to transfer and then blossom into an NFL prospect, you're gonna badmouth me to your NFL contacts? Nah, that ain't gonna work for me. Obviously it didn't hurt T-Mac but if you're a mid-late round non-elite prospect that could be really damaging to your NFL prospects.

That and the attempts to put pieces around Cam failing. We spent a 1st on KB and he flamed out after a promising start then a 2nd on Funchess and he just failed to launch. All the Cam detractors claiming he was the problem with receivers not working out, I just ask them to name all the receivers whose careers blossomed after they were able to escape having to play with Cam. Don't worry, I'll wait. LOL