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Yeah, TB seems head and shoulders above the rest of the division with a sizable step down to ATL and then us and N.O. at the base of a cliff below that. I do think we have a good chance of being better than N.O. and if Penix has a sophomore slump 2nd in the division wouldn't be a crazy outcome but something pretty crazy would have to happen for us to catch TB.

That's pretty wild. I figured 6 or 8 wins would probably be the rosiest prediction.

Yep, he's marketable and that's cool but featuring him as heavily as the Panthers have this off-season is just putting more pressure on a guy who struggled to transition to the NFL as a rookie. Just let him focus on football for right now. Being marketable isn't gonna matter if the whole football thing doesn't work out.

Lets see that slip

Didn't Icky recently have an appendectomy? I wouldn't be surprised if we're playing coy on the injury reports because it seems pretty wild that he'd be ready to play football so soon afterwards.

Surprised to see Dallas THAT low. Sure seems like they have minimal confidence in Caleb Williams too. TB seems a couple spots too high IMO. Fully expected us and the Saints to be wallowing around in the muck.

I would take Luke and TD at LB with Sir Purr lining up at S over whatever we're gonna field this year.

Because we don't have any other viable option.

Smitty is one of those people who seems like once he gets a craw in his ass about you there's no getting over it and pretty much anything or nothing at all can trigger it to begin with.

That's probably the only time Nakamura could get captured in the same frame as Julio. Dude was super duper mega ass.

He sucks for sure, but...

fugin' Nick Scott...

We could use a legendary retired WR to mentor our youngsters. Anybody got Moose's number?

Trading any 1sts can't even be a consideration until we know we have QB solved. The organization has convinced themselves on Bryce but I'm far from convinced. If his ceiling is what he was after coming back from the benching he ain't it. He needs to keep building in that.

Fug no.

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I just don't know that he has the time to turn it around at his age. His age is going to be a major strike against him in the recruiting trail and it's just a tough row to hoe to turn a football program around. One good recruiting class can turn around a basketball team. Hell, one individual recruit can turna around a basketball team - Carmelo Anthony basically won a national championship single handedly at Syracuse. Cam at Auburn is the only college who even comes close to that type of impact off the top of my head. A good recruiting class is 2-3 years down the road from significantly impacting a college football program... if you can actually keep them around. The instant impact is in the portal but everyone else is chasing those guys too. If I was building a college program, I'd focus almost exclusively on the trenches starting out. To me, that's the big difference in college. The better teams dominate the trenches. There's just a LOT more talent disparity at the college level than there is the NFL level. The worst teams in the NFL are still full of guys who were all conference or all American at the college level. The gap between the best team in the NFL and the tenth best team in the NFL is pretty small. A couple of plays might be the difference. The #1 team in the country is probably going to be a 10 point favorite over the #10 team at the college level. The gap on talent between the #1 team and the #32 team is a massive gulf. The #1 team's backups would be competitive against the #32 team. I just don't know if Belichick after a career in the NFL was prepared for the level of talent disparity he was going to face.

Basically looked like UNC from last year. No defense and not enough offense to make up for it. Having Sam Howell and then Drake Maye as well as some pretty damn good RBs hid a lot of underlying talent issues that can't be hidden anymore. We have 70 new players under Belichick and evidently half of them aren't D1 caliber.

Yeah, I know people are saying to grab him to bolster our special teams and I get that, but let's be honest... do we really think we're likely in a position where a better special teams gunner is going to fundamentally help our team? I wouldn't want to release anyone who we think has any potential either this year or down the road to contribute on offense or defense to add a better gunner to this year's roster. Now if we want to add him and drop David Moore? Okay, fine. That's the type of move that would make sense. We drop our token core special teamer for a better token core special teamer.

That's insane. I have to imagine that women's softball is a losing proposition for almost every school. Hell, everything outside of football and men's basketball probably is. They're called the "revenue sports" for a reason. Those sports basically fund the rest of the athletic department.

And honestly you have to divorce basketball from football. A lot more schools could probably afford to compete in the top tier of basketball vs. football.

Oh for sure, most of the ACC would be out. All those schools whose fans chant "SEC! SEC! SEC!" so that they can ride the coattails of the actual good teams would be out. The bottom half of the Big10 would be out. It would be a complete realignment.

It doesn't come down to current performance. It comes down to ability and willingness to spend. UNC would be there, probably hovering near the bottom in football and competing in basketball. You know, pretty much same as it ever was.

Yeah, I honestly think Jay Bilas has had the best idea that I've heard. You basically have to treat this as what it has become - it's professional sports loosely tied to colleges. You have to sign these kids to contracts with buyouts. If an Alabama or OSU comes after your guy you already have a contract with a buyout. If they take your guy they owe you money. Have salary caps just like the NFL and those buyouts count toward the cap. The schools that can't afford to spend near the cap will ultimately fall off and gravitate toward the non-major conferences. It's basically just a new alignment of D1 and D1AA and there probably only need to be 30-40 at most schools in the top tier.