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Hickory is a poo hole. I think they've found three bodies in the last three days. That place is going to hell in a hand basket. Big enough to have city problems, not big enough to have city amenities. Morganton sucks too. Spread the word. Please. I'm afraid we're on the Brevard path.

If before noon it's the result of him still being drunk from the night before.

It depends on his priorities and dreams. Maybe the guy grew up daydreaming about winning the Heisman. $4M is a lot of money but he'd be turning down a lot more as a seeming lock to be a top 10 pick with no guarantees of improving his stock for next year with guys like Drake Maye and Caleb Williams lurking.

Bruh... the NCAA gonna have to do SOMETHING about this NIL poo if Ohio State outbids the NFL for CJ Stroud.

I mean, naming an interim head coach that has no coaching experience beyond the HS level is about as blatant as tanking gets.

Brevard is fuging ruined. I was up there this past weekend trying to fish the Davidson. Despite it being cool and dreary the river was packed. Every trailhead overflowing. It's over for that town.

I honestly don't think a huge trade up is on the table. I could see us moving up a couple spots or something to secure our guy but I don't see us jumping up into the top 3 picks.

WR is definitely one of our top needs. DJ is a stud who is completely underappreciated by much of this fanbase but he's the only proven NFL WR we have on the roster.

I don't want to trade for Derek Carr and his current contract. I would not be opposed to signing Derek Carr as a FA. I just don't think I'd be willing to pay his likely market value. In the perfect world, Derek Carr on a reasonable 3 year deal with an out after 2 years and Anthony Richardson at #9 sounds like a helluva plan to me.

Seeing how huge trades and massive contracts for Russell Wilson and Deshaun Watson are working out, I think I'm all the way out on trading a king's ransom for a QB another team is willing to part with and then handing him a record setting contract.

Carr is a considerably better NFL QB than Daniel Jones. Good grief.

What's wrong with the job Saleh has done thus far? They had a top 5 defense and nearly doubled their wins this year. They need a QB.

Exactly. There's two types of coaches who can afford to take on a project at QB - a new coach and a firmly entrenched coach.

That roster, particularly on offense is atrocious. I think they should put #1 on the block and sell it off to the highest bidder for the most assets they can get. That is unless they think a QB in the draft is significantly better than Fields in which case they should put Fields in the block instead. The latter would be a huge risk though. Fields has shown promise and the near universal consensus is that you should go all in on building a team around him. So if you trade him and draft another QB you damn well better be right because if he flourishes elsewhere while your new QB flounders... oh wee mayne.

Yeah, I would be shocked if he didn't go into that interview with a pretty well put together plan regarding how he plans to approach the offensive side of the ball, the OC or at least OC candidates being a key piece of that plan. I mean if he didn't, he's basically out.

He still has to be putting feelers out for his potential staff. Having actual names of guys you've contacted and know have potential interest to give Tepper is a much better case to make than simply saying your plan is to hire a good OC then have to admit that no, you haven't actually seen if those guys have are actually interested.

We do. But honestly it's been so long since we've been relevant that other NFL fans don't see us as a legit franchise anyway so they'd rather see a good guy get another chance.

They know Wilks got screwed in Arizona and want to see him get an actual legit shot because he's a good guy.

I was raked over the coals by a lot of folks here for saying that I thought CMC was milking minor injuries to avoid wearing out the tread on his tires being run into the ground on a team that sucked where feeding him the ball constantly was their best hope and that don't be shocked if he forces his way out of here and suddenly becomes much more durable playing for a better team. Well, what now?

Remember when the NFL let another elite OSU QB prospect slide because who knows why? I wouldn't mind to see that happen again. Just actually fuging draft him this time around if it happens again.

Good for him. Good for them. Good for us. A rare win/win NFL trade. They were ready to compete now. We weren't and needed out from under a big money RB contract and needed more draft capital.

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It seems pretty obvious at this point that the smart money is on the Panthers'next HC being from the offensive side of the ball. Maybe it'll be a surprise defensive guy but it sure seems like the bulk of the interviews are offensive guys.

Its a good point. A lot of what makes Mahomes Mahomes isn't the things you'd teach a QB to do. Hell, a lot of it is stuff you'd specifically teach them NOT to do.

I've been hearing how the Saints' cap issues are coming home to roost now for over a decade. It might be time to just admit that they're better at the accounting fugery than we are.