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It's also worth asking how are the Vikings doing? Top teams can play the game of moving good players for premium picks to conserve cap space and hope to not get worse in the process. We're not there. We don't have the luxury of creating more holes on this block of swiss cheese. Especially when our biggest hole is by far the most important hole.

You resign good young players at premium positions. Guys like Burns and Moore at edge rusher and WR. You let guys walk at less premium positions. Guys like CMC and Shaq at RB and LB for instance. Historically, we have badly mismanaged our allocation of resources, both on terms of draft picks and cap space. You have to spend at positions of importance and fill lesser positions with veteran stop gaps and mid-round picks. I would put positional value over all else in terms of spending capital. People wanting to take a center at #6 overall are outta their minds. I might feel differently of that was the glaring weakness on a team positioned to contend but that's not our situation at all.

Someone would have to significantly overpay. Very few WRs would have three straight 1000 yard seasons given our QB and overall offensive situation in those three seasons. DJ is wildly underrated by this fanbase. I think he's the second best WR we've ever had. If you want to still out Moose over him I won't argue too hard against it. But at absolute worst he's 3rd. No one else is even in the conversation. I honestly wouldn't trade him for any less than two 1sts.

Good move on the surface. I'll hold off on celebrating it until we see the details. As long as we've given him a market value rotational LB/core STer type contract then good move.

Probably because they're trying to actually build a winner. Odd how we'll cut bait on QBs left and right while pretending that the guy picking and overspending on these failed QBs isn't part of the problem if not the root cause of the problem.

You're not. For many, a sporting event is basically just a social event. The game is part of the background noise. Some fans care about winning and seeing effort made to actually win. Weird.

Fact.

"We just have to be better as a unit,” Taylor said, via Bengals.com. “I think that we’ll just look to improve the team any way that we can and not specific to one necessary group. The offensive line helped us get to the Super Bowl. They gave us opportunities to go win the Super Bowl. Everything always falls on them statistically, but that’s not always the case. There are play calls that could be better to help put them in a better position. There is a lot that plays into all that. They were an offensive line that helped us get to the Super Bowl and gave us opportunities to win and I think they should be commended for that." https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/02/16/zac-taylor-defends-bengals-offensive-line-says-he-can-call-better-plays-to-improve-protection/ The whole damn world saw the Bengals' OL play like poo all season and that went a long way in the Bengals ultimately coming up just short but Zac Taylor doesn't blame them. He puts the responsibility on himself. Shocking for a Panthers fan so accustomed to watching Rivera and Rhule throw their players under the bus. to Zac Taylor.

I can see it now. We go 7-10 or 8-9 and Rhule is retained showing improvement. The process is working! 1000%

I can't imagine the hopelessness of following two Tepper pro sports ventures. It'd probably be less agonizing to just go outside and slam your dick in a car door.

I know the relationship between pressure and desperate decisions. Desperate decisions rarely work out. Tepper should've put on his big boy pants and owned up to his mistake and fired Rhule. Instead we're basically going into Fox's lame duck season 2.0 except the coach has the full power to tank the future of the franchise trying to save his job. Folks, it's ugly and it's likely to get uglier before it has the chance to get better.

Burrow was the prospect Lawrence was hyped to be. The dude is special.

I think they were lamenting never going all in with Cam in his prime. Going all in now would mean gunning for the #1 overall pick.

The Bengals took the 'suck until you fall back assward into an elite franchise QB and the best rookie WR ever' approach. They're an awful organization and Burrow and Chase would be wise to force their way out of there at their earliest opportunity.

Mitch signed with Buffalo because he wanted a stable situation to regroup. I highly doubt he's going to jump right back into another full blown poo show.

I've been predicting a move for Jimmy G for months if we go the vet route again. I'll honestly he pretty surprised if our QB isn't either Jimmy G or Kenny Pickett... and that's fuging horrifying.

They certainly sent a message when they picked up Darnold's option and jumped on overpaid bad OL at the opening bell of free agency. Unfortunately, it wasn't the message they intended. The message:

When people ask "why did Pickett suddenly boom in his fifth season?" I always point out that it's probably because he's the same age as the average 2nd or 3rd year NFL player. He was a literal man among boys.

I'm just laughing to keep from crying. He either believes it or he knows Rhule sucks and he's hanging onto him anyway either due to the contract or just no knowing how to fix it. Either way, it's a very bleak outlook for Panthers fans.

Why would he rein him in? The process is working. 1000%. You just can't see it. Tepper is smarter than us. He can see it working.

In Rhule's mind, the only thing a QB like Jimmy G or Teddy or Darnold is missing is his brilliant coaching and tutelage. Oh, Teddy and Sam? Rhule was just wrong about those particular guys. The process is still working. 1000% Actually, in retrospect Rhule would almost certainly blame Teddy on Joe Brady while Sam was a "group decision". Shirking any and all blame is what Matt Rhule does best.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Please Ron, help us. Go get Jimmy G and save us from ourselves!

Potential head coaches with other suitors also know that. That's my concern right now. Rhule is going to leave us so gutted that anyone with other options is going to choose another option. You're basically dooming yourself to failure taking a job coaching a bad team saddled with limited roster building capital.

He's going to keep swinging (and striking out) until he gets fired.