JawnyBlaze

Yea I lump keeping Ron too long in the “coaching decision”. Rock hill has nothing to do with the football team so who cares.

The feeling that people are getting that Young is catching up to Stroud in the Panthers’ eyes might mean the misdirection is working

It’s been obvious from day one that Tepper lets his football people make the decisions. He’s never been a meddling owner despite what some here believe for some reason. Made a mistake in his first decision on a coach, but beyond that there haven’t been any problems.

Doesn’t matter he isn’t as good as TJ Watt, his deal will be newer so the bar has been raised.

As long as they get rid of the silver helmets I’ll be satisfied.

That’s why I said it’s weird. Could have been a low cost way of projecting confidence to the team, building morale. Who knows. Even if we did swap the wrong way in the 7th, who really cares, it’s just a 7th.

With Rhule, Wilks, Darnold and Mayfield, and with Brady still in the division, we still almost won the division last year. As long as our new QB isn’t worse than Mayfield/Darnold we should be winning the division, guaranteeing the pick is back half. Hell, even if the rookie has a terrible first year (which I don’t see happening with either Stroud or Young, they’re both really mature and smart. Much better than most top rookie QBs), I’d guess even Dalton is better than Darnold and Mayfield.

Some of us commented before the word conditional was added to the reports

That’s weird, so if we end up worse than them next year, we swap for a worse pick and give up Zane?

I still want a TE at 39. This TE class is way better than the WR class anyway

Oof, hope he learns to kick under pressure. High % is great and all but I’d rather a 90% guy that just misses long attempts early in the game, not chip shots when the game is on the line

Absolutely. I’ve been talking about that since halfway through the season. The reason some people are saying the Ga game was an eye opener is because they weren’t watching him until that playoff game

That’s what I saw that I was talking about above

Saw something earlier that said five teams were in negotiations to trade for Hopkins, Panthers weren’t one of them. Doesn’t mean a whole lot, but it’s not nothing.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqJNGTKszZG/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Reich doesn’t look nearly as enamored in that parting of ways as he did with Stroud. Looks almost disinterested.

I’d be satisfied with Young but I want Stroud. “Small” QBs have had injury problems lately, like Murray and Tua and they’re both bigger. Stroud is also a better passer. The only thing Young is better at is scramble drills. But he’s still a good enough passer that I’d be happy with either. They’re roughly equal in the mental aspect, Stroud has an advantage in throwing ability and Young had an advantage in scrambling. The gap is relatively small in both circumstances. Even setting size concerns aside I’ll take the better thrower over the better scrambler, but if Young is the one Reich wants I’ll trust his decision.

Someone posted a graphic some time ago, showing the defenses OSU faced this year were way better than the defenses Alabama faced.

If Bryce was 6’3 he still wouldn’t throw as well as Stroud and Stroud would still be my pick.

The unique info from this video is RG3 talking about Stroud “chip on his shoulder”, a peek at Stroud’s mentality and attitude that I’ve only seen briefly mentioned before. Orlovsky’s breakdown is interesting too, but not anything particularly new. The stuff I’m referring to starts around the middle part of the video.

One thing unique I took from this video is the bias against smaller receivers. If this Colts guy is to be believed, the Downs, Flowers, Dell fans aren’t going to be happy heh. If we do take a receiver in the first few rounds it’ll probably be one of the very few bigger receivers

The panthers guy said Ken Wisenhunt’s last name like six different ways, and never correctly lol

I mostly agree with you. But I don’t necessarily buy that Tepper particularly wants Young or Richardson more than Stroud. I think that is all part of the misdirection game they’re playing, whether that’s at the NFL’s behest to keep the mystery alive or it’s because there’s the outside chance we can hustle a pick out of the Texans while still getting our guy. No matter what it is, Tepper will let Reich take his guy because if Tepper has proven anything in his tenure as owner it’s that he’s the furtherest thing from a meddling owner. If anything he should have been meddling more while Rhule was here.

That’s why you gotta watch for yourself. Those analyses are mostly self parroting circle jerks. At the combine in the velocity measurement he threw equal to Levis and 1 mph less Richardson, the guys with the “great” arms. He also threw just as deep as Richardson in the deep drill. “Elite” might be a slight stretch for him, but he’s way better than “good”. Watching his games reinforces that, not only deep balls but driving the mid throws when necessary. Receivers don’t have to wait on his passes.

Burns is not a liability in the run game. That’s a huddle myth. Since his second year he’s been decent at it, especially setting an edge to force RBs inside. Brown is not just a run stuffer, he’s a disrupter who allows everyone around him to be better. Top ten DTs don’t have to be pass rushing DTs, the guys like Brown and Star might not get the flashy stats themselves but they allow everyone around them to play better and that’s critical for a defense. Look at what our defense was like after Star left. Huge drop off (7th total defense, 3rd vs run in 2017, 15th total, 12th vs run in 2018). That’s mostly the loss of Star. If we lost Brown teams could moonwalk for first downs.