Jon Snow

I have no say in the matter so I will have to roll with whoever they bring in. Whether it's thru the draft, FA or both. How do you like me now?

29 minutes ago, Tarheel119 said:

If Caldwell was offended, he wouldn’t have accepted the job, period. Perhaps Reich had a good plan for how to get this team moving in the right direction. Judging by his first few hires, I’d agree. This guy is trying find a story where there isn’t one. 

He got clicks that's all he's after. If you stop reading his garbage it will not matter what he says.

7 minutes ago, frankw said:

Well we can't be afraid of developing a young QB. Matt Rhule was. But we've got decades of wisdom on staff now. Chasing discarded veteran QB's should be the last resort for such a seasoned staff we've built.

One does not preclude the other. 

Just now, NanuqoftheNorth said:

It would be awesome if the Panthers could do both.  I'm somewhat concerned that the Panthers may make some significant personnel changes on defense (considering the preferred schemes of our new DC).  If that's the case, it may limit what the team can do on offense in this year's draft.

Not necessarily.  Say for instance they do something crazy like go defense again at 9. What's to prevent them from moving back into the bottom of the 1st for a qb? Hell they could even trade back into the 15 to 20 range if they just have to have a qb. There's more than one way to skin this cat.

2 minutes ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

In a perfect world the Panthers would draft their next franchise QB and still have enough picks to surround him with talent.  That's not the world we live in.

At #9 the Panthers may have to give up a boatload of pics over several years to draft one of the better rookie QBs and hamstring themselves when it comes to surrounding that rookie with supporting talent.

Or, the Panthers can bring in a vet QB and use their picks to surround him with talent.

It's above my pay grade, but that's why Reich and Fitterer get paid the big bucks.

Well there's a small chance they manage to do both. There are some good qb prospects in this draft but they are just not hyped up like the 3 you only here about.  So I would not assume they cannot do both.

4 minutes ago, rayzor said:

Carr is a lot better and more established than any QB we've had since Cam and easily would be among the top 3 the franchise has had.

Now let's not go that far. He's BEEN better than anyone here since Cam, yes. But if he's signed here let's see what he does HERE before we crown his ass mmkay.

9 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I'm curious who people's first choice was

Honestly, I didn't have one at first.  As it went on I thought Reich was probably the best of the bunch from an experience perspective. But I didn't sit in on the interviews with the other's so I was open there for awhile.  I'm comfortable with how it played out so far.

2 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

It would be gross negligence if they didn’t at least flirt a little.

I had forgotten about Reich's interest in him when he was with the Colts. I doubt that's changed much since then. It is certainly something to watch.

2 minutes ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

Who might this be?  Would the Panthers be interested?

Not if Payton is involved in it. I would not trust that sombitch at all.

2 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

And that’s with the Raiders.

I think the Panthers go after him eventually. 

4 minutes ago, MtnJax said:

Good on Steichen’s agent, given Irsay’s impulsiveness.

I just made the contract length bit up. The second part is true.

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

We had the same opportunity not long ago. 

8 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

 

10 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Just short of Jay-Z

Isray had to give him that many years just to get him to agree to take the job.

I tried to watch his introductory press conference but I just couldn't look at Isray's face. The man looks pickled.

6 minutes ago, rayzor said:

I'm bracing myself for it.

Yeah at first I thought it was never a serious consideration even as I half heartedly typed it up as plan B. But you know plans change as the landscape changes. Things can quickly become plan A at the blink of an eye.  Things are afoot in Panthers land. 

Just now, Jay Roosevelt said:

Carr is MUCH better than Darnold and Mayfield. He's also better than Teddy Bridgewater.

We should still pass on signing him and DRAFT A fuging FRANCHISE QB!

I agree. But maybe they do both at least.  My left testicle says this is probably going to happen. 

This is going to happen isn't it? It makes too much sense not to.

9 minutes ago, rayzor said:

I seriously doubt that would be the result with the Evero/Capers duo. I have more faith in these two than I have had with any defensive coaching staff we've had. 

Now that I agree with brother. 

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

Carr's agent...

Unlike the Raiders, Carr took the high road.

Publicly at least. 

8 minutes ago, rayzor said:

They fit the scheme to the players they have, not the other way around. We'd only be switching to a 3-4 if we have the personnel for it and even then it would only be a base, but adaptive to situations.

Basically, all the stress about Evero and Capers switching to a 3-4 is needless. 

But I get what you're saying, what we do could effect who would be interested, but I think who we have on staff would be a much bigger factor. 

Imo, we'll just be bringing in talent and fitting what we want to do to the talent that is here.

That would be the ideal situation. But I don't want to trend into the Phil Snow philosophy of trying to have a defense that is versatile in different sets but not good at any.

1 hour ago, Jackie Lee said:

Tepper certainly likes to do complete 180's. That's lots of opinions on offense/QB and we don't even have the OC yet. At the same time Rhule wouldn't qualify to be the waterboy on this staff so far. 

You should watch the video about his life someone posted. It uses movie clips throughout but it is still tells you who he is.

14 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

I’m intrigued to say the least.  This looks like legitimate football operations and I wanna see where this goes.

This^^^.  I want to see where an experienced nfl staff can take this team.

This season? Hard to say really.  If they go predominantly 3-4 defense they're going to need to add some beef on the dline and upgrade the LB core. You will not fill all of those in the draft. I'm not sure who's out there in FA that we need to woo yet.

2 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

https://www.panthers.com/team/coaches-roster/

Unacceptable.  You must present this in flowchart form after the full staff is in place.

Try again.

Well I guess I can't have everything go my way.

I too would have signed Carr at one time when he was available before.