David Newton: Panthers will NOT add Gurley or Gordon (unless they fall to the second)!

[t96]

BPA is coach speak. Who is BPA for team A, team B, team C are all likely different. So BPA isn't BPA. It is team specific largely.

Cam was BPA for us in 2011.....bc of Carolina factors. Wasn't probably for most teams at 1....not even top 32 for some. Yes there are some examples of a glaring BPA....but overall BPA actually factors in many things.

 

BPA isn't just coach speak. There is a clear difference between the drafting for need and drafting BPA philosophies. And of course BPA is different for every team, it's OPINION. There's no set ranking of players that is regarded as universal fact.

[scarface]

I've watched virtually nothing of Gordon but Gurley is incredible. If he's there on board in the 2nd, then even I in all my disdain for high round RBs would be hard pressed to pass him up.

That said, it's only an outside shot he's there and this draft is deep with talented players at the position. You're going to see a plethora of NFL starters come off the board in the later rounds (rather than Kenjon Barners), and I figure we probably get one there.

[Nick_81]

BPA is coach speak. Who is BPA for team A, team B, team C are all likely different. So BPA isn't BPA. It is team specific largely.

Cam was BPA for us in 2011.....bc of Carolina factors. Wasn't probably for most teams at 1....not even top 32 for some. Yes there are some examples of a glaring BPA....but overall BPA actually factors in many things.

Normally I'd agree, that it's coach speak, but listening to Gettleman's combine presser makes me doubt those thoughts.  At one point, he explained, "we're gonna draft the best guy, and if we have 5 stud guys at that position, and we're sitting there, and that position has the best guy, I'm taking him.  You can look at me like I got brain damage, but.... I'm gonna do it.  I'm just being honest guys."

 

That's BPA in the most literal sense I can imagine.  Maybe he's blowing smoke up people's asses, idk, but that's from the horse's mouth.

 

He says that at about the 3:45 mark.

http://www.panthers.com/media-vault/videos/Dave-Gettleman-Draft-deep-at-OT-WR-RB-and-DL/b8a148ba-88ac-4545-b02f-43d8f2ec7e23

[top dawg]

Normally I'd agree, that it's coach speak, but listening to Gettleman's combine presser makes me doubt those thoughts.  At one point, he explained, "we're gonna draft the best guy, and if we have 5 stud guys at that position, and we're sitting there, and that position has the best guy, I'm taking him.  You can look at me like I got brain damage, but.... I'm gonna do it.  I'm just being honest guys."

 

That's BPA in the most literal sense I can imagine.  Maybe he's blowing smoke up people's asses, idk, but that's from the horse's mouth.

 

He says that at about the 3:45 mark.

http://www.panthers.com/media-vault/videos/Dave-Gettleman-Draft-deep-at-OT-WR-RB-and-DL/b8a148ba-88ac-4545-b02f-43d8f2ec7e23

 

I know. Every time that I referenced this in another thread, people didn't address it.  I just don't think that most people can wrap their mind around this concept---this hypothetical.  That's why I will be laughing my ass off the day that it happens.

[nickzz]

good

I'd be furious with either of them in the first