Round 1 - Carolina Panthers Select Shaq Thompson

[Jackofalltrades]

Biggest reach in round 1. A special teamer who has no position? Glad we are letting the players make picks now, guess its why the panthers have been such a failure in its history.

Lol, this is the height of ignorance.

[CarolinaNCSU]

He's a play-maker. What our defense needs and wants to be, so I'm excited.

 

 

We'll see how the offense is addressed in rounds 2 and 3 though before making a full initial judgement

[Panthers8969]

Bout time this thread is unlocked, don't like the pick. No reason to draft a guy that plays 3 positions in the first. Gimmicky guy. Won't be elite at any position, just good or ok at 3. Would've much rather had Collins or a wr

[LinvilleGorge]

It's exactly what were going to do. We don't actually use a 4-3 set very much, we run the nickel a lot. He'll be at SS most of the time and a LB sometimes. He's a perfect fit for our defensive scheme.

 

It's a ton to put on a rookie if that's what we choose to do.  I hope he's up for it.  One position or the other, if not both, will have to be greatly simplified.

[Password is Taco]

Luck has Hilton, Johnson, Moncrief, and Dorsett.

 

Cam has Benjamin, Jericho Cotchery, Corey Brown, and Brenton Bersin

 

 

lol. Glad we got a back up linebacker/special teamer though.

[SOJA]

AAAAAAAANNNNNDDDDD Andrew Luck gets another weapon.

 

 

 

if you use that logic then you should use the logic:

 

 

AAAAAANNNNNNDDDDD  the Panthers D just got that much more dominate 

[Fidel Cashflow]

Be happy. Doesn't matter what the "experts" say.

 

Oh btw, Pete Prisco just gave us a D for taking Thompson.

[Panthers8969]

And seriously turn off this add bs. Took me 3 mins just to open the fuging app on my phone. No idea why my topic was deleted but the app is basically unusable

[CoastalCat]

I'm just curious where we play him. We play a 4-3 base, but we only actually put 3 LBs on the field on a little over 30% of defensive snaps last year. I don't see taking snaps away from Luke or TD to get him on the field, so he's either going to have to straight up play SS or he's going to have to play in some sort of joker role to see a decent amount of snaps.

TD one year left. Max.

[shreddingdefense]

Nice pick. WR were not good enough to draft that high and all the good ot were coming off the board. If you remember, genttlemen talked about how he thinks most of the ots were only RT worthy not lt. we dont have a need at rt. Don't reach for a need.

[4Corners]

I absolutely love this pick. The dude is a football player.  I made the mistake of logging on to twitter and read some of the comments from the NFL analysts and the trolls. Anyone who thinks this is a bad pick for the panthers is a moron and quite frankly can't be taken seriously as a football fan. I still think they would have taken him even if DJ hadn't been picked right before. 

 

Again, I'm very excited about this selection. Honestly, we were probably the ideal team for him as well. Make sure everyone of yall tweet him and tell him welcome to the family. 

[TheRed]

Another WR for Luck? Holy poo.

[Carl Spackler]

I'd like to see Shaq at RB at least once.

[SOJA]

lol at all the people who are already saying Shaq won't ever be anything.......

 

it's almost like you guys forgot about 

 

Luke fuging Kuechly and Thomas fuging Davis

 

 

I bet yall hated those picks at the time too?