Panthers trade up to 9th pick of second round - select Devin Funchess

[Everfrost]

We likely could have stayed where we were and gotten the guy we got. But we gave up a very valuable 3rd to move up.

Gettleman may well be an above-average talent evaluator, but he's below average at overall draft strategy. If most of your peers and the media think a guy is a 2nd or 3rd rounder...don't take him in the 1st. THAT's when you trade up in the 2nd.

Who in front of us at 57 was even going to take Funchess? None of those teams needed WR and many of them actually went WR in round 1. Why not wait, and if you're wrong you take Strong or your BPA? Why trade multiple picks for someone it wasn't even clear others were contemplating?

Hopefully DG is right on these evaluations, but my issue is his overall draft strategy. You can't completely ignore what everyone else (your peers and the draft "experts") are saying about a player - if you do, you can end up drafting players at the wrong time.

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Ne just took Richards most these experts had a 4th 5th round grade on. Think of it as it don't matter what everyone else thinks only thing that matters is what gettleman thinks

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[LinvilleGorge]

We likely could have stayed where we were and gotten the guy we got. But we gave up a very valuable 3rd to move up.

Gettleman may well be an above-average talent evaluator, but he's below average at overall draft strategy. If most of your peers and the media think a guy is a 2nd or 3rd rounder...don't take him in the 1st. THAT's when you trade up in the 2nd.

Who in front of us at 57 was even going to take Funchess? None of those teams needed WR and many of them actually went WR in round 1. Why not wait, and if you're wrong you take Strong or your BPA? Why trade multiple picks for someone it wasn't even clear others were contemplating?

Hopefully DG is right on these evaluations, but my issue is his overall draft strategy. You can't completely ignore what everyone else (your peers and the draft "experts") are saying about a player - if you do, you can end up drafting players at the wrong time.

 

If you're an NFL GM and you're paying attention to media "draft expert" opinion, your name is Marty Hurney.

[Fidel Cashflow]

I don't like the fact that we gave up a 3rd but this guy is a difference maker.

[Panthers8969]

I like the pick, but hate we gave up a 3rd to get it.

This is pretty much my opinion. I like the pick(though I really don't know much about him), but I hate how we gave up a third. Especially when DG said how important it was to keep ur picks in the first 3 rounds. We really should've tried to give a 4th and 5th. Maybe we did, but damn a third is a lot. And as for funchess, I hear he has a drop issue just like KB. Which worries me. We don't need 2 wrs which a case of the dropsies. Lots of upside though

[rayzor]

I just hate the pick. We traded our fuging second, third, and sixth and passed on Strong for a worse, much worse version of KB.

Thus dude is slow, struggles to get separation (sound familiar??), and HAS A DROP PERCENTAGE OF 9 OVER THE LAST TWO SEASONS.

LOL... A 9% drop rate and a 4.7 40... Ya'll can have this draft. I've never been more disgusted with our draft through two rounds. And before you say we finally got a WR... FUNCHESS is not a WR, he's a slow ass TE with unreliable hands. He gave up all those picks, after saying we won't reach for ANY player... Then you move up to trade for HIM? We need speed... And yet, gettleman exposes his size fetishist again. We just don't see football the same.

For you gettleman fanboys' enjoyment, I'm gonna refrain from posting for a few hours because I really have nothing good to say.

 

probably a good idea. even aceboogie is more rational than you are being.

[Carl Spackler]

It kinda pisses me off the unfair hate Hurney gets on here. He was far from perfect but damn. We didn't go 1-15 every year. 

[Carl Spackler]

Also for better or worse, rationality on the Huddle is directly related to one's opinion of Gettleman.

[MadHatter]

I swear some of you guys whine, bitch, moan, and complain more than my 15 yo daughter does when the internet goes out and she can't text and snapchay with her bff's.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

I just hate the pick. We traded our fuging second, third, and sixth and passed on Strong for a worse, much worse version of KB.

Thus dude is slow, struggles to get separation (sound familiar??), and HAS A DROP PERCENTAGE OF 9 OVER THE LAST TWO SEASONS.

LOL... A 9% drop rate and a 4.7 40... Ya'll can have this draft. I've never been more disgusted with our draft through two rounds. And before you say we finally got a WR... FUNCHESS is not a WR, he's a slow ass TE with unreliable hands. He gave up all those picks, after saying we won't reach for ANY player... Then you move up to trade for HIM? We need speed... And yet, gettleman exposes his size fetishist again. We just don't see football the same.

For you gettleman fanboys' enjoyment, I'm gonna refrain from posting for a few hours because I really have nothing good to say.

 

but he's tall man

[pantherclaw]

Cant believe we will go another year without it.

we did get help.

There hasn't been a 2nd round tackle drafted in the last 30 years that could start, and play better than what we have.

[TheRed]

[pantherclaw]

.. ignoring the OT position again I see

not as much as the fans are ignoring the facts.

Sucks when coveted tackles don't fall to where they can be picked.

[CPF4LIFE]

I was happy with a wr or OT. Got one so I'm good.

[LinvilleGorge]

we did get help.

There hasn't been a 2nd round tackle drafted in the last 30 years that could start, and play better than what we have.

 

 

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