Jump to content
  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

Im the GM, this is my offseason. Post reg season mock


ncfan

Recommended Posts

 Cuts:

Captain

Torrey Smith

Kalil (post june 1)

Crockell

Searcy

 

 

Extend:

Mario Addison (1 year left on his contract, extending him a year or 2 can help open cap space)

 

Resign:

Kyle Love

Daryl Williams- drafting a OT early can be a big hit or a big miss.  When you have a stud OL who already has Chemistry with the current OL, you try to keep him if possible.    Signing Williams for 4 years at 8 mil is reasonable and possible. Rivera has talked how important improving the OL is this offseason.  And locking up a proven OT, who is one of your own in the top priority this offseason.

 

FA: 

 

Tre Boston- Boston is familiar with Rivera and his coaching tree.  After being cut and bounced around a bit.  Carolina feels he's matured enough and wants him back.

Josh Norman- Norman is coming off a Bad year, where at ome point was even benched vs the Saints.  He is looking to be a cap casualty for the Skins.  At his age and coming off the year he had, he isnt going to get anything big.  With the connections here, and how close he is with Rivera and Hurney an 1 year 5 mil is easily possible.  The way the NFL is, you need multiple good CBs.  

 

 

 

Panthers are now Walking the line with cap space and expect a few resturings to get a few other tied up.

 

 

 

Draft

1st: Montez Sweat-  Strong Edge rushing class with Edge rusher as a major Weakness.  Sweat can play standing up or hands in the dirt so wluod fit the hybrid.

2nd: Garrett Bradbury- when your franchise all-pro Center for over the last decade retires, you have to replace him.  Bradbury is the top Center in the draft with a Very high ceiling.  Oh and he is a local Charlotte kid.

3rd: Michael Deiter- the OL took a HUGE step back with the loss of Norwell.  Deiter is a huge upgrade to last year at LG.

3rd comp:  Elijah Holyfield- Panthers need to find that compliment RB, and big bruiser.  We didnt take advantage of CJ this past year.  But watching the Rams and Gurley in the playoffs/Super bowl this year, makes them look Hard for a RB2.  Gurley carried the workload much like CMC did this year.

4th: Jordan Ta'amu- all the tools ti be a solid QB, reminds me of Dak Prescott coming out

5th: Mark Fields Jr

6th: Jalen Hurd- Great athlete, project WR

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

To play devil's advocate what role does Josh Norman fill here? Are you going to take snaps away from Donte or Bradberry? Try to move Jackson to slot (a move I personally wouldn't agree with)? Perhaps play Norman at free safety? 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

41 minutes ago, KSpan said:

To play devil's advocate what role does Josh Norman fill here? Are you going to take snaps away from Donte or Bradberry? Try to move Jackson to slot (a move I personally wouldn't agree with)? Perhaps play Norman at free safety? 

Competition 

Bradberry is still pretty inconsistent.   With the NFL playing more Nickel D, its good to have 3 good CBs.

Play Jackson and either Bradberry/Norman then move Jackson to Nickel when situation arrives.  Heck or even move Norman to Nickel, still better than many Nickels.  You dont have to be the steriotypical short quick guy to play there.

AJ Green linedup alot in the slot vs us before he got hurt.  Michael Thomas moves around, etc

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...

Dieter is interesting because he can play across the line in multiple positions. He would be a handy utility player in our OL.

I mostly like your cuts, but I want to see if Cockrell is any good as nickel. Like kspan having done better than I expected on the outside I prefer him to stay there. Cockrell can’t be worse than captain and would be cheaper.

I wonder if they will add another receiver to replace Funchess through the draft or FA. Both Jamison Crowder and Devante Parker would be interesting adds there.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, Seoul_Panther said:

Dieter is interesting because he can play across the line in multiple positions. He would be a handy utility player in our OL.

I mostly like your cuts, but I want to see if Cockrell is any good as nickel. Like kspan having done better than I expected on the outside I prefer him to stay there. Cockrell can’t be worse than captain and would be cheaper.

I wonder if they will add another receiver to replace Funchess through the draft or FA. Both Jamison Crowder and Devante Parker would be interesting adds there.

Cockrell was only known as a solid Zone boundary guy.  Plus with him coming off a injury

Id only see him as a backup to Bradberry. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • Yeah and I am doubtful he can offer that consistently. I don’t have many years left at my age and in my view we have wasted two and this whole exercise with him was always a three year minimum.  I am out on that with a guy I don’t believe in, and never believed in, it has sucked. To me it is a costly detour off the right track. Years.    But I am not so rigid that I can’t see excellence. He needs to display it though, consistently before I change my outlook.  
    • No, when I said rage, I meant rage, which only applies to certain fans on this board. Your timeline of trying to assess whether he is the future or not is really tied to the discussions surrounding his second contract. If this team is going to commit to some monster contract while he has shown nothing but glimpses of brilliance would be deservedly worrisome, so the clock is genuinely ticking for him to settle into something resembling his final form. Perhaps a best case scenario is that he plays well, the team succeeds, but he does so with a more limited role that makes the rest of the league view him as a game manager, and his second contract value reflects that. Then he continues to improve and becomes a bargain comparatively while not handicapping the team around him, and we enter an era of consistent championship competitiveness that the fanbase has craved for decades and has never really experienced before. But that requires many, many things to go right and for Bryce himself to facilitate that if he ends up being the quarterback of the future.
    • Exactly. And the flame throwers as well, get location benefits from not going all out. But they have it in reserve.  Not sure how much Greg had but he was an artist.  There was a YouTube I came across last year or maybe even 2023 and I don’t how to even find now but it had two NFL QBs I want say one was Carr from the Raiders but I don’t really remember  The point of it is they stood side by side throwing identical distances to identical targets. Radar gun was used.  They threw the normal effort (not all out) and it was measured etc. Then they were asked to throw their ‘fastball’. They were missing and most often they were missing high. It demonstrated the same principle.    edit: and applying that to arm strength, give me the guy that doesn’t need max effort to have good velocity. The margins are so narrow with less velocity in tne NFL the defenders can Close on it and this is a league where they value down to the 100th of a second level. It is that tight 
×
×
  • Create New...