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micnificent28

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52 minutes ago, kass said:

Checked some of your posts here and I agree with many of them. But this is the Huddle so now you have to... haha. No but I am curious. Name a few wr you liked coming into the last few drafts.

I was huge on Micheal Thomas . He was a bully at Ohio state i still have no idea how he ended up in the second rd . D Hopkins i felt like he would be better than Sammy Watkins when they both were there at Clemson . 
Devante Adams even tho i had KB ranked ahead of him i know i know i was right and wrong about KB lol Allen Robinson and Chris Godwin . Always take the Penn State big Receiver . Fuller when he was at Norte Dame . Dj Chark . Stefon Diggs after round 3 i was pissed he wasn’t on our team 

i didn’t love any Wide out from last year draft but when i seen Dk falling i wanted the panthers to trade back up to get him no way you let a freak like that get passed up that many times . Tyler Lockett and Jamison Crowder i remember that year vividly cause we needed a small receiver/returner badly . 
My biggest misses Phillip Dorsett , Devin Smith lol 

I over looked JuJu because i was afraid of USC wide receivers lol 

I could go on for days . I wish i had post to back this up but i have no reason to lie it’s not that serious lol 

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I say we look in FA for a WR. Maybe we can get Robby Anderson or best case AJ Green.  We pick either Simmons or hopefully Okudah at 7. And immediately address Oline or Dline help in the 2nd. We must remember KK was out almost all year. He was missed big time. He will be back. Im expecting Little or Daly to step up and play better next year. But we are definitely aging on the D-line. I would like McCoy back as well.

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17 minutes ago, ncsfinest21 said:

I say we look in FA for a WR. Maybe we can get Robby Anderson or best case AJ Green.  We pick either Simmons or hopefully Okudah at 7. And immediately address Oline or Dline help in the 2nd. We must remember KK was out almost all year. He was missed big time. He will be back. Im expecting Little or Daly to step up and play better next year. But we are definitely aging on the D-line. I would like McCoy back as well.

Why?  Daly was terrible.  Little is not long for this league either

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3 hours ago, BrizzMachete said:

and Chris Godwin . Always take the Penn State big Receiver .

i didn’t love any Wide out from last year draft but when i seen Dk falling i wanted the panthers to trade back up to get him no way you let a freak like that get passed up that many times .

I over looked JuJu because i was afraid of USC wide receivers lol 

I could go on for days . I wish i had post to back this up but i have no reason to lie it’s not that serious lol 

I dont doubt it.
But then I want people to believe stuf that sounds to good to be true since I also wanted to do some bragging. :Eyes_Emoji_42x42:
2017 was the first draft i ever paid attention to and actually put in some time to check the prospects. (I am new to this game)
Mostly checked the WR group and had Golladay, Godwin and Kupp as my favorite prospects. I thought all these three stood out in a class of their own.

I would jump on Golladay at 64 and make everyone laugh and point finger at me, but since Godwin "fell" I would take him because one should never fall in love with a prospect, which in my case was Golladay. If Kupp would fall to Panthers third round pick i would take him even if I would have taken Godwin or Golladay before.

I hope to have the time to check this years wr class and see if this was just a fluke. And will check for your future wr posts.
But for a newbie like me, checking this years WR stats, I want to brag! haha.. Mostly because I know the least about football on this whole board and this is probably the only thing I will end up being right about. :D
 

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4 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Our defense was historically bad last season and we just lost the leader of it and half of the starters are free agents.   I am not even going to mention the oline as you probably are fully aware how bad it is.  The 2020 panthers are going to be horrendously bad.  Prepare yourself

So maybe since it was so bad a lot of those starters should have been shown the door anyway. 

But similar to LT on the offensive side, DT was the primary issue with the defense. Weak play at that position puts everyone else at a disadvantage. 

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4 minutes ago, Navy_football said:

So maybe since it was so bad a lot of those starters should have been shown the door anyway. 

But similar to LT on the offensive side, DT was the primary issue with the defense. Weak play at that position puts everyone else at a disadvantage. 

okay, how do you solve that then in one off season?

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2 hours ago, kass said:

I dont doubt it.
But then I want people to believe stuf that sounds to good to be true since I also wanted to do some bragging. :Eyes_Emoji_42x42:
2017 was the first draft i ever paid attention to and actually put in some time to check the prospects. (I am new to this game)
Mostly checked the WR group and had Golladay, Godwin and Kupp as my favorite prospects. I thought all these three stood out in a class of their own.

I would jump on Golladay at 64 and make everyone laugh and point finger at me, but since Godwin "fell" I would take him because one should never fall in love with a prospect, which in my case was Golladay. If Kupp would fall to Panthers third round pick i would take him even if I would have taken Godwin or Golladay before.

I hope to have the time to check this years wr class and see if this was just a fluke. And will check for your future wr posts.
But for a newbie like me, checking this years WR stats, I want to brag! haha.. Mostly because I know the least about football on this whole board and this is probably the only thing I will end up being right about. :D
 

Man i had no clue who Golladay was during pre draft convos but he def a stud i love him . He remind me of kB if he stayed in shape . Yes Kupp has star written all over him . He the next jordy Nelson if not better . But yeah i also forgot I knew Terry Mcalurin would be the best wideout from last year . This year keep a eye out on KJ Hill . He golden tate all over again . 

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On 1/16/2020 at 5:19 PM, mrcompletely11 said:

Why?  Daly was terrible.  Little is not long for this league either

Daly had a couple games where he showed some promise. So did Little but they both had injuries and couldnt play up to their potential due to injury and just inexperience.

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On 1/16/2020 at 5:38 PM, mrcompletely11 said:

okay, how do you solve that then in one off season?

For 1) KK was out since week 2. He was key to letting Luke roam. We do need another DT. Even Poe played good but cant be in there with inexperience players and McCoy is good but he was good against the pass and not run defense. We need a run stuffing DT to put with KK.

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Simmons is great and I would love him---but if you are rebuilding--even if you (wisely) have not given up on Little---you take the franchise LT (or the franchise QB if that is your thing)  After watching Little, he has raw potential at LT--no doubt, but he could be a beast at G.  Think Travelle Wharton.  If we could get Thomas (the other 2 top OTs are RTs),  It would be akin to the Gross pick.

Brown is a DT, and they are not as hard to come by.  I could live with a Neville Gallimore in round 2 and TCU's Blalock later in the draft.  (Players I am eyeballing at this point in the process--check em out).

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