Panthers Wont partake in Trevor Lawerence sweepstakes

[pantherj]

This is good we clearly have a huge divide between Panthers fans on what should be done with the team. I like it when there is less grey area with what we fans want. This is really black and white.

[RASTAN66]

The Firm is firing on all cylinders and will have the train to Title Town up to full speed sooner than most can believe...

...aaaaALL ABOARD!

[Drk89Wng]

Sam Ehlinger would be an interesting later round pick, after 2nd, if he has a crazy season he might sneak into the conversation of a much earlier pick.

[panther4life]

Hurney haters- look at his win loss-record. He sucks.HIS JOB IS TO WIN GAMES, THAT’S IT!

Now they are mad he’s not intentionally tanking. And the funny thing is, it’s not surprising in the least bit.

[Peon Awesome]

59 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

Here is a scenario where Hurney could have learned from his massive F%&K up with Cam and his rookie deal.  We all know the formula, unless you have a generational QB, you likely need a young good passer on a rookie deal with a good team around him and some cap dollars in the bank to make specific moves.

We were there, we could have stripped this roster down to the bones with only a handful of key players retained, cleaned up the cap completely, built the O Line last year and this year, along side the D line, and accumulated draft picks while putting you into the position to grab Fields or Lawrence...which ever you grade higher and make a run at it.

The very best part...by the time we were ready to compete...3 years from now, Brady and Brees will be gone, and Ryan is even older..the division would be ours for 5+ years.

Nope.  Let's win 4 games.  Shortsighted...like this team has been for it's entire existence.

All that sounds great on paper, but how often has that strategy led to sustained success? Cleveland embraced the rebuild pathway stronger than any team in memory a few years ago and they still can't make the playoffs. Miami's management did everything they could do to give away last season and they ended up with the 5th pick, only landing Tua there because of major injury question marks. TBD how well that works.

Many of the successful turnarounds seem to revolve around picking a young qb, rarely the consensus top qb, sometimes by trade up, on a team already with a decent core (Kansas City with Mahomes, Baltimore with Lamar Jackson, Watson in Houston and even Wentz in Philly).

An alternate strategy that seems more successful than an all out tank is building a complete team while bringing in an up-and-coming young veteran qb not far removed from his rookie contract, similar to San Francisco, or you could even say Tennessee last year, or perhaps Minnesota with Cousins. Perhaps the Panthers are trying to mimic this model. But completely demolishing the team with the goal of going all out for the #1 pick just doesn't seem to work in the NFL. Maybe it's hard to break out from a culture of losing.

[Rags]

There's worse teams than us. Our weakest position is CB which, is gonna suck, but if our d-line and LBs stay healthly and our offense can consistently move we're a 5-8 win team.

[Waldo]

Some people have a hard time understanding this but if we are not intentionally being bad we are not tanking. That does not mean we are very good right now which has a similar outcome but completely different path. 

Saying we don't expect to win ≠ wanting to tank

[jfra78]

Peopel actually think sucking builds a better team. Happens all the time

[mrcompletely11]

A few things about the article.  A) The dude doesnt really go into detail about why he thinks we are out of it, just mentions skill positions etc.  He just basically did a fly by observation based pretty much on nothing

B) there are about 4-5 good qbs potentially coming out this draft so we will not need a top pick.  Just probably inside the 5 which I think is a lock.

[Mister]

We don’t need a Qb 

[bobcat91]

Sounds great, but total BS. This is a 2 to 3 win team. See you on the clock at the end of the season. See you next fall Sunshine.

[Mr. Scot]

Ya know, you don't necessarily have to try to be the worst team in the league.

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you just are.

[Daddy_Uncle]

Trey Lance impresses me so much. I'm sure we'll be in position to get one of the top QBs

[Tbe]

That article really didn’t say anything. Many of our best defensive players are rookies. That says something.

We’ll be middle of the pack offensively. 
 

Combine a middle of the road offense with a green defense and you get a top 1-7 pick. 
 

We’re definitely drafting a QB next year though.