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Thomas Davis - Not so fast my friend!

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51 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

Combine isn’t nationally televised, it’s behind paid programming. 
 

these players showcase during their football season at their respective programs. Smith wants to abolish the NFL combine bc he feels it is an intrusive and inappropriate hiring practice for NFL teams to conduct.  In the article I shared with you he makes good points. Especially how they have to see 32 diffferent team doctors in a single day, pretty insane.
 

we are no longer in an era where these players are inaccessible due to lack of technology. We know everything about these kids because of what tech enables today, the combine’s original purpose has aged. Before it was a way for a player to showcase their skills bc no one had heard of them due to them not getting their name in the papers or picked up on main stream television. 
 

Feel how you want and defend all you can, but based on how passionate he is about this and the buy-in he has from the NFLPA… combine will be changing and that’s inevitable.

 

I can't believe so many find it interesting. 

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2 hours ago, CRA said:

53% ain’t average   

 

The problem with just looking at the stats is it's a small sample size of his first year starting. Take for example this game in which his receivers had 6 drops, including a touchdown. If these balls were caught his average would have jumped to 55.6%. I know every quarterback deals with drops, but every drop hurt Richardson's stats more as he only had a year to work with, with relatively few passing attempts.

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4 hours ago, CRA said:

I think if we legit liked Young or Stroud and we went up knowing we were going to draft one…..then we would have already flipped over the cards and just let it be known.  Which basically is what happens when you love a QB at #1. 

I think there is debate.  And the longer we don’t know….the higher the odds the Tepper Panthers do something unpopular imo

Levis would be the worst decision in franchise history.

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3 hours ago, uncfan888 said:

Zero chance we draft AR number one. We'd be the laughing stock of the NFL

It is way to late for that part. We will continue to be just that until we can get our franchise QB and win games to remove that target from our backs being laughing stock to the NFL. Just hoping the pick will be between Stroud and Young.

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If Carolina had sat at 9 and Richardson fell to them, go ahead and swing for the fences. I'm all for it.

Giving up what Carolina gave up to take AR at no. 1? Nah.

And we would likely have to accept that Dalton would be the starter next season.

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"Game tape is what's most important. Hopefully it's two or three years of production, you'll see 1000 plays on tape and that's really who the guy is. You get to the combine, yeah they run around and they're going to throw the ball great but no-one is in front of them no-one is chasing them."

Does this really sound like a GM who's going to take Richardson with the 1st pick?

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2 hours ago, Billy Goat said:

"Game tape is what's most important. Hopefully it's two or three years of production, you'll see 1000 plays on tape and that's really who the guy is. You get to the combine, yeah they run around and they're going to throw the ball great but no-one is in front of them no-one is chasing them."

Does this really sound like a GM who's going to take Richardson with the 1st pick?

Exactly. Richardson is the direct opposite of that description. I find it incredibly hard to believe we'd be going to this level of smokescreening when we hold the #1 pick.

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9 minutes ago, therealmjl said:

Exactly. Richardson is the direct opposite of that description. I find it incredibly hard to believe we'd be going to this level of smokescreening when we hold the #1 pick.

I don't think it's a smokescreen.  I think the Panthers know who they want, but the league wants them to keep it quiet to give them something to talk about.  I think the Panthers are just having fun with it

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27 minutes ago, therealmjl said:

Exactly. Richardson is the direct opposite of that description. I find it incredibly hard to believe we'd be going to this level of smokescreening when we hold the #1 pick.

If everything is a smokescreen, why couldn’t his statement about film be one? Not saying you’re wrong, it’s just we can’t really believe anything at the moment. 

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They are making moves to win now---unless they plan to start Dalton for a season or more, this makes no sense.   If Cam Newton had not played here--and these players are similar---would this even be in the discussion?

RISK is a very important factor--Tepper knows RISK---CALCULATED Risk.  When you have 2 investments that will earn a 10% return for 10+ years, you don't invest in something that might tank or earn you 15% for 8 years---

Tepper Knows Risk, and if this decision had been made, they would not be traveling to Columbus by the dozen.

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1 minute ago, MHS831 said:

They are making moves to win now---unless they plan to start Dalton for a season or more, this makes no sense.   If Cam Newton had not played here--and these players are similar---would this even be in the discussion?

RISK is a very important factor--Tepper knows RISK---CALCULATED Risk.  When you have 2 investments that will earn a 10% return for 10+ years, you don't invest in something that might tank or earn you 15% for 8 years---

Tepper Knows Risk, and if this decision had been made, they would not be traveling to Columbus by the dozen.

You'd have a package of plays for Richardson from day 1.

He's only going to benefit from playing - you'd probably start Dalton until the bye week, then hand the reigns over to the rookie after that.

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