Round 1 - Panthers Select Tetairoa McMillan at Pick 8

[carpanfan96]

11 minutes ago, fanpanther said:

Pretty much spot on analysis of the selection.  Maybe he works out but appears super slow quick area speed, and seems like the panthers would have benefited more from the penn te 

Biggest reasons I didn't like the pick

1. this draft is super deep at WR. 

2. Lost of people including myself had him as the 3rd WR behind Golden and Hunter. No value in the top ten taking Tet. 

3. This draft isn't very deep on 3-4 front seven players and could've gotten a high end prospect for a 3-4 front at 8. 

[CRA]

1 minute ago, Jon Snow said:

He didn't give it to himself. His friends gave it to him.

yeah, that's my point.  His friends gave it to him.  He didn't pick it.  We aren't his friends. 

He will be a football player for the Carolina Panthers.  NFL fans likely will appoint him a nickname at some point or maybe they won't.  Nicknames are just weird things.  Some dude was called freaking Cornbread in college.  No one called him that here to my knowledge. 

 

 

[ForJimmy]

9 hours ago, R0CKnR0LLA said:

Most of those stats came against significantly weaker players, exactly like I said. Despite the fact that TH covered him more than anyone else, he had only 3 catches for 15 yards against TH. Yes, one of those catches was a TD, on a absolutely perfect pass in a super tiny window because TMac couldn't actually get separation.

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https://x.com/JoeA_NFL/status/1910472303411867730
 

Here is every snap, including Hunter getting DPI twice against him. It also shows him getting open regularly and his QB just missing it. 

[Jon Snow]

Just now, CRA said:

yeah, that's my point.  His friends gave it to him.  He didn't pick it.  We aren't his friends. 

He will be a football player for the Carolina Panthers.  NFL fans likely will appoint him a nickname at some point or maybe they won't.  Nicknames are just weird things.  Some dude was called freaking Cornbread in college.  No one called him that here to my knowledge. 

 

 

So call him what you want. 

[jb2288]

1 minute ago, carpanfan96 said:

Biggest reasons I didn't like the pick

1. this draft is super deep at WR. 

2. Lost of people including myself had him as the 3rd WR behind Golden and Hunter. No value in the top ten taking Tet. 

3. This draft isn't very deep on 3-4 front seven players and could've gotten a high end prospect for a 3-4 front at 8. 

To be fair a lot of others had him as the clear cut #1 WR and top 10 overall player. 

[carpanfan96]

2 minutes ago, jb2288 said:

To be fair a lot of others had him as the clear cut #1 WR and top 10 overall player. 

Highest I've seen him was PFF at 4 which is silly. Didn't see anyone else have a top ten grade on him. 

[Butterflyj30]

Looks like Bryce had some input

(11) Carolina Blitz on X: "Tetairoa McMillan says that Bryce Young went into Dan Morgan’s and Dave Canales’ offices and told them they need to pick him. https://t.co/uEmE9OGhvy" / X

[CRA]

13 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Yeah, we are going to disagree here.  Thats nonsense

XL made a TON of sense.....because he fit what Canales did in Tampa and Seattle.  And we drafted XL when most folks that Bryce Young era was likely about to end.  Nothing nonsensical about acknowledging what Canales has always been about/around (and how his draft picks fit that)......and how Bryce Young at no point in time when we drafted him was billed for fitting such an offense.   It was all PG quick distributor talk.  Which meant YAC players around him and getting the ball out with his super brain.  

XL and Tmac struggle getting open quickly.  They are more suited for a chunk play team that is playing off the run and sets up for WR to have time to get open downfield (which is the Canales tree).  Which is what Canales is basically drafting. 

Square peg/round hole.  It's not nonsense.  It's the Tepper era. 

[mrcompletely11]

5 minutes ago, jb2288 said:

To be fair a lot of others had him as the clear cut #1 WR and top 10 overall player. 

He would have been the 6th best wr last year, maybe 5th and we just took him at 8 overall.   We are in a bizarro world

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, Butterflyj30 said:

Looks like Bryce had some input

(11) Carolina Blitz on X: "Tetairoa McMillan says that Bryce Young went into Dan Morgan’s and Dave Canales’ offices and told them they need to pick him. https://t.co/uEmE9OGhvy" / X

I cant even...............

[mrcompletely11]

1 minute ago, CRA said:

XL made a TON of sense.....because he fit what Canales did in Tampa and Seattle.  And we drafted XL when most folks that Bryce Young era was likely about to end.  Nothing nonsensical about acknowledging what Canales has always been about/around (and how his draft picks fit that)......and how Bryce Young at no point in time when we drafted him was billed for fitting such an offense.   It was all PG quick distributor talk.  Which meant YAC players around him and getting the ball out with his super brain.  

XL and Tmac struggle getting open quickly.  They are more suited for a chunk play team that is playing off the run and sets up for WR to have to get open downfield (which is the Canales tree).  Which is what Canales is basically drafting. 

Square peg/round hole.  It's not nonsense.  It's the Tepper era. 

Teams are just going to press the fug out of us and simply take away our run game as a result

[ForJimmy]

3 minutes ago, carpanfan96 said:

Highest I've seen him was PFF at 4 which is silly. Didn't see anyone else have a top ten grade on him. 

Brugler has him at 12 with him being WR1. I trust his opinion more than most. Picking the 12th best player and top of his position at 8 isn’t that crazy. He actually had him mocked to us in some of his drafts. 

[carpanfan96]

I will say this. He fits Dave Canales offense to a T... Which means he doesn't fit what Bryce is historically known for doing well. So even though Bryce asked for him, it's even more evidence that Bryce is going to be expected to run Canales offense from Tampa. 

[Bear Hands]

4 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

Brugler has him at 12 with him being WR1. I trust his opinion more than most. Picking the 12th best player and top of his position at 8 isn’t that crazy. He actually had him mocked to us in some of his drafts. 

To be clear WR2. Hunter is CB1 but clearly WR1 as well.

But I agree with your sentiment.  Brugler and Mays were talking about him compared to last year and confidently said he would have gone ahead of BTJ, maybe Odunze (or between the two)