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ESPN Top 100 for 2025

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2025 NFL Rank: Predicting top 100 players for this season - ESPN

I'll save you the click- 0 Panthers in the top 100. A couple of former Panthers and a hand full of "draft- What-If's" on the list.

If this nothing else, this type of list shows the down stream impact of terrible player personnel and scouting that was in place here for years. 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, trueblue said:

2025 NFL Rank: Predicting top 100 players for this season - ESPN

I'll save you the click- 0 Panthers in the top 100. A couple of former Panthers and a hand full of "draft- What-If's" on the list.

If this nothing else, this type of list shows the down stream impact of terrible player personnel and scouting that was in place here for years. 

 

 

Before I opened the thread I wondered to myself if we had even one.  Nope.  Had Brown not missed all last season, he probably would have made it.  

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I've been pounding the drum for seven or eight years about this: Our scouting and evaluation department is crap.

If we don't show marked improvement this season, it's time to blow the whole thing up from GM and HC on down to scouting and trainers. Clean slate, no "hey my buddy from back in the day is perfect to join us" crap anymore.

This poo has to end somewhere.

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4 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

I've been pounding the drum for seven or eight years about this: Our scouting and evaluation department is crap.

If we don't show marked improvement this season, it's time to blow the whole thing up from GM and HC on down to scouting and trainers. Clean slate, no "hey my buddy from back in the day is perfect to join us" crap anymore.

This poo has to end somewhere.

Bingo!  We are on the same page.  Our scouting department was average under Hurney, but at least we hit hit it out of the park with our first rounders.  Our scouting department under Tepper's reign with his revolving doors of HCs and GMs has sucked because the scouts largely stay in place.  One or two may change every few years, but the core philosophy stays in place and I believe that to be heavily RAS influenced.   

Looking the part of a football player (physical/athletic measurables) vastly outweighs putting on the tape and deep diving into his stats with our scouting department. Until we change that mindset, this team is doomed.

Again, how many of us Huddlers (none of us are professional scouts) wanted McConkey over Legette?

Yet, we went with XL.  Why?  RAS score, pure and simple.  If you put on the tape and look at the numbers without taking RAS into account, McConkey was the clear choice.

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26 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

I've been pounding the drum for seven or eight years about this: Our scouting and evaluation department is crap.

If we don't show marked improvement this season, it's time to blow the whole thing up from GM and HC on down to scouting and trainers. Clean slate, no "hey my buddy from back in the day is perfect to join us" crap anymore.

This poo has to end somewhere.

The entire draft scouting department should have been purged with Fitterer IMO. The fact there were no major changes was and is a bad sign.

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I'm surprised Horn isn't on there, but in reality, it's not exactly the craziest thing for us to not have anyone on there.

That's only 3.125 players per team who would make the list if evenly distributed.  There are obviously a whole bunch of teams that have more than 3 players deserving of making the list, and that obviously will take spots away from the lesser teams to get someone on the list.

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