Panthers WR Xavier Legette named potential trade candidate for 2026 offseason

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27 minutes ago, Navy_football said:

I really don't think that's the case. There just aren't enough days in training camp or practices during the season to get the reps he needs. I think he needs to be playing ball everyday (at least a couple of times a week) during the offseason. Slow down with all the drills and working out. Just play ball. That's where he needs to improve. 

I won’t disagree on the practice time, of the coaching having access to the players. The NFLPA has fuged our game up with their negotiated restrictions. 
 

Put these SOBs on back two a days and get the coaches where they can be hands on, watch the quality of football be restored to what I (we?) grew up watching. 
 

But this is not some defensive HC with a run first offensive staff. The two senior offensive coaches have WR coaching g background. 
I am in no position to know what they have done but the evidence appears to say they should have been more pro active. I am not letting them off the hook because of the NFLPA and their crap. 

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On 1/23/2026 at 11:34 PM, ChibCU said:

It's crazy how much I've heard about his size and speed. I've never seen him play like he has size and I've never seen him show breakaway speed. He looks as average as it gets for an NFL WR when it comes time to run a route and carry the ball.

It's because he's too dumb to know how to use either

[Navy_football]

47 minutes ago, strato said:

 

I won’t disagree on the practice time, of the coaching having access to the players. The NFLPA has fuged our game up with their negotiated restrictions. 
 

Put these SOBs on back two a days and get the coaches where they can be hands on, watch the quality of football be restored to what I (we?) grew up watching. 
 

But this is not some defensive HC with a run first offensive staff. The two senior offensive coaches have WR coaching g background. 
I am in no position to know what they have done but the evidence appears to say they should have been more pro active. I am not letting them off the hook because of the NFLPA and their crap. 

The padded practice restrictions have definitely impacted the game. 14 padded practices during the 18 weeks season and no more than one per week. That's crazy to me. But...

As for Legette, he probably is in the best place possible to learn under those restrictions. But drills will only go so far. And it really isn't drills for him. It's knowing all the little intricancies of how to be a WR. That only comes from game experience, in my opinion. Being put in different situations at game speed. Hopefully he puts everything into this offseason. I'm cheering for him. This team needs him. 

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6 minutes ago, Navy_football said:

The padded practice restrictions have definitely impacted the game. 14 padded practices during the 18 weeks season and no more than one per week. That's crazy to me. But...

As for Legette, he probably is in the best place possible to learn under those restrictions. But drills will only go so far. And it really isn't drills for him. It's knowing all the little intricancies of how to be a WR. That only comes from game experience, in my opinion. Being put in different situations at game speed. Hopefully he puts everything into this offseason. I'm cheering for him. This team needs him. 

Idk..... toe tapping inbounds & spacial awareness of the boundaries for a WR is HS level skills....dare I say Jr High. Checking in with an official and being confirmed that you are offsides only to get flagged for not adjusting is also learned way before Sundays at the highest level of sport.

I'd reach out to the Jets for Jermaine Johnson and see if XL + an early day 3 pick will bring him back to help our EDGE room.

[Jon Snow]

He's not going to make it in the nfl. He doesn't have the drive or desire to be anything other than what he is. A waste of a roster spot. 

[kungfoodude]

1 hour ago, strato said:

 

I won’t disagree on the practice time, of the coaching having access to the players. The NFLPA has fuged our game up with their negotiated restrictions. 
 

Put these SOBs on back two a days and get the coaches where they can be hands on, watch the quality of football be restored to what I (we?) grew up watching. 
 

But this is not some defensive HC with a run first offensive staff. The two senior offensive coaches have WR coaching g background. 
I am in no position to know what they have done but the evidence appears to say they should have been more pro active. I am not letting them off the hook because of the NFLPA and their crap. 

That wouldn't improve much of anything. 

At the professional level, you are expected to be a professional and work on your own development. It's an investment in yourself. Almost all elite NFL players and most NFL players spend ample amounts of time working out with their own coaches, doing their own film study and developing themselves.

The issue at the NFL level is very rarely anything to do with practicing with the team. The guys you are talking about are practice squad players with little NFL future. The investment in time would be meaningless in 99.99% of the cases.

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8 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

That wouldn't improve much of anything. 

At the professional level, you are expected to be a professional and work on your own development. It's an investment in yourself. Almost all elite NFL players and most NFL players spend ample amounts of time working out with their own coaches, doing their own film study and developing themselves.

The issue at the NFL level is very rarely anything to do with practicing with the team. The guys you are talking about are practice squad players with little NFL future. The investment in time would be meaningless in 99.99% of the cases.

If you want to apply that to XL or any other player that is one thing.

It does not work with 11 guys working as 1. Just doesn’t. The quality of play in the NFL has declined, even while the quality of the athletes has progressed. Increased. 
And the limits on practices and drilling as a unit are the primary reason why. Secondary cause would probably be the rule changes that hurt the defense and take real hitting and intimidation out of the game. 
 

Debatable third reason might be the colleges not even trying to run pro style offenses, and the league going with the path of least resistance and switching to backyard football. 
 

Which hurts the running backs I think, and probably has led to their devaluation. That’s another issue for another day. 

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14 minutes ago, strato said:

If you want to apply that to XL or any other player that is one thing.

It does not work with 11 guys working as 1. Just doesn’t. The quality of play in the NFL has declined, even while the quality of the athletes has progressed. Increased. 
And the limits on practices and drilling as a unit are the primary reason why. Secondary cause would probably be the rule changes that hurt the defense and take real hitting and intimidation out of the game. 
 

Debatable third reason might be the colleges not even trying to run pro style offenses, and the league going with the path of least resistance and switching to backyard football. 
 

Which hurts the running backs I think, and probably has led to their devaluation. That’s another issue for another day. 

I would generally disagree with the "quality of play declining." I think that's just something people try to claim because the league changes or doesn't look the same as they remember it from some period of time they most associate with. 

The league is cyclical, it always has been. You just may not like the cycle it is in. 

There is no great crisis. Yes there are some issues with some players in college but it's not anything that has caused massive swaths of NFL Drafts to be unusable. That would be what you would expect if this was a real issue.

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8 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I would generally disagree with the "quality of play declining." I think that's just something people try to claim because the league changes or doesn't look the same as they remember it from some period of time they most associate with. 

The league is cyclical, it always has been. You just may not like the cycle it is in. 

There is no great crisis. Yes there are some issues with some players in college but it's not anything that has caused massive swaths of NFL Drafts to be unusable. That would be what you would expect if this was a real issue.

Look at the quality of play in the first few weeks. It is clear. 
Nowadays the season is the training. They only get better from real in game experience. It does not get drilled in, in the offseason nor in training camp. 

[kungfoodude]

2 minutes ago, strato said:

Look at the quality of play in the first few weeks. It is clear. 
Nowadays the season is the training. They only get better from real in game experience. It does not get drilled in, in the offseason nor in training camp. 

Well part of that is less preseason and part of that is shifting towards not playing many starters in the preseason. 

It's also a longer season now and those early struggles aren't that significant in the long term.

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11 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Well part of that is less preseason and part of that is shifting towards not playing many starters in the preseason. 

It's also a longer season now and those early struggles aren't that significant in the long term.

I am saying it isn’t that as much as the lack of practice time in pads. 

[kungfoodude]

5 minutes ago, strato said:

I am saying it isn’t that as much as the lack of practice time in pads. 

Yeah, that probably matters for 2-3 games of the season. If that is the difference between anything significant happening in your season or not, perhaps your team just wasn't very good?

I don't think we will agree on this subject. I just generally view this as fairly insignificant. 

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4 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Yeah, that probably matters for 2-3 games of the season. If that is the difference between anything significant happening in your season or not, perhaps your team just wasn't very good?

I don't think we will agree on this subject. I just generally view this as fairly insignificant. 

I look at it like a quarter of the season is lower quality football. 
The veteran teams will likely fare better because they have a lot of experience together to fall back on. 
A team like us with a bunch of new people, it hurts us. 

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Just now, strato said:

I look at it like a quarter of the season is lower quality football. 
The veteran teams will like fare better because they have a lot experience together to fall back on. 
A team like us with a bunch of new people, it hurts us. 

I again disagree but this literally has nothing to do with XL. He was just as bad in snap one as his last snap of the season. If anything, he kept getting worse.

That's not a practice issue. That's an issue with motivation and ability.