Round 1: The Carolina Panthers select OT Monroe Freeling (Georgia)

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

We paid the vet 4 million dollars when he was supposedly the #1 FA tackle this cycle

You can't use 4 million dollars and #1 FA Tackle in the same sentence.  The math don't add up. That's backup money. Recompute.

[pantherclaw]

6 minutes ago, bobcat91 said:

No, just a stupid pick that rivals Legette. Keep licking that Panther Front office ass. Terrible pick

You're perception is so wrong, it's cute. 

[Diehardpanth02]

3 minutes ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

We paid the vet 4 million dollars when he was supposedly the #1 FA tackle this cycle

People hung up on Safety need to think about if they would rather have Nick Scott playing safety or Stone Forsyth starting at Tackle because we would have been 1 injury away from that.

This may be the only time I’ve ever felt that picking Nick Scott to play a position was a plus move. lol 

But that’s more on that Forsythe guy. What he’s put on film is horrid.

[MHS831]

It was safe--and at pick 28 the OTs are gone

[App Panther]

This is about how I felt after we took Gross. Hope it works out similar.

[Basbear]

uhhhhhh draft is 7 rounds with UDFAs were panthers have killed under Dan ie Coker......

don't panic fellow huddlers.......like John Fox said.....*"a punt isnt a bad play".......1st down punt isn't bad..................................................................................

[carpanfan96]

Matt Miller's comp for Freeling was Tyler Guyton. 

 

Not a day one starter but has starter potential down the road. 

Edited April 24 by carpanfan96

[uncfan888]

I guess this year will just be a plug and play year. But if Ickey is able to come back at even 90 percent of what he was, the next year they should kick him inside to guard and cut hunt. 

Draft a center and then you only really need to worry about replacing Moton next. 

This is assuming freeling can ball out and be a stud LT

[frankw]

11 minutes ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

Yes I forgot McMillan and Young were from Gastonia

I hope you enjoyed yourself one of those South Carolina native Xavier Legette inspired raccoon sandwiches last year brother.

Edited April 24 by frankw

[TylerDurden]

7 minutes ago, Diehardpanth02 said:

A rookie shouldn’t beat out the vet we paid to buy time while icky heals and the rookie learns. We needed depth at tackle and help on the OL.

it was a must honestly.

I’m not gonna poo the pick…  as always, I’m gonna hope for the best.  But, I just don’t get it.  The value may be incredible down the road, but right now, it isn’t.  The first round pick should always have “start as a rookie” projection, unless you’re a perineal contender, and usually even then…  this pick?  I just don’t see how it fits.  Someone else posted that Morgan said Freeling was the best on their board at our pick and it wasn’t close.  I did see that he said we were in the position to take BPA after FA.  So from that angle, I get it.  But to take a guy who probably won’t play out of injury or situational subs versus guys like Lemon or Thieneman, who would’ve stepped in immediately and started?  That one is a head scratcher for me right now.  But, in a year or two, this may look like a genius pick.

[Shocker]

15 minutes ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

I’m going to frame this and put it on my wall to laugh at 

I can autograph it too…win for you

[flagfootballcoach28]

1 minute ago, WhoKnows said:

Ugh, I really hope that’s not the case. I haven’t watched the last two combines but I remember Little’s combine workout and his position drills were awful as well. You could tell Little had no movement skills at all and that absolutely translated into his reaching and falling down.

I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt that he had terrible positional drills and it really makes me disappointed in this pick and a small hope that he proves us wrong.

He ran great and jumped high, but he struggled with the drills. I literally thought to myself “I hope we don’t take this player”  during the combine. I just don’t understand why Carolina feels the need to draft these raw, boom or bust players in the 1st round with very little college production? I thought Dan Morgan learned his lesson last draft when he took the highly productive WR in TMac. I don’t have time to go into detail, but his technique leaves a lot to be desired if you watch him closely.. Why is a 6’7 OT with elite athleticism the 5th OT taken in a weak draft? That’s a red flag for me. People are blindly praising the pick in here without ever watching the kid play 

[SmokinwithWilly]

49 minutes ago, firefox1234 said:

Our OL is too expensive. It seems we have a FO with a decent head in their shoulders.

You do realize the reason our OL is so expensive is because of this FO. Right? 

Edited April 24 by SmokinwithWilly

[Shocker]

5 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

It was safe--and at pick 28 the OTs are gone

This absolutely reeks of a reach pick.  Nothing safe at all about taking a raw OT with no experience at 19 in a draft.