Joe Bear

I've looked up this team's trade history since 2021 on PFR, and it's impressive. They've helped build the Bears into a playoff contender and restocked the talent pool at several other stops. In the meantime, they've gotten hilariously fleeced in 27 of 32 total trades (and all but one since 2022!), and destroyed their salary cap in the process. That's a level of front-office incompetence that would make Rachel Phelps jealous.

This is seriously what I want Morgan to do: 1) Never, ever, make another trade. Ever. Don't even pick up the phone. There are good negotiators, bad negotiators, and then Dan Morgan is 18 steps below them. 2) When negotiating salaries with free agents, walk out of the room when their agents arrive. Don't come back in until they've left. 3) Tell the Teppers that Shedeur Sanders will dazzle them at dinner in April, and he'll give them all the positive publicity they crave in May and June, but he'll be another Bryce Young. Don't draft him. 4) Again, when a team pitches a trade related to the draft, take every phone in the room and bash it with a hammer until it no longer works.

I'd imagine Morgan's safe as well. Successful, on the other hand, is a 0.0% possibility. Full Blutarsky.

This. There's no light at the end of this franchise's tunnel. They'll pick first for the next three years and have nothing to show for it but an extra third-round pick courtesy of Negotiatin' Dan, and two guys on other teams' practice squads.

I'm with you. Ward will be a great player...once he falls in the Patriots' or Titans' laps. Sanders or whatever other schlub Nicole gets a crush on in April will be a sideline correspondent for ESPN in three years.

Sanders checks every box for Tepper: - Style over substance - Brings plenty of media attention - Doesn't have an NFL arm - Deion comes packaged as the DB coach after Evero gets fired That's gonna be absolutely hilarious to watch. Either that, or he picks a shitty DL and Negotiatin' Dan trades this No. 1 and next year's No. 1 for Tennesee's No. 3 and calls it "trading down".

The top 10 players on the Panthers' payroll are always on other teams' rosters, and the other teams get free draft picks to carry them, too. I'm good with Morgan sticking around for another year because I want to see his and Tepper's reaction when the Sanders pick blows up in their face just like everything else.

I would not re-sign Dalton, nor would I draft Shedeur Sanders and his Shedheads. Having said that, Tepper/Morgan will re-sign Dalton, draft Shedeur Sanders and either 1) trade him to the Lions for a 2026 first (therefore moving down 25-30 draft slots, Morgan's specialty) or 2) keep him and watch him become Bryce Young 2.0.

They do this every year and are always shocked at how awful they look. Every. Year.

There's a lot of trash in the front office.

I'm of the mind that he's better at drafting than he is at trading.

Careful, the Fan Police will see that.

At this rate, potential No. 1 picks should be clamoring to get drafted here. You'll get paid well, you can ball out for a year and then get traded to a better team, plus the Panthers will still pay you so that better team can get even better.

Fitterer should've gotten 0. I'm fine with Morgan getting another year. Won't make a difference either way, so let's see what other trades he can make to destroy any cap room.

It soured me on ever wanting Kemba to be the Hornets' HC, though I don't think he'd ever want that level of responsibility.

I've never understood the "fans like this make things worse" crowd, because every time -- every single time -- you look up posts from people who get high and mighty, and you instantly find they posted the exact same things. Like clockwork.

Completely agree.

Marty Hurney got more in return for Julius Peppers than Morgan got for Diontae Johnson, and Peppers left in free agency.

Maybe don't make the trade then, if it only makes you worse in the short- and long-term? They never seem to consider that. Ever.

I'm not averse to giving Canales another season, but that doesn't mean Tepper feels that way.

Lick boots elsewhere. Thanks.

Dan Morgan to an asset:

I'm giving Morgan as much credit as I give Fitterer and Tepper: none. Zero. The good things that happen are in spite of them and once they realize they're good, they get their hands on them and ruin them. Just like Tommy Boy.

No, because he'll get traded for a Day 3 pick who'll get cut in camp.