Joe Bear

Lee's one of the ones who needs to go.

Because the Panthers are a worse roster, top to bottom, and last year's beatdown wasn't lost on me. I put 3 units on Dallas ML and was rewarded handsomely.

100% chance OP is from Gastonia.

Oh there are two guys at the top of my board who will be there at 2. And one of them at 3. Otherwise, trade down.

Same as Young: bring in some competition. Legitimate competition.

That's also the comparison I had in mind. Definitely Victor Cruz vibes. He's second in the league among rookies in YPC and, despite missing half the season, is 11th in yards.

Part of his ability is to create a broken coverage -- most every catch on this team is contested, year-in and year-out. So his hands, route-running savvy and overall talent equate to a star in the making. Also, I would far rather go QB, DL or trade down than pick yet another WR early.

4 catches for 110 yards by a UDFA in his first game in more than a month is far more than "playing well." I swear a guy could put up 9 catches for 215 yards, 3 TDs and this board would say "he played decent but he's still not that good". It's OK to admit we have a star WR in the making.

Coker has shown more this season than Philly Brown did in his career. It's OK to underrate him but don't go crazy with it.

No. He's not a franchise QB, but he's not the worst QB of all time like we feared in September. He was on a heater for a while and he had a bad game in a game I said all week was a horrible matchup for this team. If you don't give up >200 yards rushing and fail miserably on third downs, you can probably overcome 2-3 of his turnovers. But the whole team sucked other than Coker. Young would've needed to have his best game ever to win when the defense is this decimated and awful.

Free money.

Bryce's comedown game after weeks of his teammates letting him down. Hammered Cowboys ML.

Not sure yet tbh. Might be, but it might be legitimate. Leaning toward legitimate.

Part of the reason he gets open is his athleticism and part of it is DBs know even if he beats them he’ll just drop the ball every time.

Quote this when he puts up another historic stinker tomorrow.

XL can get open. No one (well, no one should) denies that. It's just that when the ball approaches him he's more of a defensive back.

Wow, you can really catch XL anywhere these days.

Nation's top-rated portal QB Darian Mensah headed to Duke (explains Loftis' immediate portal entry after Murphy's). https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42912191/darian-mensah-top-rated-qb-transfer-portal-commits-duke

I don't think he's gonna stick around more than a couple years. It's an understandable gamble by UNC's brass. But despite our resident bandwagoner literally choking himself on the kool-aid, it's definitely not an immediate ticket to a conference championship.

Can we get one now? When do they drop?

Murphy would be an instant villain if he did that, but it's becoming (and only will continue to become) more common for guys to jump to their rival programs. He throws a great deep ball and you'd fall in love with that. His decision-making, however, is 2021 Darnold-esque.

Duke's Maalik Murphy entering the transfer portal. Not sure why. He peaked at Duke this year, and whoever else would get him would put him in a worse position (maybe a better team but as a backup, or a worse team as the starter).

I was fine with going after the local guy. Huge-ass mistake on my part to ever be alright with a Panthers draft pick. I've learned my lesson, though -- we're 5 1/2 months from making another pick, and he already sucks.

Maybe if Legette gets deactivated. If he's starting, there's no way -- unless he's only used as a decoy.

I watched the real first-round bust drop a pass that cost the team the game.