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Having a competent OL is essential-having a dominant OL without a high end QB is a pointless and costly endeavor. with rare exception, the day of “building around the QB” is long since gone, and the “prepare the roster for a future QB” argument was always moronic. the value and rarity of finding of an opportunity to take a meaningful swing at a franchise QB far exceeds getting a “sure” thing at any other spot on the field, assembling a competent OL is fairly easy task. also if the Bengalis took penei Sewell over Jamarr chase they wouldn’t have made the playoffs and I just want everyone to swallow that choke it down boys

What are you talking about? this in no way rebuffs my previous point.

lol having a line that is “one of the best in the NFL” isn’t the objective

Yeah you’ve gotta go back nearly a decade to find it, there’s almost always a great player to be had at the QB position. The good teams identify that guy and acquire him and reap the benefits you saw.

Any player can contribute to a team’s success. The point is impact and availability of talent relative to the ease of ability to acquire the positions that make the biggest impact, further quantified by cost.

You’re absolutely right i am. Like the league’s best franchises, I understand the concept of value relative to availability of talent, contribution to a team’s overall success, pay scale, the evolving nature of the game, and other largely simple realities that are apparently still too complex for a tiny brain drunk on tired cliches like “just looking to come away with a good player” and “I just wanna get the safest player available” and other dated adages that keep poorly ran teams like the Indianapolis colts locked in the cellar and unable to separate themselves from the pack in the league’s worst division

The colts getting sucked into blowing a top 10 pick on a player who has quite literally never added a single win to their win total shouldn’t be a blueprint

And it was a stupid pick

Uh yeah thanks buddy i know

“without an OL it doesn’t matter who you stick back there!”

really impressive how quickly you can compete for a super bowl by getting a franchise QB and a superstar wideout

Oh wow well if you have researched it!! he’d be talking them up for trade value if he wanted another team to come up for one he’d be talking them down if he was worried that another team may come up ahead of them-as happened when they demonstrated their public interest last year All that comment implies by you making it is that you have your own personal and meaningless assessment of the QBs and are working your way back from there ”if I don’t like these guys, why would he? This must be what this means.”

The coaches have yet to even get involved in the scouting process, I sincerely understand that a lot of people here don’t understand how the draft process works and you’ll get posters screeching and hissing at the idea that this center probably isn’t going to go in the top 10 just because the mocks are saying that they are right now, and that WHAT WALTERFOOTBALL DOESNT EVEN HAVE THIS GUY AS A 1ST ROUNDER AND YOU THINK WE SHOULD TAKE HIM AT 6!?!?!, but until the coaches, their staffs, and chief personnel executives actually get to Mobile then the meaningful portion of the evaluation process hasn’t even started and everything you think you know about the quality of these prospects is based on what jimmy Butkiss at sportstek.edu.net thinks of these guys i guarantee you the panthers don’t know who they are or aren’t taking yet like lol why is that even controversial

If you think they’ve made a final determination on who and what they’re drafting or not drafting before the season ends then I really don’t know what to tell you, maybe the panthers Reddit is more your speed?

they aren’t going to telegraph who they’re taking after disadvantaging themselves on the literal first day of the offseason last year by telling anyone they could corner that they wanted to move on from bridgewater in very public circles anyone who thinks an evaluation has been made on these QBs in January is kidding themselves

it’s off-season time at the huddle again, where the definitive components of a championship team are a plethora of mid round picks and a really great run defense i would joke that were only a “use a 1st round pick on an interior lineman” away from the trifecta but well we got there early this year

Do tell us what you’d be comfortable giving him up for

I wonder how bad Burns’ failure to defend the run would really look if the team had a really excellent unvaccinated run defender playing behind him at a pro bowl level

Burns should only be traded if they can pick up multiple 1s, and then use the 6th pick to replace him. as for whose the preferred option to keep, it’s not really a question. Burns.

You’d like that wouldn’t you

What a dummy for even saying this CBs who can iso up and play press man are regarded as every bit as valuable OTs in the current nfl, literally all he had to do was just say “well you know we really loved both of these guys, Slater was one of the highest rated guys on our board, we just had Jaycee rated a little bit higher on our board, it’s a real shame about the injury but he was playing great until he got hurt but we’re really looking forward to getting him back.”

The salary cap is an illusory tool. It has never in any way prevented any team from doing something it truly wanted to do. It is malleable to the point of obsolescence and means absolutely nothing.

Spoilers: one of the “not worth a 1st round pick” QBs in this class will go on to be a good player

Ugh

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