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We may have soured on Brown as a fanbase but I still think he has a bunch of value in this trade. 3 firsts, Darnold, Brown and McCaffrey; or swap out McCaffrey for a couple 2nds

It makes sense if we don't want to give up any of our top defensive players. Plus it's already been reported we've been taking calls on him outside of the Watson trade so that's not really a shock to me, although the Texans haven't shown any reported interest in him

I think my worst Panthers jersey is Jason Avant. No idea why I got it, I think it was on sale for 50% and I always liked him with the Eagles even though he was never that good. He was cut like 2 weeks later. All my other jerseys were long term Panthers or at least made an All-Pro in their shorter time here.

Not a bad deal at all for the Eagles. Back to back 10+ sack seasons and only takes him to age 30 so won't be an anchor at the end if he declines. I would've been happy with us paying him that if Burns was being traded. This is another indicator that Burns won't be involved in any Watson deal (hopefully). Happy for Reddick getting paid and being in Philly.

Who will be buying a jersey as soon as the trade is official?

Not exactly. We may be able to include Darnold in the trade or off load him to another team attaching a pick. Also after we trade for him we can adjust his contract and clear up space this year very easily. Not to mention any other potential players included will be lowering the net cap we're taking on in a trade. We can "agree to terms" with free agents right now and deal with the specifics later. None of the signings being reported will even be official until Wednesday. Not a peep on any front from Carolina except Watson.

We are literally just ignoring free agency to focus all our efforts on Watson. Lol

any real news will get a new thread, this thread is just nonsensical ramblings at this point

I am ready

Speculation is they are both going to Houston to meet him there in person...

The thing that eases my mind a bit about the draft pick compensation is that those could very easily be busts with our draft track record. Fitts seems a bit better than Hurney/DG but who knows for sure. A sure thing franchise QB in place is extremely important. My issue is still with adding a franchise defender (or more than 1) to those picks. Burns, Chinn and Horn should be off limits. Brown or someone else, ok.

That would be stupid, he's actually solid and if we're letting Jackson and Gilmore walk then we'll be kinda thin at CB. Maybe we're going to try hard to keep Jackson for relatively cheap?

Not that this is actually gonna happen obviously but how would the NFL treat player-coaches in terms of salary cap? Could you have a QB or LB player-coach and pay them more as a coach and less as a player and have it be technically legal?

He started out pretty good but his play fell off a cliff (along with the rest of the team) as the season went on. Just checked his stats, I figured he had like 5 sacks last year but he only had 1.5 and no individual sacks, just 3 shared sacks... Completely fine moving on from him.

Such a genius that with a Hall of Fame QB and elite head coach they only won one SB (by cheating) and never really came all that close to winning another.

I find it funny that the same people who don't want us to trade a crap ton of assets for Watson are also scared to death of the Aints trading away a crap ton of assets for Watson.

I normally don't give a crap about social media stuff but this does indeed add to his douchiness

Attention whore he knew all along he wasn’t retiring. Bucs still in really rough shape cap wise and losing a ton in FA

Houston isn't trading him in their division

If this happens please just don't include Chinn, Burns or Horn in the trade. Brown or McCaffrey sure.

we are current betting favorites

Day 2 I'd be all for it but we don't have a 2nd rounder and he'll be gone by round 3.

I'm not happy at all about the reported price for Watson but no one here can deny that it'll be the first time in years that we'll have something to actually truly be excited about on the field. The dude can ball at the most important position.

Pickett is like a Mac Jones with a bit lower of a floor and a bit higher upside. I.e. not someone you use a top 10 pick on. Herbert would be a good comp if Kenny had a rocket of an arm -- he doesn't. His arm strength is absolutely a weakness and will be his whole career, like Mac Jones. The main difference though is he is mobile and not a statue. That's nowhere near enough for me to get excited about him at 6

This is what it reeked of from the very start. Watson pays for sexual acts, creepy and weird but he’s no rapist