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I would be thrilled if 4 WRs and 4 DBs and only 2 OL went before pick 19, but I don’t see it happening.

Should absolutely NOT be out the window. Walker is on a 1 year deal, Moton is on his last legs, and who knows what ends up happening with Ekwonu. I still think they NEED to draft an OT at 19 or the future could get ugly, and we honestly need the competition this year as well. Moton (at this point in his career) and Walker are hardly worth resting on our laurels expecting them to stay both healthy and effective. Even t10 talent level tackles tend to have a lot of struggles in their first year or 2, so it’s not a good position to wait until you’re desperate to draft talent, and it’s a position that the talent drops off rather harshly.

“The Panthers could rebuild their offensive line around him and left tackle Ikem Ekwonu.“ Says all you need to know.

Advanced about 15 years I reckon.

Somebody help me out. Looks like a normal hat with a pin stuck to it?

Holy crap. I say this as a Carolina fan thrilled that Duke lost…how tf did Hurley not get T’d up for this?

It’s a weird thing to hang your hat on. Like one year he had 20+ wins and missed the NCAA tournament. Are we to believe that is a successful season? Roy Williams made 5 tourneys, had 3 ACC season championships, 2 ACC Tourney championships, 2 Final Fours, 1 NCAA Championship, then added another NCAA championship year 6. Hubert is barely making the tourney and losing in the first round when he does. They aren’t even in the same universe. His only good run was with Roy Williams’ players. Borderline t25 to unranked program is not the Carolina standard. And that 5 season 20 win record won’t even last a year since Scheyer is about to head into his 5th season and will almost certainly have 20+ wins again.

The article talks about that some. Last time the NFL didn’t start looking for/training refs until July. NFL is admitting that mistake and starting the process sooner this time.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48344034/nfl-begin-hiring-replacement-officials-given-state-negotiations-nfl-referees-association Honestly fug these refs and their union. Resisting changes that would actually incentivize good performance and not seniority based systems. What a bunch of donkeys. Hope the replacements straight up take their jobs and never give them back. Sick of watching refs script games with no repercussions.

Donovan seems like highest risk to me. Lloyd and May have already established relationships with all these kids. There’s probably guys hitting the portal that they recruited from HS. And then there’s the possibility of transferring their own guys from their current teams. They’ve also been recruiting the HS kids for like the next 5 years already. Look at the Iowa coach who hit the ground running by transferring all his guys from his D2 program. Or going across sports to Cignetti transferring all his JMU guys year one then building off that to a national title year 2. Donovan is starting from square one having been in the NBA so long and he’s already 60. So you’re potentially punting year 1 for a guy you are just hoping to be a 10 year hire while you figure out how to actually develop your next home grown 20yr guy. That’s 1/10th of the time you have him, more or less at best. The hope would be that he would find some high level assistants who have been working the college recruiting trails already, but then are you giving up his ideal staff just to get a foothold in recruiting and transfers. Think Belichick year one was bad? Imagine how much worse it would be without Steve Belichicks transfer portal pulls. Hoping Mays or Lloyd are all they’re cracked up to be.

It has been reported that they offered him the buyout even if he resigned, in which case yes, they were giving him an option to save some face publicly with none of the downside. I also am not surprised he didn’t take the option and don’t hold it against him. This was his dream job, I wouldn’t quit my dream job either.

Self is denying those rumors.

The only way to guarantee we get him is to trade up to #1 overall.

There is one QB on the Sam Darnold track though, if there is one: Justin Fields. Top 10(ish) pick drafted to a bad situation, 3 years on the team that drafted them then traded to another bad situation, spend 2 more seasons in bad qb situations, then goes to a team with a QB guru coach and WB friendly offense to be a backup. The equivalent of Darnold’s Minnesota season would be next season for Fields. We’ll see.

He’s being paid commensurate with names such as Sam Ehlinger, Nick Mullens, Tommy Devito, and Drew Lock (who he couldn’t beat for a backup spot) to compete with Joe Milton for a chance just to hold a clipboard in Dallas. Every team who has employed him has parted with him, in all cases since Washington for less than they paid to acquire him. Sorry, but 32 teams think he is a complete scrub after multiple teams having him in their programs and giving him a chance to beat out their backups. I think most people would be fine kicking the tires for whatever, it’s just that there are a number of posters having a conniption about signing Kenny Pickett and saying the team needs to sign names such as Sam Howell or Trey Lance to prove they are serious about improving QB play. It just makes no sense.