MillionDollarCam

Tulsky did the right thing hanging on to Necas. As some expected, Necas’ contract was designed to be traded and Necas’ huge year allowed the Canes to get an elite talent for him that they feel more comfortable extending. I have no problem going to $13M AAV for Rantanen. Especially with a lot of ELC guys ready to make the jump in Nadeau and Nikishin. It’ll also be interesting to see if the Canes try to upgrade the 2C position by the end of the year. A current healthy Canes team looks like this: Rantanen - Aho - Jarvis Hall - Kotkaniemi - Svechnikov Martinook - Staal - Carrier Robinson - Roslovic - Blake Jost/Jaaska/Suzuki Slavin - Burns Orlov - Chatfield Gostisbehere - Walker Stillman Kochetkov Andersen

Re-sign Rantanen and figure the rest out later.

Notre Dame ML let’s goooo!

Can confirm as a former defensive quality control intern at the college level. All we do is watch film, absolutely no impact on the game whatsoever. Gopher indeed.

8/10 on Canales Canales was brought in to change the culture and make it work with BY9. As of right now it looks like he’s done that. Is there room to grow, sure, head coaches should always be getting better as the game is multifaceted. 5/10 on Morgan Yeah he pulled Hunt and Lewis in free agency but we didn’t land any instant impact players in the draft and a lot of the depth pieces he signed were average at best. It’s too early to grade last years draft class but come next year if we don’t see any improvement from our 2024 class and we don’t land an instant impact player at 8 then it might be time to move on. Morgan needs to give Canales and his staff more to work with than he did this year.

Yeah that should be their focus in free agency as well as the draft. Honestly they need to take a page out of the Panthers book. Draft your tackles and sign your guards.

The Bears have one of the better setups in recent history for their incoming coach. Not often does an incoming coach walk into a situation where one of his position groups is already ranked in the top 10. The Bears already have a top 10 defense and really just need to iron out the offense. I’m not super high on Williams but an offense minded head coach might be able to get something out of him. The Bears also don’t have a lot to do in free agency, they just need to fix their OL.

This is the type of thinking that keeps teams in the basement. The Ravens were obliterated for taking Kyle Hamilton because who takes a safety in the top 15? Well the Ravens did and they got an elite playmaker and one of if not the best safety in the game. Not to mention, safety is a relative safe position to draft high. All the top safeties are first or second round picks. The Panthers can’t afford to keep striking out on first round picks and Starks would be an impact starter from day one, you can’t say that about any of the EDGE’s in this draft.

We are definitely watching different guys. As a sophomore he was the only P5 safety that graded as a top 5 pass defender and a top 5 run defender. And he’s definitely physical. The tape doesn’t lie. Any scouting report that says otherwise isn’t accurate. Also if we keep Evero which it looks like we are, the secondary needs to be elite. Evero’s defense is built on having an elite secondary. In 2022 the Broncos had a top 10 mark in expected points allowed per play. EPA loves long passes and the Broncos secondary was elite and kept everything in front of them which allows credence to the belief that Evero’s defense is truly a bend but don’t break defense that relies on elite secondary play. Additionally, in 2022 the Broncos had a 91.2 coverage grade which was the best in the NFL and they also were top 10 in completion percentage allowed and touchdowns allowed. The secondary needs more than Jaycee Horn to be successful. There’s all this talk of needing an elite front seven with Evero and that’s simply not true. Evero had Bradley Chubb and a bunch of average front seven players playing at a high level because the Broncos secondary was elite. If the Panthers defense doesn’t have an elite secondary then they will struggle again.

Easy… Starks.

Hard to see him falling past the Raiders considering their top two receivers are Jakobi Meyers and Tre Tucker. Pairing Bowers with McMillan would give them an actual passing attack with whoever ends up being their QB.

It’s very likely that all of Will Johnson, Mason Graham, and Tetairoa McMillan will be gone. A safety hasn’t gone in the top 10 since Jamal Adams in 2017. But if there’s a safety that deserves to go in the top 10 it’s Malaki Starks. He graded top 10 against the run and the pass at his position and his ball skills are insane.

I’m well aware of all that and actually prefer Carter as an ILB. As an EDGE his pass rushing skills rely on his speed. He’s a freak athlete like Parsons for sure and is super dangerous when attacking the outside shoulder of the tackle because his bend is elite but beyond that what does he provide you with? As an EDGE, his run defense is average and he constantly looks like he has no pass rush plan and is just content with using his speed to get sacks. His pass rushing technique and his moves are super raw, hell, he rarely even uses his hands when rushing the passer. There’s a lot of risk in asking a speed rusher to bulk up. For starters he could lose some of that speed and explosiveness. There’s just too many question marks with Carter to take him when someone like Starks might be on the board.

Not true, Walter Football is comparing Pearce to Burns but there are others comparing Carter to Burns. EDGE’s that aren’t great against the run and lack strength are going to continually be compared to Burns. At this point in Carter’s career he’s a pass rushing specialist and he really needs to bulk up and be developed properly. He has good bend but almost zero pass rushing moves and lacks the strength of someone like Micah Parsons. See below (and yes, I know they through Parsons in there): https://www.footballscout365.com/nfldraftplayerprofile/abdul-carter

Jaguars are a clusterfug. How do you not fire Baalke along with Pederson. And as a Trevor Lawrence dynasty owner, please get him a good coach.