Mr. Scot

How many teams will have enough cap to offer him what he wants though? Free agency is gonna be reeeeeally complicated this year.

Part of being good at your job is knowing when to tell the person above you they're full of sh-t. Marty never gave any indication that he was smart enough to do that.

Related: Lance has apparently advised teams that he won't be running at his pro day.

How about this guy?

It was a damn good draft. If you're looking for the best draft the Panthers have had, it's probably between this one and Seifert's last draft in 2001.

Like I said, it explains a lot. Gantt said many times that as far as Richardson was concerned, Hurney was GM for life if he wanted to be. He would never have been fired if he hadn't basically volunteered to fall on the sword. The fact that he was willing to work without a contract lent to that idea as well.

Not liking the sound of this, but unfortunately he's probably right.

Two more franchise tags announced... The Jags are franchising OT Cam Robinson and the Bucs are tagging WR Chris Godwin.

And with our record being exactly 500 over the tenure of his ownership, it could also be said that he got exactly what he earned.

Definitely. Of course, having an owner who judged the quality of the draft primarily by the first round probably made it easier to be a mediocre GM.

Mentioned elsewhere, but I remember when that scandal broke and he announced that it would be handled by "internal investigation". I think he genuinely believed the "good old boy" network of the NFL would cover for him. Yeah...Not in this day and age. His face when he found out they wouldn't probably looked a lot like those pictures.

I quoted that to my mom once. Her response? "Well, either way you're gone"

To be fair, Teddy wasn't running around because he tended to get the ball out pretty quick. As to the quality of our OL, there's two grades: With Okung healthy - Decent Without Okung - Garbage

All about the first round pick...

Me too, but my job's not on the line.

I've seen some speculation that the Patriots will go heavy after Samuel.

It's a fair point though. How confident would you be staking your reputation on somebody you haven't really been able to fully scout?

On the flipside... While I would absolutely love to have him here, gotta figure he will be ex...pen...sive

There was a thought they might wait with the possibility of the tag deadline being pushed back, but there's been no word on that so they would have had only until 4pm today. That'll adjust our available cap.

Except that's not what he said... Breer said that as far as the final outcome, i.e. whether he's traded, sits or decides to play, nobody knows what will happen. He believes however that if the outcome is him being traded, it will happen quickly and suddenly. A similar sentiment was posted in one of his prior MMQB columns.

Patriots get an upgrade at left tackle...

Better informed people than Sileo have said the Texans aren't interested in Watson.