Mr. Scot

Marty's gone, man. That's the best thing I can tell you.

You know as well as I do that not every NFL owner is "hands on", just as you know that the smartest ones tend not to be. Tepper himself has mentioned that the best way to operate is to get people who know what they're doing and let them do their jobs. He's also spoken about how sometimes the smartest thing he can do is realize how much he doesn't know. I'm hoping he's consistent with those words, and that's not going to change based on whether or not he agrees with me.

I know it's a sore spot for you. Trust me, it is for me too.

That we've been a stupid team in the past is true. I'm really hoping the "stupid" left with Marty.

I always love the "he's rich so he must know what he's doing" suggestion. As mentioned elsewhere, that idea works really well in places like Washington and Dallas. What's sad to me is that you've previously been heavily against owner interference, but now with the idea that he might want your favorite guy, you're suddenly okay with it?

Yeah, that dynamic has been working really well for Washington, Dallas, Cincinnati and San Diego.

But why? We had Greg Little

That feeling is called "being a Panther fan".

The idea that fans not knowing who a team's left tackle is means the position isn't that important has to be one of the stupidest arguments I've ever seen. Ask any quarterback if his left tackle is important.

At Fitterer's introductory press conference, Tepper stated that he's not an evaluator and he's not going to try to be one. I'm absolutely hoping he sticks to that statement.

He doesn't have to be. Rhule has final say.

The last input he gave was suggesting that Rivera go to a 3-4. Didn't go so well. I'm perfectly fine with him giving his input as long as he doesn't demand that his decision makers agree to it.

Tepper has every right to play with his "toy", just like Dan Snyder, Jerry Jones, Mike Brown and the Spanos family do. Everybody understands that. The problem with the "running your business" scenario is what if you're lousy at it? You can keep stubbornly running it yourself if you want to, but if you have any brains you'll step back and let somebody who knows what they're doing run it for you.

Depends on who else is there. It wouldn't so much be people upset with taking Sewell as it would be people upset with who we didn't take.

We're not talking about the decision. Tell me who's making the decision. If it's Fitterer and Rhule, I'm on board. If it's Tepper, not so much.

Which is a big reason why some of their drafts have gone to sh-t. Eagle scouts have complained that they'd have a whole draft board set up, be ready to pick the next guy on it and then Howie Roseman would just go completely off script. Some believe he was covering for Lurie. That's not much different than Jay Gruden complaining that the personnel guys would do all the research, have their plan in place and then watch Dan Snyder come in and tell them who to take instead. I'd like to hope Tepper is smarter than to pull sh-t like that, but we don't know.

I would never bet on everyone being happy with whoever the Panthers pick. Not on this board

My first reaction to the title was "Who is Farley and what is he back from?" I didn't remember us having a player by that name. Took me a second to figure out what he actually meant. Glad to see I'm not the only one

I'm with ya.

Regardless of what the situation is, the most he should do is nod his head and say "okay".

Same place mine is

Whether he will or won't influence the decision, don't know. What I do know is that he shouldn't, and if he's smart, he won't. And to be clear, we don't know for sure what he wants, but I'd say that even if he agreed with everything I think they should do. I'm not gonna change my opinion on owner interference depending on whether he agrees with me or not. It's bad either way. Let the football people do their jobs.

Person did get better when he went to The Athletic, but he's still limited. But hey, Aaron Wilson is a free agent right now. I'd take him as the Panthers beat writer in a heartbeat.

I could see that. He's been pushing Fields pretty hard. If they don't take him, he looks silly.

Side Note: I thought he was great in "The Shaggy DA" and "Herbie goes to Monte Carlo".