Mr. Scot

From a PFT article about the interview... In a Tuesday interview with #PFTPM, Carolina G.M. Scott Fitterer addressed the manner in which the team decided to make Bryce Young the No. 1 overall pick. “We went through a really continuous process, and we tried to poke holes,” Fitterer said. “We looked at him from every different angle. We went to our analytics guys, we went to player engagement, went to, like, the psychologist. You look for anything that you might miss just on tape and on evaluation. We have all these fact checks in place. “Once that person’s able to stand in there and stay at the top of the board the whole time, you know you have your guy. But it was a real process. We really didn’t decide until the Monday prior to the draft. When I went and walked into Frank’s office said, ‘OK, who we taking?’ You know, just kind of a quick question. He said, ‘Bryce.’ I talked to Mr. Tepper about it. I think we were all on board. It was a consensus throughout the organization Bryce was the right guy for us.” Fitterer was asked whether there was a moment that, for him, Young emerged as the right choice. “The one thing that stands out is probably at dinner, the night before his Pro Day,” Fitterer said. “We’re sitting in a restaurant, and we’re talking to him. And this is the first time, you know, you’ve interviewed him at the Combine in an 18-minute interview. We’ve talked to him at other places, but this is the time you see him in a social setting, where we’re sitting around a table, and we’re really just getting to know the guy, and he’s holding court. We had a couple-hour dinner with him, and as you’re sitting there at dinner, you’re just looking at this guy, and I’m thinking in my head the whole time, ‘OK, is this the right guy for us? Is this the guy we want kind of being our face? Is he the one we want leading our team in the huddle when it’s the fourth quarter?’ And you have all these questions in your head as you’re sitting at dinner just watching him talk to other people. And that’s kind of the moment that I had personally where I thought, ‘OK, this is the guy. This is the guy that we want leading the team.'” So how does the manner in which Young handles himself at dinner create confidence that he’s the right guy to lead the team on the field? “You feel the presence of the player, just like the command that they have,” Fitterer said. “As he’s sitting there at dinner, he was so poised and you’re like, ‘OK, if I put this guy in a huddle,’ if Frank and I saying, ‘This is the guy, we’re putting him in the huddle, game’s on the line.’ Bryce is the guy we want our players looking at, knowing this is the guy that can get it done for us. We can win with this guy. And I think that’s kind of where that social part overlaps in the football side when you get to know the person and not just the player.”

But incorrect... Corral wanted the change even before Young was drafted.

Tepper didn't put that out. Person wrote it analyzing some of his statements. It's an article, not a press release. Kinda hard to call that "attention seeking".

If we're talking about reality, here's what he's really trying to say... Well okay, maybe that's not what he's trying to say, but it's pretty clearly what he's actually saying and what he's been saying for so long that at this point it's pretty pathetic.

During college too...

Either hell or the toilet...

His being a longtime Eagles scout would make me think he and Reich are mutually familiar Good scouts are nice to have.

That's partially true because near as anybody can tell, he hasn't done much. He actually seems to be letting the "football people" do their jobs.

Ngakoue or Burns?

I don't think a GM is gonna get fired over a third round pick. (nor should they be)

I like this idea

Only if he changes the field back to grass... Hell, if he did that he could name it after a porn website and I wouldn't care.

Boy would I love to know the answer to that question.

Heh

I'm sure he liked it too

Are you talking about any message board or The Huddle?

Amen to that

Remembering what my bank account balances tended to be in college, I'd sure have loved to sign an NFL contract

22 million for Love? Is he really worth that much or is this just "F--- you, Aaron"?

Person talked about some of Tepper's recent remarks and what they mean in his latest article for The Athletic. Excerpts: The Panthers are on their third head coach since David Tepper bought the team. He’s working with his second general manager and is on to his fifth quarterback, which doesn’t even count the likes of Kyle Allen, Taylor Heinicke, Will Grier or P.J. Walker. The one constant since 2018 has been Tepper himself, but the hedge fund manager has been making changes to the way he runs his team. Tepper delivered some of the most interesting comments of the draft weekend when he dropped in on Scott Fitterer and Frank Reich’s news conference Thursday after the Panthers took Alabama quarterback Bryce Young No. 1. ... Tepper, the self-made businessman worth $18.5 billion, acknowledged he was learning on the fly the first couple of years after buying the team from Jerry Richardson. He also emphasized a commitment to overseeing more thorough processes in hiring coaches and selecting quarterbacks, both of which were readily apparent over the past several months. Tepper was funny, informative and self-effacing, which has not always been his strong suit. “You guys have to understand, we were here a year and a half trying to figure out — I didn’t know what the heck. I was on the business side,” said Tepper, who was a minority partner of the Steelers. “Then COVID hit. So we’re out of the building for 2 1/2 more years. Then we are in the building and had a better chance last year to see what was going on, right, wrong and indifferent.” ... When the Panthers hired Matt Rhule in 2020, Tepper led a three-person search committee that also included former general manager Marty Hurney and Steven Drummond, a senior adviser to Tepper who recently left the organization. They interviewed four candidates and one had a second interview — Mike McCarthy, with whom Hurney circled back. During the search for Rhule’s replacement, there were four people on the committee besides Tepper — Fitterer, assistant general manager Dan Morgan, vice president of football administration Samir Suleiman and chief administrative officer Nicole Tepper. They interviewed nine candidates, three of whom received second interviews — Reich, interim head coach Steve Wilks and Kellen Moore. After Reich was hired, Tepper gave him a blank check to bring in assistants ranging from former head coaches (Dom Capers and Jim Caldwell) to several who look like future head coaches (Thomas Brown, Ejiro Evero, Josh McCown). ... Tepper employed a similar strategy after the Panthers decided to scrap the rent-a-quarterback model of the past three years and go with the draft-and-develop approach, which Fitterer had said was the preferred route since he arrived in Charlotte. After acquiring the No. 1 pick from Chicago in a franchise-altering deal, the Panthers filled two private planes to jet from Columbus, Ohio, to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and north again to Lexington, Ky., for the pro days of Young, C.J. Stroud and Will Levis over three consecutive days. They also traveled to Florida for Anthony Richardson’s pro day after the owners’ meetings. “I can’t emphasize enough, we are true to this process this time. Not all the time in other past years,” Tepper said. “But process in this coach. Process in getting this quarterback and not leaving a stone unturned. This is truly in everything we’re doing and everything that we did with the coaches and when Frank was hired. The process of, do we have the best person?” “We’re not messing around. I’ll say it that way,” he added. “The work is here, truly.” ... Having a plan at quarterback and sticking with it is the opposite of what happened during Rhule’s tenure. And though Rhule might have been the impetus behind most of those moves, Fitterer and Tepper signed off on them. Of course, the draft-and-develop strategy may not work either, which Tepper acknowledged by saying there’s no “sure thing” even when taking a quarterback first overall. And Tepper is still going to be a hands-on owner; that’s who he is. But the fact he’s acknowledging where he’s failed in the past, taking a more deliberate approach and surrounding himself with smart, serious people is a good step.

Had nothing to do with Young, as it turns out... He wanted his old number as soon as DJ Moore was gone.

I could get on board with this.