Mr. Scot

Every regular season: "Why don't we have a better offensive line? Every following offseason: "We don't really need to take a tackle in the first round." Lather, rinse, repeat...

Not a huge fan of them myself, but a couple of these receivers weigh less than some of my receiver teammates did in high school

I have no idea if Darnold will be good, but I find the people who are absolutely certain they know one way or another to be pretty funny.

Head coach and GM both watched his entire career on film, then chose to trade three picks for him including a second rounder, and you think they're just throwing darts at a dart board because...you don't think he's good? Come on, man.

You think the team believes that?

Sure. Then pick another in Round Two because keep swinging, right?

Or Darnold could be perfectly fine and Fields be awful (or vice versa) but the good one gets beaten to hell behind a sh-tty line that can't protect them. Not like we've seen that movie before, right?

Yeah, that's... horrible thinking when you're talking about a rebuilding team with multiple needs. By that logic, we could use our first and second picks on a quarterback or more because...hey, screw team building if we don't have a quarterback, right? And hey, it's not like a pass rusher could get past our mediocre left tackle and snap our franchise quarterback in two either, right. That never happens! Wait...Joe who? He plays where?

You're talking like everybody was in favor of that idea. A lot of us weren't.

Ideal Draft Day scenario is that one of the top quarterbacks or another really hot (non-OL) player falls to pick #8 and more than one team calls with offers. In that situation, you can leverage the two teams against each other to get the best package possible.

You're correct. My mistake.

Wrong. If the guy you used the first round pick on fails, or even if the guy you already had succeeds, then you wasted a first round pick when you could have used it to shore up a position of great need. That's a bad outcome.

Never hurts to ask.

Could be as little as one spot back with Denver. They get Fields while the Panthers still get whoever is at the top of their board at the time plus additional picks.

If they're looking at moving back, it's more likely because they think somebody else is "intrigued" enough by Fields to offer them a nice trade.

Speculation that they could conceivably trade down to 10 with the Eagles but still get one of the top two tackles (if they fell) I'd probably just go ahead and take one at 8 but I'm a cautious person.

Related Note: Sadly, that's a position where the Panthers could use somebody.

Or we could just, you know, take the best tackle on the board when we have the chance.

Never said they rarely happen. Lying season still exists. With that said, not everything that fans see as a smokescreen actually is one, especially when it comes to teams scouting players. Sometimes checking out a particular player is due diligence, but that doesn't make it a smokescreen.

Former Panther alert... For some reason I was thinking he had already been signed somewhere.

They might not be doing that great a job of selling.

The Seahawks have issued the usual "we are aware of the situation and are investigating further" statement. If he actually did get in trouble just a short 48 hours after getting a second chance, yikes!

Works for me Damn, I just got a huge feeling of deja vu

I could see Denver wanting him, but not necessarily enough to give up what we'd want in return.