kungfoodude

That's the thing. If you looked at our FA signings and draft under the assumption that we had 5 quality starters on the roster already, the narrative would be completely different. We'd be talking about what a great job we did filling out the depth on our OL unit. That was honestly the way I felt about all our OL moves. They acted as if we just needed to bolster depth. As it stands, we have two NFL starters and a pile of journeymen and depth pieces. I still can't wrap my head around the thought process.

Wow. He sounds like a really great kid. I hope his on field accomplishments match the person he is. It would be nice to have a great #2 RB(maybe #1 as CMC ages).

Agreed but I think he has had multiple surgeries for this same issue. Like I said, the fact he is talking retirement says a lot.

I meant more that Teddy getting rid of the ball quickly and Brady's offense made that line look a lot better than they were. The PBWR stats kind of alluded to that.

That looks terrible. Hard pass.

He has a recurring bone spur issue. He is already talking retirement if this surgery doesn't work. Even as bad as our OG unit looks, I don't see how a player that close to retirement from injury helps us.

I think not enough credit is being given to Brady and Teddy for how "not that terrible" the Panthers OL looked last year.

I think he was handed the job when we his backups are Walker and Grier.

The problem is getting past all the elite QB's on the list, IMO.

Funny that people were up in arms over PFF having us rated higher. The truth is that on paper we have a bottom ten OL. All we can do is hope that isn't the case in January of 2022.

1, 4, 5 are reasonably explainable, IMO. It's a lot harder to explain 2, 3. I loved Obada to death but he is also an older player that is still really a developmental guy. That's a tough guy to keep around for a team like ours. Tre Boston was overpaid for what he gave us. Easier to gamble on cheaper and younger players to help us.

This is true. I honestly think they were all in on Sewell and that basically fuged up the rest of their entire draft. I won't lie, when he started dropping, I was so fuging excited. What's even worse, is that Detroit kicked him out to RT and is probably going to ruin him. Man, that first round was so depressing when he got picked right before us. In hindsight, I really love the Horn pick(was too butthurt to like it at the time) but it will really sting if Sewell actually does develop into an elite NFL LT.

Tell me about it. I just wonder if we will ever get another Jordan Gross.

That's sort of a larger problem with our OL depth chart in general. Outside Moton and Paradis, it's project players, guys with suspect injury histories or just mediocre to bad players. It's really hard to see that morphing into an effective unit when you look at it on paper. The hope is we stay healthy and maybe we can get a five man starting unit that develops some chemistry. I agree on Christensen and Brown. Christensen seems like a guy they just got enamored with his RAS score and assumed they could just make something out of him because of what a great athlete he was. I hope we really don't regret that move. Brown was a decent guy to gamble on in the 6th round but he does seem like a relic kind of OL. He'd have been a monster on our early 2000's John Fox teams. He might even be decent with a solid four other OL around him but we probably don't have that. I just couldn't wrap my head around our overall OL decisions this offseason. I am skeptical of Darnold but hopeful about his skillset. On the other hand, it's really hard to be optimistic about what our OL looks like. That group makes me very, very, very nervous.

OT or IOL either. It's mind boggling. We are two owners, two GM's and two HC's into just not really making it a priority. For all his faults, at least Gettleman tried(with moderate success).

I am not talking about his performance, I am talking about addressing our second biggest roster weakness. One that has been there for a long time. So, even if he is a stud, if our OL is mediocre to bad again, it's going to matter in the long term. Now, if we eventually fix that, sure....no harm to foul. But that has to get fixed eventually and this was supposedly a great OL draft class.

Even if Marshall works out, it will be a tough look if none of Erving, Elflein or Christensen can be above average NFL starters. That was our biggest non-QB need this offseason and so those were very, very important decisions. I like Marshall a lot but I did feel like that was a little bit of a luxury pick. Ultimately, I really like our WR corps but it's hard for them to be effective when the QB is mostly horizontal. I really, really wanted to go OL in the 2nd and 3rd.

This is valid. TBH, the combine is made for indoor venues.

You need to be close to a NC population center if you want to survive. SC doesn't really have any non-NC adjacent areas that are capable of supporting professional sports in any real way. Frankly, SC barely supports the Panthers as it is. Greenville is the best non-NC adjacent location, however. I definitely agree with that.

Myrtle Beach is an absolute dump.

It took over 7000 posts but you finally made one that was above an IQ of about 60. Congrats!

Might gain a few milliseconds on the broadcast, though.

Nervous, admittedly. We have piled a lot of mileage on him in his short career and historically that does tend to lead to injuries on RB's. We need last year to be an aberration.