kungfoodude

See, I view it quite a bit differently. Carter is a far, far less developed prospect than Burns.

I concur. I don't think he is a guy that is going to end up as a starter.

Good FA pass rushers are almost always insanely expensive. But, we don't have a ton of draft capital to address it either. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Yep. If you build a good roster, making DL and OL picks every draft should be an expectation.

Yes, and I mean that Carter is more effective in basically every single aspect of his game than Carter. I am an outlier, I really, really, REALLY dislike Carter. I think he is a massive bust waiting to happen.

Honestly, I don't think so but it only takes one to tango.

WR's seem like a relatively simple evaluation. We just fug it up constantly.

I would disagree. Carter is a substantially less effective pass rusher than Burns.

I think the Chargers win easily and Pittsburgh wins. Betting on the Lamar curse continuing.

I don't think he is gonna get paid like you probably think. We will see.

I am not a fan personally. I think he is a very poor man's Brian Burns and that isn't worth the #8 pick.

I meant to say WOULDN'T expend the 8th or 2nd. I am fine getting an elite guy at WR like Higgins or Wilson. That is something we are not going to be able to draft because we don't have anyone in the building that knows how to evaluate WR talent.

I like Gillote. Isn't he going to be at the Senior Bowl?

Well the range that Taylor is likely in is where you can make some gambles on guys like him(3rd/4th round). That is what I viewed XL as and so far he has been. If we can't get McMillian early, WR needs to be a FA thing. Some big splash signing like Higgins or big trade for Wilson. Outside that, this draft does look like one I would expend the 8th pick or even our 2nd rounder on a WR. I know there will be guys that pop in the 2nd and 3rd but it's a crapshoot in this class, IMO

If they want to package all the 5th rounders for a 3rd or something, hey, fine with that. But we basically have three picks in the higher probability of success range, so we don't need to be squandering them by doing anything ignorant. Now trading down to get 1st through 3rd round picks?? I am all in unless someone like Graham, McMillian or Johnson drops. We are in the range where there isn't much of a percieved talent gulf between the middle to latter 1st round. And I say that acknowledging that the amount of trade downs the Panthers have "won" is miniscule.

IDK. I would say his his floor is higher than almost anyone mocked ahead of him. Most of the guys mocked in the top 15-20 as DE/EDGE guys have astronomical bust factors, IMO.

If we fuging trade up to get Carter, fire everyone and do it yesterday.

Depends on workouts/combine/etc. I suspect he will end up in the last first to early second range.

The Senior Bowl is where you make your hay. If we snag a couple of the stars of the practice week, we will be ahead of the curve

The 84th time is the charm. I will say I am less skeptical of Taylor than I am about XL.

I mean a #1 WR and possibly two DL starters?? It's a pipe dream but it would be amazing.

True but I don't think we will be making big, splash signings on the DL in free agency. It will be much of the same as we have been doing with attempts in the draft to get long term solutions.

I am pretty skeptical of him getting a big paycheck. I suspect the Huddle is going to find out that the league as a whole doesn't view him quite the same way we do. He is definitely better than Yosh Nijman but I remember all the glowing things said about his ability to play(some predicting he would start here lol) and he was easily the worst offensive lineman on the roster by a pretty substantial margin.

Why? It makes a lot of sense to me.

Yeah, I mean there is that. But one has to assume we plan to attempt to fix the pass rush. How long that takes is anyones guess.