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It's not a great draft at the top. Deep with less than elite talent. The truth is, we can just as easily fug up a #2 pick as a #32 pick. Nothing on the field is gonna change that problem. Build a winning culture that can last until we get a FO that matches it.

Because it has been 33 games since it happened last.

Well Chuba is the #10 AAV RB, that equivalent is $19.1 mil at CB. IMO, Horn is pretty far from the #10 CB. He is a good CB but is not worth truly elite money. Hopefully we can come to a conclusion that works for both he and the team.

Someone hasn't been looking at the SOS.

Believe it or not, those games(absolute blowouts) were not always our biggest passing/rushing disparity games. New Orleans: 60.8% Chargers: 70% Bears: 64.8% Redskins: 43.9% There isn't necessarily a distinct pattern. I can dive deep a little later today and see if our passing/rushing disparity matches up with their statistical defensive weaknesses.

Those other two games were also 12 and 16 carries. We are all over the map in rushing attempts the past four games. Sometimes we are heaving the ball 60+% of the game and sometimes it's more even. Overall, however, we average 58.93% percent passing plays and that is #10 in the NFL. We are indeed a passing team and have remained largely that over this past five game "success" stretch. The percentages have dipped to 55.9% passing in those five games. Interesting and unrelated side note but the only six teams that pass the pass 50.3% or less have a combined 48-20 record this year in the NFL(all with at least 8 wins).

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Yep. I like Ikey a lot and I think he will get better but Slater is just one of those elite guys. Horn will never be the player Slater is, for that matter. We always just seem to whiff on the correct decision.

Slater was my dude. 100%

I doubt it. Canales is not committed enough to the run for that likely to ever happen.

That's not really true. It's a deep class of pass rushers but it has zero elite talent. So you can probably get a Carter level player in the 2nd or 3rd.

This is the crux of the Panthers situation. Consistently making luxury picks that don't pan out. TBH, it's been a rough draft so far. XL is looking suspect for a guy that was a trade up. Brooks may never play meaningful snaps for us again. Wallace could be a guy? Hard to say so far. Sanders may be a stud. The guys after that are basically nothing. If XL or Wallace don't pan out, this was a classic Panthers dumpster fire draft.

I didn't see this game bcuz drinking in Chicago.....WTF happened?

Agreed. I want to win games but I really, really want McMillian or Graham. I think they will solve a lot of issues. Hunter is a pipe dream.

I was a Bryce stan, loved the draft pick. Transitioned over 2023 to a firm believer that he was never going to be an NFL starting caliber QB. Now I am just waiting and seeing. Glad to have him start to win me back. It's nice to not be a complete laughingstock. That's one that that people have largely missed. The national media as moved on from us being the NFL laughingstock. That's impressive.

+1 Vote for most logical Huddle Post of the Year.

I know. I hate to be that guy but he doesn't really move the needle in the W's/L's. Get healthy, get on the fuging JUGS machine and come back better than before.

It's far too early to be crowning Bryce much like it was far too early to be crowning Stroud much like it is far to early to be crowning Daniels....etc, etc. Best QB in a draft takes years to figure out(usually). I am just happy Bryce is even bringing this illogical discussion up after last year and early this season. I am gonna focus on that huge W.

He is a significantly more NFL ready guy than Wallace now but he is also a lot older. I also probably would have rather had Wilson but I completely understand the reasons to avoid him. The same reasons we should have avoided a far lower value position in RB in the 2nd. I am way less perturbed about taking Wallace over Wilson than I am Brooks over Frazier. That's a lightspeed stupid move that most intelligent Huddlers could have even made while above a legal driving BAC limit.

It's literally the weakest position on the OL and has been from Corbett to BC to Mays. Why not get a top center? I mean, they are literally the cheapest of all OL.

It's so fuging infuriating that people cannot see something that is so simple. A top 5 RB is already at an AAV of almost $8.5 mil.

Not cleaned/trimmed properly if it is fishy.

poo, Corum isn't anything compared to the typical guys. Irving and Tracy Jr. are both 1000 yard offensive guys that were 4th and 5th rounders. That's why I get so fuging frustrated with taking 1st and 2nd round RB's. We many, many years into being able to find top 15 RB's in the later rounds.

Eh....I don't know if I buy into this narrative yet. Hopefully but Tepper seems pretty thin skinned and ill suited to this. Remember that Snyder also went hands off but stopped because it "wasn't any fun."