Carl Spackler

This is my stance. If they fug this up, I'll drive to the stadium and help them move.

Bennett was in no way considered the safest pick. He was a very good player at UNLV who drew comparisons to Larry Johnson, but was thought of as a swing-for-the-fences pick. At the time, your safer picks were like Nerlens Noel, who panned out better but not very good at all for the draft slot.

Forget it. Fitterer could trade down two spots, pick up an extra seventh-rounder, snag Levis, set him up for success in the USFL in two years, and half this board would still consider it a genius move.

Should be Stroud, but this is the David Tepper Panthers. A team deeply rooted in ineptitude, uncertainty, irresponsibility and stubbornness. Truly, the fugazi of sports franchises.

The thing with Richardson is he can't throw, and he plays a position where you need to be able to throw accurately. He's insanely gifted with athleticism, but you could put a super-athletic WR back there, idk, somebody like a DJ Moore, and he could also evade tacklers and not throw the ball well. I also don't think Richardson has the fortitude of a Cam, who could block out all the noise and rise above adversity. And there's nothing a QB for the David Tepper-owned Carolina Panthers will face more than adversity, especially when he peers into the sports bar across the street and sees the losers at the bar, then realizes he's in the locker room and those are his WRs.

Levis at 1 would make Anthony Bennett in 2013 or JaMarcus Russell in 2007 look like Peyton Manning in 1998 or LeBron James in 2003. That's a pick you make if you're an owner trying to tank fan support enough to relocate.

I guess my fear is that Reich falls in love with Levis, who is Ryan Leaf's illegitimate son, or Richardson, a boom-or-bust player he didn't need to trade up to 1 to get in the first place. I'm placing heavy pressure on that choice, because the only offensive weapon was given up, and if it's not Stroud, it's 100x worse than the Sean Gilbert trade.

I genuinely try to call it both ways as I see it, but I lack blind optimism and, since 2019, my initial stance leans heavily on pessimism. I get why people don't like to read that, but those beliefs and stances are very much based on recent history and, in some cases, a hunch. Like, I don't see CJ Stroud in a Panther jersey. I just can't see it. I can, however, see Young in one.

I call it like I see it. They got big compliments from me for not dumping Shaq, but restructuring his deal. They get credit when they deserve it, but with Tepper, everything he touches turns to poo, and so there's rarely credit to be given.

I'm all in favor of trying for a QB. I don't trust this team to be smart enough to draft Stroud.

that's the most clever response you could think of? OK

Panther fans are in no place to make fun of any other team for being stupid, though. At least wait til after the draft.

I've said it since Friday

Right, but now you have to hope and pray you get a QB as good as Moore is a WR, and now, you don't even have Darnold-tier WRs to catch his passes.

Okay!! lol 1) Yes, you do. Cam Newton had Steve Smith, Greg Olsen and Jeremy Shockey. This team has plumbers and truck drivers at WR and TE. 2) Oh not at all, unless you want to win games. 3) Yes. The wide receiver FA list right now is absolute asswater. 4) The most likely instant-impact WR will go in the top 12, if not earlier. 5) No, the end of the experience is when the next QB is drafted, the GM and coaches get fired, or the team starts winning and doesn't need to do those. 6) No. Take your greatest HC ever, whoever you perceive him to be, and strip him of all offensive talent. He won't win.

I read every fuging word. Try again. Just because a team demands something, doesn't mean you have to cowtow to that demand. That's what stupid GMs do. Hurney got flamed for it but somehow, now, it's OK to give away all your good players, because somehow that's the way you win.

I'm aware of that. Sometimes the smart thing is to back away, instead of cowering to every demand. There's also a great possibility that the player picked at No. 1 would still be available at 2 or 3. Perhaps as late as 9.

It all depends on who's chosen. Stroud strikes me as a Burrow-tier player, Young as a likable underdog capable of multiple Pro Bowl seasons. Others? Not much.

If your heart is set on one QB, you trade up for him. You want him to succeed if your heart is set on him, so you pair him with an excellent WR. And, if your heart is set on him, you don’t flinch when replacing his only weapon with an extra pick in the trade. That’s what I’m saying here.

Bringing Shaq back solves what would’ve been another immediate downgrade. He’s not the best LB, but he’s been more than serviceable and his teammates admire him. He’s also a pretty reliable dude on and off the field.

He could’ve gone to a more formed team if the morons that be were convinced on one QB and willing to trade picks for him instead of the very talent they need to make Mystery QB a success.

Almost like trading Moore was a dumb mistake. Now you have to hope you can get his production from far inferior players. And you gotta do it for less money, which is impossible.

I don’t think it’s smart to kill your WR room and trade up to get someone you could’ve gotten without trading up, but there’s a good chance that’s what they did.

That doesn’t even make any sense. What do they have to do with anything

Makes sense. Tear it all down, get rid of all the talent and play for the top pick. Oh wait