joemac

I’d hate to see him go, but for 2 firsts and maybe more, we can find someone else to get 9.5 sacks a year and be suspect against the run.

You don't, but it sure doesn't hurt.

lol what? So you don't want us to get a top 2 pick and get a real QB? For what? To spite some people you argue with on the Huddle? What are you, 12?

We've got young, homegrown studs at all those spots except QB, and we should have that settled in April. The cupboard is not quite as bare as it seems. Plus throw in guys like Luvu and Chinn and there is definitely a good base for the next regime to build from.

LOL WTF? Who is JASRI Football and how do they know this?

This dude is a butt-hurt goofball. Don't even bother.

They've still got serious issues on the o-line, tons of injuries on defense and Jimmy G as their QB. Lets not go anointing them just yet.

LOL The Panthers are not going anywhere, man. Its a non-starter. The NFL needs a team in Charlotte. It's in the perfect geographical location between Atlanta and DC. The team makes tons of money. What indication has Tepper or the NFL ever given that they want the team to move, or would approve said move even if Tepper wanted to?

All these writers and analysts talking about us needing to make a trade or somehow move around to draft one of the big 3 QBs coming out this year.....as if we're not by far the worst team in the NFL and will almost 100% have one of the top 2 picks in the draft.

Hey I won 10 grand on a scratcher one time, and I hardly even play. So, OK? And with that way of looking at it, literally every single pick is analogous to a scratcher. How many first rounders completely bust? A pretty high percentage. Its all a crap shoot.

We should just forfeit all our picks after the 1st round from now on. I mean, whats the point right? Nobody EVER drafts superstar players outside the first round.

So what? What has happened in the past has no bearing on what will happen in the future. Each draft is completely different, and brings a new opportunity to get a good player. Would you rather NOT have 2nd and 3rd round picks?

Well there are currently only about 3 ways to acquire players in the NFL. The draft being the cheapest and the best opportunity to grab the youngest talent. Sure beats the hell out of overpaying a vet in free agency. The teams that stick their draft picks the best are usually the most successful.

Thats all well and good, but his last healthy year was 2019, and its damn near 2023.

I mean, if some team wants to throw us something crazy like 2 firsts and a third for Burns, we would be hard pressed not to take that deal. Would really suck to see him go, but damn that would set us up nicely for the future.

WTF are some of y'all smoking today? Why in the fug would we EVER consider trading Jaycee Horn? Thats absurd.

LOL Jesus Christ dude.

Why in the world would that ever be the case though? Corral looked utterly lost out there before he got hurt, and I am positive that either CJ Stroud or Bryce Young will come in Day 1 and QB circles around Corral.

I think some people here are severely overrating the impact CMC had on the game. Yall are acting like he was rushing for 1800 yards a season and scoring 20 TDs. He's had a grand total of 2 1000 yard rushing seasons, the last coming in 2019. We're almost in 2023. He had one really great season, 3 years ago. Since then, hes barely done anything. We gotta stop living in the past as Panthers fans.

You may not like the trade personally, but I don't see how you can say we got "hosed". We got 4 high to mid level draft picks for our oft-injured, super high priced RB. As I'm sure you know, its not that difficult to find a cheap, productive RB these days. RB's today are complimentary pieces, not something you invest in or design your offense around. 2nd, 3rd and 4th round picks are nothing to sneeze at.

EXACTLY! What we are doing now, and probably into next year, is washing off the stink of the Rhule regime. Short term its going to be painful, but I see the vision now. We are positioning ourselves nicely to be contenders in 2024 and on. We will still have Horn and Ickey on rookie deals, a young hopefully franchise QB on a rookie deal, hopefully Burns on a new contract, DJ Moore, etc. Sometimes you have to take a step back to take 2 steps forward. Rhule was the worst thing to happen to this team maybe ever. All that bullshit is not going to be fixed overnight.

All anybody has been talking about for years is our terrible QB play. Obviously it all starts and ends there. We MUST have a good QB to be even a mediocre team. Which is why we are now all in on the tank, in order to secure the first pick, and draft one of the hopefully generational talents in Stroud and Young.

I think more and more we are going to see how utterly clueless Rhule was at roster building, as well as coaching. Giving that dumb sonofabitch final say on roster moves is ultimately what did this team in. We have made some seriously bone headed moves since he was here. Maybe now we can actually see what Fitterer has got as a GM without the dumbest, most bumbling Head Coach in NFL history screwing things up for him.

Nice. I can dig that.

I'm really not upset about the trade. Does it suck in the short term? Yeah - CMC is a helluva player, and the only thing that makes us semi-watchable this season. However, like you said, we FINALLY have a clear direction for the future. I feel like in the Rhule years they never really committed to rebuilding and thought they were good or smart enough to rebuild while also trying to make moves to be a contender, and we all see how that has worked out. You cannot do both. So, yeah these next 2 seasons are probably gonna be really painful, but at least I can now see the vision moving forward.