Pazhoosier89

I'm for keeping Rhule to the end of the season to make sure we get the #1 pick.

18 hours ago, OnlyPantherFaninMaine said:

Sean Payton. 

Not happening unless you want to trade all of our draft picks for a coach. Which IMO would be stupid.

Did they not realize their kicker was booming kicks from 70 yards and had a strong leg. They pretty much were In fg position after the bogus rtp call. Gotta go for the jugular and score a TD.

Good.  If we are keeping Sam as backup we might as well cut PJ and roll with 2 QBs only.

38 minutes ago, Yup said:

Where'd y'all see this? My local broadcast was announced by Smitty and some guy who wasn't Smitty. 

I got it on Hulu on the NFL Network broadcast. Kenny Albert an "Doc" the homer.

Did anybody else here have to listen to the awful Washington color commentary with the game on NFL network? I think his name was Doc and he acted like the game was the Super Bowl. He got so upset when the Panthers would score or make a good play.  I found myself rooting for big play just so he would get pissed.

1 minute ago, Call Me James said:

Actually  he shaved off 3 according  to the report.

Nice. Can we get Sam to take a paycut as well. 

33 minutes ago, Call Me James said:

I think Baker will do well here. He shaved his contract so he's probably got a gentlemans agreement that if he does well this season we will give him the big bag.

He's getting paid the same as Sam. The Panthers are paying 5 mil and Cleveland pays the rest. He isn't giving us some kind of discount. 

I still think the best scenario is trading Sam for Jimmy G straight up. San Fran saves 6 million in the process and has a backup for Trey. Wasn't San Fran interested in Sam last year.

3 hours ago, tiger7_88 said:

 

So basically the thought process was “What would Marty Hurney do?”

Then do the opposite.

Solid thinking.

Hurney would have already given up next year's first.

Fitt said fug it Matt I'll let you make this pick. At least it wasn't a long snapper.

Give me Malik with a big chip on his shoulder. 

Trade the rest of this draft to get Malik and  call it a day. I am shocked he is still available.  I would have been happy taking him at 6.

Cole Spencer also there.

9 hours ago, MHS831 said:

No offense because I am with you for an OT---but we going QB unless we make a splash in week 3 of free agency

Mayfield and Jimmy G are out there and there trade value is dropping like a rock. We may be able to get one for0 Darnold straight up or a 7th round pick.Panthers are being smart waiting them out. I would prefer Mayfield of the 2.

13 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

There are much better quality Christian schools, BYU for instance.  Again, he may of had his personal reasons for going to Liberty, but they are not name brand school no matter how hard you try to make them relevant.  Yes, small schools play big schools all the time because they get payed well to do so...even at the price of embarrassment.  I get you're a Willis fan, but he's not that good and hyping up his school to make him look better is a little odd.

BYU is a Mormon school. Big difference between Mormon and Christian.  Technically Baylor is a Christian school so maybe he should have wwnt and played for Rhule.

8 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

And there's the rub... even getting hit with that dead cap money still on the table... they let him go. I'm not saying there's a hidden injury or just the slow downs that come with age, but New Orleans has been masterful at gaming the cap system for years. There may be a reason they didn't do some of their cap voodoo in this case.

Or he could be physically fine, just financially expensive. 

Me, I just think the money could be better spent elsewhere.

The $13 million is on the books even if they decided to resign him. You can't restructure dead money. I think its as simple as they wouldn't want $33 million tied to one single player. He does have an injury history though so buyer beware.

31 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

Released or not, he's either too rich for their blood right now or there's a knock on him that we don't know about. Both are possibilities, both are things we don't need during a rebuild.

He is a FA but due to the Saints restructuring him last year to make cap room they have a $13 million dollar dead cap hit even if he leaves.

8 hours ago, ImaginaryKev said:

If you wanna QB like Matt Ryan or Derek Carr, by all means, you have a right to have low standards and be boring, but if you want a good QB to compete with good teams you'll pass on this draft class

Didn't Matt Ryan win an MVP?  If Pickett is a more athletic Matt Ryan he is definitely worth it at 6.

22 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Because for well over a decade, every year it's always the Saints are going to be in cap hell and there is no way they can make any moves, and yet they do it every year. You don't have to like the man or the organization to realize he's damn good at his job. 

 

They are not doing anything magical. Just pushing the money to future years. Eventually you run out of contracts to restructure and the salary cap hell comes. If you do that you have to draft really well to offset with cheap rookie contracts. Saints would be giving up a boatload of draft picks in a Watson deal.

4 minutes ago, La Pantera said:

So a player who should've been droy, at a position we've had crap at for nearly 20 years, with draft picks we don't have.

I'd rather give up Chinn then Horn. Safeties are much easier to find.

46 minutes ago, La Pantera said:

Burns was a 1st. And you can't replace your passrush through the draft when you don't have picks

I meant to say Chinn. 

1 minute ago, Smittymoose said:

Eh, I get it if you think the picks and the totality of it are too much, but if you're already that deep into it, no way you can let Burns, Chinn, or both be a deal-breaker for a franchise QB. 

Exactly,  Burns was a 2nd round pick. You can find a player like him in the draft. Burns will need to be paid big money in a couple years.  You can't let that stop you from getting a franchise QB.

4 minutes ago, BlitzMonster said:

my only hope is that Rhules incompetence as a head coach and general bone-headedness turns off Watson

Would you rather have him go to the Saints and beat us up for the next 10 years.

Roger Saffold cut by the Titans. Go get him especially since he won't count against the comp formula.