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I mean, an SEC team went 2 consecutive years without having a QB pass for 1500 yards. Went 3 without having one throw for more than 11 TDs. Like I said they were pulling coaches to play QB. Hybrid WRs. That’s not a lot of college teams. Much less someone in the SEC I mean, once Rattler got there and let him throw at the end of 2022…..Leggette emerged

Yeah, I think playing the odds you look at Johnson as a short term answer. Anything can happen but anything can happen isn’t the most likely. He is a diva WR who wants stats and we got him for a year in a trade. I think a prudent org would manage your roster decisions as if Johnson is short term aid to a struggling QB. Obviously Theilen is a short term band aid. TMJ and ISM just bodies. So I’m still in the camp we need to be building our roster and looking for long term answers. It’s a passing league.

teams do trade good QBs though. Sometimes, ones that are still top tier. And they will often trade away the right to the hottest QB prospects in the draft. I'm not saying it's happening....but Harbaugh is a bit of a wildcard.

maybe. but it's hard to really figure out Jim is doing. Tanking the offensive roster in Herbert's year 5 to develop young WRs?

I mean, there is nothing here to actually blow up. the big argument from here last year was they FINALLY were investing in the offense too. That's why I don't think a lot of outsiders are viewing this as much more than rearranging the chairs.

Hard to figure out what Jim Harbaugh is doing Overnight that offense went from QB- Herbert RB - Ekeler WR - Allen WR - WIlliams TE - Everett to.......Herbert

I know we haven't been living in a world where pass rushers thrive. To me, Reddick is the one who really exposed Burns as overrated. Reddick basically has been the same dude no matter the circumstances the past several years. And he came in here and outperformed Burns on the stat sheet and to the eye.

That's the problem. They have been and are serving their primary purpose for him. Sports teams are one of the best vehicles for the uber-rich to park money in recent history. The valuations get more insane every year. Which is the whole point of Tepper being here. They just aren't winning. Only hit Tepper is taking is a PR hit really.

too early. I mean, I do think Dave learns things. I think he has shown that. Has he learned what it takes to be successful in the NFL yet? Would have to say no until proven otherwise. Tepper clearly learns some aspects of what doesn't work. That's why after failure he generally does something distinctly different than the previous attempt. Sometimes I think it's the overcorrections that get him.

He started turning it on at the end of the prior year when you know….the Gameock QB actually started to throw the ball. Prior to that, a raw/developing WR player didn’t have much to a place on bad pass O. Like I said that starts getting into the window they were pulling coaches to be the QB at Carolina. Everyone’s timeline is different. 2023 matters way more than 2021.

I mean, did you watch the kid this season? Like I said, I’m a Gamecock hater. So I’m actually bringing bias the other way into this. But it’s hard to of watched this kid over the course of the year and not like the potential. and it’s hard to if liked a Mingo and not like this kid a lot more. So yeah, 2nd or 3rd pick seems like a good pick. We don’t need him to be a stud week 1. We got short term band aid vets right now. We need long term answers. my ideal draft was a Texas kid in the 2nd and Leggette in the 3rd. Now we got another pick between those. Not sure he falls that far anymore. But we have made way way way dumber picks than a Legette in that range

Agent 89’s take…a more advanced DK Metcalf coming out

Tough gig. Really tough when your sales pitch has to be.....but we are possibly working on letting you watch It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown at BOA.

maybe a Gamecock fan can speak on it....but from a Clemson fans perspective, once they basically opened Spencer Rattler up to pass at the end of 2022.....Leggette started to blossom. Before that? I mean Gamecocks were starting grad assistants at QB that were supposed to be on staff and dudes you wouldn't really call SEC passers like Doty IMO. It wasn't really a place to highlight someone like Leggette who IMO fits more aggressive pass play.

I mean, depends how you want to look at it. He can get separation vertically. He does need to work on his routes. There is rawness. I don't think he has peaked personally and I think he keeps getting better. There are worse picks we could make with our 2nd/3rd pick in the draft. But NFL open/contested catches is important. Some guys naturally excel at that. I think that is the takeaway there. 89 despite his size might be one of the best examples you can name at excelling at that and we took advantage of it. I think you are framing that as him just not being able to get open. I'm not saying use the 33rd on him. But one of our next two? Yeah, I like his potential. And I like it WAY more than Mingo coming out.

I don't trade pick 33. I don't trade any of our 2nd and 3rd round picks. I take the best BPA. We have a billion holes. Take whoever is #1 on our board when it hits. I'd prefer them to look at their offensive board and separate it from the D. the watered down Fitterer approach ain't going to sell with me.

Leggette's breakout season wasn't really comparable to Mingo's best season. Leggette was much more productive and better. Leggette needs work as a route runner...but his hands are one of his strengths. I mean, you can google Harrison Jr's hand size and wing span say the same thing about his arms and hands. Mingo's best season was middle of the road SEC play. Leggette's was one of the very best in the SEC. Both are a bit raw coming in. That's true. But Leggette's ceiling is different IMO. and I say that as true Gamecock hater. I actually like Gamecock WRs/DBs historically as NFL players. They have a tough life in the SEC playing atSC. They have often yielded decent returns.

Proof AI is now conscious. it was given a simple task assignment based off existing math and odds….instead it realized the internet is all about clicks and making hots takes it knows will generate outrage.

Yeah, he would be a no brainer in the 3rd IMO. Great NFL tools. Really seems to be trending up and still developing too. I think he has a lot more room to grow. I think another year of college likely would have him in the first round. and being a no good dirty Gamecock aside….I like his story. Rough life. Hard worker. Easy to pull for. And having dudes easy to pull for as people is part of the fun.

Argument there IMO that we created our own argument/logic simply by us being uniquely horrible Baker Mayfield went back to being Baker instantly when he got away from this dumpster fire. Everyone here was talking about what a drastically different QB Baker looked like with the Rams cold and not knowing that team. Then Baker goes to Tampa and is basically the same dude in Cleveland. Which wasn’t anything oddly unique. Nor was that Tampa offense. But Baker wasn’t Carolina Baker not in Carolina. and the pay scale is now skewed. 100m is average QB money. See a 13 year vet with 1 playoff win coming of an injury south of us with a nearly 200m deal in Cousins.

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Cam would be a backup but teams wary of his personality and the fact he likely put folks in odd spots IMO. even today, he said the Falcons should of signed him or Fields instead of that bonkers money to Cousins. And he is probably right. I think Fields would have been a technical smarter play once you factor in that money problem Cousin’s has high odds of creating.

Huddlers when the thread bump 6 months from now comes

It’s hard to ignore. so when I say I have I no idea what we are doing? It’s Bryce centric. And there is no way to really escape that reality. How are we going to win with that. I haven’t heard or seen anything that makes me understand. From the jump last year I didn’t get how the coaching and talent coming together made sense. I’m still largely there. Bryce is such an anomaly…..the only way I see him working out as drafted is a very unique Bryce O from coach to talent around him

lol. I give zero poos. Mad is just a word because I’m lazy. you challenging my stance or Luke Combs? I got zero issue with Luke not getting it. Nothing more or less. Take all the issue with him not getting it you please. And I’ll just defend his stance as reasonable. Do I get what the Tepper Panthers have been doing and are doing? The answer is no. Feel free to challenge that if you want. I feel very comfortable with my position on that. I don’t think they have much of plan outside of trying to not be a joke at this point. most things IMO on the board often are just people using words and have different meanings to them. I don’t get what the Panthers are doing. As I said, I technically get the official plan. But overall? Yeah, I got no clue what the Panthers are doing at this point. I’m not sure they have really known either for some time. Which is why they basically have operated from a no man’s land the past several years in this ambiguous rebuild/win now position…while firing yet keeping when no man’s land does nothing for them.