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Panthers PR team loving life this time of year....every year.

yeah, I mean, Cam has addressed that before. That was his game and good luck trying to stop him. Got to let a lion roar or something like that. Ron for all his faults, totally embraced Cam being Cam. Personality and style of play. Every coach wouldn't of created an environment for him to be special.

if you could of turned injuries off like in Madden and had him be the featured RB? Stewart likely would be a legit Panther GOAT. Crazy skill set. Despite being built like he could of played in the 80s.....Stewart was also great in a spread offense and modern looks. Oregon was straight spread and his best season as a Panther was running out of the Cam gun.

I mean, I was a Cam stan before drafting him was popular. I think people are way too fixated on that narrative. When we drafted him I largely said 2 things. 1. If we draft Cam, you have to let him be Cam. His size as runner is what made him special. 2. Cam Newton would never have the same type career in terms of length of traditional pocket passers. If you were trying to milk years onto his career....you would ruin what made him great. Cam running didn't shorten his career. Ron and Cam were actually a good match. The fault is on the GM for the roster management. Cam Newton could go out there today and truck the entire league. Running didn't cause his injuries.

I'm double dipping and taking Mitchell and Ladd. I'm not trying to sprinkle talent everywhere. I'd go heavy O in this draft. I'd keep that trend the next picks too.

last 4 games....they broke 100 yards once. Against us. outside of that, they largely had to see a bottom 10 rush D to even hover around average. I just think this whole Canales is going to have us being a good rushing team mantra......is cobbling up coach bologna that we fall victim to over and over. if we are having to lean heavily on Hubbard and Miles Sanders on some John Fox football.....I think that's a sign this Bryce experiment is basically done.

is saying we are going to have a strong running game really any different than Frank Reich claiming we are going to have this creative offense that was being held secret? Canales has 1 season to his name. He had the worst rush attack in the NFL. I think that's just a coach saying stuff. Only really way to have a strong rush attack is to line up under C and play old school football....or have an elite rusher. I don't see how we will be in position to have a strong rush attack this year. We have average RBs. Lining up under C all game until we can't and pounding the rock doesn't jive with Bryce Young or developing the former #1 overall we gave up the farm for. I think Canales says the run stuff because our QB was bad last year and he knows we got a LOT of work to do on the pass game.

I know this will get hate....but my favorite uniform is probably them all blue color rush ones.

yeah, the only thing I will say about Leggette.....is I don't think Bryce Young would be a good fit for him given what we saw from Bryce. but I also don't think Bryce Young showed enough to have him influence big future investments. Just short terms ones. I think our front office should be building going forward for what would be good for a QB. Leggette seems ideal for a Jake Delhomme type. Which ain't Bryce.

lol. The high point of the Tepper era was Cam Newton playing 7 snaps in game vs AZ.....on a 5 win team.

I mean, yeah, they both are raw...but I still don't think that then makes them comparable prospects. Leggette's skill set and style IMO projects to him being able to be a factor quicker than Mingo. Which is why Leggette had a dominate season in the SEC.....and Mingo never saw such. and as I have said from the jump, I really want a WR double dip. That's always been when I brought Leggette in. Frankly, I wish we just drafted the 2 best WRs, BPA at TE and RB the next 2. Top 4 all offense. Focus on adding young skill talent on O this draft. Cupboard is bare everywhere. Make it an O skill talent draft.

Leggette is not a Mingo clone. That's just calling a dude who is short Steve Smith. They had different trajectories and peaks in college. They weren't playing the same game in college at their college peaks. I don't want him over Ladd. But he isn't Mingo coming out. If Mingo was in this draft, he is behind Leggette.

I just have 2 wishes for this draft. Don't trade down. And get a WR in the 2nd. Just get BPA at WR. Last thing we need to do is water down picks when we don't have a 1st to begin with.

I’ve been a Leggette praiser bruh. Tons of threads where I’m arguing for him. I mean, he has been part of almost every mock scenario I have pitched since pre-combine. I just don’t want him at 33. Say that one thing and you erase all my Leggette stan posting lol.

I mean, I’ve been lobbying for Leggette for weeks and weeks. And it started before the combine….but now I’m some Clemson hater? my ideal draft I was pitching was a back to back of some sort of Mitchell and then Leggette back to back play and that was before we picked up that 2nd. and the top of the 3rd was a possibility then. Now people are driving him up their boards higher. Which happens. so yeah, I’d love Leggette. At the right place. Which isn’t the 33rd.

Rollercoaster….feels more like like Merry Go Round.

That’s exactly why Wilson should be a no though. Luke, TD and an Beason are all examples of how extremely brutal ILB is on the body. And they didn’t come in to the league with injures from head to toe…. like Wilson is about to.

that doesn’t feel like BPA drafting… Leggette should be a 3rd pick and the other guy has an injury history just too big to ignore

Reason I pump the breaks on both TMJ and Mingo…..is they were just 500-700 per year collegiate guys.

That’s 100% true. I actually think he has some optimism HC traits. don’t love him wanting to be the playcaller/HC combo. I mean he wasn’t some whiz kid OC. Think that’s something very few coaches pull off well.

If there was a 3rd option of C that was: push/about the same I think it would have gotten some votes. Did the worst team in the NFL attempt to get better? Sure. So did teams 1-31. last year our main problem IMO was nothing fit together offensively. Coaches that preferred X or Z. QB suited and needing Y. Talent didn’t pair well with any of it. Bad marriages. I still feel like the coach, QB and talent don’t sync up.

Talent? Just slightly better. D is musically chairs. I’d call it a push until play shows otherwise. We lost folks. Got folks. Hard to call it different than that IMO. overall on O I would say only slightly better and with the emphasis on OL. But that’s really all we have done outside of swapping Chark for Johnson. Which I still don’t view that outside spot as a major game changer given the QB is Bryce. Coaching? Slightly better. Frank Reich was horrific here. Bar on the floor. So any HC should be able to do better. ST coach last year showed more competency than Frank.

Teams generally don’t chase after a 1 year OC who ran a bottom of the league offense….in a bad division. l mean, Tepper worked himself into a corner. He hired what he could. Hopefully they surprise. but this is just the past 4 offseason on repeat in terms of how large % is going to view what Carolina is doing. Last year Fitterer created the best team since 2003. Easily contend for the playoffs. People were willing to spin McAdoo and Rhule as a good pairing the year prior. We were going to save Sam Darnold and Teddy was a clown for daring to question this staff. we are the worst team in professional sports. Being a fan doesn’t mean I need to pretend each year they have figured it out and are now smart….no one else even looked at our HC/GM. What would a reasonable guess be as to why only the worst team in all of pro sports going there be? I don’t need the Panther to be good. Good or bad, they are my team and entertaining. I mean if things look suspect that’s just how I feel and say it…if I was a Steeler fan and my coach/team found a way every year no matter what to win….well, I’d lean toward them be smarter than me and blindly optimistic. Teams earn what they earn.