Jay Roosevelt

Well yeah; he was still under contract obviously, but there did seem to be an effort made to convince him to want to stay rather than stay just because he was under contract. I don't expect he'll be here much longer regardless because if we have any amount of success (as in win more than 4-5 games) he'll be a hot HC candidate sooner rather than later, but in the meantime I love the combo of him and Canales as our playcallers.

Let's draft Tom Brady 2.0 while we're at it.

You get the sense Evero has a lot more input on personnel this year. Maybe something he was promised to convince him to stay?

My two most recent mocks... And this one...

Add a couple of solid/good pass rushers + get at least one impactful WR in the draft.

Panthers trade for Mahomes?

Whatever shall we do?

Oh JFC.

Massive overpay. Why didn't they just pay A J. Brown?

Who?

Who?

Pass. Too injury prone.

It's also why the teams with good OLs tend to be among the better teams in the league. It's a bigger edge to have a good OL than it's ever been.

Who?

The fights don't bother me. We need some of that. The complaining... well, at least he'll be in sync with the fan base

He's good against the run, but so-so as a pass rusher IIRC. It depends on the money for me.

Good move.

One of the most overrated Panthers ever.

He's an upgrade over Luvu; better in coverage and younger.

Wonder if we're looking into bringing back Hassan Reddick? I know the Eagles are looking to trade him.

Did we learn nothing from the Miles Sanders signing?

This makes sense, actually. If we are interested (you have to assume we probably are) then why not wait until next offseason when he's on the market? Cincy won't re-sign him; they're looking to make a SB run this year and hoping to get one last year from him. Unless he outright refuses to play for them and forces a trade I don't think they'll trade him, but they're not looking to keep him long-term either. So he'll very likely be available next year in free agency, at which point we'll have plenty of cap space and hopefully something resembling an actual functional NFL offense to put him in.

You're not wrong, but the end result was still 2 wins. The strategy seems to be to sacrifice some of our defensive strength in order to build the offense up around Bryce - or for whoever we draft in '25 if Bryce doesn't take a big step forward this year. And honestly, it's about all we can do right now. We're dead in the water until we get QB figured out so why bother trying to field a top-10 defense if the end result is still going to be 2 wins? Remember the infamous Tepper interview after the draft last year where he talked about not having to spend a bunch on receivers because Bryce is a point guard and can move the ball "with routes" so we could spend more on defense? As dumb as Tepper sounded saying that it's clear that was a strategy that he was sold on by someone - probably Scott Fitterer - and it was a flawed plan to begin with. This seems like the opposite; get your offense right and find a good DC who can get more out of less. It's the approach most good teams are using these days. We'll see if it works here.