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The cap hit is double that for Erving. I'd rather let him play out his remaining year. Plus, that gives us more options on the left side if the injury bug bites. I'd rather keep Erving than Daley. Honestly, we probably keep both. Pleasants is PS material. Mays has more potential and is plug and play anywhere on the right side of the line. The other guards, Brown, Horton and Jordan are just that...guards. They all are expendable. If any of those dudes make it over Mays, I'll be pissed...because they suck at the one job they do have, not to mention no versatility.

Including guys he recruited and wanted to recruit to those schools, you might be correct.

He can play multiple positions, which is key and one other major reason is this: That is the 6th highest cap figure on the entire team. Like Darnold, it makes more sense to keep him as backup than cut him.

With that pesky Corral kid out of the picture, I guess PJ is considered a lock now.

There are ten of them: seven Temple and three Baylor. Anderson, Ioannidis and Roy are locks. The rest are bubble guys or outright cuts. They are: Tecklenburg, Barnes, Chandler, Frankllin, Kirkwood, Thompson and Walker. I don't think Rhule will allow all of the fringe guys to be cut even though they probably should. It's a security blanket with his Bear-Owls surrounding him. I'll set the total number (including the three locks) at over/under 6.5 to make the final 53 man roster.

Hayes is too short and we just picked him up off the streets. If the staff is intrigued by him, they can sign him to the practice squad after cuts. Nobody is picking him up on waivers.

At RIGHT tackle too. Cross has had mixed reviews out of Seattle as well. Rookie OTs typically have growing pains, it is not uncommon.

DBs: Chinn, Woods, Burris, Robinson, Hartsfield, Jackson, Horn, Henderson and Taylor. If we keep 10, STO gets the last spot.

Easy PS stash with Wright, no need to burn a 53 man spot. The same with Saunders and Rambo. It comes down to Kirkwood and Zlystra, we won't keep both unless we cut someone unexpected. I mean, if Shi Smith can solidify return duties we don't need to keep Roberts. Dude is 34 years-old on a cheap one-year deal for return duties. He's not here for his WR skills. Outside of P, K and LS I don't like keeping "specialty" dudes that eat up another roster spot.

Probably some homer UNC fans going out of their way to knit-pick a former Wolfpack product.

If we only keep two QBs, then perhaps we will keep either an extra WR or TE. Zlystra will find a spot. Kirkwood possibly. Other than that, there are some guys that may land on the practice squad. Slightly off subject, but let's go over to the OL. The first 8 are locks...but we usually keep 9 or 10. Who do you got? I mean, between Daley, Jordan, Brown, Pleasants, Horton and Tecklenburg, I would rather not keep any of them. I'd prefer to cut all of these guys and search the waiver wire for another guy or two. If forced to keep one, I guess Daley would stick around. Locks: Ickey, Moton, Bozeman, Corbett, BC, Elflein, Erving, Mays. Yes, Mays is a lock.

Ickey is going to give up some sacks, there's no doubt. Here's what I'll be looking for: Improvement over the season with less sacks given up over time, better technique as the season wears on and how he handles adversity after a bad play. If he can stay mentally sound and improve over the course of the season, Ickey will be just fine.

A 21 year-old rookie LT who was given very limited first team reps in camp being labeled bust in August. Sit with that a minute. Now, if anyone didn't chuckle or shake your head in disbelief, you may be the problem with this board.

Corral was being red shirted this season no matter what. It sucks for him that ended up being a medical red shirt. Short of a QB injury armageddon, Corral wasn't taking a meaningful snap this season anyhow.

Deep QB draft this year. People will get all caught up focusing on Stroud and Young. We won't be bad enough to get either of them and I'm fine with that. The next tier beyond those two is considerably deep. It's hard to say exactly at this point because the season hasn't started yet, but it could be as many as 4-5 guys with a mid-late first round grade.

Unless Baker balls this year and we re-sign him, we are back in the QB market next draft. There's no way we can depend on Corral now that he's shelved for a large portion of the season to be QB1 beyond this year.

People (including me) were banging the table for BC to start at LT last season. He was played at guard some at that chapped people's a$$es. Then he started at LT later in the year and played okay. People understood that there would be growing pains. Now? Well, let's move our #6 overall LT to guard because he isn't playing at a Pro Bowl level in preseason, which is top 3 hardest positions for rookies to adapt to at the NFL level. Oh Huddle, you never cease to amaze me.

Yet a camp video posted here of Matt Corral doing a drill and tossing a ball into a net on the run made dudes here have to break out the lotion. The Huddle over reaction to preseason is epic.

We caught Brown in the sixth round; dude was plunging like a rock. He likely would have went undrafted. We love caching falling prospects in a draft and think we got a value. Does the name Greg Little ring a bell? Likewise I remember people here butthurt last year when he wasn't given a "fair chance" at earning a spot in the starting lineup. It's not rocket science to surmise if a player couldn't crack the starting lineup on the 2021 Panthers OL, they probably suck. Brown got blown up on numerous plays last night, not just the one that Corral got hurt on.

Dude has been working with backups and splitting first team reps as a rookie. Forgive the guy for not being Andrew Witworth by preseason game #2.

Wouldn't be the first time a team has IR'ed a player to save a roster spot and to keep a developmental player from being poached. Am I saying the injury is completely bogus? No, but I am saying that if not for this injury there would have been another one which really could have been questionable in another week or two. In short, Corral was going to IR at some point anyway, IMO.

Several...in attendance and watching on TV. The second playoff victory versus the Cowgirls was great one. It's hard to pick just one. But as many have said, X-clown has to be top 3. It doesn't get much more dramatic than a walk off TD in sudden death OT during the playoffs.

I should have put money on this, I was 100% sure Watson wouldn't get a full year. NFL judge goes light, the NFL steps in and flexes it's muscle (wink/nod) and the whole charade is over. The NFL can say they did the best they could invoking their most serious punishment and Watson still gets to play this year. Win/Win, just how it was scripted.

Watched the game at work, which was at a sports bar, but requested the night off for the game. I had recently moved to Raleigh and noticed the lack of Panthers following. So needless to say there wasn't many avid Panthers fans there (like none) but people interested in the game because it was a NFL playoff game. Being half crocked and yelling at the TV made me sort of a spectacle. When X clown happen, I ran around the room dishing out high fives to strangers and co-workers alike. It was awesome!

Upon further review Darnold had to keep back peddling because the interior of the OL got blown the fug up. One of their DTs and right end were at the 15 yard line when Darnold released the ball just shy of the 20. Where was the LOS? Lol, the 8 yard line!!! The 15 yard line is where Ickey lost his man that hit Darnold at the 19. Again, that's 7 yards behind the LOS. You can tell Ickey kind of let him go at that point. He was probably thinking "why is this dude still running up field?"