45catfan

That's the thing, the middle of round is void of Edge rusher currently. You have a few guys pegged top 15 candidates then there's a huge gap to the end of round 1. I'm sure there will be a RAS warrior that will jump up 10 spots or more after the Combine, and we'll be suckers to fall for it too. This is where you take stock of players, now. Not after the Combine, Pro Days and team meetings. After that, it's subjective to preferences/opinions: underwear athleticism, personality, scheme fits, proficiency/consistency of reps versus the air, etc... Tape & stats. Folks, It's that freaking simple. We always overthink and over-analyze draft season.

OT is very viable option at #19. No real elite studs, but a few very solid guys. We may have to go offense again this year in round 1. If only the freaking Saints could have taken care of the Falcons. People are also forgetting that Horn sustained yet another concussion too. Top CB sustains another concussion and franchise LT lost for at least a year, possibly longer or forever. Backdoored into the playoffs, dropping 5 draft slots where we could have gotten an edge rusher of LB. For what a moral victory because we lost a close game? All for moral victory because we lost a close game in the playoffs? Our record is exactly the same as if we would have missed the playoffs. Crazy.

That completely sucks. I hate it for Ickey.

This would have been the draft to sale the farm to move to #1. Fug Tepper!!!

*Sigh*

Lol, who? The top guys will be gone and the next guy after them is a solid second rounder. Yeah, playoffs!

I still refer to the Bills as 'Panthers north', so there's my answer.

While acknowledging neither is good, is a patellar tendon tear worse of better than an ACL as far as recovery and length of career are concerned?

We are drafting an OT for certain now. I was wanting one for the eventual departure of Moton, but now it's not even about depth for the future. It's a need. Sucks for the big man. I hope he has a successful and speedy recovery. Again, the gratuitous playoff birth keeps on giving. You had better believe I'm going to be extremely interested in picks 14-18.

Pipe dream guys. At #14 he might have been there, but dude will gone like a fart in the wind at pick 19.

No Sadiq! He's exactly a Kyle Pitts type of RAS warrior. We get a TE in FA and use that pick on something much more worth while.

Pass. A great example of hype over substance.

It's not the system guys, so don't blame Canales. Play calling may be iffy at times, but the concepts are solid. WRs were open a lot yesterday, go back and look. I counted two tight window/precision type of throws required of Bryce, even then they weren't overly difficult by NFL standards.. The rest of the time, guys were open. In the NFL when WRs are open, QBs are expected to hit them. It's not even debatable. I've been watching Mendoza put the ball in insanely tight windows all season....down the field too. In the Oregon game, he had two throws that, if not utterly PERFECT, could not have been completed. They were flawless throws. If a college QB can do this, it's not asking too much of a NFL QB wrapping up year 3 to do it.

He's depth at best. I say we draft another guy at WR and use money in FA on TE and backup QB. We need an OT in the draft and the rest use on defense.

Yes! If the top LBs and Edge guys are gone (looking like they will be), he will be the best guy to get. No reaching!

'99. We just missed out on the playoffs, but dang was it entertaining!

Yup. I won't say we will necessarily regress, but not much more in the way of progress either. I think we will be a fringe playoff team again. This is where the Panthers will be indefinitely with BY as our franchise QB. In the NFL, team's success typically mirrors that of their QB. Average QB, average team.

Neither will be cheap. I've never been a Pitts fan and we have a horrible track record with Falcons FAs. He's the perfect example why RAS is a bullsh1t metric. If RAS actually projected future production, Pitts should be the top TE in the League, but he's not...not even close.

Godert was my draft crush year 1 of the new TE search. He's in his 8th year, is he not? Olsen was coming off back-to-back foot surgeries. I knew he was cooked, which was unfortunate and sad. We've been looking ever since. We had the man, the myth, the legend Ian Thomas....pffft, okay, dude was horrible and this team could not shake him like a bad case of VD. I never understood how he kept a roster spot year after year after year, yet was our #1 TE most of that time.

A legit TE you say? Dang man, I've been barking up that tree for 8 years now.

Just wow.

Finding the right coach can do that to a program.

Have y'all seen a college QB throw a prettier back shoulder throw than Mendoza? It literally cannot be defended. A couple times the DB had perfect coverage and the WR was still able to complete the pass.