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Yeah but one of those catches was nice.

Trey Benson is also on the outside looking in. Really, we should be able to find a cheap back on the FA market after cut-downs if we feel like it’s still a weakness.

Torn ACL’s aren’t multi-year recoveries anymore. Brooks looked good in the few games that he played last year, he’s crazy young, and he’s had a lot of time to recover and ramp up. I think he’ll be a good #2 next year and the RB room will be completely fine.

Concepcion is a local visit, so he doesn't count towards the 30-visit limit. Not quite "free," but it does mean that we can take the visit with a grain of salt.

Dillon's not good, so I hope we're not relying on him. He's had opportunities on good offenses and hasn't produced. Is what it is.

I can't figure out what kind of tight end we're targeting. Obviously we don't have much receiving talent at that spot, but Delp is basically a pure blocker. He's not a playmaker. Sounds like they just love a good football player, but there are a few other guys in this class (Sam Roush, Will Kaczmarek) who can really block.

$15M is great, this offseason rocks.

Scourton was overtaxed as a #1 rusher, too. Now Phillips gets the chip help, and Scourton can rush one-on-one. Should help the whole edge room.

Might need a slot corner, and might be able to upgrade FS, but it's nice to know that the secondary's basically fine.

Edge rusher. Talented, but has an extensive injury history. Doesn't have a lot of sacks, but the underlying numbers--pressures, hits, etc.--are really good. If he's healthy, he's good, but it's a big number no matter what.

He's good but that's a LOT. After Turk Wharton last year, I'm starting to feel a little shaky about how much we love throwing money at second-tier FA's.

Turk Wharton 2.0. Nice player, but boy that's a LOT.

Idk, Moehrig plays close to the line and blitzes well pretty often. He had 14 TFL’s and 3 sacks. China is on his third team in three years, and I don’t know if he lit up the world for the Raiders. Don’t know if we can say he’s going to hold back every interesting player.

He has every physical attribute you could want but he just has not proven any instincts for being a good defender. I love him as a special teamer and he can bring some depth to a few spots on defense, but I hope they don’t rely on him as any kind of key reserve.

They chipped Scourton most of the game and absolutely nobody else had any effect on the quarterback. Not sure what he’s talking about when he says the talent is there. Can’t be talking about himself.

I never want to see Yosh again. its annoying, but tackle is now as big a need as pass-rusher, linebacker, and tight end. The silver lining, I guess, is that we have some more opportunities to just take BPA in the draft. I really liked the ways they found value last year, and trust them to get it right again this year.

The FA class is really bad. If we do pick a lineman at 19, they’ll remain one of our best 5 for the foreseeable future: Icky might come back at less than 100% mobility and be better at guard, or worst case right tackle to replace Moton. It’s a huge blow, and it’ll affect our chances of building up the defense this draft. But the line was going to be a need in a year anyway. Just moved the timeline up.

I'm out on wanting Kenyon Sadiq. He was wide open if he'd settled down there, but he doesn't have a feel for zone coverage. Workout warrior, might grow into something useful. He's not going to make an impact quickly, though.

The whole backup O-line are FA’s. Going to take some money to keep a starting center and one or two competent backups around.

Dude’s a head case like his brother, I’m fine with not bringing him in.

I think we’re starting to see the limitations in his game—he doesn’t have the wiggle of Rashee Rice or Deebo Samuel. That’s why he skipped the agility drills at the combine. So he’s a big, straight-line receiver who isn’t good at the downfield sideline things that are required from an X. He’d be interesting as a big slot with some more wiggle. He definitely deserves another year, but he shouldn’t stand in the way of adding other options. Maybe he can find another role. Worst case, he’s big and fast and is a decent depth receiver—Renfrow and David Moore weren’t giving us more than he does.

XL’s complete lack of awareness about where his body is—out of bounds, offsides, whatever—is the dumbest recurring thing I’ve seen from a Panther in a long time.

Yes, and he’s not physical enough to take on and shed offensive linemen. I think safety/nickel is his best spot, but don’t expect anything from him there. He was best as an overhang player at Clemson. Maybe he has some value as a reserve safety and priority special-teamer if the coaches feel better about him in his natural spot, but he’s probably just an end-of-year fill-in. Maybe he’s worth having in camp. There are certainly guys with less potential.

Not possible. Falcons-Saints is at 1:00, and our game is at 4:30. We’ll know if we need the win or not before our game even starts.

The FO panicked and threw a bunch of money at a need, which is their MO. We can get off of it after next year, though.