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Inside zone and wide zone are toootally different.

Yep, Icky's technique breaks down big time when hes in space and reaching.

I dont see the doom and gloom. We were never going to be serious contenders this seasom regardless of the moves we make. Right now this season is about determining the most important posistion on the field, qb. We had a joke of an offense in every aspect last season. This offseason is focusing on building at least a respectable offense scheme and personnel wise. Then Young has no excuses, we see what we've got and if hes improving. He literally controls his own fate. The defense is going to be terrible. If he improves and the offense is solid then we win a few games. He plays like he did last year we clearly are the worst team in the nfl with a very early pick to replace him with and we still have the building blocks of an offense around the new guy. Bryce literally controls his own fate. This season is about him sinking or swimming.

Are you familiar with the wide zone blocking scheme? There are multiple types of zone blocking..

He's a downhill mauler. Good for the straight ahead power run game. Hes not as good in space or moving laterally. It is what he has clearly struggled with in the past.

If it was just pick 39 I would be 50/50 on it but for both seconds no way. Not in such a deep wr class.

I wonder if he was secretly shopped behind the scenes some because he definitely doesnt fit the new blocking scheme either.

I don't think so. If they lose this year and Bryce isnt the answer then they can take QB #1 next year and their guards are already in place. These are younger guards on longer contracts. They will be there for the new qb if bryce tanks. Signing them wasnt a just this season move.

This isnt a 1 year rebuild. So many people are acting like panthers football doesnt exist past next season.

I felt this way when the move was make but honestly this past few days has made me feel a lot better that that was the case honestly. The past few days have almost entirely revolved around starting to fix Fitterer's mistakes/clear them out.

I disagree. Its definitely a rebuild, they are building the offense first. First the best teams in the modern nfl have really good offenses but I don't think thats the main reason. The main reason is to give Bryce no excuses to see what he is. With an actual NFL offense around him if he still struggles the same as last year then guess what? You have an actual nfl level talented offense to drop the new qb in that we draft next year. People are acting like this is the last season of Panthers football and there is nothing after this or something. The #1 question for the panthers is is Bryce the answer or not. You don't find that out without building an offense.

I really don't understand how people are stuck on this. Burns isnt an "elite pass rusher" he is a good pass rusher and a liability against the run. NFL teams know this, thats why this offer was the most compensation we could get for the money he wanted. People are acting like other teams were offering two firsts and we just decided to take the giants offer instead. This was clearly the best offer we received.

I agree, i think it was in the top 2 bad decisions in Panthers history, i felt that since the day the details were mentioned, but that was a different decision makers and the past offer has nothing to do with the current one. It was in the past.

Its funny to me that the same people who were using the argument that Burns was actually good because these other teams valued him so highly are the same ones saying we should have kept him because the compensation wasnt enough. Looks like they were wrong on both parts.

Yep. Last in the league in sacks last season.

I agree. Media is changing their stories about what the Panthers are doing daily. Im not sold on Morgan yet but this new tight lipped office i could only see as a positive even though some fans may not like it.

Overpaying him for years is the most detrimental option of them all for the panthers longterm success.

Let him walk now for the comp pick. Why do we want him here 2 more years when he doesnt want to be here, isnt a "dawg" and has already talked about playing not to get hurt last season? He going to get over that and magically play hard on these 1 year franchise tags? Trade him or cut bait.

He will be gone in the 20s I think. Probably early 20s.

No you didnt. I said it was a really good draft to need a wr at pick 33. I didnt say anything about it being good that we didnt have our first round pick lol

Thats a weird way to twist what I said.

Thats not how it works though. There were lots of wide receivers last year that went much later than 33 and had huge holes compared to what we can get at 33 this year that contributed greatly to their teams last season. Puka had one of the best receiving rookie seasons in history and went in the 5th round and had plenty of holes in his game.

Burns was barely ever double teamed last year unless you count a rb or te chipping as well. Brown ate up the double teams. Also Burns was shut down 1v1 vs tight ends pretty regularly. Most of his sacks seem to come when he came through literally untouched.

I disagree. On paper this is one of the best and deepest wr drafts there has been. Its a perfect time to need a wr and not have a pick before 33.

You can trade him for less than 2 firsts if teams agree to it. It is not a requirement.