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With that RAS score he's probably going to be a Panther.

Murray will be out of the league soon but at least he's actually spent time in the weight room.

Retired Dell's jersey and beating the brakes off the Magic. Feels good.

Dalton never should have been a Panther to begin with. When the reviled Saints discarded him that should have been a glaring sign for any competent franchise but nope. And we gave him two contracts. Not even Marty Hurney would have done that ffs. Even though Morgan is a former Panther and he's certainly a likeable guy it's quite awkward to try and reconcile his talk of wanting dawgs and also us having standards and expectations for every position except starting quarterback. The good thing is more people are starting to wake up and take notice. If our upcoming season goes down the drain due to the QB not being able to get it done then the FO deserves all the smoke.

It's the same old same old with that lot. The same people who bash Sam Howell also bashed Caleb Williams. But they'll still make excuses for their guy Bryce after 50+ career starts. Even now in year 4 there will still be people here and across the fanbase that will seek to reset the clock so to speak on Bryce between games. Just wildly hypocritical.

High cost low production and will be 31 at the end of the upcoming season. We should prioritize youth instead of chasing aging receivers.

I remember him being a solid RB some years back. But since Green Bay he had a very short lived stint with the Eagles last year and perusing some of the comments from Eagles fans the gist is even though he might be in "incredible shape" he got armed tackled by smaller linebackers and 2 yards and a cloud of a dust was the highlight more often than not. He also had a key fumble late against the Giants in a loss and that was his only carry in the entire game. Not good. This certainly is not the anything like the Dowdle signing.

We've seen Bryce Young personally audible into some truly terrible plays even as recent as last year so this notion that he is significantly better at reading defenses doesn't exist within the realm of reality from my POV. He has not had a great deal of freedom within the structure of the offense for good reason. I would say he is average in football IQ. He isn't awful. But in no way shape or form was he or is he generational or top pick worthy in that aspect as he was billed predraft. Overall he is at best in the 22-25 range amongst all starting QB's and that is being generous.

Sam Darnold had over 1k more passing yards than Bryce Young and Sam had 477 pass attempts to Bryce's 478. Read that back to yourself a couple of times and then wave the white flag brother.

What the Seahawks accomplished with a balanced roster and a dominant defense gives me hope for our Panthers. They are very well coached and very well run and it pains me to acknowledge that. Now while Darnold had plenty of help on both sides of the ball and he still had moments of vintage Darnold I think you are making too much of the mental aspect as if Bryce Young is a savant. He's never lived up to the superprocessor billing and he never will for what we gave up. And at the end of the day you can wax poetic about what Darnold may or may not lack between the ears but Darnold was 10th in passing yards per game while Bryce was 31st. We're never going to compete for a Super Bowl with that.

Let's keep it a hundred here. Say what you want about Darnold. He's had some truly horrendous games and some horrendous seasons in his early years. But not even he was oblivious enough afterwards to say he just wanted to get away from football and watch Netflix or YouTube and go shopping for clothes while netting $38 million guaranteed. So we probably shouldn't throw stones.

Well. At least he can run a sneak.

I'll take that 7th and run.

Defense Defense Defense You can put All Pros up and down the offense they are still at the mercy of a bottom 10 QB.

I went to the same chart. Sounds about right. Too much for me. I completely understand the allure with trading up and getting those butterflies but do we want to actually build a long term contender here? Then we need to compile picks and focus on actually drafting quality talent in the later rounds. That's the only path forward for a franchise such as ours.