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It's Will Kunkel. He as much credibility as the average huddle poster.

Oh no honey. I have not yet begun to defile myself. The offseason just started there's plenty of time.

Will Kunkel is the source?

Considering what they gave up for him in the trade and his contract I would be very surprised if they did that this early. That removes a significant part of what makes his game special by removing the attention he commands from defenses across the field. If he's still doing that at 30 you also have to account for one of the first things to go being some of that speed. Time is undefeated. Just ask our last franchise quarterback.

He takes a lot of hits still and the average shelf life of running backs has been pretty clear. He also has a great deal of usage from both Stanford and in Carolina. Expecting him to play well into his thirties in peak form is fantasy.

It's a crapshoot anyway keep swinging until you hit.

McCaffrey fans are the new Cam fans. No years of complaints from you this go around though. Only confirms what we knew then. Enjoy your day big guy.

Do what just about every other team in the NFL is doing. Draft one and keep building the oline there will be holes for any back worth their salt to run through.

You might want to but the front office has other plans and the clock is ticking.

Like I said he definitely got a raw deal. No argument about Wentz they have some very poor management in the front office. Jim Irsay say no more. But he's 61 so the most you're going to get is a couple seasons. My biggest thing is seeing some real innovation. We have basically a void at TE the position is a complete afterthought most games. Wilks is a really big gamble no different than any of the coordinator to head coach first timers would be. And the thing with Wilks is he's making some of the same gaffes Rivera did early on punting instead of going for it kicking field goals when the game is slipping away. We just don't need a rerun of this and if it happens and one of these other coaches go on to have success this place is going to be very unbearable. I just hope we get this right.

Not glossing over them. SF was a good well coached team before the trade and they are better now. As a pass catcher McCaffrey is not overrated he's always been pretty lethal in that role. The question is like with us when we were making McCaffrey the focal point becomes is that sustainable? You've got a guy running catching and throwing? Certainly impressive. Will it knock off the best teams in the league? We'll see. The NFL always adjusts eventually and if playoff teams shut some of that down the stakes change. We've seen it ourselves. What the Panthers need is a more versatile offense we've gotten a peek at that with some very mediocre at best QB's and not fantastic coaching. We are not far off from competing. Get a better offensive staff in here and a talented young quarterback and we are cooking.

32 points from LaMelo in a 10 point loss and our young center we just drafted never even left the bench. Even if we get Wembanyama Cliff is just going to let him rot on the bench.

In that scenario pass on both and draft your QB.

Good to know we've made this official after ten years of complaints about the fashion sense and showboating from a certain quarterback who definitely should have dove on that fumble.

Moreso a Wilks/Caldwell combo. Reich is better but not by a wide margin. He may have gotten a raw deal in Indy but he was a part of that mess on offense we can’t totally dismiss it. I'm just of the opinion we don't tie ourselves to aging coaches that are being left behind by the changing NFL.

Sounds like a nightmare scenario tbh.

I've seen plenty of takes from you in the past downplaying legit examples so I'll just say your insinuation here rings hollow at best. Hiding behind Katt Williams is beneath you.

After seeing the results of the Wilson and Watson trades so far there's no way the Raiders are going to find a trade partner they will have to cut him.

First off come on nobody is giving Rhule a pass the man is despised across the Carolinas. We also had 5 wins with Kyle Allen and CMC before Rhule got here. You can't make an RB the face of your franchise and expect to compete for championships. You don't put a good team around a running back you identify your QB and then you put a good team around that guy. We signed CMC to a historic deal with no quarterback. It sounds so ludicrous it bares repeating. We signed a running back to an historic deal before we even had a starting QB. Some fans wanted McCaffrey to be more than he was. They talked about him as if he were a quarterback. Well he wasn't. The 49ers are doing so well because they went out and got Jimmy Garropolo then they traded up for Lance and even after all that they still drafted Brock Purdy for due diligence. Meanwhile we had fans here who were about ready to have a parade when we signed McCaffrey to that contract extension. Well... reality bites.

I have to think with a new staff on the horizon we'll have a kicker competition. Pinero got a ton of a grief from that game just like Slye Gano and Kasay before him. If you look at other teams many of them are changing kickers every few years there are far fewer long term clutch steady kickers now.

No you aren't going to lay into me with these claims and then say you have always said it's a team sport. We both know that's not true Scot cut it out. And they should be. McCaffrey fans are not Panthers fans. He is a 49er. When Newton became a New England Patriot the very same things were said here then too. And people who openly talked about his new team were asked to take it elsewhere. You are not keeping the same energy you and I both know it. But that's fine. That's your right.

I really like Wilks he's a great guy. I just do not want to end up back at square one again like we did with Rivera by hiring another DC. And unlike Ron I do not see a Cam Newton in the draft to save the day for Wilks and hitch his wagon to for several years. Give me the offensive mind who can make things work with what limited options they have at QB for the time being and go out and hire an experienced defensive coordinator to hold down that side of the ball. But I want our bread and butter to become scoring points not holding leads. It's been years with that. Time to switch it up.

Never said that. Said keep the same energy for your favorite offensive players. Cam Newton and Christian McCaffrey are two offensive players who have touched the football for the Carolina Panthers a whole hell of a lot of times over the last several years. And you are one of the folks who has forever tied Cam Newton to his record as a starter the last 20 or so games while just putting a cover over what he accomplished before that. But hey at the end of the day that's fair in sports it's a what have you done for me lately league. And again that same energy extends to #22's time here. Just like it was best for Newton to move on it was best for him too. So the big question from here for me is this. If the 49ers win it all we know for sure there will be some very loud and proud McCaffrey fans who will let us all know about it even though it will hurt our team (via the draft position of the picks from the trade). So will those fans be asked by folks like yourself to make the jump to a new team to follow their favorite player?