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Anything less than a low first round pick I would simply retain the tag and keep it pushing.

Ivanka Trump of the NFL.

As others have said the last thing anyone wants to hear is bluster from either of the Tepper's. Hire football people and let them do the talking. Nicole speaking like this from a position of perceived power on her part only further lends credence to the notion that she and her husband are feckless overly controlling and attention seeking. They need to let Dan Morgan Dave Canales or literally anyone else do the talking. I can't make that more clear.

So a few days after Adam Schefter's remarks about her on a podcast Nicole Tepper is just out here casually doing interviews as the "owner" of the team?

And the Tepper's haven’t been meddling and directing us toward moves that have contributed to the putrid football product that's been on the field the last 5 years? What are you even trying to say here?

How is this thread so empty and only 3 pages after all the folks that piled into the "Nicole actually liked CJ Stroud" thread to do a victory lap? Now look who's missing

Oh no MHS. They're about to come for you.

Worst win percentage in all of professional sports the last few years and non Panthers events at the stadium are the proudest moment of the Tepper's era so far. I mean you see this stuff in bad sketch comedies. They just say it out in the open. Crazy.

Go Nicole!!!

How is Ian Thomas still here lol

I don't want to pay him 30 million i agree he does not command that value. If we can reach a reasonable contract then keep him. If not you do what you have to. All I'm saying is I've been a fan of this team for 2 decades. I know what is most likely going to happen if we trade him to a contender. It's just a Panthers tradition at this point.

I agree Burns has had underwhelming moments and if you go back and read the posts I've been critical of him often last season. But that's my point. People have basically made up their minds that at 25 years old in a dysfunctional organization that has the worst win percentage in all of professional sports the last few years that the lows are who he is and will always be at 25 years old. None of us can know that.

If Burns goes to Detroit or Baltimore he is highly likely to make a lot of people here eat their words.

People literally wanted Brown gone a few years ago lol

I don't think it's fair for anyone to say they know just how good Burns will be for the rest of his career. Some of the same things I've been reading about him were once said about Derrick Brown. The 2024 season was a culmination of how mediocre to flat out horrendous the Panthers have been going on 5 years now. I must say it is amusing seeing some folks who have been vocal Bryce Young apologists even after his historically poor season saying another player is overvalued here. If we're throwing players out for performances last season then we won't be able to field a team.

I'm just glad that part is over with. Now work out a new contract or get what you can for him in a trade. Preference is to get the deal done I'm over squabbling about the declined trade offer from the Rams. Spilt milk is spilt milk.

Better than the all time Panthers leader in interceptions?

I mean the photo was ripe for backlash like it or not because it was paired with Tepper's own remarks. In the digital media ago it is what it is. I can't speak for Mr. Completely but I do agree he takes things too far and I don't hate either of the Tepper's. Life is too short for hatred over sports. If I did feel that way I would simply disconnect from the team. I do feel strongly however that neither of them are remotely qualified to run a football team and our only hope is that they let Dan Morgan do his job without interference or meddling. I felt the same way about Jerry Richardson and if he rightly got as much heat and criticism as he did the Tepper's have more than earned it as well.

Schefter has been in this business long enough and knows what will bring attention that's his whole job. He doesn't say something like that as a throwaway comment and we don't get 9 pages of people trying to say I told you so while somehow not realizing they're celebrating nepotism.

It was always going to be draft for us. It might now be what some of us want but it's the only path due to decisions that have already been made.

Good. Fug the Broncos.

Did I say he leaked this? The timing is strange as I and others have said. It doesn't matter where the info came from. Who knows who Schefter talked to. We know this org has had a reputation of things getting out. Why would it take this long? Too many people in here want to be right about Nicole when all along what's been said is she and Dave need to step back. Hiring Dan Morgan was not a move that says they are going to be hands off now. If we want to start winning again that's what has to happen. It doesn't matter how much some people here want to praise Nicole Tepper. We are a laughingstock until this changes whether she was in favor of drafting Stroud or not.

You think it's conspiracy talk to not just blindly assume everyone on staff from last season that's gone wanted Bryce Young and there was no dissent? He sure hit it off with Matt Rhule immediately didn't he?

The Tepper's could use any kind of lifeline right now that's all I view this as even at the expense of Dave. The narrative that Nicole was pro Stroud all along only feeds the notion that it was all Fitterer Reich McCown and Thomas Brown. They won't all stay quiet forever.

Do you mean the people who want him to play like a first overall pick?