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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?

Everyone and their brother already knew Dave was really big on Bryce Young. He flatly told us. There's no saving face for him. All we've gotten so far out of Tepper about the final call is that Bryce Young was a collective decision from the group of people that included Dan Morgan as far as I know. They've said nothing while Reich McCown and Fitterer have taken the fall. It's going to take a few years or more but we will eventually get the truth when Reich and others speak. In the meantime no I'm not in a hurry to buy what Schefter is selling here because it's largely irrelevant.

He settled for Baker Mayfield lol Money talks

That was a dicey contract extension from the get go. I like Donte but it's time to move on.

Now who is being silly? Is there not any part of you that thinks this is some level of face saving? Really? Also. Don't we have the worst win % in all of professional sports the last few years under Mr. & Mrs. Tepper? But hey. Go Nicole!

Gossip about how much someone likes a player at a dinner compared to a photo op with a QB prospect the owner himself plainly stated he was infatuated with months before the draft. Where's the photo with Stroud? Idk how this makes some of ya'll feel better but I guess take your wins when you can get em' because the team sure as hell isn't winning. Keep celebrating nepotism.

David Tepper is an egomaniac. There's a reason he and Matt Rhule hit it off so well. David also told us he was smitten with Bryce Young months before the draft. Fitterer was incompetent and one of the worst general managers I've ever seen but I'm not buying for one second that Mr. Tepper wasn't in his ear for many or most of the failed decisions we've had to suffer through the last few years.

It was the only logical move to make at this juncture. Now we have options.

I don't think you fully understood the post sir. Woke is a tired term and in general I only see it used by politicians pandering for votes or grifters lining their pockets off simpletons. Maybe one day you'll have an awakening.

It's always amusing to see the same people who insinuate anything someone doesn't like is racist basically apply the exact same concept to anything they deem to be woke. Maybe just spend less time watching cable news.

Oh geez people are citing the dinner the Tepper's had with Stroud? Have we not learned how meaningless all that is by now? And the misogyny stuff really needs to die. Anyone who has made sexual remarks has been shouted down as they should. For some reason though that's drifted into any general criticism anyone might have. Like it's controversial to say she shouldn't be involved in football decisions. Sorry but she's basically Ivanka in NFL circles. That's one of the contributing factors for why our team has been a dumpster fire. I don't like acknowledging it either but facts are facts.

The original owner of the team and the man who was behind the branding at the time was a notorious racist who was forced to integrate black players to the point the lease on his stadium was almost revoked. Attempting to go back to that would be ridiculous.

https://sports.yahoo.com/missouri-gov-commutes-sentence-of-ex-chiefs-assistant-britt-reid-after-dwi-severely-injured-young-girl-224320950.html His dad wins another Super Bowl and within a month the Governor does him a solid? Fug the Reid's.

It might be years from now but eventually Reich and McCown will speak on how it all went down. Until then anything that makes the Tepper's look like anything less than incompetent fools in over their heads should be taken with a grain of salt.

What does this even mean? It's like saying gonorrhea is better than chlamydia.