Lame Duck

Salisbury-native, former Panther Chris Smith dies https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/salisbury-native-former-panther-chris-smith-dies/J7NSEOXK2JD2NOZ7BYLXLFPEAQ Very said and very tragic. He was 31. Smith’s girlfriend, who was the mother of his daughter, was killed in 2019 in a car crash not long after she gave birth.

I honestly will be happy with whoever we pick.

No, Baker is taller

See, you said if. Good job.

Drew Brees is 6’0. You meant to tell me it’s 2 inches from Drew Bree’s skull to Bryce Young skull in this picture?

You blind?

My concern is Young is 5’10 and most blows will be directly into his neck/head area.

How dare you have an opinion other than ESPN or Twitter!

Damn, if you remove the hair… he’s about 6 inch shorter than Brees

I’m saving this thread for future use.

1/2 of the huddle

I think we are trying hard to trade #1 pick. I might be wrong but I’m hoping for draft day movie like outcome.

Rumors are Houston is devastated. Young was their top target. They were all in on him.

I also wonder if a team will try to trade to 3rd to trade with us to leap frog Houston. Buckle up. Possibilities are endless.

Many mocks still predicting Stroud. Houston is Young or burst. I would so love to trade #1 pick and get extra 1st in return. Houston won’t be drafting top 5 next year and they know it. Houston in a shitty position right now if we do indeed drafting Young.

Announcing Bryce Young is the pick whiling making CJ and Levi’s watching the presser

This forum will be dead in 3 weeks until early August.

Like I said in other thread. I bet Panthers have all options open. They are not 100% vested in Bryce or CJ. I legit hoping for Draft Day movie like outcome lol

Over the last few weeks more and more folks got vested in NFL draft. They watch highlights, they put themselves in NFL scouting shoes, they read twits that support their view and they pick their favorite players. The question is why? Well… folks are getting their dopamine fix and they are looking for more. ______ Reward prediction errors in dopamine neurons: The response to the reward itself disappears when the reward is predicted. But if more than the predicted reward occurs, the dopamine neurons show stronger responses. By contrast, their activity decreases if no, or less than predicted, reward occurs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4826767/#:~:text=Reward prediction errors in dopamine neurons&text=The response to the reward,less than predicted%2C reward occurs. Scientists are now naming dopamine as “the anticipation molecule” because it's shown that dopamine is also released in large amounts when we anticipate a pleasurable experience. So recently with all the Bryce Young news that he’s a sure fire #1 pick. Bryce Young supporters are tripping on dopamine while CJ Stroud fans are on opposite swing. The NFL, ESPN and everyone else had major studies done on NFL draft and dopamine over decade ago. The whole idea is to create uncertainty and debate which generates a ton of revenue during off-season because folks are tripping on dopamine. This is all by design and NFL and everyone else will milk it until the draft day. ______ Recommendation to all folks. Be excited but control your excitement. “It is having flexibility in our expectations and being willing to change track without self-blame that has been shown to increase well-being.” So as we can see, there is no template for managing expectations. It seems as if it is best to have low expectations of things out of our control, realistic expectations of things we can control to some degree and high expectations of ourselves. And, perhaps the greatest truth of all is: always expect the unexpected. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/your-money/the-importance-of-setting-expectations-whether-high-or-low.html

I’m about to start an article. You might like it.

I’m almost certain the Panthers keep their options open and don’t jump to conclusions with 2 more weeks to go unlike some people on this board.

But what if Young is not our target and we can still get our guy while picking up extra early 2nd rounder?

Young is most definitely not a generational talent but he’s the only QB Texans are interested in. Texans will run dink and dunk system which Young fits perfectly.

I won’t be surprised if we hoping to trade #1 pick to Houston and maybe pick up extra 2nd round pick.

Oh come on. I’m enjoying the drama. We got 2 weeks of this and then it will be a boredom.