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Hooker is strafing the Bama D

His source must suck ass because if I'm the Bills I'm doing that deal in a fuging heartbeat.

It looks bad but it’s just a one year thing and the Panthers can open up ~$25m in cap space by, as states, cutting/trading Robbie and one of Shaq or Donte (personally I wouldn’t be surprised if Donte is moved at the deadline to a CB-needy contender like Rams, Chiefs, or Bills). Even more cap space can be opened by signing Burns to an extension and lowering next year’s $16m cap hit. If the Panthers end the season with a top 3 pick, no brainer to take a QB and maybe sign a cheap stop gap vet to back him up. That’ll allow Carolina to make some shrewd moves in FA and then 2024 moving forward is a fairly clean cap sheet.

I think it will be a close game and the numbers seem to support it: https://betiq.teamrankings.com/articles/interim-head-coach-results-first-game-betting-ats-moneyline/

I agree with the Athletic on the names they mention. Trade Robbie to any number of WR-needy teams for whatever you can get (Packers, Giants, Chiefs, Ravens come to mind). Trade Donte to a contender that needs back-end help. Everyone mentions CMC to the Bills, but I think Donte to the Bills makes just as much sense - he's been around McDermott and the Bills have a rash of injuries in the secondary. Wilks needs to throw CJ into the fire and let's see what we have with him. He's looked ok if he can clean up the DPIs, but that seems to be a big issue. Trading away these two players brings 2023 cap space to ~$25m.

I'd probably look to take a swing at someone like Anthony Richardson if he comes out, but wouldn't be surprised if they went for a WR (given DJ's the only proven option on the roster next season at the moment) and maybe target someone like a Hendon Hooker, Grayson McCall, or Cam Ward in the 2nd round.

Best summary I’ve seen by a talking head to date: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/walkthrough/2022/should-carolina-panthers-hold-fire-sale Bottom line: ”Tepper needs to trust that he has just isolated and eradicated the Panthers' biggest problem, albeit 10 months too late. The Panthers have the makings of a playoff nucleus. They just need the vision to not shackle themselves to someone else with a self-serving seven-year endless building plan.”

Couple of quibbles here: DeMeco Ryans is in his 2nd year as 49ers DC. While I wouldn't be thrilled Dan Quinn, I'm not sure I'd say he "wasn't very good" the first time. He was 46-44 with Atlanta, obviously they had the 28-3 Super Bowl meltdown (I might put that more on Kyle Shanahan than Quinn), but he also had the Falcons back in the playoffs the year after and they were a few yards away from going back to the NFC Championship game.

Take whatever you can get for Robbie and move on. He's not going to be on the team one way or another after this season, so might as well get something rather than just cut him for nothing.

It just makes no sense to trade CMC. At least with Robbie, while you're taking a $19m dead money hit this year, it frees up $12m in cap space next year. With CMC, trading him will result in a $26m dead money hit this year and a $18m dead money hit next year while only freeing up $1.2m in cap space next year. Unless someone is willing to blow the organization away with an amazing offer (at least a first round pick minimum), I think Fitt/Tepp will be content to hang on to him and have the new HC, whoever that may be, make the decision on whether or not he wants to deal him at next year's deadline.

I'd add Shane Waldron, OC, Seahawks to the first timers offense list. Comes from the McVay coaching tree and what he's done with Geno and the Seahawks offense this year is super impressive.

Pretty sure Nixon is going to be shown the door shortly along with others like Evan Cooper...if not shown the door, he'll leave once Rhule lands his college gig.

Problem is I'm not sure who can replace him? Sean Ryan? I mean, there's just no one else really there...

Assume Wilkes and Tepper will speak...

Remember what Cam said at the end of last year: Even if for some reason Tepp/Fitt called, I think he'd say thanks, but no thanks.

I definitely think Robbie will be dealt, even if it's just for a conditional 7th. Saves $12m against the cap next season and lets Fitt and the organization give TMJ a proper evaluation.

fug no. Payton is good but we don't need to be sending away more premium capital. Find another HC, preferably someone who can grow with this team. Give me Dorsey, Ben Johnson, or Demeco Ryans. I'm good.

I think best case scenario, depending on how the next few weeks go, is Rhule being let go after the Falcons Thursday night game. That would give Wilkes or whoever else is elevated into the interim role 10 days to take over and prep for the game at Baltimore. Unfortunately, based on how the offense has looked thus far, I can't see the team being any better than 2-8 at best (only potential wins I see on the schedule are at Atlanta and vs Atlanta, and if Rhule is fired after the Thursday night Atlanta game, it's because the Panthers lost that game).

While I don't think Quinn would be a terrible hire and he's been to a Super Bowl, it just feels like he'd be sort of a Ron Rivera redux. I'd prefer to go for some new blood. I'm warming up to the idea of DeMeco Ryans as HC and him bringing along someone from the Shanahan tree to be his OC.

Honestly after 4 games with McAdoo as OC I'd rather Rhule have just made Nixon the permanent OC this season. McAdoo's concepts and philosophy don't mesh whatsoever with the personnel we have on this roster.

Even worse, at halftime when the game script was in our favor, we had 6 runs to 20 passes, and I believe one of those runs was the Baker sneak. In a 10-3 game at half! SMH.