Gapanthersfan

The Brown and Luvu combination covered up a lot of the stink that is this defense. The games that Horn played… I guess when 3 borderline all-pro talents are on the field at the same time, you look better than you truly are.

For a first time GM being dealt 2 7 offsuit and having Tepper as an owner? In one offseason he has solved (hopefully) our o line disaster and made games at least watchable. Draft and offseason brought in some very promising young talent. 3 promising rookie pass catchers??! He got something for mingo. Mike Jackson for peanuts. He has avoided an OMG WHY?!! Type of move. He signed our homegrown RB, and actually got him to stay, for reasonable coin. Overall positive moves. He’ll have a chance to hire his own DC in the offseason and hopefully convince Tepp to go back to a 4-3. So positions in most need: QB, D line, LB. That’s not too shabby. If we get a solid DC, go heavy in the draft on drafting DLine and roll with a bridge veteran QB, this team could be surprisingly competitive. It seems so far that he has an eye for talent. T would never of signed off on Harbaugh or Payton, so we got Canales. I can’t put that on him. Being a former player, he understands intimately, locker room culture. Players universally respect him. He knows problem children. Signing Chuba showed that we retain ‘our’ type of guys. I think he has done an admirable job, all things considered. We knew it would be a bad year, but telling me in the offseason that we’d be set on the offense except for QB? I’d still be laughing.

This. This year wasn’t a good look on his (Evero) resume, but he may be a better manager (head coach) than a true play caller.

I am the walrus.

I decided to browse how 4 consistently good teams drafted in 2023: Ravens: 3 of 7 picks on lineman Steelers: 3 of 7 Chiefs: 4 of 7 Packers: 2023 draft was weird but their 2022 draft: 6 of 11. Line. It’s how it’s done.

Maybe he goes to ATL….

The post game interviews with Deion might go longer than with the actual coach because he is such an attention whore. It’s truly a disaster in the making that the media will salivate over. God help the moment anything starts going bad for the team. So much of this is eminently predictable. Tepper, please, do not seek the treasure. It’s bushwacked.

The consistently good franchises restock linemen with every draft. They have depth. They don’t have to pray that this one guy works out and that he doesn’t get injured. It’s a frequently injured position and without depth, a single injury can tank a season. It’ll be easily exposed. Backup DT can’t play the run? Rut roh raggy. Backup LT doesn’t do well with the speed rush? Sounds like 3rd and a mile all day long. Stronger lines make skill position players look better than they really are. Teams with bad lines with bad depth almost never make deep playoff runs and they don’t win SBs. Using valuable capital in rounds 2-5 and taking linemen who aren’t necessarily positions of need… Wins championships.

I’m not convinced he’s as hot a commodity as he is being hyped to be. Every team in the league knows that it’s a package deal with him and his dad. I kind of feel sorry for the kid in that regard. Deion may actually end up costing his kid money by knocking his draft position. Sounds like a murder - suicide for a GM and coach.

The older I get, the more frequently I find my justly applied cynicism… validated. It felt like a blind man was giving me a vasectomy with a pair of bolt cutters.

Yep. Kind of what I felt like it was heading towards.

I-ran Mike Timus? Sounds like substitute teacher day

Y’all having buffering occasionally as well?

I’m trying to fade the overpowering sense that this is a farce and I’m being played. I really appreciate the commentary from former boxers, but the entertainers who don’t know poo from shinola… give me a break. This is slow torture. my chance of satiation at the conclusion of all of this is dropping by the minute.

Do Not Want. I genuinely feel sorry for the head coach of whatever team gets stuck with him. Helicopter dad with star power? No thanks.