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Okay I understand the concept of don’t create a hole for yourself where there isn’t one. My concern is the concussions. I’d like to disassociate from the risk of them becoming a really serious issue. If I got a 1st round pick so I could replace him, plus…. I would think hard about doing it.

Where is Sadiq?

They asked Morgan about older players in either his presser or McAfee, I don’t recall. He said yeah, he got it, basically. But that if the player was advanced enough that you don’t need to develop him for a couple of years and can step right in and produce on a rookie deal… “there is value there”. I am not recalling if this was tangental to the being fooled by one year of production comment or a particular player or any of that. But he’s right. If you could get 5 years off a 1st rounder and let someone else overpay him, that isn’t a horrible scenario. I am not applying this specifically to Mesidor just in general.

I hope that isn’t ketchup for those delicious fried chicken tenderloins

I have never been that high on Hunt. The money is too much. I guess my standards are unrealistic but I have seen him getting pushed around. A 100 million in 2023 standards should never get pushed around. I am not saying he sucks at all but I think we could get pushed around a lot cheaper. Now he has torn biceps, and something g else got torn in the WC game. Then you look at the run game with BC subbing in, absolutely no falloff and possible improvement. I haven’t accounted for who he was dealing with to really judge it. But I think we need to see him play a few games before committing more year(s) and money to him.

They are just tenders. Not signed deals. Right?

Hell no on Becton.

He is decent backup level though. Nothing against him but that is the truth. So what is behind him?

Lol yeah I never would have gotten that one.

I liked that Eager… I think Eager, maybe Tillis too, but they have probabilities of every guy on their board still being there by a given point. Whether it is a full round or 20 picks or whatever. It seems to work.

I wouldn’t mind Hill at all.

He has had the surgery so that should have happened. Life can be tough and cold sometimes, he is set though. Should have a comfortable future if he never plays another down.

The guy was a journeyman here for a few weeks at year’s end. Probably brought in to be a returner or something. I barely remember him. I remember the name mostly because of Eddie Murphy’s SNL pimp sketches. Which was Velvet Jones. I misremembered it as Venus lol. I think the pattern is, journeymen brought in at the end of a season, will journey on somewhere else most of the time. So do most 5th round picks though.

I would love that. We may need to be pretty serious about next year’s 1st round.

I am calling it, this will be different. They need to streamline and tweak the process of running the offense with Idzik and Bevell for one thing. I thought, also, that with such a thin roster they made the decision to emphasize playing the backups to more thoroughly evaluate who to keep. I think they have far more certainty about it now and will have fewer scrubs to seriously audition. We weren’t winning in Canales year one. Didn’t expect to win year two. Using the first game as a tune up game for the starters may have bitten us though, they will be a lot more traditional this year. I bet.

Me too. It is probably coming. I did suspect Coker.

Okereke had a disc issue in 2024 Missed some time. Will be 30. D captain in NY. There are going to be some decent stopgap types out there we have yet to hear about, too. All our needed positions.

I have no idea what 85 in Spanish could mean. Older people, Marge Helgenberger (?) the TV actress was a Panthers fan way back in the day.

Signed to the roster from somebody’s practice squad December 2024. Gone before 2025. He was one of those 6 year college guys (Covid rules). Not sure he was ever active for us. I just looked at wiki for this they posted no pro stats. He was on a lot of teams. I am not thinking we have good comp there.

Lloyd is going to get a lot of interest.

Bears C just unexpectedly retired. 27 years old. More demand created.

And are just able to be more multiple. Harder to defend, you can scheme up those mismatches. I mean, my real want is Mike Tolbert reincarnated. We need a guy that can catch and get few yards after, and can bang hard to get that yard when we have to have it. Maybe Brooks can give us a little more bang.

If Brooks can come back he’s a good receiver too which was why I thought they really went for him. look at him and a guy like this in the backfield with the motion you can get a lot of different options. And if Brooks hits a snag you have at least a guy that can give you some carries

Yeah just saw that. We’re in. Luke vs Fitzgerald.

Yep. Mutually looking out, not adversarial. It would show he wants to stay if he can come back. That is the culture we should hope to have. If it’s an extension that guarantee can be converted to bonus and spread out over two years on the cap. And he still gets his money this year. You know, with this being a 2 year path to best case recovery, you could do a deal with a nice incentive for 2027 snaps and maybe a large roster bonus for 2028. If 2027 went well, and he is trending up, you can rewrite the deal. I am hoping our men making the evaluations will think of this, it is a little outside the box.