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App State would seem like a great fit. Probably the coolest location that would work in the region. I just think Tepper is really hung up on this whole "one team two states" thing. He really wants to include SC in everything and Boone is a rock's throw from the VA and TN borders.

What could've been... I'll always wonder where we would've gone as a franchise had KB not torn his ACL that preseason and then came off the rails after losing his mom. He was emerging as a dominant WR. Instead, he veered off the path, got lazy, and that laziness directly led to Cam's career altering shoulder injury then he blamed everyone else for his problems.

The only time we've ever had a legit true FS were the Deon Grant years IMO. We've historically fielded more SS types (and to be fair, most of them weren't very good either). I think we're okay at LB this year, but Reddick is on a one year deal and Perryman is on a two year deal that can easily become a one year deal. All those LB and OL signings we made were short term bandaid solutions more so than long term roster building solutions.

Yep. If Sam works out, awesome! That's by far the biggest box checked. We're still going to need help at OL, LB, and FS even if everything works to plan.

Fan excitement hinges on Sam Darnold. The fans got sold crap in Teddy last year and they're very much in wait and see mode on Darnold. If he shows promise in preseason excitement will tick up. If he doesn't, Tepper is gonna see a lot of opposing colors in BOA while daydreaming about the excitement that a Justin Fields pick would've brought to the fanbase. We'll see how it goes. As fans that's all we can do.

Shocker that after three straight losing seasons that fan excitement is low.

Much like a certain former RB, losing his mom really seemed to bring out the worst in him.

Yep. It's be a big risk to let him go into this season without a long-term extension. If we have confidence in Darnold, we better extend Moore right now.

Yeah, on paper Marshall looks like the perfect low cost replacement for Robby. If we extend Robby I don't think that indicates positive expectations for Marshall and/or Shi Smith. We spent two mid-round picks on WRs. Robby is going to require a significant extension. IMO, this is one of those no-brainer roster decisions that the Panthers historically botch. I'm really hoping those types of unforced errors are in our rearview.

DJ Moore

Oh, I get it. It gets a lot worse than CO too. That $700k in Evergreen, CO is $1M in Seattle. $2M+ in San Francisco.

Yeah, understood. My point is that if it was anywhere near as aggressive those prices wouldn't be so low. $300k in Charlotte is $700k+ in the town I bailed from in CO.

It's not. Yeah, Charlotte is experiencing a nice uptick but it's insane out west. If it was anywhere near as aggressive in Charlotte then the price points wouldn't be so much lower.

Sometimes.

What's going to bust the Denver bubble IMO is people realizing that the days of being able to feasibly take day/weekend trips to the mountains are basically over. Everyone moves out there for the mountain access. Without that, Denver is just another city with nothing to justify the rapidly becoming insane cost of living.

Yep, you hit the nail on the head. Purgatory is the worst case scenario. At the end of the season we're left pretty sure Darnold isn't the answer and way too far down the draft order to have any shot at a Howell or Rattler. Better hope some other QB prospects emerge.

It's time to see what we have, not give up future assets. It's feasible that we go into next off-season still needing a QB and a LT. As we well know, those don't exactly grow on trees.

Fair has nothing to do with it. You just get off on authority figures. You have a bizarre complex. Seek help.

I would hope his play last year wouldn't have his spot locked up. He was okay but I would expect that spot to be a competition.

I think we're high on potential but we're light on proven NFL performance. We'll see how it works out.

If Moton would just say "Yeah, I'm down for that." I think he would've already been announced as the LT. I think the staff thinks he can play LT and now it's about convincing Moton that he can play LT.

What came out of his mouth first matters. I think Rhule kinda realized he said something a little too specific and then said they think he can play on the left too and that he could make an excellent guard, but when asked his initial comment was pretty strong. "We think he's a right tackle." And he indicated that they'd primarily been playing him there.

This is exactly what Rhule said: "We think he's a right tackle. He certainly has the ability to be on the left but I think most of us would like to have more length over on the left side. So, he's playing right tackle but I think he can be a guy that can go inside and be an excellent guard. I've been really pleased with him and his ability to play tackle. When we drafted him we thought, hey, there's a guy that's going to find a place to play and I feel good about him out there. I wouldn't say he would never go to the left side but we put him there and feel really good about his growth there."

Some of it is somewhat outdated positional prototypes. The LE playing over the RT was usually more a power rusher/run stopper type where as the RE was the speed rusher pass specialist to attack the QB from the blind side. As the NFL has become more and more pass happy, they're all pass rushers now. If you're playing on the edge in today's NFL, you HAVE to be able to effect the QB. You're practically useless if you can't. Also, somewhat of an outdated norm is that the TE typically lined up off the RT, so he had help to deal with speed off the edge so arm length was less of a necessity for RTs. The TE is basically a move position in today's NFL as likely to be split out wide, lining up on the left, or lining up in the backfield as he is to be off the RT. There really isn't much of a "strong" side anymore in today's spread formations. The priority on LT in today's NFL really just boils down to that's a right handed QB's blindside. He can simply see pressure coming from his right side better, so put your best pass protector at LT.

I think Christensen will be a good player, I'm just not sure where. Rhule has said repeatedly that he thinks he's a RT. We just signed Moton long-term to huge money. The tea leaves IMO point toward trying to convince Moton to move to LT and plugging Christensen in at RT. It's a lot easier to find serviceable interior OL than it is to find serviceable OTs. If we could solve both OT positions long-term with a rookie draft pick and a vet with a long-term contract that would go a loooooooong ways toward solving our OL problems.