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"King's ransom" is relative. If you pay $40k for a rusted out POS vehicle then you paid a king's ransom relative to what you got. Yeah, that's a paltry sum compared to a Bentley but you still way overpaid. We basically paid $40k for a rusted out POS with a blown engine that was headed for the crusher.

Considering a better QB in Minshew was traded for a 6th round pick, yeah what we traded was a relative king's ransom given the caliber of player we were getting in return. This brain trust seems to put way too much emphasis on a veteran player's draft position years ago. Oh, Darnold was a top three pick. Oh, Erving was a former 1st rounder. Who gives AF that some other team made a terrible mistake? Using that mistake to justify or at best attempt to sell your own terrible mistake is a pretty awful look.

We spent a top 10 pick on what has become the deepest position on the roster after continued moves. A 2nd round pick on a WR who hasn't really been much of a factor. A 3rd round pick on an OL who has been unable to supplant terrible veterans.

Agents and the media tend to play really fast and loose with "guaranteed" money on contracts. Seems like there always turns out to be some loopholes for the team.

That's how I read that, but I don't know for sure.

This is what gives me a glimmer of hope that we may not be tied to Darnold and that $18M next year. "When a team exercises the option, it becomes guaranteed for injury only. If the player is on the team’s roster at the start of the League Year in his option season, his salary becomes fully guaranteed for skill, cap and injury." https://frontofficenfl.com/2017/03/27/nfl-rookie-contracts-explained-fifth-year-option/ IF the player is on the team's roster...

Not sure. I think the 5th year option may be guaranteed for injury only but I'm not certain on that.

Up 181 toward Wilson's Creek is all of 15 minutes from Morganton. It's still very much the Morganton area. I know people who grew up in that very area. Ask them where they're from and they'll tell you Morganton.

I'm actually pretty sure they aren't. It's been pretty abundantly clear since the initial presser announcing Rhule's hiring that he has final say on all football related decisions.

If there's anyway we can slip out of that 5th year option we need to do it. The play we're seeing lately isn't decent backup quality.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Fields looked his best when Nagy was out with COVID. Honestly, if anything I think Nagy is even worse than Gase. Dude is trash.

F When your OL and QB are both quite possibly the worst in the league you get a fuging F.

100% agree it's on Rhule

I haven't completely given up on Christensen and Brown yet. Few rookie OL are impact players. We should be playing them though. I can't be convinced they'd be playing any worse than the vets we keep trotting out there and maybe they can improve with experience.

Daniel Jones isn't good, but he's waaaaay better than Darnold. It's definitely not an apples and apples comparison. I'm not absolving Brady of all blame, but he looked way better last year with a more physically limited but much smarter QB. I just don't know that any OC could make this dumpster fire of an offensive roster work.

So most of the plays ran against us when Luke was here were bad plays?

Define a "good play". They're all good if they work. It's hard for them to work when your offense is limited severely by a terrible OL and a terrible QB.

They don't do the "Keep Pounding" chant anymore, they've replaced it with the McConaughey clip and everyone is supposed to slowly thump their chest. It's landing with an absolute thud and everyone just looks around at each other like WTF? This is what they play: It's so fuging cringe.

When you can't block and you have a QB who is one read and panic and throw an INT, it really limits your ability to run an offense whether we're talking NFL, college, high school, whatever.

Due to problems on the OL and problems at QB and Rhule demanding a more run focused attack (for good reason), were probably running on a fraction of our total playbook.

Tepper needs to be taking a long hard look in the mirror. Yeah, I'm fine with demanding a high level of performance and accountability but Tepper has to accept that it looks like he's failed massively in putting the right people (and perhaps right processes) in place to begin with. You know, kinda what I said with both of our QB moves. It's a problem when I'm sitting on the couch beer in hand laughing at the moves and correctly calling how they're gonna turn out. I'm talking specifically about the moves at QB and the OL acquisitions. They were obviously horrible moves. It might be time to realize we're not smart enough to outsmart the rest of the league on this stuff.

Being smart when it comes to investments doesn't necessarily equal smart when it comes to running a football organization. Very different things. I haven't seen a whole lot of evidence that it's translating thusfar.

Jones is terrible. He and his turnovers were the only thing that kept us in the game there for awhile.

Yep. Guilty. My agenda is to have a competitive NFL football team just like your agenda is to have the most laughably homer take on everything Panthers related.

The OL is a huge issue. Everyone knows that. But Sam Darnold isn't out in unfortunate situations. Sam Darnold IS the unfortunate situation.