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I don't think it has anything to do with Chinn. I mean, Chinn was a LB/safety tweener where Walker is am EDGE/LB tweener. Really different players and how we used Chinn was really kinda forced on us by our roster. He wasn't good in a deep safety role but he was the best option we had. Now I would argue that we should've still used Chinn where he was most effective but that's just me. I don't see how you're making a D better by misusing one of your better talents. It does seem like the Raiders are finally starting to use him how he should be used if you're going to play him at safety.

It makes sense. I mean, the edge guys we drafted do have prototypical 3-4 OLB measurables and by all accounts post-draft T-Mac was by far and away everyone WR1 so it's not hard to believe that the Panthers just saw better value going that way. I think it's likely that Walker was plan B if T-Mac was gone and in that case we were going to definitely strongly consider offers to trade down.

I wonder when Bill's kid is gonna step in and try to jerk his old man in line? I mean, it always felt like Bill taking this gig was primarily about setting up a nepo-pipeline to land his kid the job long-term. Now the gold digger is trying to fug it all up.

Bill, you don't pay them for the "service". You're paying them to shut up and leave.

Corporate spending is the absolute worst. Now if you're just a regular person near the bottom of the totem pole you'll have every dime scrutinized painstakingly. But the folks in the C suite? Yeah, they can spend like drunken sailors on shore leave on the dumbest, most wasteful poo imaginable. Basically stuff like this. I mean, at the end of the day we're just animals. The peacock struts around showing off his beautiful tail feathers to get laid and we work ourselves to death to get money to piss it away on dumb stuff to impress people so that hopefully we can get laid. Just because we're the smartest animals on this rock doesn't really mean anything, at the end of the day we're still just dumbass animals doing the same thing all the other dumbass animals do.

At the end of the day, I wish 'em luck. If they can find a market, good for them. I just hope they know what they're signing up for. Transitioning from being an everyman's fan club having some home bars scattered around the country and throwing some bashes is a helluva lot different game than trying to jump into the elite luxury experience. I honestly don't think you can pull off both, you gotta do one or the other. Neither group wants anything to do with the other. The former sounds fun. The latter... I think I'd rather slam my dick in a car door than hear some nepobaby whining about some poo that makes me want to throw him out the door of the private jet at 35k feet.

In terms of trying to book a private jet I wouldn't be surprised. One off is a lot different than regular bookings and if you can fill it up (which I'm sure they're banking on) it's a lot less per head

50% margin is damn good business. Neverending coolers of Natty Ice included! LOL

Honestly, I wouldn't. I went to the majority of Broncos games for years because I lived 45 minutes west of the stadium and my company had a suite there because they were a major NFL sponsor and they had a suite in every stadium and I was the only employee based in Colorado so sweet! Half the time I was going through security with John Elway (this was in the years just prior to him being named GM). But would I have flown from say Charlotte to Denver just for the experience? Definitely not but that's just me. I would happily let someone else take the trip.

Yeah, honestly for what it is the price isn't bad. Just not sure about it for the Panthers fanbase. Hard for me to imagine there's folks lining up to spend $10k for a Panthers away game experience.

You really think they're going to find enough folks in other markets wanting to see the Carolina Panthers in away games to fill up a private jet? C'mon man, you're just scrambling. They're targeting the Charlotte market.

A big part of the package is the chaffeured ride to a private jet flight. They're definitely targeting folks who live in Charlotte.

Demographics aside, why would you pay $10k to go to an away game if you're not even going to home games? That's doesn't make any sense.

I cannot imagine there's a huge market for $10k trips to see the Carolina Panthers. I mean, BOA looks half empty most games with half of the fans in attendance wearing opposing colors.

Better not be for much to take on $12M cap hit to trade for a guy that just felt the need to spend a top 10 pick to replace.

No rush. We should be fine with China and the newly drafted Etienne. Hopefully he can pull, a TD and ultimately overcome this.

We absolutely made the wrong choice there and I was one of the ones screaming that at the time. It's all about positional value. But Bradberry was never the fastest, twitchiest guy around and he'll be 32 when next season starts. He's probably lost a couple of steps with age and I don't think he's a guy who could afford to lose a couple of steps.

That's what Clowney is at this point and this guy is younger with the potential to further develop while Clowney achieved a very disappointing peak for his hype and #1 overall pick status and is on the decline.

https://www.panthers.com/team/players-roster/patrick-jones-ii/ I thought he was being signed to play opposite Clowney but he was signed to replace Clowney

I think that's the reason for this move. We have a lot of young talent and we're not expecting to compete for a SB next year so let's free up snaps for those young guys to speed up their development and build this thing up. Might as well not sit for the games and go ahead and free up those snaps on camp too. This is the type of approach many of us have been begging for from the Panthers for years. Stop trying to bandaid rosters together to try to be the best bad team you can be on the current and just focus on building a quality organization.

He got cut so that answers that question. If there was any offer on the table we would've taken it versus cutting him.

I expected this to ultimately happen but I'm surprised it happened prior to at least rookie mini camp. I figured we'd want to at least get eyes on our new rookies before making the move. I honestly expected it to waiting until final roster cuts.

"Paid Like Tarzan, Plays Like Jane"

You serious Clark? Stacked? We have a second year 4th rounder who showed some flashes as a rookie. A #2 who is primarily a blocker who has under 800 career receiving yards through four seasons, and now we've added a 5th round rookie to the mix. I mean, there's potential there. There's reason for cautious optimism. But stacked? Definitely far from stacked. I mean, let's be honest... how many starting TEs across the league wouldn't immediately be penciled in as the starter on this roster?

I mean, yeah... you could. But would it immediately get tossed out with you gaining nothing but mocking headlines in sports media? Yeah, that too.