LinvilleGorge

Yeah, the open free agency every year is just ridiculous. Tough to be a fan when there's such a massive churn to the roster every year and you're looking at the field like "who the fug are these people???". Basketball is even worse to be honest.

Oh good grief. Stop it. I get it if you're a Gamecocks fan but notice how you're on an island here? There are undoubtedly plenty of Gamecocks fans here but they ain't walking the plank with you on this one.

TMac/XL/Coker is definitely the goal IMO. Right now, the biggest question mark on that equation seems like XL.

Yeah, there's a lot of guys on D1 rosters who are hellacious athletes but just aren't football players. They're just not natural to the sport. But college rosters are so massive that you can still roll the dice on quite a few of those guys and some will end up working out or you'll at least he able to find some niche roles for them. XL basically was one of those guys until he blew up and had a great final season as a 5th year super senior. I mean, he was playing in college at the same age as a typical 2nd year pro. You gotta grade that year on one helluva curve.

I could see it if a legit contender is in a pinch at WR.

To me, if it comes down to making a tough decision you gotta think about the future. We aren't competing for a SB this year. We're trying to drag ourselves out of the cellar while building toward the future. If you have to make a cut at WR that you don't want to make I think you have to cut the 35 year old who was already considering retirement. Hell, let him announce his retirement to save face but then process the paperwork as a cut so he's still paid his guarantees.

He just doesn't look like a natural WR. Yeah, I'm concerned. I was really hoping he would look considerably better with a full NFL season and off-season under his belt.

If it came down to Coker or AT, I'm taking the younger guy with a future ahead of him all day everyday.

Give me T-Mac, XL, Coker, Thielen, Renfrow, and #6 comes down to special teams. Hopefully Horn.

I remembered his first four years being weak but damn, I didn't remember them being THAT weak. Oof

Move on? No. Play the guy who has looked better so far and looked better last year over him? Yeah

Oh give me a break. Plenty of first round NFL WRs played with trash QBs. Look at T-Mac. I'm sure Coker had a John Elway throwing to him at fuging Holy Cross. LOL

That's why I didn't want him. He basically did nothing in college until a super senior year that wouldn't have even happened had it not been for NCAA COVID year policy.

That's what I expect too but if XL doesn't impress I hope they have a quick trigger finger on making the change.

Forget bubble, they need to be asking if he's gonna replace XL in the starting lineup.

Injuries aside, agreed.

Hopefully, just hard to say with him kissing the last two weeks

I have no dog in this fight. Play the better player who has earned the spot and feel pretty good about having a decent backup option/plan B. Lord knows there's not many of those on this roster.

Well that's a bizarre thread bump. LOL

I sure hope it's T-Mac but I won't be surprised in the least of Coker becomes the #2. At this point I'd already have him there and would've told XL it's up to him to earn it back, your draft status has carried you as far as it's going to carry you. We're playing the best players.

Calling Ian Thomas a JAG is an insult to all the hard working JAGs out there filling their role. Ian Thomas was the type of guy who should've bounced around training camps for a couple of years after his rookie contract expired before realizing that there's just not a spot for him in the NFL. His value in the NFL should've been fighting for a bottom of the roster spot while he was dirt cheap on a rookie contract. Once he had to be paid vet min his value slid to zero.

This. But yeah, he looked undeniably awful.

It seems like Bryce has really good chemistry with Thielen, T-Mac, and Coker. Everyone else is a work in progress on that front. When you consider that Theilen is well past his prime and could very possibly be entering his final season in the NFL, there's no way in hell I'm trading Coker unless the offer was just over the top absurdly generous. Honestly, the #1 goal this season should be trying to get the answer on Bryce Young moving forward. Moving Coker for some bandaid defensive piece or future draft assets that may or may not pan out would just be wildly idiotic which gives the history of Tepper's Panthers makes it frighteningly likely. LOL

Yep, we belong at or near the bottom of the league until we prove otherwise.

Sidelined due to injury situations aside, Ian Thomas has to be the Panthers who put the most money in the bank for the least return on the field. Sean Gilbert entered my mind but he was decent, he just was nowhere near the dominant force that we invested in him to be. Ian Thomas was just an absolute waste of a roster spot and yet somehow turned that into damn near $20M. Crazy.