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I'm just saying, it's not like they weren't willing to pay him an absolute poo ton. Trading him for less than we turned down from the Rams for Brian Burns seems like a kick in the teeth.

Cowboys reported offered him a $200M+ contract.

Haven't read through the thread, but seems like a pretty bad deal for Dallas. The Packers were already a pretty good team so those two 1sts are likely to be late in the round, then you get an aging DT whose production fell off a cliff last year that you're probably gonna cut after this season to avoid the ballooning cap hits in his contract. Doesn't really feel like they "got" him as much as the Packers got rid of him.

Boise State/USF was competitive in the first half. I think it was 10-7 at half. Just checked back in and USF is giving them the business now. 31-7 early in the 4th.

Rough year to be a Dallas fan. First Luka, now Parsons. Oof.

ECU fans... folks, I think it's gonna be a loooooong season for y'all.

NCSU either has a pretty good defense or ECU's offense is straight trash tier. Typing as the ECU center sails the ball 10 feet over his QB's head. LOLOLOL

Yeah, didn't want that hire made but it is what it is. Gotta hope for the best now

USF's QB just absolutely BAPTIZED a BSU DB just a couple plays after the same guy got a personal foul flag for hitting him late. I mean, absolutely planted his ass. Looked like it was going for no gain and homie just got TRUCKED to give up a 1st down on 3rd and 8.

South Florida just killing themselves with penalties and miscues. QB overthrew what should've been a deep ball TD. Then a drop. Then a hold wipes out a big gain. Then the QB pulls off a Cam Newton looking 40 yard TD run and it gets called back with a very questionable holding call.

Oh lord, I'm having flashbacks...

I really hope we don't use the TE position as a huge tell on the coming play. Having a receiving TE and a blocking TE is good in theory but it's a huge liability if it becomes a big time tell on the upcoming play.

Early season games are always a big coin flip since preseason rankings are just complete projections based on some varying combination of legit expectations and hype. I mean, we all know that the blue bloods are gonna be good but how the tiers are gonna actually break out and which mid-tier teams are gonna end up punching well above their weight? Total crap shoot. I think my Heels may have a chance to be one of those mid-tier teams simply riding competent coaching and a feather soft schedule. We'll see...

Yeah, now go watch them throw those balls. There's a BIG difference.

Yeah, when I watch Burrow play and then watch Bryce play I see no difference whatsoever. Switch their places and I expect we'd see minimal difference in the Panthers and Bengals offenses. Said no rational person ever. LOL

Neither outcome would be shocking.

Based on what I've seen from Smitty's commentary recently, this seems like the worst advice ever. Smitty is terrible on the mic these days. Listening to him ramble on and on about god knows what while Jake and the other guy desperately tried to pivot back to the actual game they were supposed to be calling was nothing short of painful.

I certainly hope so. That sure would be nice.

Yeah it's really hard for a Boise State level program to replace that level of player.

Actual photo of the fans pre-gaming...

True. But how many "great" coaches are there? Most are just good. If you give them the right players to fit their system they can produce good results but if you don't they're cooked. There's not many guys out there who truly have the ability to coach to the talent they're given and the Panthers have definitely never had any.

Not sure if Tepper even considered that to be honest. I think when Rhule flopped hard as a guy with no NFL experience Tepper history instinctively went with the exact opposite approach with Frank and crew and went with guys with tons of NFL experience and since he knew he wanted a QB in the draft he went with a guy who was a former QB and had a reputation of being a good QB coach. I honestly don't know if there was anymore in-depth analysis on the fit than that.

This was my big concern about Bryce in terms of his actual play, not regarding his measurables/pure talent level concerns. Watching him play at Bama he was throwing to a lot of wide ass open receivers. I just didn't see a lot in his play that I could take and directly translate onto an NFL field. It really seemed all the analysts fell into a deep group think echo chamber and convinced themselves that this QB savant was going to overcome all of his physical talent shortcomings simply by being so brilliant. I've never seen such a physically limited QB prospect completely dupe the football world and it baffled me at the time and still baffles me today. All the struggles we've seen from Bryce in the NFL seemed very predictable based on his college play.

When it comes to NFL prospects I really don't care. Yeah, all things being equal I'd prefer the UNC prospect over all others. But ultimately I just want the best prospects and the Panthers' results on the field clearly show we haven't been doing a great job of identifying the best prospects.

I mean, he has a point when it comes to Clemson and the Panthers. Clemson has been by far and away the biggest producer of NFL talent within the Panthers' viewing area during the Panthers' existence and to not draft a single Clemson prospect during that time? Pretty bizarre. It'd be like the Falcons having never drafted a UGA player.