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Honestly though, the price seems like an absolute pipedream. It's kinda in no man's land. Too far from Boone/Blowing Rock. Not close enough to the types of bougie places that are going to attract near nine figure buyers.

The state is the only possible player. Anyone else is gonna develop the fug out of it.

I definitely don't feel bad for Mariota. Imagine being a major disappointment in your profession and still banking nearly $65M.

Honestly, the QB snap management this off-season and preseason should be completely about the development of Bryce Young. The trade we made to get him says everything about what we think about Matt Corral. Signing Andy Dalton as a vet mentor and backup says a lot too. Corral is an afterthought. Not a single snap should be taken from Bryce solely to allow for the evaluation of Corral. We've cast our lot. We've hooked the franchise to Bryce Young.

We didn't lose the game because of Kasay, but damn it was definitely an egregious error from a great kicker.

As much as the staff deems necessary. It's nice to actually have a staff that I trust to handle this. I honestly didn't trust any previous staff to develop a rookie QB. Without Cam's tremendous physical talents I'm not sure that situation plays out like it did.

I'm just fine with not being one of the medias preseason darlings as an emerging contender. Seems like they flop more often than not. Or maybe that's just because it always seems like it's the Cowboys.

It was all about the Benjamins, per usual. Which is fine. It is business for them after all. But don't go whining and crying about the QBs you've played with talking about wanting to play with an elite QB and then sign up to play with the Titans.

It's possible but on the wrong side of 70 I'm just not sure.

Bingo.

Just gonna be honest, if baseball completely ceased to exist I wouldn't even notice until someone else pointed it out.

Gonna be honest, I would've taken the picks. You're not just getting two 1st rounders, you're also getting all the cap space that Burns's extension will eat up. With that said, I hope Burns is absolutely dominant in our new defensive scheme and makes any thought of regretting not taking that trade offer laughable.

A lot of truth to this. I'm not certain that it would've gone any different no matter what, but the way the roster was built Cam had to carry the offense. I mean, we did TRY to put some receivers around Cam, we just chose poorly with KB and Funchess. The utter failures on the OL was pathetic though. Even our studs Gettleman either inherited (Kalil) or fell backassward into with Turner (3rd rounder) and Norwell (UDFA).

Oh for sure. A legit franchise QB on a rookie contract is the best roster asset in the NFL. There's not even a close second.

I wish we had been better positioned to capitalize on Brown's and Burn's rookie contracts. Because yeah, they're gonna be expensive moving forward.

https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2023/07/13/panthers-thomas-davis-bryce-young-cam-newton-electricity-gmfb/ Thomas Davis: There's a Cam Newton-like electricity surrounding Bryce Young

https://www.si.com/nfl/2016/01/19/st-louis-rams-san-diego-chargers-economics Rams left St. Louis in 2016. They saw a slight flattening that year. Right back to business as usual until COVID. You can't even tell the Chargers left San Diego in 2017. Now consider the potential impacts spending those hundreds of millions on different municipal investments. Public spending on pro sports stadiums is just bad business.

Except that every legit financial study conducted has found that public investment into professional athletic stadium provides a terrible ROI. https://better-cities.org/economic-prosperity/sports-stadium-subsidies-fair-or-foul/

Hell, an average coach would be a monumental improvement from Rhule. Just look at what we did under Wilks.

Compared to what we had before I just don't see how the case can be made. I'm gonna be nervous as hell about Young's size for a long time but we've been dealing with pure hot trash at QB for years now. It was time to make a bold move. They did their homework and went all in to get their guy. Basically what I've been screaming for the Panthers to do at QB for several years now. At some point enough is enough of the "well, maybe one will fall in our lap next year" approach. The trade up was clearly the right call. We made the determination that sitting at #9 was just too low to have a shot at a guy we really wanted so we made a bold move up. And we were right with three QBs off the board by #4 with the 4th QB lasting to #33. We were sitting in no man's land at #9 and we knew it.

I'm almost as excited to see our young defensive talent in a new scheme as I am to see our shiny new #1 overall pick QB.

I just don't see how anyone can claim that they truly believe that we're headed in the wrong direction. For that to be true, you have to believe that we are currently in worse shape with our current staff and brain trust than we were under Rhule and company. A guy who went 11-27 before getting unceremoniously poo canned mid-season in his third year that no one outside of David Tepper thought he should've gotten. 5-11, 5-12, 1-4 and fired. How can anyone think we're going in the wrong direction moving on from THAT?

And now there's another...

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Why spend the money yourselves if you can fleece local municipalities out of it?