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Honestly, I'd strongly disagree. I'd spend a 1st round pick on a Travis Kelce, or a Gronk, or a Tony Gonzalez, or a Greg Olsen type player all day everyday. No hesitation. They may have played TE but they largely functioned as the #1 receiver.

Olsen was the 31st overall pick. Davis had a great overall career but honestly he never had the impact I expected him to have coming out of college. I'll never forget watching him just absolutely shred my Tar Heels and we had a decent secondary at the time with some NFL prospects on it but we didn't have anyone who could run with the guy. Not even close to it. He was 6" taller and 50+ pounds heavier and he was still WAY faster than anyone in our secondary. He was just straight up blowing by everyone. It was crazy to watch. You had to just sit back like

That's wild considering I personally don't even know a college baseball fan. Seriously. Not one. It's like it doesn't even exist. They follow MLB and they'll go to local minor league games as a social event. But college baseball? Like pffff... you ain't poo until you at least get to minor league baseball.

It wouldn't be a question of Howell vs. Young. It's be a question of Howell + the trade package we spent to get up to #1 vs. Young. Young better be orders of magnitude better.

The "rockstar OC" that Rhule supposedly had to lure to save his job. Oh wee mayne.

I mean, I kinda understand not having two rookie QBs to split up developmental time. Especially considering that our staff clearly didn't have much if any interest of actually developing a rookie QB. I'll just never understand Corral > Howell. Full disclosure, Corral was my #2 QB in last year's class but the gap I had between Howell and him was pretty damn wide. I liked Willis' potential but trying to project him out of Liberty was just a leap I wasn't comfortable making. Pickett? Fuging please. If he hadn't been gifted an extra year to play as a literal man amongst I'll prepared boys due to COVID restrictions the guy probably doesn't even get drafted.

Honestly no, but if you're relying on a rookie UDFA to be a significant contributor... oh wee mayne.

Speaking of the Commanders... Here's a guy who knows a thing or two about QBs and NFL offense drooling over Sam Howell for 5 minutes.

The experiments he was subjected to at Harvard are interesting. Gotta wonder what role they may have played in what he ultimately became. Interestingly enough, my wife's uncle was a geologist and lived in the same small Montana town. He knew Ted. No one really paid him any mind in town. He was just kinda the crazy town hermit that didn't really bother anything so whatever. He pretty much only came into town to go to the library.

Very decent chance of it. I think he's definitely in the best situation of all the likely rookie QB starters. OROY is virtually always a QB, RB, or WR. WR seems highly unlikely this year. Not that there won't be good WRs out of this class (I hope we got one of them), it's just that none are expected to be plug and play studs. If I was a betting man, I'd bet very heavily on the OROY being either Bryce Young or Bijan Robinson.

I have old turf toe injuries on both big toes. My left one cracks like a .22 rifle being shot about every third step.

Yeah, it's crazy how thin we are at CB given the resources we've spent in relatively recent years. I guess that happens when your top 10 pick is made of porcelain and your 2nd rounder pops an Achilles. Everyone is thin at CB if you take way both of their outside starters.

If Wilcher is that deluded then it's addition by subtraction IMO. These guys have to understand that 6'4" combo guards are a dime a dozen in the NBA. And another dose of reality... "combo guard" is just a nice way of saying "undersized SG". Again, a dime a dozen in the NBA. Wilcher is ranked what? In the mid-30s? How many guys ranked in the mid-30s are OAD? Hell, for that matter, how many guys ranked in the mid-30s ever make an NBA roster? I get it. Virtually every 4 and 5 star recruit thinks he's a future NBA or NFL player but the reality is that most of those guys won't play in the NBA. At least with basketball there's ample international opportunities as well. A mid-30s ranked 6'4" "combo guard" thinks he's a surefire OADer? Okay. Bye.

Dalton was always an insurance policy and vet mentorship. For the future, Corral outright winning the backup job would absolutely be for the best.

He became the starting QB as soon as we traded up to #1 overall and made the decision to draft him. You don't make a trade like that for a guy to sit and develop.

I'll take your word for it but from the outside looking in it definitely doesn't see better maybe even more specifically on the youth side. When I was a kid it was ballers only. There weren't a whole lot of travel teams per area and the kids on those teams could PLAY. These days there's a spot available for anyone whose parents will write that check.

I mean, Wilcher decommitted just a couple of days after Cadeau reclassified. It'd be a helluva coincidence for the prior event not to have significantly impacted the latter event.

I don't think you were understanding what I was saying. I'm saying the rise of AAU ball increases the amount of pandering and special treatment of these kids with elite talent. The individual teams and tournaments are falling over themselves trying to secure the best talent.

I'm not begging to sign Hopkins but the arguments that we shouldn't because it'll hamper our current WRs' development or hamper our ability to spend on D just doesn't make any sense. We heavily relied on the development of KB and Funchess while spending our asses off on D during Cam's career and the end result was that Cam never played with a high level NFL WR outside of Smitty early in his career.

What's that gonna do for the young QB we just mortgaged the future of the franchise on to trade up to #1 overall to draft?

I honestly don't like the new number policy. One of the things I preferred about the NFL vs. college was the jersey numbers by position group. It just made the game easier to follow IMO. It's not a big deal but I did prefer the old way.

If the likelihood of getting caught is practically zero it doesn't really matter. The likelihood of getting caught would be practically zero. You'd need an IRS audit to prove your case.

Ultimately I agree. Be excited! After having ridden a milquetoast merry-go-round of cast off vet QBs we have a #1 overall pick QB to get excited about! The last time we had one of those he worked out pretty well and it led us to the best stretch of football in Panthers' history. Plus a new coaching staff chockful of NFL experience after being led by a band of morons under Matt Rhule. Am I concerned about Bryce Young being the size of a middle school QB? Hell yeah I am. Anyone with two brain cells to run together is. You'd never get the Panthers to admit it but they are too. You can bet your ass they spent countless hours having heated debates about it. At the end of the day, the Panthers thought he was worth jumping up to #1 to go get him and we did. That's exciting. If you're not more excited now than you have been in years then I don't know what to tell you.

Watch a game on the ACC Network which is a LOT of games these days. Used to be practically every UNC and duke game was nationally televised on a major network. Look at the quality of the advertisers. It's says everything. It's late night TV infomercial level bullshit being advertised. Viewership numbers must be absolutely AWFUL if that's the level of advertisers you can attract. It's an absolutely awful look. Certainly feels like college basketball is currently trending to end up somewhere a lot closer to college baseball than college football.

That's my point. It's declining and the decline is likely to just intensify. I expect the NBA to emphasize the G League more and more. I don't know what you mean by "not go anywhere". Yeah, college basketball is going to continue to exist but it's already nowhere close to what it used to be and it's trending straight down. I mean, college baseball exists but does anyone actually care?