LinvilleGorge

I just can't see where he'd have high trade value. We're talking about a guy who has literally missed more games than he's played. He's played in 22 of 51 possible games. He's missed 29. I'd rather keep him and hope he can get over the injury bug versus trade him for a 3rd round pick or something like that. If I'm another team, I struggle to part with much more than that based on the significant injury history. Let's say we keep him and he's a bright spot on a 5 or 6 win team playing in most of not all games. At that point, maybe you can get a 1st for him.

I don't think it's automatically better for the kids. The portal that is. When you can just bounce around getting sold on playing time and being catered to, it's going to stifle some development. You can always take the easy way out versus buckling down and focusing on what you can do to get more opportunities where you currently are. I think about a guy like Danny Green at UNC. A guy like that almost certainly transfers out on this day and age versus being a rotational guy and jack of all trades who went from a top 50 recruit to national champion and a lengthy successful NBA career. I don't know if he develops the all around game transferring to a lesser program to be the go to guy there. The advantage he had is that his role in the NBA was basically exactly what his role was on those top tier UNC teams.

Our best bet might be for him to Dan Snyder his ass right out of the league. Washington had to suffer for a loooooong time though. I just wish they'd moved a little faster so that they would've gotten stuck with Tepper instead of us. Imagine that... going from Dan Snyder to David Tepper. LOL

I do too. I'm fine with it. It's the combo of NIL + unlimited transfers that causes the current cluster fug.

College has always had tremendous turnover with early draft entities and only four years of eligibility anyway. But chewing nails wondering if your favorite players are going to end up playing for a rival next year is going to get old fast.

Portal + NIL basically = pro sports with no contracts. Open free agency with no salary cap following every season. I'm all for the kids getting their piece of the pie but right now it's a complete cluster fug and they may end up killing the golden goose if they don't fix it.

I mean... you're not wrong. Gotta be honest. You ain't wrong. It's not a coincidence that all of a sudden Texas became super relevant again after years of floundering around.

Don't disparage college football like that. LOL

They're just desperately trying to tap into college fanbases to rekindle their own because they realize they've done nothing but drive away the classic Panthers fans. It's why they have an App State all-time great pound the drum. It's why they have Fan Fest at Clemson.

My interest is absolutely at an all-time low. I watched most of our first preseason game and didn't even realize when our second one was on because I flat out didn't care. I paid minimal attention to camp rumblings for the same reason. We'll see what it looks like week one but of we look like microwaved dog poo again I won't wait until midway through the season to tune out this year. I'm not subjecting myself to watching bad football again. I'll watch other games.

DeAngelo had a 1500 yard 18 TD season. It ain't no coin flip.

I don't know what y'all are thinking with JStew. He was a good RB but the guy only had one 1000 yard season in his career.

Yeah, it really doesn't make any sense for them either. Front office and/or coaching staff must be on the hot seat.

I mean, how can anyone be surprised when David Tepper's Panthers do mind numbingly dumb things? That's just oar for the course. You don't just accidentally become the worst franchise in the league. It takes a series of blunders.

$10M on a 33 year old stop gap CB would've been a terrible decision for a team likely to be drafting in the top 10 again.

Worst team in the league acts like they're too good for the preseason while the reigning champs are doing poo like this http://twitter.com/NFL/status/1824906994739786161

Honestly, it's probably as much about delaying the inevitable embarrassment for as long as possible as it is about any actual strategic approach. As long as we're playing scrubs we can act like it'll be so much better once we're playing our starters and game planning. You know, kinda like we were doing this time last year.

It's not like this team needs the work. It's far smarter to protect our starters from injury and not derail this likely Super Bowl run.

Don't be surprised if it looks like a repeat is all I'm saying

When you don't prepare properly you're probably going to be unprepared. We'll see how it goes this year.

We approached preseason last year like it didn't matter and we had it all figured out. That ended up in us handing the #1 overall pick to Chicago to get DJ Moore a QB.

If you think there's a potential franchise QB available and you don't have a long-term franchise QB on the roster, you almost have to take him. Kirk Cousins is 35 and coming off a torn Achilles. That's no sure thing in the short-term and almost certainly isn't a long-term solution. I have a lot of questions about Penix in the NFL. His arm isn't much better than Bryce's. But if it works out they're gonna look brilliant. If it doesn't, it's not like they mortgaged the franchise to get him.

If Penix works out they're setup to run the division for the foreseeable future. The first team to land a quality young QB is going to have a massive competitive advantage in the NFC South.

This is why I want Bryce to boom or continue to bust this year. We need an answer. Worst case scenario is he marginally improves and every thread is still devolving into a pissing contest about Bryce Young.

I don't care about the process. If it gets the results then whatever. If we start out 0-4 looking like trash then it'll be fair to start criticizing the preseason approach.