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Nope. Can't do it until we see how he looks after his injury. It's a big one. One that routinely derails careers.

Yeah, with our luck with injuries we'd draft him and he'd pop his ACL walking across the stage to shake Goodell's hand. LOL

Yeah, for sure. If you had a crystal ball trading down to accumulate more picks to throw at sure things would almost always be the right move barring a HOFer being available who is going to be drafted in the next few picks.

I'm just not sold on us being highly interested in Fano. We seem to prefer big mauler type OL and Fano is the opposite.

We'll see. There's some guys who are intriguing. Drew Allar would probably be the top of my list. Talen Green has Anthony Richardson type physical talent and that's always intriguing if you can get it in the mid-rounds. The Baylor guy and the NDSU guy are two others. It's just really hard to predict exactly where these types of prospects are going to land on the draft and they're probably scattered wildly on draft boards across the league. All it takes is one for a guy to go a lot earlier than expected.

I have a very hard time believing any of these types of rumors this time of year. We're in peak lying season. LOL

I get it. I'm just saying that's why I wouldn't. Trying to get to the top by out-desperating other desperate teams is more likely to end up winning a race to the bottom. Everyone here knows I've been ready to move on from Bryce but I'd rather ride with Bryce than back up the Brinks truck to roll the dice on Willis with a contract with cap crippling guarantees.

A chance? Sure. Paid like a sure thing? Crazy. If watching Marty Hurney work taught me anything about re-signjngs and FA acquisitions it's that paying someone like they're great hoping that it'll vault them to greatness is a plan that almost always backfires.

He's not high on my list but you won't find me complaining if we draft him and he becomes an All-Pro TE. We have plenty of room on this roster for talent but we're not going to fill every need we have in the draft. We'd be dumb to go into this draft feeling pressed to fill needs. Just take the BPA at a position of need with every pick. We have enough needs there should be options at or near the very top of our board that also address a need.

Beware the guy who has a career season in a contract year. A story as old as professional sports.

Yeah, it's a spot that could be upgraded and it wouldn't shock me to see us take a corner in the mid to late rounds but it's well behind LB, OT, FS, C, TE, and DL at minimum.

Plenty of teams are QB desperate so someone will probably roll massive dice on Willis and give him a legit franchise QB contract but that's insane. He hasn't done anything that warrants anything more than signing a short term prove it deal and being offered a fair chance to compete for a starting job in camp. Signing up for any commitment level beyond that would be crazy.

We have way too many needs to trade up. There will be good prospects available throughout that also fit a need. If you had a crystal ball that could predict future All-Pros and HOFers, sure. But there's no sure things in the draft. Great prospects bust every draft and some mid to late rounders end up being very good pros.

If Tyson is the BPA at #19 I hope the phones are ringing.

Absolutely LOVED Smitty as a player. Who didn't? But Smitty the person, yeah... not so much. Unfortunately all those things that made us love him as a player had no off switch. He was basically the exact same person off the field that was on the field and that's obviously just not gonna work well in polite society.

In terms of absolutely sucking at personal interaction, Gettleman and Smitty are about equals. Well, I'd still give the slight edge to Gettleman in that he can hold it together and be friendly and witty conversationally but how they choose to handle tense situations proves they're both basically just assholes at their core.

Plotting out a draft plan to take specific positions by round sounds like some fever dream perfect poo storm of past Panthers GMs.

The bad news is that we have too many needs to address then all in the first three picks. The good news is that we shouldn't feel compelled to reach. There will be prospects at or near the top of our board that also fill a need throughout the draft.

We've always known he was an immature jerk. We could find excuses to look past it when he was performing heroics on the field.

Caldwell is a classic workout warrior. Hell, at least XL actually had one year of good college production. Caldwell has 478 receiving yards in his D1 career. And this was with the #2 ranked QB in this year's transfer portal. I doubt I'd even have him on my draft board.

Pretty sure they still do the Wonderlic they just don't publicly release the scores.

And hail Mary's

We'll see. Literally no one would've pegged Tom Brady as generational. Caleb Downs is the best safety prospect I've seen in... well, probably a generation.

I've been confused for awhile why this guy is being considered a mid-round pick by virtually everyone. His measurables with 17 sacks over the past two seasons (8.5 in each) usually puts you at least in 1st round considerations and pretty much a lock to go in the 2nd.

How did this guy do practically nothing in college? https://www.nfl.com/prospects/david-gusta/32004755-5341-3041-f9eb-f40816a84e1f He's having a pretty damn ridiculous combine. Most were projecting him as a UDFA but he might get himself drafted in the late rounds with this stellar combine.