LinvilleGorge

I was terrified of a small school QB with only one year of starting experience. When he looked terrible throwing the ball in his one game before COVID shutdown his final season I was pretty much all the way out on him, at least as a high 1st rounder. If he fell, sure at some point in the draft his talent would've been well worth the smaller risk. Trading up to take him high in the 1st though? I always thought that was a reckless gamble.

They traded a TON to go up and get him. You really don't think they've given him every opportunity? I think he probably just sucks and he's fragile to boot. At least the guy made life changing money for himself and his family.

Not to mention question marks about the weapons we've put around our young QB. I like the talent, but the group doesn't have a lot of proven production outside of the top two and one of those guys has stayed hurt and the other is on the downside of his career. I just don't think we're on the position to do it. It's really hard to pull off two huge splash trades in back to back years much less two in one off-season.

We're gonna have to back the Brinks truck up for Burns. Not sure we can afford two huge money edge rushers. Not to mention swinging a trade. Gotta remember, we're already down our next two 1st rounders due to the trade for Bryce.

Just saw where they've confirmed it's nothing more than a calf strain for Burrow. Are y'all gonna be sensitive about Bryce's size for his whole career?

I hope it's nothing serious. The NFL is just more fun to watch with guys like Burrow out there. I hope we have us one of those types of guys again in Bryce.

I'm still shocked at how wrong the NFL got that evaluation. It's like they forgot who he was as a player just because he had to turn into a poor man's The Golden Calf of Bristol his final year of college due to losing his entire supporting cast of skill position players to the NFL draft. UNC isn't Bad or UGA or OSU. They can't just bounce right back from that type of talent exodus, the depth of talent just isn't there.

Heinicke had to go to Ron and essentially bench himself and tell Ron that he NEEDS to play Sam Howell, he's that dude. Because as we know Ron gonna Ron. Muh vets and all that.

1st pick of the 5th round

Highly likely

Trying to win games without Drew Brees might send him back to the medicine cabinet because Russell Wilson looked absolutely washed last year.

I hope he didn't pop an Achilles. Non-contact injuries are scary and rarely good.

The only thing we can really take from camp is performance against known commodities. If a new guy is having success against a proven vet, we can know that's a good thing. Other than that? Two guys struggling to make a roster going up against each other? Two young guys? We just can't take much from it. There's not enough known information. It has nothing to do with personal experience playing sports.

Just a word of warning y'all. We always let things go slack here during the off-season since there's not a lot of Panthers news to discuss in the off-season. We let conversations ramble and we let narratives run wild. But I just want to say that the folks who have been constantly derailing threads with their particular narrative of choice all off-season won't last long with that same approach now that camp has started. We're not gonna put up with threads getting derailed with constant bickering and in-fighting from the same handful of posters.

The conundrum of camp. Is this player/unit really good or does that other player/unit just suck?

Bingo. I wasn't a huge fan of the signing but the guy is doing all the right things so far. That's all that we can ask of him.

A lot of ties to WCU basketball here in town with Casey Rogers and Corey Largent playing there and long-time Freedom HS HC Terry Rogers going there to coach (undoubtedly the primary reason Casey and Corey went to WCU, though Casey swore that it was because they were promised to be four year starters which they were).

We've been suffering through a stretch of possibly the worst QB play in the NFL in recent years. It's alright to allow yourself some enjoyment.

This. So far in his career, he's basically been a poor man's Cordarelle Patterson. Even if he doesn't develop into a legit starting WR, a versatile dangerous playmaker is still a nice roster piece.

I swear, y'all will find a way to fug up and derail any thread...

Mine was $450k in CO in 2015 for 2000 square feet on 3/4 acre built in the mid-80s. Sold for a couple hundred thousand dollar profit in 2020. Valuing currently around $825k and falling. Bought 3000 square feet on 12 acres built in 2012 here in western NC two years ago for $380k. Currently valuing around $500k and rising.

Their OL last year was like some of our past OLs. Usually saying a guy was a starter is a good thing, but when the unit is an utter dumpster fire it's an indictment.

For the good of the players as a whole, a QB cap would be a great thing. Or just a max contract stipulation, period. But for competitiveness the current system is best. Want that MVP caliber QB? It's gonna cost you a big chunk of your cap. Put a cap on contracts and that handful of teams that has a legit MVP caliber QB on the roster is gonna have an even bigger competitive advantage than the huge one they already have.

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