JawnyBlaze

Now that the draft is over: A++ I wanted someone different with the first pick, but I like the Horn pick now anyway. Was disappointed at first, but with the way the rest of the draft fell, we got studs and improved every weakness we had significantly. Darnold will succeed with this offense, I’m convinced. If I’m wrong, we can try again for a QB in the future with a much better team around him (with experience) than Fields would have gotten this year.

Start out discussing Shi Smith and then transitions to discussing the Panthers offense after the draft and Darnold. Really good stuff.

I can dig it. Good pick

If there are no starting OTs or Gs available when we pick, sure why not. Also wouldn’t mind one of those second tier QBs, Mond or Trask

Very disappointed. Fields and Slater both available and we take a CB. Ugh.

The article quoted in the OP. “Teddy wasn’t that bad, especially if you just count the first three quarters”. After that sentence I stopped reading the quoted article.

Same sentence.

Stopped reading at “Teddy wasn’t that bad”. He obviously didn’t watch him play. Then made it even worse by saying “especially if you only look at the first three quarters” wtf kind of stupid logic is that?! Teddy was that bad. Stats lie and he was even worse than his stats. Completion % is the biggest red herring stat in sports.

If we draft anything other than a QB, OT or pass catcher at #8. If we trade down and draft anything other than those or CB. In the second and beyond no particular position would upset me other than K higher than 5th round.

My realistic wish list: Fields Sewell Slater Trade back Lance

Dropped from 8 to 15 and only getting a 2nd and 4th? Ew no

Amen to this.

This would be great. Darnold starts the season, maybe finishes the season. Give Fields an easy transition to the NFL, lose Darnold in FA if necessary the next year and possibly get a comp pick for him. If we get a 3rd for him, that’s the value of what we traded for him anyway, so we break even or at worst spent a round or two of draft position for a year rental to give Fields all the time he needs. Well worth it.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/04/22/alex-smith-retirement-inside-comeback-tension-with-washington-coaches-daily-cover A story that should surprise no Panthers fans, Alex Smith believes Rivera jerked him around and sabotaged his return. Sounds about par for the course for the egomaniac we saw in Carolina. “Still, he did not understand the tactics his coaches used to keep him sidelined. First, they placed him on the Physically Unable to Perform list, even though world-renowned doctors had pronounced him physically able to perform. At camp, players wore GPS trackers, and none traversed 4,000 yards a day on average like Smith, whose coaches asked him to carry extra weight, push sleds and hurdle bags for drills—tasks he had never done in 15 pro seasons, let alone before his leg had to be rebuilt. Smith believed the team wanted to see if it could break him, and if that sounds paranoid, the team physician agreed with him.” ”Smith found the coaches “patronizing,” meaning he believed they preferred a cute story, the comeback already at the end. His father, Doug, says he believes the team “sabotaged” the return. None of the Smiths could figure out why. The coaches could worry about the injury and his future, but they were not experts. “I’d rather have somebody right in my face say, What are you thinking?” Smith says. “It pissed me off.”” Rivera claimed he was scared to put Smith out there for Smith’s sake. As someone who routinely ignored Cam’s health and well being in order to preserve his own job, either that excuse is BS or there is another reason he would care more about Smith’s well being than Cam’s. (For the record, I don’t believe it’s the second.)

I’m not huge on Lance, but this is a former Jets scout...

What was with his obsession with Arthur blank and Dean pees?

Shaq is mediocre. He’s fine as a borderline starter but not worth half what we’re paying him. Perryman is an ok stopgap while we take some gambles on mid round LBs. Wouldn’t mind one this year in the third or later, seems like there’s often gems at the LB spots found in the middle rounds, much better value than spending a higher round pick where we need to be focusing on OL, QB and secondary.

A couple more depressing stats that illustrate how criminally handicapped our passing game was

He gone. Last near needs to be a forgotten chapter in Panthers history.

Worse than I thought but still not bad. Watching them all year, looked the best I’ve seen since probably ‘13ish

Hell no I’m not against it. Fields and Lance are 3 and 4 on my list. I’m cautiously optimistic about Darnold, but getting a top tier young guy to ease into the starting role would be ideal.

15 to 8 would take well more than a second. Maybe next year’s first plus this year’s second.

LB is the biggest hell no.

Anything but QB, LT, Pitts, WR or CB