jayboogieman

I think they are just being cautious. The Hornets at most would win a few games in the playoffs this year even at full health. Better center play with a fully healthy team next year should be able to get into the second round of the playoffs at least.

Yeah, I'm sure some of it is coming from the leagues themselves. Then there are true missed or bad calls in the heat of the moment. And sometimes even the refs are just fans of certain players or teams. They're human too. The NBA and NFL really do seem to be big on their storylines these days. When I want a lot of storylines with my sports I'll watch wrestling. I knew the Panthers wouldn't win that superbowl. The NFL wanted Manning to ride off into the sunset a champion too badly.

I agree that it is a problem, but I do see the other side of the coin. It sort of makes sense to make rookies see that the refs will not bail them out and that they shouldn't look for the foul call all the time. But, these guys have grown up watching most of these same officials call a foul if someone breathes wrong on Lebron, so I see why they think they deserve the same treatment. It should be easy to call games fairly,, but it seems the refs in all sports have a hard time doing so.

The NBA refs are blatantly partial to the big market teams and star players. Another problem is the refs not calling fouls for rookies. I remember watching a game a couple of years back and Dell said whatever rookie they were talking about wouldn't get the foul call because he hadn't earned the refs' respect yet, but he would get that call in the future.

Miles is in the NBA's COVID protocol. How much time he misses is up to that process.

I agree that the FO should care what Tepper thinks of the picks since he can fire them. I don't think the leash gets any shorter if Fields does well and Darnold doesn't. If the team is still looking for a QB in 2 or 3 years, then yeah, it'll be a different story.

Then the season ends up whatever it ends up. Rhule and Fitt then try again next year.

Even less you can do when the refs are calling the game against you.

When Rhondo starts hitting 3s, there just isn't much you can do.

Ball needs 3 more assists for the double double.

The Panthers still had other options besides Teddy and the top prospects. They could have easily taken Mond, Trask, or any of the other QBs in the draft. So Sam is a franchise QB?

Guess the refs have it in for the Hornets tonight too.

With Teddy or without Teddy, they still could have drafted a QB or signed a free agent QB. There were options. I had edited my post after I saw your reply to MrScot. You should have just said franchise QB instead of the next Cam if that is what you meant.

Decent half. Hopefully they can keep it up in the second half.

I agree that they didn't handle Cam or Teddy well. That said, they were not forced to trade for Sam. There were more than five QBs in the draft, plus free agent QBs. They traded for Darnold because they wanted to, not because they had to. You think Fields would have been another mistake. Others may feel that he would have been a solution to the problem had they drafted him. If this is another rebuild year, Rhule doesn't have to worry about wins as much, so Darnold being a short term answer doesn't matter. Rhule just has to show that the team is buying into what he is saying and showing some improvement. 2022 and beyond will be a different story though. I'm a long time Panther fan as well. You wanting the next Cam is your problem. I want the guy that can help the team become a consistent winner and finally have back to back winning seasons. Edit: Just saw your other post about not finding a Cam clone, but a franchise QB. You should have just said franchise QB instead of the next Cam.

Dell was wrong about the Clippers getting open looks because of Leonard. They are getting open looks because the Hornets have been giving them up for years.

There has been some bad misses from both teams so far.

An ok start to this one. They might lose the last two games since the Hornets generally haven't played well in those early afternoon games.

How does taking Fields add to the blemish if they thought he was a franchise QB or at least better than Darnold? Correcting mistakes is a good thing. The simple fact might be they just think Darnold is better than Fields.

Darnold is the same age as some of the rookie QBs and had only been a starter 3 years before being drafted including high school. (source) Despite having 3 years of NFL experience, he hasn't played a complete NFL season (source), so he could be equated to a rookie. His advantage over the rookies is that he should be use to the speed of the NFL game. I agree that nobody knows what will happen. I don't agree that the team thinks they need a QB though.

But does Pepperidge Farm?

How can you see anything with Darnold on the Panthers when they haven't played yet other than your own narrative? He could become good or he could be bad. We just won't know until they play this fall. It seems there are several of you guys that want Darnold to fail and Fields to be great just so you can pat yourselves on the back and crow about being right.

That's the thing. What defines the hole? Does a high draft pick fill it just because the guy is a high draft pick? How long should the QB be given to prove that he can do the job? That's why I stated I disagreed with him about taking a QB in the first round every year.

I'm not trying to over complicate this. Your stated opinion was that a team with a hole at QB should use their first round pick each year until they find their guy. Teams that have a hole at QB should. Now you are saying that if you draft a QB high, you give him a real shot. What is a real shot? One year? Three years? Does drafting a QB high one year mean you can't draft one highly the next year? If he plays his rookie year, he got a chance. If he didn't play, the hole is still there since you can't know if he is the guy or not yet. And according to you, they should draft another QB in the first. But wait, now you are saying we have to give the first guy his chance, so should the team take a different position in the draft or not? Edit: Oh yeah, the last two superbowl winning teams built the team before they got their QB.

And what if the QB plays like most other rookie QBs have? Not good or bad enough for you to tell one way or the other? Should they still take another QB the next year?