Davidson Deac II

Fwiw, our schedule was middle of the pack last year. Mainly because our division was so bad. Against teams that made the playoffs, we were 2-4. Not great, but not horrible. With a below average defense, and an offense that had the youngest group of pass catchers and pass throwers in the NFL, its probably slightly better than expected. One thing I would like to see this year is that we don't start the season in a hole. It would be nice to be at least 2-2 after the first 4 games.

I think the Eagles and maybe the Bears take a step back this year, and aren't going to be as good as forecast.

The Jags were one of the best teams in the NFL last year.

The Superbowl winning qb from this past season was horrible his third year. Significantly worse than Bryce.

The only thing I can say about Bryce is this. He has gotten a little better every year. Still not great, but better. And in his first season, he had one of the worst group of receivers in Panthers history, with Thielen being the only one that could get open and catch the ball. They might have been worse than the group that Newton had to deal with in 2017. This will be the the first year in Young's history with the team that the group of receivers he throws to hasn't gone thru major upheaval. Assuming no injuries. Because of that, I expect improvement to continue. Whether it will be enough improvement remains to be seen. Fans here say he can't throw it deep. But we have seen him do it. He doesn't have the best deep throw, but he certainly can throw it deep when he has time and an open receiver. The deep ball to Legette against Atlanta was a beautiful deep ball. You have to have receivers that can get open and catch the ball to throw it deep.

Personally I think that to many teams force a guy to be a day one starter from the get go. You draft in the first round because you think the player has the potential to be a star. Playing and starting should be based on how they adjust to the NFL and draft position shouldn't matter.

Lock as in a first round pick? Maybe, but if they struggle, throws some picks, that could change. The difference between first round pick and later rounds is a small one.

And it wasn't anyone mentioned previously. We don't really know what the new season will bring. Nor do we know how good any of these guys will actually be.

Many of us didn't believe in us in 2015. 1/3 of the fans didn't like Cam. They thought Stewart was done. When Kelvin Benjamin went down, many thought the season was over.

If we get three solid players out of this draft (or any other) its a good draft. Of course, we won't really know how good it is until 2 years or so have gone by.

I agree, we will win at least 10.

Fify

They were talking about how his lack of a vertical leap turned scared some teams off. I guess he won't be playing power forward for us.

More highly rated by who? The Media or some analyst? Morgan said that they thought the guy we picked was our most highest rated player left on the board. While it remains to be seen if they were right, the team's ratings are the only ones that matter when the pick is made.

They are talking about South Carolina GameCOCK players being drafted I guess.