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It's probably like most things in life. You think one would satisfy until you get the one. Then after a while you realize it doesn't satisfy and you want a second, a third, a fourth...

2 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

A) their defense is going to be one of the best in the league

B) as you say its way too early to be thinking of draft picks

C) they had a chance to draft both Mac and fields and they didnt

They have an under rated set of skill players too. Sutton looks to be 100% back from his ACL and Jeudy is a good receiver. Fant is a top 10 TE, and by Week 4, more people than just the state of NC and Fantasy Football players are going to know the name Javonte Williams.. 

17 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

No one is giving the Texans even close to what they want given the massive black clouds hanging over Watson's head right now. They pretty much only have two choices - trade him for much less than they seem him to be worth or sit tight and hope the clouds pass.

 

Even if they traded him, the return (the draft picks) can't be used until next April/May. His value skyrockets as soon as there is clarity from the legal system/league on how much time he will miss. There's no reason to trade him before next offseason. He'll get a year off from getting hit every week behind the Texans Oline and cash those big checks.

1 hour ago, Snake said:

I To the unvaccinated those are going to be the ones in the hospital and costing their teams games.

Since your statement includes "and costing their teams games" it puts 'the unvaccinated' in the context of NFL players (not the general population). So last season, pre-vaccine, how many NFL players who had COVID last season wound up in the hospital?

Update: Sportrac says we've moved to #2.

2 hours ago, Shocker said:

I seriously wouldn’t mind taking a look at DeAnthony Thomas.  The Black Mamba could add some juice to the PR team.

He's DAT fast.

43 minutes ago, joemac said:

That was also before this season.  If we go out and kick some ass this year, or at least show a lot of improvement on offense, why wouldn't one of them want to come here?

If we do "go out and kick some ass this year", that would pretty much mean Darnold had a great year. Why would they want to come here? Why would we want them?

8 minutes ago, frankw said:

That list isn't exactly prestigious company. Some serious playoffs droughts in there. Let's hope some leaders stand out for us this season.

Browns at 3, Rams at 6 and Indy at 8 are the only playoff teams in the top 10. Tampa at 30, and KCC at 23.

26 minutes ago, BurnNChinn said:

Stafford said he would turn down trade here so I would say if he doesn’t want to be here, why would any of the others?

Stafford didn't want to come here because we didn't look like a contender, and LA did. That's not an inaccurate assessment.

As for next offseason, if we have a terrible year, we'll be no more appealing to an aging veteran franchise QB than we were this offseason, and if we have a great year, we still won't be appealing because it'll probably be because Sam did pretty good, and we won't be seen as having an opening at the QB spot.

As of 8/31/2021 at 7:35 p.m., we are fourth youngest team in the league.

• Jets 25.1
• Lions 25.2
• Browns 25.3
• Panthers 25.3 
• Jaguars 25.5 

These young guys would be used to Rhule's college ways. It might be helping with Rhule's transition to be so young. 

44 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

I don't mind the idea of playing smashmouth football and leaning on this defense, I just question whether we have the personnel to actually run it... 

It's just a hard way to win in today's offense driven NFL. Much less room for error. It's kind of like do you want to be the goalie or the striker. As the goalie (smashmouth + defense) you have to be perfect every time, but as the striker (high flying offense) you only have to be perfect once.

35 minutes ago, CPF4LIFE said:

So that's 2 significant FAs who didn't even make it threw camp. The other got trade.  

2 of them we kept eflein and Erving are also ones that should be on the street right now.

Fitt is showing so far that FA agency signings from other teams is not gonna be his nitch.

 

58 minutes ago, Ocpanthertew714 said:

2021 Draft class A+

2021 FA's C-

Fitt was primarily on the college side for Seattle. We've seen before our existing pro personnel people leave much to be desired. I'd wait until after an FA season with Dan Morgan in the building before you judge Fitts on his FA skillz.

6 minutes ago, Tinamedina said:

This argument is getting stale, the amount of temple players who have been cut. PJ Walker is just better and with development can be a starter. I'll stand on that.

Kick the tires on Nick Folk?

Sorry if this has already been said

The best part of this news is that it means we can all come together as Panthers fan and cheer on Chinn, Horn, Burns and company as they destroy Mac Jones on Nov 8.

7 minutes ago, SizzleBuzz said:

Coaches absolutely have the leeway to eliminate all unvaccinated players.

On a similar topic, what's the make/miss roster-spot count on all the players who voluntarily sat out last season?

 

67 players who opted out of the 2020 NFL season. I don't have the time to look up if they made their teams or not. I imagine quite a few of the Patriots players did.

• OT Marcus Gilbert
• OT Andre Smith
• WR De'Anthony Thomas
• CB E.J. Gaines
• DT Star Lotulelei
• LB Jordan Mack
• LB Christian Miller
• DT Eddie Goldman
• S Jordan Lucas
• OT Isaiah Prince
• DT Josh Tupou
• DT Andrew Billings
• OT Drake Dorbeck
• OG Drew Forbes
• OG Colby Gossett
• OG Malcolm Pridgeon
• CB Maurice Canady
• WR Stephen Guidry
• FB Jamize Olawale
• OT Ja'Wuan James
• DT Kyle Peko
• WR Geronimo Allison
• DT John Atkins
• C Russell Bodine
• WR Devin Funchess
• DT Eddie Vanderdoes
• S Rolan Milligan
• LB Skai Moore
• CB Marvell Tell, CB
• OG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
• OT Lucas Niang
• RB Damien Williams
• Las Vegas Raiders
• LB Ukeme Eligwe
• DB D.J. Killings
• DE Jeremiah Valoaga
• OT Chandler Brewer
• DE/LB Lerentee McCray
• CB Rashaan Melvin
• DT Al Woods
• WR Allen Hurns
• WR Albert Wilson
• DT Michael Pierce
• RB Brandon Bolden
• OT Marcus Cannon
• S Patrick Chung
• LB Dont'a Hightower
• TE Matt LaCosse
• WR Marqise Lee
• OL Najee Toran
• FB Danny Vitale
• TE Jason Vander Laan
• TE Cole Wick
• CB Sam Beal
• WR Da'Mari Scott
• OT Nate Solder
• WR Josh Doctson
• OL Leo Koloamatangi
• LB C.J. Mosley
• WR Marquise Goodwin
• WR Travis Benjamin
• OL Shon Coleman
• OG Chance Warmack
• OT Brad Seaton
• OL Anthony McKinney
• DL Caleb Brantley
• LB Josh Harvey-Clemons
• OG Larry Warford

3 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

We gonna start calling our QB room "Bust Inc."?

Let's go get Josh Rosen too.

 

Rosen didn't look awful playing with the scrubs Monday night. 

27 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Here's your new backup candidate, I guess.

 

(no, it's not happening)

Most of the current regime here has no history with Cam. All those guys are in Washington and Buffalo.

9 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Weirdly enough, Belichick was quoted just this morning as saying that Newton was "going in the right direction".

Apparently the right direction was out the door

So what I'm seeing is Rhule isn't the only coach to talk a guy up before kicking him to the curb?

What I said after the Pittsburgh game. 

4 minutes ago, NAS said:

Kirkwood was cut

I feel awful for the kid. He never really had a shot after getting lit up in practice.

9 hours ago, MasterAwesome said:

Well that doesn't really narrow it down...

That's fair.

He you go, from August 4th. Even then we were calling him a 'camp body'.

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Well, I learned something today. There was a guy named "Aaron Monteiro" in the NFL and evidently he was on the Panthers' roster.

He was the guy that got beat like a drum by Burns in one of the few early camp Tweets.