Inside the war room

[Jeremy Igo]

Fournette and Thomas were top ranked. Panthers also really liked Adams and Howard.

 

http://m.panthers.com/news/article-2/Inside-the-war-room-How-Carolina-arrived-at-McCaffrey/0970fc7e-fce2-4b19-bf5a-d6f21d1ef3bd

[electro's horse]

Well yeah they were actually good players. 

Meanwhile....

[Khaki Lackey]

Gettleman did a better job than he usually does at masking his desire for a player. I never thought McCaffrey would be the pick. It's not who I would have picked, but I am so relieved that we didn't give up what was rumored to get Fornette.


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[XClown1986]

That was an awesome read. I would kill to be in the war room on draft night just once.

[zacka77ack]

I wonder who called to trade....its a shame we will never know.

[Murph]

Some things I took away from that article.

- IF I was a betting man I would guess the team that called them for a trade was the Broncos or Texans.

- If Howard was ranked so high I wonder why the FO didn't consider trading back into the low teens to get him. Based on the fact that they were doing interviews at that time they appeared to never even considered the idea.

- Our GM didn't know what San Diego's needs were? I guess when you have that many employees under you its ok let others get that info but you still didn't know it until they were on the clock?

[Zaximus]

I worry we're going to really regret not trading back in to get Howard.   

[RoaringRiot]

1 minute ago, Murph said:

 

- Our GM didn't know what San Diego's needs were? I guess when you have that many employees under you its ok let others get that info but you still didn't know it until they were on the clock?

I don't think he was asking because he didn't know their needs. I think it was more of an anxious question he was asking out loud. 

Liked that piece by Max. Good behind the scenes look.

[XClown1986]

We got a call about a trade. The Bengals didn't. Whoever called wanted

[zacka77ack]

3 minutes ago, Murph said:

Some things I took away from that article.

- IF I was a betting man I would guess the team that called them for a trade was the Broncos or Texans.

- If Howard was ranked so high I wonder why the FO didn't consider trading back into the low teens to get him. Based on the fact that they were doing interviews at that time they appeared to never even considered the idea.

- Our GM didn't know what San Diego's needs were? I guess when you have that many employees under you its ok let others get that info but you still didn't know it until they were on the clock?

If Howard makes it past TB they may have tried. TB wasn't gonna trade with us. That meant we would have had to get to 18. Would have been hard to do with pick 40 and something else.

[Cpt slay a ho]

Wonder where they had hooker,Ross,Barnett, and lattimore ranked


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[joemac]

3 minutes ago, Murph said:

Some things I took away from that article.

- IF I was a betting man I would guess the team that called them for a trade was the Broncos or Texans.

- If Howard was ranked so high I wonder why the FO didn't consider trading back into the low teens to get him. Based on the fact that they were doing interviews at that time they appeared to never even considered the idea.

- Our GM didn't know what San Diego's needs were? I guess when you have that many employees under you its ok let others get that info but you still didn't know it until they were on the clock?

Sounded more to me like it was just a way to get the conversation started on LA because Dave was nervous they would take McCaffrey. I'm pretty sure he knew their needs...

[chknwing]

awesome read.

[MCC]

This is awesome.

Favorite line: 

"You get to coach your boy!" Gregory tells him.

"Is he going to live with you, Lance?" Gettleman jokes.