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PRO FOOTBALL FOCUS: Panthers draft was excellent

TheSpecialJuan

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I really get annoyed with the huddle “expert” rage every year. Just because you watched college football and YouTube highlight videos doesn’t make you a scout. 

Just because you played high school football and played for your community college for two years doesn’t mean you know more about preparing for games than Rivera.

We all have guys we like and dislike. Acting like a child because we didn’t draft who YOU wanted us to draft isn’t gonna change anything. I wanted a safety as well. I wanted Sweat with our first pick. But I’m absolute stoked to have a freak athlete with leadership quality in Burns. I’m thrilled we addressed LT aggressively. 

I scratched my head drafting Grier and two power RBs late (I know one was a UDFA before someone gets cute). But I hope they turn out to be the  next Rodgers, Lynch and Zeke. 

I didn’t want Hurney back as a GM. But I sure hope he crushes now that he is. Everyone acting pessimistic needs to realize one thing about themselves. You really don’t know poo compared to our scouts and coaches. You don’t know poo about managing these players on and off the field like Rivera and Marty. You don’t know poo about evaluating talent. And if you are hoping our picks fail now instead of getting excited about their potential, then frankly you are just a baby b*tch

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I appreciate this thread after some of the nonsensical babble that's been posted on here over the last few days.

Everyone, especially fans of the team, can have opinions about the draft. Positive or negative.

It just gets old when people act like they know more than professionals and even worse when they actually believe it.

And it becomes infuriating when they project their hatred for draft picks into actively hoping the team fails to justify their opinions.

I like this draft a lot. I guess it's nice to see "professionals" agree, but it is meaningless once games start.

I didnt like last year's draft, and it worked out well. I know my opinion is meaningless. But I also didnt go on incessantly that I knew better than Hurney, Rivera, and the scouts on the team that has made this their life's work. 

No one knows exactly how these picks will pan out. I would hope that the people who hate this draft can and would express their disappointment while maintaining a respect for debate and also an acknowledgment they know nothing either.

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3 minutes ago, TheMostInterestingMan said:

I really get annoyed with the huddle “expert” rage every year. Just because you watched college football and YouTube highlight videos doesn’t make you a scout. 

Just because you played high school football and played for your community college for two years doesn’t mean you know more about preparing for games than Rivera.

We all have guys we like and dislike. Acting like a child because we didn’t draft who YOU wanted us to draft isn’t gonna change anything. I wanted a safety as well. I wanted Sweat with our first pick. But I’m absolute stoked to have a freak athlete with leadership quality in Burns. I’m thrilled we addressed LT aggressively. 

I scratched my head drafting Grier and two power RBs late. But I hope they turn out to be the Rodgers, Lynch and Zeke. 

I didn’t want Hurney back as a GM. But I sure hope he crushes now that he is. Everyone acting pessimistic needs to realize one thing about themselves. You really don’t know poo compares to our scouts and coaches. You don’t know poo about managing these players on and off the field like Rivera and Marty. You don’t know poo about evaluating talent. And if you are hoping our picks fail now instead of getting excited about their potential, then frankly you are just a baby b*tch

Second this 100 percent

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1 minute ago, Jackofalltrades said:

Funny because I saw something earlier that said Dallas and NO had the best drafts. 

Yep. If you look around the interwebs, I'm sure you can find someone who loves and/or hates every team's draft.

I'm sure there are Giants fans somewhere who have bought into Gettleman's spiel and believe they crushed there draft. And the thing of it is, they may have. I along with most anyone out there believe Gettleman is running them into the ground, but truthfully no one knows.

It's hard to overstate how important the draft is towards building long-term success, but like anything involving humans and how they are going to behave and respond to situations long-term, it's not an exact science.

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4 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Gaulden was a 3rd rounder last year and apparently we didn't think any 3rd day safety would have been an improvement over Rashaan. 

I don't know how to feel like this, and I think everyone who follows the Panthers feel this way.

It's hard to believe we won't try to upgrade, but we do have 4 safeties under contract the team seems to like (Reid, Searcy, Gaulden, and Jones), and we're only going to ultimately keep 4 safeties.

If we do sign another safety, one of those guys are going to be cut. To me both Searcy and Jones should be expendable, but maybe the team is confident in Reid (SS) and Gaulden (FS) starting and Searcy (SS) and Jones (FS) being the backups.

I'm not in any way advocating standing pat at safety, but we know Rivera doesn't put a lot of value on safeties in his system so maybe this is the thinking.

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Colin Jones is a roster lock and may be our best special teams player.  He’s not expendable, but he’s also not a capable safety, so unless Hurney is bringing in someone who is a special teams gunner and a good Defensive Safety he’s going nowhere.  Searcy is the odd man out

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