Round 3 - The Carolina Panthers Select DJ Johnson - EDGE - Oregon

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

This is the classic 2nd/3rd round Panthers pick where they just set a draft pick on fire for no reason.

Drafting mid 20s players that aren't ready to start day 1 is a huge waste. Even if he develops amazingly he'll be near 30 years old

Edited April 29, 2023 by Sean Payton's Vicodin

[Swaggasaurus]

1 minute ago, mrcompletely11 said:

and that goes to show you even those professionals panic and make mistakes under pressure

You have no idea what is a mistake and what isn’t until a couple years gtfo with that. The Johnson move was bizarre but the poor dude was only a LB for one season 

[Swaggasaurus]

6 hours ago, WOW!! said:

There is no way he’s starting.. Get ready for YGM because this guy is rotational at best.. It’s okay to be optimistic but don’t go overboard..

YGM isn’t starting. He’s an outcast. Horrible position fit. Frankie or Haynes there.

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, Swaggasaurus said:

You have no idea what is a mistake and what isn’t until a couple years gtfo with that. The Johnson move was bizarre but the poor dude was only a LB for one season 

When the consensus on here, the consensus of the draft people pretty much say it was a bad trade and pick coupled with Kayes tweet I am pretty goddamn confident that this was a mistake

[FuFuLamePoo]

11 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

said absolutely nobody

Okay mrcompletely11

[Swaggasaurus]

6 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

When the consensus on here, the consensus of the draft people pretty much say it was a bad trade and pick coupled with Kayes tweet I am pretty goddamn confident that this was a mistake

While the board and Kaye is sucking off BJ Ojulari, compare his stats to Johnson’s for last year. Dude isn’t a blue goose either. Byron Young is also 25 and was an assistant manager at Dollar General at one point. Where is the can’t miss edge rusher we made a mistake and missed on?

Edited April 29, 2023 by Swaggasaurus

[Eric4280]

I have the slightest bit of hope because of Everos face when it happened. That was one happy man.

[Billy Love]

1 minute ago, Eric4280 said:

I have the slightest bit of hope because of Everos face when it happened. That was one happy man.

Everos obviously has been following Johnson closely and is the reason he’s here. 

[Growl]

I’m really trying not to pile on a consensus of criticizing the pick before I’ve seen the guy play, but it is frustrating to think we came out of last night without a player that will plug a gap from day 1. Those guys were available and we didn’t come away with any of them. 
 

now I feel like I’m asking a lot of this 4th round pick just to hopefully provide a guy who can compete for a starting spot while the 2nd and 3rd rounders develop. 

[Pantherzilla91]

5 minutes ago, Swaggasaurus said:

While the board and Kaye is sucking off BJ Ojulari, compare his stats to Johnson’s for last year. Dude isn’t a blue goose either. Byron Young is also 25 and was an assistant manager at Dollar General at one point. Where is the can’t miss edge rusher we made a mistake and missed on?

Further proof that people on here are just looking for reasons to be angry. Most of its coming from the anti-Young people

[Eric4280]

3 minutes ago, Billy Love said:

Everos obviously has been following Johnson closely and is the reason he’s here. 

I really wish someone would come out and flat out say “we got word that Tampa was gonna take him and it was someone we personally coveted and found unique to our system etc.” i mean obviously they’re experts but we have seen terrible DRAFTING from Seattle in the past. They’re professionals etc. I just hope they’re not the “dumb drafting” kinds, lol.

[frankw]

1 minute ago, Pantherzilla91 said:

Further proof that people on here are just looking for reasons to be angry. Most of its coming from the anti-Young people

Who all is anti-Young right now? Let's not go out of our way to create a group of perceived enemies when it might be two or three people at most.

[Growl]

Just now, Eric4280 said:

I really wish someone would come out and flat out say “we got word that Tampa was gonna take him and it was someone we personally coveted and found unique to our system etc.” i mean obviously they’re experts but we have seen terrible DRAFTING from Seattle in the past. They’re professionals etc. I just hope they’re not the “dumb drafting” kinds, lol.

Yeah the Seattle influence has terrified me since fitterer got here 

[Swaggasaurus]

5 minutes ago, Growl said:

I’m really trying not to pile on a consensus of criticizing the pick before I’ve seen the guy play, but it is frustrating to think we came out of last night without a player that will plug a gap from day 1. Those guys were available and we didn’t come away with any of them. 
 

now I feel like I’m asking a lot of this 4th round pick just to hopefully provide a guy who can compete for a starting spot while the 2nd and 3rd rounders develop. 

Who would have been a “plug the gap guy” a TE maybe? A corner maybe? Really curious as to who you think would’ve been plug and play from 39 on.