Morgan is impressing me

[Chief Keek]

The teams seems to be trending upwards. If they can build on the momentum from last season and the defense improves, the team might be in contention for the playoffs.

[ChibCU]

7 hours ago, jfra78 said:

Look for Scourton to start and Clowney if he's still here to rotate like he did in Baltimore

Clowney was gassed 60% of the time. If you watched closely, it was pitiful watching our line activity by the end of the game. I'd love to just bring him on the field in small doses. Depth is undervalued by many fans and we've done a lot to fix that huge issue.

[CPF4LIFE]

I would CONSIDER cutting Wonnum and clowney. Those guys did nothing significant to make us better. Hard truth nothing against them but they both spent half the season on the injury report. We invested in 2 DEs back to back need to get them on the field as much as possible and we signeda backup in FA. Have the money tucked away if we need to make a key signing for a position of need. 

[Jon Snow]

30 minutes ago, CPF4LIFE said:

I would CONSIDER cutting Wonnum and clowney. Those guys did nothing significant to make us better. Hard truth nothing against them but they both spent half the season on the injury report. We invested in 2 DEs back to back need to get them on the field as much as possible and we signeda backup in FA. Have the money tucked away if we need to make a key signing for a position of need. 

That's all well and good but these rookies are now where near ready to play every down. They need someone ro rotate with to get a breather now and then right?

[TD alt]

1 hour ago, CPF4LIFE said:

I would CONSIDER cutting Wonnum and clowney. Those guys did nothing significant to make us better. Hard truth nothing against them but they both spent half the season on the injury report. We invested in 2 DEs back to back need to get them on the field as much as possible and we signeda backup in FA. Have the money tucked away if we need to make a key signing for a position of need. 

Clowney wasn't out there with his hands in his pocket. He was putting in work that allowed others, including Wonnum, to eat. 

Edited 10 hours ago by TD alt

[CPF4LIFE]

Just now, TD alt said:

Clowney ain't out there with his hands in his pocket. He was putting in work that allowed others, including Wonnum, to eat. 

Spot guy now at best.  Thats how i see it. 

[tukafan21]

1 hour ago, Jon Snow said:

That's all well and good but these rookies are now where near ready to play every down. They need someone ro rotate with to get a breather now and then right?

For me it's less about them being ready to play every down and needing breathers as much as they both have real potential, but one of the best ways to help them reach said potential isn't as much through proper coaching, but having some seasoned vets in the locker room at their position for them to learn from.

We can't cut them both, we have to keep at least one of them to be that mentor for these guys.  Whichever one they feel is better suited for that (I don't know their locker room personalities to say so), that's the one you keep, cut the other or the savings and to open up snaps for the rookies to take.

[TD alt]

8 minutes ago, CPF4LIFE said:

Spot guy now at best.  Thats how i see it. 

Well he is 32. We need spot guys, particularly with developing rookies. He can still be effective, particularly in a rotation. He was rated in the top quarter of DEs (47th of 211) by PFF based upon his grades. 

[Johnstonny]

Not gonna lie.... i was really down on this team before the draft.... but I'm feeling a little tingle again, feel a little revived.  For most part think we made the moves...and we're not done yet. 

[Jon Snow]

1 hour ago, tukafan21 said:

For me it's less about them being ready to play every down and needing breathers as much as they both have real potential, but one of the best ways to help them reach said potential isn't as much through proper coaching, but having some seasoned vets in the locker room at their position for them to learn from.

We can't cut them both, we have to keep at least one of them to be that mentor for these guys.  Whichever one they feel is better suited for that (I don't know their locker room personalities to say so), that's the one you keep, cut the other or the savings and to open up snaps for the rookies to take.

I think the deal with Clowney is they've asked him to take a paycut and he's not interested. 

[tukafan21]

1 hour ago, Johnstonny said:

Not gonna lie.... i was really down on this team before the draft.... but I'm feeling a little tingle again, feel a little revived.  For most part think we made the moves...and we're not done yet. 

Very much the same for me too.

Granted, my reason for being pumped again is rather specific of course.  But these last few days, I've had that Panthers tingle back myself.

I'm an Arizona Basketball fan first and foremost, no team will ever knock them off that pedestal.  But the last couple of years, my increasing love of Wrexham had be caring a lot more about them than the Panthers.  And it wasn't just because we were bad, we've been bad before and I hadn't felt that way.  It was the decisions we've made as a franchise and just feeling like a rudderless ship that was hard to put much emotional capacity towards what felt like a lost cause.

These last two offseasons have me feeling way better about the direction of the franchise, and while I'm still not a Bryce believer yet, I do still very much hope he proves me wrong and will be rooting for him to do so and really set us up to take things to the next level in 2026 once we can get a few more key pieces next year too.

But yea, taking the best player in my school's history, it has me more than reinvigorated, genuinely the most excited I've been as a Panthers fan, and I joined the bus at the start.

Edited 8 hours ago by tukafan21

[WhoKnows]

15 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

Overhauled the O-line last year

overhauling the D-line this year

extending core players

Knew to trade Burns and not pay him

Sorry, we can’t accept #4 when Person or one of the others said that Morgan was on the say no to the Rams Herschel Walker level deal team. He and Fitterer tried to extend Burns. We waited too long so he asked for $30M which basically cost us 2 1sts we could have used in the Bryce trade up and not given away the 2024 1st overall pick, Moore and this year’s 2nd. Morgan does not get credit for botching the Rams offer.

All he’s done so far is spend a lot on FAs. Let’s let him actually have a solid draft first because the 2024 draft was pretty much a bust. We spent a 1st and 4th this year on the same positions we took 1st and 2nd last year.