Brockers to visit with the Panthers

[panthers55]

Last year was really when Hurney gambled in the 1st round, even though Cam wasn't much of a gamble to him because he knew he was gonna be a good QB.

Stewart was a safe pick, Gross was a safe pick, Peppers was a safe pick. If anything Hurney likes to gamble in the later rounds with a player like Hogan or Brown etc. Everyone else was pretty much BPA.

Newton was a huge gamble according to the talking heads.

We gambled away our 2010 first on Brown in 2009. In 2008 Stewart was coming off surgery and was a big unknown. Davis was a safety we converted to a LB. With Beason he wasn't a gamble but we did trade down and risk that he would be gone when we made our pick.

Hurney is a gambler in the Bobby Beathard school of thinking. he takes some chances but for the most part they have worked out. But like any gambler sometime you get burned.

[4Corners]

Brockers is a serious reach if the Cats grab him.

Hate the pick. Not a Brockers fan at all.

CB or OT needs to be the pick.

[Donald LaFell]

Newton was a huge gamble according to the talking heads.

We gambled away our 2010 first on Brown in 2009. In 2008 Stewart was coming off surgery and was a big unknown. Davis was a safety we converted to a LB. With Beason he wasn't a gamble but we did trade down and risk that he would be gone when we made our pick.

Hurney is a gambler in the Bobby Beathard school of thinking. he takes some chances but for the most part they have worked out. But like any gambler sometime you get burned.

I don't think newton was a gamble because they interviewed him more thoroughly than anybody else.

[rayzor]

Newton was a huge gamble according to the talking heads.

We gambled away our 2010 first on Brown in 2009. In 2008 Stewart was coming off surgery and was a big unknown. Davis was a safety we converted to a LB. With Beason he wasn't a gamble but we did trade down and risk that he would be gone when we made our pick.

Hurney is a gambler in the Bobby Beathard school of thinking. he takes some chances but for the most part they have worked out. But like any gambler sometime you get burned.

yep.

seems like every year we have to explain the bobby beathard mentoring thing.

[panthers55]

I don't think newton was a gamble because they interviewed him more thoroughly than anybody else.

I don't think we thought it was a huge gamble after all the work we did but most everyone else did. But honestly picking number 1 is always a risk to the extent that you are putting your reputation on the line over a player who hasn't played 1 down in the NFL. At least with the reduced contracts it isn't the gamble it was when it took 70 or 80 million to sign them.

[panthers55]

yep.

seems like every year we have to explain the bobby beathard mentoring thing.

I hope Newton pays off to the point for Hurney that we have the same kind of success Beathard had in his stint at GM. Of course he has 20 more years to do it but has a number of super rings to attain as well.

[CRA]

I agree w/ rayzor and 55. No telling what Marty might be drinking on draft day......can't predict what he will do in the first round. He ain't afraid to make noise.

[OneBadassCat]

I absolutely would not be surprised if either a DT, DE, CB, or OT was our selection....and even WR if Blackmon falls.

That's like saying we are going to select a player in the first round of the 2012 draft.

[Zcustom]

Too many people seem to undervalue the importance of keeping our QB "clean"

wouldn't surprise me one bit to see OL be our first round pick.

[Udogg]

Is it too early in the draft process to say smokescreen??

:willy_nilly:

2 more weeks and smokescreen can officially be put into play.

[megadeth078]

Too many people seem to undervalue the importance of keeping our QB "clean"

wouldn't surprise me one bit to see OL be our first round pick.

[Udogg]

I don't think we thought it was a huge gamble after all the work we did but most everyone else did. But honestly picking number 1 is always a risk to the extent that you are putting your reputation on the line over a player who hasn't played 1 down in the NFL. At least with the reduced contracts it isn't the gamble it was when it took 70 or 80 million to sign them.

TBH I think that played a huge role in picking of Cam. Knowing the rookie cap was going to be restructured definitely made it feel like even less of a risk along with the president level vesting they did into Cam's background.

I don't think any pick would be wrong in this draft. Short of QB,C, RB and TE there is almost no position that can't be improved. Probably could add LG,LT as well but there are some serious salary cap considerations in the future to be made there so possibly drafting there now is not a bad idea.

I just hope we don't do a Julio Jones level gamble.

[MadHatter]

That's like saying we are going to select a player in the first round of the 2012 draft.

Exactly.

With the players that are likely to be ther at #8/9, and the needs we have....there are so many different directions the FO could go with this pick. To me, this is a good thing. We can truly take the BPA at a plethra of positions and really help this team. We do not have to reach at any position.

[OneBadassCat]

Exactly.

With the players that are likely to be ther at #8/9, and the needs we have....there are so many different directions the FO could go with this pick. To me, this is a good thing. We can truly take the BPA at a plethra of positions and really help this team. We do not have to reach at any position.

That is a good point. DT vs. CB is going to be a toss up. We have one star CB who is 29, Munnerlyn, and possibly a promising player in Hogan.

At DT we have 1 solid DT in Edwards who is 31 on a 3 year contract. Two 3 third round rookies who we are not sure are going to amount to anything yet(being minimalist here), some decent guys in Shirley and Kearse.

But if you look at the rest of the NFC South and WR's we are going to be up against, (Julio Jones, Roddy White, Colston(?). It is important that we can match up on those players. Leads me to believe that CB would probably be the pick. We at least have day 1 picks already invested in the d-line from last season and if Hurney is smart he will sign a good DT to help us out.