Gettlemania holding a pre draft presser tomorrow

[MHS831]

Telling someone not to bash walterfootball is like telling someone not make fun of the class clown who thinks everyone is laughing WITH him

it can't be done

I know, but I did not want to spend a day looking for a list. I am not sure how they rank interest. Razor's list is a good one.

[cultclassiccat]

Nothing on Panthers' website. Their videos' never work for me anyways..

Anybody have a video link of this, that works? I wanna see the Gett tawk some football.

[SCP]

What a great press conference. I like that guy.

[Woodie]

I really don't think we are going WR at 14. We waited to sign Hixon until after we met with most of the top end ones; that tells me he wasn't completely sold on any of them enough to pencil them in at #3 (which is what you expect from the #14 pick...and which he implied in his presser today). I also get the impression that he thinks we can get a high quality DT at #44.

At 14 I am starting to get the feeling that we will take Vaccaro if he is still there. If he's gone, we'll probably take their 3rd rated DT (since the first 2 are almost certain to be gone) or perhaps reach a bit and take Fluker.

[Mr. Scot]

Nothing on Panthers' website. Their videos' never work for me anyways..

Anybody have a video link of this, that works? I wanna see the Gett tawk some football.

It's on the front page now.

[DaCityKats]

another visit list

Pre-Draft Visitors 1 OT Lane Johnson 2 OT Chris Faulk 3 OT/OG D.J. Fluker 4 OG Larry Warford 5 WR DeAndre Hopkins 6 WR Stedman Bailey 7 WR Tyrone Goard 8 WR Markus Wheaton 9 WR Tavon Austin 10 WR Quinton Patton 11 TE Gavin Escobar 12 TE/FB Kyle Juszczyk 13 DT Sharrif Floyd 14 DT Sylvester Williams 15 DT Kawann Short 16 DT Akeem Spence 17 DT Brandon Williams 18 DT Bennie Logan 19 FS Kenny Vacarro 20 SS Zeke Motta 21 SS Jonathan Cyprien 22 SS Matt Elam 23 DE Ezekiel Ansah 24 DE David Bass 25 DE/OLB Barkevious Mingo 26 DE/DT Datone Jones 27 ? 28 ?

http://www.catscratc...t-visit-tracker

2 guys are unknown, and we only used 28 visits according to Gettleman.

[ECUPantherFan]

So, with all this talk about drafting a WR in the 1st round... it makes me wonder a couple things.

1 - Are we anticipating Smitty's retirement within 1-2 years? Usually a 1st round WR is supposed to be "the guy" down the road.

2 - Did we just sign Ted Ginn to return kick-offs and punts? Hard to see where he fits with Smitty, LaFell, Hixon, Gettis, 1st Round WR.

3 - Does this maybe mean (along with the emergence of LaFell) that Gettis may be on the chopping block?

Things that make you go "hmmmmm?"

[La Pantera]

If someone could take one of those list and place the prospects together in their projected rounds, that'd be awesome.

[Mr. Scot]

Wrote a breakdown. Think I'll post it separately.

[rayzor]

If someone could take one of those list and place the prospects together in their projected rounds, that'd be awesome.

there's no consensus for a lot of these guys. one group of projections is as good as anyone elses.

here's the one from draftpanthers

• Kenny Vaccaro, FS Texas – 1st Round
  
• Jonathan Cyprien, SS FIU - 1st Round
  
• Barkevious Mingo, LSU – 1st Round
  
• Ziggy Ansah, BYU – 1st Round
  
• Sharrif Floyd, Florida - 1st Round
  
• Sylvester Williams, UNC – 1st Round
  
• Datone Jones, UCLA - 1st Round
  
• DeAndre Hopkins, Clemson - 1st Round
  
• Tavon Austin, West Virginia - 1st Round
  
• Coraderrelle Patterson, Tennessee – 1st Round
  
• Justin Hunter, Tennessee – 1st Round
  
• Lane Johnson, Oklahoma – 1st Round
  
• D.J. Fluker, Alabama - 2nd Round (clumped him with first based on recent talk)
  

• Keenan Allen, Cal – 2nd Round
  
• Stedman Bailey, West Virginia - 2nd Round
  
• Larry Warford, Kentucky – 2nd Round
  
• Terron Armstead, Arkansas Pine-Bluff – 2nd Round
  
• Gavin Escobar, San Diego State – 2nd Round
  
• Kawann Short, Purdue – 2nd Round
  
• Matt Elam, SS Florida – 2nd Round
  

• Ryan Nassib, Syracuse – 3rd Round
  
• Quinton Patton, Louisiana Tech – 3rd Round
  
• Ryan Swope, Texas A&M – 3rd Round
  
• Sanders Commings, Georgia - 3rd Round
  

• Jeff Baca, UCLA - 4th Round
  
• Duke Williams, SS Utah State - 4th Round
  
• J.J. Wilcox, SS Georgia Southern – 4th Round
  
• Robert Alford, SE Louisiana - 4th Round
  
• Dwayne Gratz, UConn – 4th Round
  
• Blidi Wreh-Wilson, UConn – 4th Round
  
• Gerald Hodges, Penn State - 4th Round
  

• Conner Vernon, Duke - 5th Round
  
• Chris Faulk, LSU – 5th Round
  
• Akeem Spence, Illinois – 5th Round
  
• David Bass, Missouri Western State - 5th Round
  

• Aaron Mellette, Elon – 6th Round
  
• Kayvon Webster, USF - 6th Round
  
• Zeke Motta, SS Notre Dame – 6th Round
  
• Luke Marquardt, Azusa Pacific – 6th Round
  
• Dustin Hopkins, Florida State – 6th Round
  

• Eric Rogers, Cal Lutheran – 7th Round or UDFA
  
• Tyrone Goard, Eastern Kentucky – 7th Round or UDFA
  
• Edmond Kugbila, Valdosta State – 7th Round or UDFA
  
• Kevin Finney, Richmond - 7th Round or UDFA
  
• Michael Brooks, ECU – 7th Round or UDFA
  
• Brandon Hepburn, Florida A&M – 7th Round – UDFA
  

[The Golden Child]

That was a nice presser. Good stuff.

[rayzor]

In reality, G-Man's philosophy isn't that contrasting from Hurney's. Gettleman is just a stronger in-house and talent evaluator.

well, i don't agree that their philosophies on not letting talent go and overpaying to keep it is the same. hurney was a pitbull in not letting his players go and was willing to go overboard to keep them. i don't think that's gettleman at all.

i think he's also looking at a much broader range of possibilities than hurney did for the first round. very different focus.

[cultclassiccat]

It's on the front page now.

Just watched it. For some reason it wasnt playing earlier.

Are we the luckiest franchise in the world? Have to be. Watching him talk about our franchise is mesmerizing. This smile will not go away anytime soon.

p.s. lol at joe interupting Gettleman and asking questions that get deflected or backhanded, in a polite way. Did that happen or did it just seem that way?

[rayzor]

That's obvious, of course. I am referring more towards how they build their squads. Gettleman seems to be a big believer in building through the draft too but he's also not afraid to use free agency.

i didn't see hurney using free agency as well.

gettleman tried to have holes filled prior to the draft. that wasn't hurney's modus operandi. he'd do it well afterwards.