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Hello CSR! Welcome to another edition of Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We’re getting into mock draft and free agency speculation season again, and coaches are getting hired every day. Let’s dive right into your burning questions from this week’s mailbag!
Hythloday: What do you think of the Falcons hiring Stefanski?
I actually think the hiring was solid from the standpoint of bringing along something different. They clearly want to put more of a focus on the offensive side of the ball, which makes sense given the investment in Michael Penix Jr a few seasons ago. Stefanski got a bad rap in Cleveland after a couple of very successful seasons by the Browns’ standards to start it all off, but between the disaster that was the Deshaun Watson trade cascaded by many other blunders, I think them moving on and the Falcons picking him up makes sense. Of course, this is purely an objective take and we’ll have to see what direction the team goes in during the off-season to get a better grasp on things, but I didn’t have a negative opinion on the hire at all at first glance.
Bocktean2.0: If the 2023 NFL Draft flips Young and Stroud, is Young headed to Denver with the Texans as a betting favorite to go to a Super Bowl?
Very hard to say. I don’t know if their paths would be much different, but I don’t see Bryce Young at this stage being able to elevate that offense (or horrendous offensive line) enough to push them to the Super Bowl. I’d call it a push at best.
PantherBlueBlood: Do you think Evero gets hired? I like him as our DC although most on here don’t. I just don’t feel like he has not been given the proper personnel to flourish. He making something out of nothing imo. But, when I found out we get 2 third round compensatory picks and the way this team drafts, I wouldn’t hate that at all. The right LB, DT & DE additions in this draft plus FA signings could make a lot of coordinators successful with our current roster.
I’m currently in the very pro Ejiro Evero as defensive coordinator camp. I expect he will eventually get a head coaching job, whether or not its this off-season is a difficult thing to predict simply because there are so many potential candidates out there, many with actual head coaching experience. I think at the moment, he could end up with the Raiders having gone through two interviews already, but if that doesn’t work out I don’t know if he gets signed everywhere else. Which as I stated earlier, would absolutely be fine by me, I’d like to see another Offseason of building the talent on defense under his scheme. Everybody loves extra draft capital, but I don’t feel like I want to see it happen JUST because of the compensatory picks.
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