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We bring you the answers portion of this week’s fan mailbag!
Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! Fans seem to be drilling down into all the plausible scenarios for the Panthers early on in this year’s draft, luckily we’re only a few weeks away! So, I bring you all the answers to your questions! To recap, Brian Answers is part two of your weekly fan mailbag, where we answer all questions, whether they be Panthers related, football related, or even completely off topic. Let’s dive right in!
bolshy: Last year Dan seemed to do pretty well in FA, but I didn’t like his draft that much. This year, Dan seemed to do okay plugging holes in FA, but our roster is still weak overall. Teams can’t contend unless they land solid draft picks and I don’t feel like Dan has what it takes. How much faith do you have in the ability of this front office to evaluate and draft game changing talent?
I’m going to give GM Dan Morgan another full Offseason before making any kind of finalized judgment on him. I think last season is hard to hold against him just because of the dire straights the Panthers were in when he took over as general manager. He didn’t have a first round pick on a team who would have gained the first overall pick had they not traded it in the prior Offseason. This is the first normal draft we’ll see under Dave Canales and Dan Morgan, let’s give them a chance first before deeming them incapable.
CusterFlux: I looked at 5 new mocks today. All had Jalon Walker at #8. Mike Mayock called Walker a better edge prospect than Carter, and compared Walker to Micah Parsons. On the other hand, Walker’s been comped on this site to Frankie Luvu without much pushback. Is there any possibility Mayock is right? And, can Evero scheme the best use of Walker if he does become the pick?
Mike Mayock is certainly a well known draft voice, but like many others who have been doing this for decades, they’ll come up with favorite prospects and that will always affect their mock drafts. I’m personally with CSR in that I think Walker is closer to Frankie Luvu than Micah Parsons, but there are plenty of other draft minds who also throw out that same comparison. In the admittedly limited amount of actual film review I did for Walker, I came away mostly unimpressed. I thinka large part of that had to do with just how devastating that entire Georgia defense as a whole was last season, so many times other players were jumping off the screen at me where Walker was doing clean up work. But, I’m not at all concerned with how Ejiro Evero schemes things around him. Evero definitely worked fine with Luvu when he was in Carolina, and a pick that hjgh on defense will not come without...
