Joe Bear

Didn't see this anywhere this week and it looked like it's shared after every loss, so here it is after a win: https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2024/08/25/panthers-bills-preseason-2024-pff-grades/ Best of the Offense: 1. TE Jesper Horstead: 95.2 2. QB Jack Plummer: 90.4 3. WR Terrace Marshall Jr.: 87.4 4. TE Feleipe Franks: 83.5 5. QB Bryce Young: 82.2 Worst of the Offense: 29. WR Jonathan Mingo: 54.7 30. WR Michael Strachan: 54.3 31. RG Mason Brooks: 53.7 32. LT Tyler Smith: 44.5 33. WR Xavier Legette: 42.0 Best of the Defense: 1. DE Jayden Peevy: 89.7 2. OLB Luiji Vilain: 86.3 3. S Nick Scott: 83.2 4. ILB Shaq Thompson: 80.7 5. S Jordan Fuller: 71.7 Worst of the Defense: 30. OLB Derrick McLendon: 43.3 31. CB Chris Wilcox: 42.9 32. DT Shy Tuttle: 41.5 33. CB Troy Hill: 36.9 34. CB Quandre Mosely: 28.2

Not according to some QB experts on here, who expect a 60-yard bomb in the red zone.

17 air yards would be the longest checkdown in NFL history. Maybe we've shifted the expectation that anything under 25 yards is a checkdown now. Wasn't sure.

I thought this was an interesting thread and meant to reply Saturday, but forgot about it. I wouldn't have gotten too many of them right. Final results: Bryce Young will lead a scoring drive. Yes Bryce Young will lead a TD drive. Yes Bryce Young will have at least 50 pass yards. Yes The Panthers will have at least 1 passing TD. Yes (Three!) The starting unit (with QB) will have at least 3 drive attempts. No The starting OL will allow a sack. Yes (but not really; I felt like Young passed the LOS) XL will log 25+ rec yards. No Ja'Tavion Sanders will have more yards than XL. Yes Jack Not The Snake Plummer will have a TD pass. Yes (!!) Jordan Matthews will lead the team in rec yards. No ISM will lead the team in receptions. No Panthers starting D will allow 0 points to the Bills backups. No Panthers starting D will create at least 1 turnover vs the Bills backups. No Panthers starting D will log at least 1 sack vs the Bills backups. No The Panthers D will have at least 1 takeaway. No The Panthers D will limit the Bills to under 10 points (9 is their high). No Tie Breaker - Exact number of pass yards for Bryce Young 70 Tie Breaker #2 - Exact number of receiving yards for XL 0

Tuesday at noon ET.

Young was running from a defender when Johnson made his cut, but Young saw he was open so once he rolled a few steps to the left, he threw it and got it to him.

Feels so good to win a game again, regardless of circumstance.

Coker should at very least be on the practice squad.

Awesome TD drive!

I get that and it's not really an uncomfortable truth to me, it's just not an accurate statement. Like, I could say Zach Wilson had one of the best seasons by a veteran QB because he was one of the league leaders in fourth-quarter comebacks. That would be ridiculous, right? But it's the same principle: take one metric and use it as gospel. At the end of the day I'm no more tethered to Bryce Young than I was to any of his predecessors. He'll win games, or he'll get replaced.

I appreciate your unwavering commitment to hyperbole and yes, saying he had one of the worst rookie seasons ever is indeed hyperbole, because what you've shared above is one metric in a sea of them. That's like saying a guy who had a slightly positive TD-INT ratio had one of the greatest seasons of all time. Clearly no one's going to change your mind, which is great, because that's not what I'm trying to do. Have a great one.

Solid exaggeration. Probably not in the top 100 worst statistical seasons for a rookie QB. Young struggled enough, there's no sense in making false claims on top of it.

I could totally see Tepper draft Sanders even after his camp tells him he won't play here, then they have to trade him to a middling team for their first rounder in 2026. That would be one hell of a Panthers kinda move.

I never forgot it, because there can't be many NFL guys whose alma mater was their last name.

Fred Lane the RB played for Lane College.

From Lane College.

Freddie Lane, 1997.

I wanted to keep him too, but for better or worse the team has hitched its wagon to four RBs already and he wasn't one. A UDFA's always gonna have a long shot at best to make a team that spent its second pick on someone at the same position, and that doesn't take into consideration the starter is back.

Probably doing Johnson a favor. The longer he was here, the more RB3/RB4 spots were going to dry up around the league.

I went from being significantly invested for decades, to becoming a casual who hopes for a win or two every year. If not, well, whatever. I tuned in to the first half this past week with my dad, my wife and kid, but I don't foresee watching a ton of regular season play. More important stuff to do.

That's not accurate. A 15-play, 86-yard drive to win is an earned win.

The guy made a million dollars!

One of the greatest sports legends of the '90s.

the "In English, please" part of the lineups scene was completely improv'd