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Absolutely. I think he pans out if he had been drafted to a better place. I can’t name a head coach who handled QBs worse than Rhule did.

As far as I can tell The Canales System is "run the ball or checkdown and pray for YAC." And Bryce has nothing else in his bag so this is pretty much our only path to victory. Seeing Darnold look better than Young in every facet of the game was pretty sobering. I'm tired, boss.

The TMac connection is real

It's for game winning drives now

Carolina reaper name sticking

Ty Canales finally letting Bryce run

Looked like a bama TD from Bryce

Throwback logo on the field? That’s cool to see

The lack of misdirection in the playbook isn't helping Bryce. If the run game is contained he has to pinpoint dink and dunk us to victory and basically can't turnover. Canales atleast humors the idea of this system and that's why he's doing better than Reich but it's the same issue. You can mitigate this with more play action, bootlegs, letting Bryce move around in the backfield but they're just not doing anything creative with him to try open up the limited area of the field he can work in. I like the routes on our passing downs, that's about it.

Alarming stats considering how many of these are checkdowns

Ehh. Any billionaire was going to leech. I actually think we're better off with Tepper since he's heavily invested here between the Panthers and CLTFC. It would be difficult and costly for him to leave town.

Learning? He's always been a big philanthropist.

The coddling seems so unnecessary when Bryce has kept himself even-keeled through everything. I doubt some competition would make him crash out, it's not like we've been going easy on him as a fanbase.

Bryce is the 19th overall QB in the league mind you and only ahead of Tua among QBs with atleast 12 games.

This is the best use of him. He'll get open inevitably when defenses crowd the box on Bryce.

I don't think being a podcaster has been good for Steve. There was a time where I thought he had learned from the immaturity of his playing days. The Shannon Sharpe interview he talked about going to therapy, battling depression, wishing he had been a better teammate, it seemed like he genuinely was a changed man and in a better place mentally. And then his behavorial care facility in Charlotte felt like nice closure on it all. But then he started doing more podcasts and stuff and all that kind of unraveled. Steve strikes me as a guy who absolutely reads the comments and has to say something back. It's part of what makes him entertaining as analyst, but I think working for the NFL Network helped him keep it all in check. Like his beef with Jeff Jeudy started off with disrespectful but in the end he kept it professional and apologized. He doesn't have to answer to anyone on his podcast so there's no filter when the old Smitty pops back out. I'm not a therapist but I'm not sure it's a healthy platform for a guy battling a lifelong chip on his shoulder.

Wait was it the Falcons? I was distracted, could have sworn the panthers ran the clock out.

The choice to kneel instead of trying to get into FG range at the end of the half was very telling.

Before Sunday we were on pace to start exploring other options in the offseason but I think he bought himself another year like this one.

This was the first time that he's looked like a #1 pick to me but I agree totally. We can work with this as his ceiling but his floor needed to be "not bad" more often than not to make it sustainable. That's what a gamemanager is to me anyway. Rare that he's going to blow the top off a defense but the also rare that he chokes the game away. Bryce is not quite at the right ratio yet but the progress is encouraging.

Yeah this is the big irony of the whole saga. Everyone acted like it was the only question mark for him but it's been the least of our worries.

XL's not the bust here

Bryce and Jaycee hold this L

I’ve seen enough