MechaZain

Will never understand the lengths y’all go to paint Reich as some misunderstood guru of a coach. Nothing about his time here would suggest that.

Tepper’s reputation precedes him now and until things turn around he has to lay in the bed he made. Same thing happened with Jordan. By the end every misfortune the Hornets faced was being blamed on him directly, though I doubt it was really all him. That’s the price you pay when you put yourself out there as an involved owner from the jump.

Reading between the lines: "Yes I asked Tepper but he agreed with me."

mans developed bags under his eyes in 4 months time

So definitely

No chance. This a free year for him. He inherited the worst QB in the league and unlike Reich he’s proving it outright. It’s on Tepper to stop the bleeding.

https://x.com/sheena_marie3/status/1835413010606960729?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA Come on man lol

Nah I liked that too. Leader sets the tone and Cam hated mediocrity. Bryce is playing like the biggest bust in NFL history and seems way too okay with that. And he gives too much “Jesus Take The Wheel” vibes for me which I think speaks to the whole lack of adversity. He knows how to take accountability in a presser but he falls back on his trust in God that things will work out. I believe in a higher power too but He paves the way and it’s on you to do the walking.

I miss Cam’s emotion on the sidelines and I’m still mad the media gave him a hard time over it

gonna be messed up when the Red Rifle comes back in the second half

I hear you but that is because Russ is a selfish cornball not the scheme. The one thing Bryce has going is his teammates like everyone else have bought in on him being a Good Guy.

If they crowd the middle you dump it off to a screen or take a deep shot. Every defensive scheme comes with a consequence and the offense has to predict and exploit that. That’s what playcalling is all about. It’s high level rock paper scissors and we’re throwing rock every time when our guy can barely make a fist.

He was never fast though. He was elusive, allegedly, and good at picking up yards when plays broke down. My thing is why not try it at this point? It can’t get worse than this. You sold the farm for the guy. Design the offense for him and if it doesn’t translate to the NFL you know there’s no hope for him. I didn’t understand that about Reich either. It was like he was hellbent on showing the world that Young couldn’t cut it as a standup pocket passer. If he had schemed for Bryce and just let him fail if he couldn’t execute it he may still be coaching.

Forgot it was against the Giants that's hilarious

They should be playing as if we still have McCaffery. Bryce has to be rolling out and throwing on the run for the majority of his snaps. He is a detriment in the pocket because he can't see over the line and lacks the arm strength to be a deep threat. He should be scurrying around in the backfield until a WR finds seperation in the short field, otherwise he's gotta pick up the yards himself or dump it off. Dink and dunk effectively enough and defenses will give opportunities to chuck it deep and pray. Maybe he's not accurate enough to pull it off but it's the only path to success for him, and what drives me mad is we knew that was his game when we drafted him and still aren't doing it for whatever reason I missed the game (great fortune that ended up being) but it sounds like they still aren't really doing that. What's crazier is that apparently the OL held up well so they're not the issue. Why NOT do that if this is the alternative? Is Young just a deer in headlights or is Canales another snake oil salesman?

It's interesting how QBs hold the blame when they fall off but their surrounding cast gets credit when things turn around. Like did anyone consider that Baker could be the reason Baker has improved?

Ashley had big shoes to fill after Stephanie Ready and exceeded all expectations. She could have gotten by on her looks alone but took the reporting seriously and did her research; that impressed me about her from the get. She'll be a good host wherever but I honestly hope she keeps going with sports. Please sign Eric to a lifetime contract

Literally worst case scenario. Do that and Panthers head coach officially becomes the league's dead end job. It'll take a trillion dollars guaranteed to get a high school coach here.

The Panthers front office is a joke but not enough is said about how badly the national media botched scouting Bryce Young. You can’t be more wrong than “superprocessor” and that was like the universal consensus on the kid. Amazing.

Dan’s comment was obviously about the defense. The Rhule and Snow era tweeners we’ve been complaining about here for years. Y’all doing too much.

He was trying to hit guys in stride and he doesn't have the arm strength to get deep downfield on time like that. There's a higher margin of error on the accuracy when you're intentionally putting air under it. I'm imagining plays where Leggette and the defender get to the spot well beforehand and XL wrestles it down since that was his thing in college.

He doesn’t need to be quick he’s here to bring down 50/50 balls. Have y’all seen Bryce throw deep?

This is why he gets a pass on last year from me. Maybe Frank believes a good quarterback should be able to adapt to whatever system he’s given but when yours is a statistical anomaly to begin with, trying to force him into a prototypical mold is just setting him up for failure. The only knock I have on Bryce is I do expect a #1 QB to be able to overcome a bad situation from time to time, at least glimpses of it. I didn’t see it at all last season but maybe the team was really that bad.