MechaZain

Mahomes won the SB on the cover of Madden and McCaffery's been injured nearly every year of his career

I doubt it. He said he blindsided by the trade and wished he had been more consistent here. But it doesn't really matter why when you're playing as bad he was.

Not good enough to win now and too old/inconsistent to build a future around. Also think his gunslinging would be too chaotic to be an effective backup.

Nah he’s weird. Could be TV’s next John Madden though.

I like how he's coming along considering how much has been asked of him. In an ideal world he's a deep ball and red zone guy to keep defenses honest. Hard to stick to that when the passing game has struggled and our WR1 is old, surehanded as he may be. When the reciever room fills out XL will have more opportunities to do what he does best.

Thank you. It's annoying because anytime load management has been suggested with CMC folks act like that's not a thing in the NFL and his usage is normal. But when the guy pulls a hamstring after playing 98% of the snaps week in and out he's "injury prone"

This. So far it’s an outlier. I’ll worry when it becomes a trend.

Embarrassing drive from the coaches. Really just let them run and screen their way down the entire field

If he plays like that or better or the rest of the way I’ll believe

Thats better. Now Keep Pounding.

If he gets injured on a very limited snapcount after taking half the season off it was probably never going to work out anyway

and half the trailer is Denise Richards lol

This is what I like about him. Constant forward momentum, no hesitation. Instead of a stutter step he hits a new gear when he jukes. Rare find out of any RB these days let alone a rookie.

Had the pathway to franchise TE paved for him, direct mentorship from Olsen, still JAG. What a waste.

Considering how well it worked out for Eli I don’t blame Deon one bit. Probably doing his son a disservice if he didn’t.

Shoutout to Eddy Dinero

Hard to say when this season hinges on the QB and he's been so underwhelming. I'm not sure how long of a leash Bryce is on so it's hard to tell whether the stuff I hate about the playcalling is on him or Canales. It still seems like they're trying to force him into the scheme instead of designing it around what he can do but that might be to evaluate him. So Canales is like Reich but with a much better run game, which in turns opens up the playbook a lot more. Morgan I'm calling a wash so far. The ground game improvement and the draft are enough for me to forgive his missteps.

this is literally just Joe speculating not some inside scoop

The erasure started way before Cam commented on the team. The first critique I can remember from him was when he said no one bought into Rhule after the fact. You’re mistaken about Smitty too. He was a whole analyst when Tepper put him on payroll. He has said more critical things about the Panthers than Cam ever has.

The retirement thing is just a convenient excuse from Tepper. I'm sure if the team was trying to bring him on officially he would do it in a heartbeat and the league wouldn't bat an eye at it. He's not getting any other calls and we know there's a direct line of communication. You telling me no other team has put up a photo of an active player who left? I have a hard time believing the league would flag a MVP display, literal team history, as tampering. Moving on from JR is clearly bull too when we're parading Luke and Smitty around. It's Cam. Tepper knows that if Cam is brought on in any capacity, as long as he looks athletic to the average fan there's going to pressure to put him in when we're struggling at QB. They've decided he's not worth that but I think is a huge mistake. The organization stands to lose more burning this bridge than he does.

Well lucky for us Bryce has been similarly mediocre against everyone

People happy he can win at all when there should be more concern that his ceiling is 1TD/200yd even against the Giants.

Makes you wonder if that was Canales doing or if he just rode the wave

He's been the worst quarterback in pro football for most of his career and game managed his way to two wins against bottom of the barrel teams. Let's be real here. On the other end you have fans already planning the future around him because he's proven capable of rising to mediocrity for the win. He's got a long way to go before we should even be thinking about him long term. The only reason this thread exists is because doing the bare minimum is progress for Bryce.

I need at least a hint of more than "decent".