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The new HC will not want this ass 3-4 defense. Evero will get booted imo. Good riddance to these coaches and any players that get dumped.

Can't say the defense was tired either. Just pure ass.

Evero getting cooked.

Sometimes I think it's Pickles out there.

I wanted Burns traded at the time and I went crazy in the Burns trade deadline thread. The Huddle was about 50/50 on Burns. The counter argument at the time from popular huddlers was that we might not be able to replace Burns in the draft, so don't trade him. I didn't want Sam Darnold at the time, and I was in shock at how much we gave up for him. At the time no other team in the NFL was interested in Sam Darnold, let alone trading a 2nd and 4th for him. Sam was on his way to being released and ending up as a backup QB until Fitt jumped in with a crazy deal. We got fleeced, and picked up his 5th year option. The huddle mostly didn't want Sam, but the hope was that Rhule's system would make Sam a good QB. Rather than trade CMC for draft capital to move up for a QB, I wanted to trade Burns or other defensive players for draft capital. We could have kept CMC and DJ Moore, and still moved up for a QB. Or even better, don't trade up to #1 overall, just move up some so that you get one of the top 3 QBs. Why were we dead set on the least physically gifted QB in the draft? Just seemed odd. Keep your best offensive players, and then at least it's not torture to watch the team this season. Instead, we have a decent defense, and the offense is unwatchable to the point where BOA is empty. And our good defense has produced 2 wins so far. What does it matter if the defense is good? It's painfully boring to watch this team, and that's coming from someone who follows the team year round. Fitt is a total moron. I've hated him for a long time now. He makes exactly the absolute worst decisions possible over and over again. Unnecessarily gutting our offense to move up in the draft for a game managing QB is unacceptable. Not trading Burns was idiotic. Getting fleeced for Sam, a proven loser, was soul crushing. Sam killed my love of football, and it cost us a 2nd and 4th to do it. Unreal. 2 firsts and a 3rd for Burns was an outstanding deal. Fitt turned his nose up, said Burns was the cornerstone of our defense, and now he can't make a fair deal to sign him. Depressing. Fitt has ALWAYS done the exact opposite of what I want. Enough. No mas. Throw in the towel. I'd take any GM over Fitt at this point. I used to say on here "I don't understand Fitt's plan. I don't know what he's doing." HE DOESN'T HAVE A PLAN. We're ruined and it's going to take a long time to repair this damage.

We do have a definition for this term. "...a game manager is a quarterback who, despite pedestrian individual statistics such as passing yards and touchdowns, also maintains low numbers of mistakes, such as interceptions and fumbles." With a game manager your roster as a whole decides the fate of the team that season. A great roster can sail into the playoffs with a game managing QB, but you're eliminated when you play a playoff team with a great QB. It's just too much to overcome. Then you'll have the problem of that great roster being dismantled by free agency, and during those seasons the "game manager" can't really elevate the sub-par roster. Some fans are fine with making the playoffs here and there but not going any further. They just don't want seasons like the one we're having now. We basically have a below average roster, and a rookie QB who is an unknown at this point. If he develops into a game manager, then we can slowly piece together a good roster and shoot for a playoff birth. One thing is certain, the ceiling for Young is game manager, the floor is backup QB.

Only kidding I'd never go watch this team.

Potential coaching candidates have had a good long look at Young stinking up the NFL. They also know that Tepper is more or less a megalomaniac who will ream the daylights out of you if you don't start winning right away. We're in football hell.

I was at that game. The cheerleaders were soaked and stayed out in it, and Stew did an incredible flip.

Most of the huddle has been watching football for a long time. You know the difference between winning QB play and hopeless QB play. I could see watching Dalton that he gave us a chance to win, and watching Young it was obvious he was hopelessly terrible. Now if you're the HC, and you value your job, then you pull Young and start Dalton. After that, you recognize that the run blocking scheme is not working well enough, so you switch to gap running. So you play action pass with gap running with Dalton at the helm, and Young prepares for next season without taking 50 sacks. Now why didn't Frank and Beans make the obvious choice and start Dalton? One could speculate that our hedge fund owner had his head filled with ideas that Bryce had a super computer brain and could go out on the field and distribute the ball around like Pistol Pete Maravich on the basketball court. That Young, by the middle of training camp, had already memorized the playbook and was far advanced beyond any mortal rookie in NFL history. None of that poop was true. Young was NOT ready, and the gap in what he needed to learn at playing pro football was enormous. The only thing Pistol about Young was that he made Panthers fans want to use one when we were in pistol formation. By week one we knew he didn't drop back properly, he didn't have anything close to proper footwork, he had no pocket presence nor awareness, and NFL safeties were outsmarting him. Consequently, he didn't stay in the pocket and deliver the football on time. We were subjected to watching him roll out of the pocket a lot, and always to his right every single time, and throw the ball on run to the right side of the field about as hard as I could as a teenager. Very predictable and easy to scheme against. At that point Frank must have been thinking about starting Dalton. But was Tepper looming over old Frank's shoulder? Frank is at the age where it's to play with your grandkids and go fishing, and instead he had a tyrant hedge fund manager screaming at him in team meetings. Did Frank have the freedom to start Dalton? I don't know, but that appeared to be the obvious choice. Dalton could have had us at close .500 imo, and the stadium would have at least had a decent crowd of Panthers fans. .500 might have saved Frank, especially with the promise of Young starting next season. 1 win with Young in extreme danger every game had only one outcome. Early retirement.

I go to UNC home games, but I honestly thought he might be coming back.

Um you know. x50