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Mega sack by big boy Brown.

Hurst! Good play calling! I love it!

I'm not watching 16 more games of this play calling on offense. Not live anyway. They better figure something out.

Another almost play clock violation.

Bro they know what we're DOING. lol

We're MORE obvious than under Wilks.

I would say our offense is 10/10 in predictability, and our run defense is 2/10.

I thought we were going to fake the Falcons out in this game. I know what we're about to do and I'm just SOME DUDE.

This was the offense we were keeping secret? The play calling is not what was hoping for. Desperation runs that are obvious are not it.

Hopefully better play calling in the red zone this time around of we get there. And it's no Chuba time in the red zone btw.

We're looking clueless I hate to say.

Bad play calling and preseason level run defense. Uh oh.

So put it in 6th round draft pick Chuba's hands? Ok... ?

Jeremy Chinn is my favorite defensive player on the team, and I'm hoping he comes up big today. Our o-line tends to bully the Falcons d-line year in and year out, so hoping that trend continues. No idea what's going to happen with the passing offense.

Dumbass Fitt spending out 3rd round pick and trading up. Good lord hello mismanagement.

I wish had said 2 weeks.

We have the element of surprise against the Falcons thanks in part to our smokescreen poop preseason. We have an edge and we need to leverage that against the disadvantage of having a rookie QB. Other teams don't really know what's coming, and early reports were that we have installed way more of our offense than you normally would with a rookie QB. Then those reports stopped, and we got quiet about it. We might be getting ready to unload hell on the Falcons. Pundits actually know less than Huddlers when it comes to the Panthers. Many Huddlers know the entire Panthers roster, and have seen way more than any pundit as far as practice and preseason play is concerned. Football pundits typically rely on their name, and try to do the bare minimum in studying a team like the Panthers because most of America doesn't care at all about the Panthers. So a pundit will have Bryce Young comments ready when the Panthers segment comes up, and after that they can just poop on the rest of the team and move on. No one will care. Keep it moving. Get to NY teams, the Cowboys, Steelers, ect. For the longest time we might as well have been the Cam Newtons and not the Panthers. "And now on to Cam Newton, the Newtons played the New York Giants last night..."

When a team is bad for a long time fans tend to take out the magnifying glass to take a closer look at the mistakes being made in the moment, and prior to the collapse. We made massive mistakes in the past that led us here, and we're currently making mistakes. It's no random accident as to how we got here. Our team was and is being mismanaged, but I'm still going to watch every game and try to have a good time. I'll always be a Panthers fan and hope for the best.

Very difficult song to sing.

Good I have both.

And before we’ve signed Burns.

Chinn is a physical freak of nature. He's just a gifted athlete with height, leanness, speed, and good strength for this size. The problem is that he's a tweener. He doesn't fit at OLB because he's too small, and he's not exactly right for ILB in that he's just better suited elsewhere. I think we can play him at ILB, but why not allow him to cover more territory? That puts him out into the secondary, but certainly not CB or even slot CB imo. So we're going to do these weird hybrid formations and we'll utilize Chinn how we should of course. Ultimately I'd play Chinn at the ILB spot because I love how he plays LB. It might be under-utilization of his physical traits, but watching him close out on a RB or WR with a good angle of pursuit coming downhill and just using those long arms to take the guy down like an octopus or something is wonderful to watch. So for my personal entertainment this season I want to see Chinn at ILB. He's like an octopus fired out of a cannon when he leaps horizontally to take a guy down. You can't help but love watching that.

7 wins sounds perfectly reasonable, but I wouldn't be shocked at 5 or 6 wins. So long as Young isn't injured from poor pass blocking I'll consider the season a success. The Bengals and Chiefs will be the fun teams to watch.

I'll start a crazy thread if that happens, and I have not started a thread since my crazy draft madness simulator thread.

Big time. We don't have a roster that can win now, so we're building for the future. Do we really need Burns right now on an expensive contract? No. We have a rookie QB and a weak roster. You trade Burns to the Rams for the picks and plan for the future. Juice up the offense first, then look for a good DE in the future. That's not an "out there" plan, that's the obvious course of action. Instead we're going to do the opposite and sign expensive defensive vets with a Young QB who is still learning. Yikes. But Fitt has never done what I wanted, so it is what it is.