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Unless he has a Cam Newton level year where he goes undefeated and wins the national championship, has nothing left to prove in college, I see Manning probably starting for 2 years at Texas. But I wouldn't be shocked if he came out in 2026 either.

I wouldn't mind if the team focused on building a dominant defense the next 2 offseasons unless they're in a position to draft Arch Manning (whose family might refuse to let him play for the Panthers but we'll discuss that if it was ever a realistic possibility of drafting him) The defense has been gutted and neglected since the all-defense draft of 2020, the only remaining player from that draft being Derrick Brown. I expect a defensive player taken with the inevitable top 10 pick the Panthers will have, probably a pass-rusher or defensive tackle, and hopefully following it up with a LB or S in the second round. This team has so many needs at almost every position, that although a blue chip player in the top of the first round seems like a great idea, it might be worth considering trading down some slots to accumulate picks later in the 2025 draft or in 2026. It's a damn shame Scott Fitterer was too stupid to trade Brian Burns to the Rams for 2 first round picks and a second round pick. The Panthers would be in a MUCH different situation right now if he had taken that trade. If I saw him on the street I'd seriously ask him why on god's green earth did you turn that trade down?

Matt Rhule was not a good head coach full stop end of discussion

Yea we're not going to pick Cotchery Caught It or Kasay doesn't kick it out of bounds and get a Superbowl ring?

If they didn't have Penix waiting in the wings, it would be a shitshow. As it stands, just a run of the mill horrible contract decision. The Panthers have a long list of those.

Tough to play a full season in your upper 30's especially since he's coming off a pretty serious injury. Falcons bet that Cousins had more good years left, lost, and hedged their bet with Penix.

Getting a good RB in the second round isn't a steal, it's the average position to get a good RB if anything.

They can’t reasonably fire a rookie head coach who was saddled with one of the worst first overall QBs of all time. And at times made said QB look decent to serviceable. If the team was 3-11 at this point next season, fire everyone.

If anything you bench guys who you know won't be here next year, for contract reasons or age reasons (Clowney?) and see if there's any young guys who can stick around. Otherwise nothing to change. Roll Bryce out there and make him throw the ball.

Bryce had a bad game. The fumbles are unacceptable and are the main reason Kyle Allen failed as a starter. I keep going back to how Bryce hasn’t shown me in any way that he’s better than Kyle Allen which is like, mystifying to me. Maybe he’s a little more mobile.

Bryce is what, 4-22 as a starter? Improved recent play aside, it's not groundbreaking to say "he might not be the answer"

He's going to be a part of the team for the foreseeable future that's all I gotta say. Steal as an UDFA.

Under Jerry RIchardson, the identity was always clear (with the exception of George Seifert). Defense first, run the ball. Under David Tepper, I haven't been able to figure out who this team is trying to be. At any point. What is the identity? Are they an offensive team because of an offensive head coach now? Are they a running team or a passing team? Have they made any indication about who they are even trying to be? Dan Morgan said something about "needing more dogs" or something like that but they have no identity. To quote Andrew Carnegie, "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do." What do the Panthers do? Lose football games. So I guess that's the identity.

He earned a shot next year but 3-11 at this point next year and I’m on camp fire Bryce young out of the nfl

I’ve been encouraged in the past few weeks but I’ve been under no delusion that Bryce is the answer. He doesn’t win games.

The entire team still sucks, it’s not just one thing. This is the worst team in all 4 professional sports leagues in the last 5 years. The person who needs to be fired is the dipshit owner who ruined this team.

Now those are the penalties I expect when playing the Cowboys. Just put flags on them at this point.

I would be surprised if they score a point in this game

First game I get a chance to watch from the beginning in weeks and this is the week the garbage team has returned

It’s not? He had a wide open Sanders on the outside

I had no delusions. This is still a very bad team in many exploitable areas

The stadium is full of cowboys fans

I was waiting for bad Bryce to come back. Wouldn’t be surprised to see 0 points today

Still a bad team

The cowboys could win this game without throwing a single pass. The Panthers could put all 11 players in the box and couldn’t stop the run.