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It is hard to watch him try to play. I know it isn’t just me. A game without him is a better game to watch. Sorry it just is. Oh, yeah, I am supposed to be rooting for him. Go Bryce.

Wondering when his voice is gonna change. Don’t tell me it did already.

He has lined up under center. Some call it a rumor but I have seen it. I don’t remember what they ran though. I think it was a short yardage handoff. I couldn’t fnd the right words for what the team looked like game one but they looked totally unconcerned about anything. No hurry, no urgency, it was honestly as if they were practicing and not trying to win. Never seen that in game one of an NFL season. Maybe by week 15. I did not know exactly what I was looking at. Which was weird and disappointing, and weird.

Y’all got me thinking about it. Rosalind Richardson? Pretty sure she was married to JR when he was in the NFL. So she would know in a way very few knew.

Just imagine if he hadn’t taken that second year to learn the football side. Whew!

I don’t see that. As far as panic, I mean. He has been through this just last year. Hate to see it come this way but it is an example of a person who sees himself maybe repeating a mistake. Kind of catches himself and says wait a minute…. Like the guy who has been trying to please everyone and realizes he can’t. Rick Nelson ‘Garden Party’

We don’t have a cheap owner. Until, turf. Anyway, he will pay whatever it takes to get a quarterback. He would leave no stone unturned to get one, and pay a king’s ransom to make sure he had the coaching around him. Spare no expense. The best of everything. Crazy saying these things while the entire time you wish someone else owned the team and everything he has done, could be undone.

This is too bad. She, or anyone married to Tepper has every right to accompany him on his daily rounds. To be involved jointly in endeavors. Etc. And vice versa if she owned the team. Which I guess she partly might. Women can be very smart of course and she may be the smartest EVER but at the same time we don’t really feel like she should be a go to in personnel matters. And we are justified in feeling that way. It’s like cross examining witnesses though, by involving herself in this at the level she is doing, she has opened the criticism door so it is fair game.

Yeah there are two issues. It looks like odds of inconceivable length compounded exponentially, against Bryce Young HOF. Wherever you stand on that ceiling, is one thing. Whether he can game manage like a point guard, that’s a little different question and apparently the last hope, for when the others are used up. I didn’t have any really, of the price being justified. I suppose they can tailor and cater and come up with some extremely hard to watch but mostly effective plans. Yes, even Reich when he gets off of this whatever it is, this experimental phase of shrunken boundary, PacMan looking, anti offense. I am out of ways to denigrate it, but it keeps on feeding me. That brings me here: if you guys can be trusted, I have some crazy intel, and I have been very conflicted as to how much I should share. They are working hard to perfect an electronic template. I think remote viewing is an element. They are pretty tight lipped though. It’s kind of half Houdini half Tom Clancy. Like a passing submarine with GPS, so that you can really “launch” at the target (Russell Wilson is an advisor). Word from the inside is “holy poo!!!”. Okay, if I need to say this, here: Just kidding. There is no GPS (it’s more Loran I think).

I agree with you on Bryce Young, I think, but got to disagree about Tepper’s awareness. He knows if he was all over something or if he just went along because the professionals advised it. Everybody in the room or on the line at the time knows where the others stand. I gotta hope he is at least trying to quit overriding professional opinions. If that was what he was doing.

Okay , first: this bias against people with experience is not really a valid policy. You follow that and a person who doesn’t win in his first opportunity is effectively barred from having a second chance. You are ensuring that every person in charge is a rookie at doing it. There are so many downsides to that approach it would take the afternoon to articulate them. I don’t see it, obviously, as fair. Nor is it likely to be any *more* effective than employing a person with good judgement that has examined each candidate, case by individual case, and giving a thumbs up, a maybe, or a thumbs down. Probably less, especially using only people with no experience at being HC in the NFL. Just find the best fit. Requirements: be a bad ass innovative tough minded individual that can work with his head pulled out of the “book” and on a swivel. To start with. Now, as far as Harbaugh, A Harbaugh with another name, or other people that “we” would generally accept as being at least possibly able to buy the groceries And cook the meal…. Any candidate with those types of qualifications, I am inclined to want to try just about the only thing that hasn’t been tried. So yeah, do that. I am thinking along the lines of, Number One Requirement: Be a “no” man. Do what you think is best, not what Tepper thinks is best. If those two things intersect, fine no problem. To misquote Buffalo Springfield: “Everybody’s right or everybody’s wrong”. I would do it with double pay. Appaloosa stock options, whatever. The idea is seriously maximum pay and a very short leash in years. A rollover one year, fine. Roll it, don’t roll it. One last thing: No trading future assets. Pay as you go. It doesn’t work everyone can get out with minimum damage. What else has not been tried? Make Tepper the GM, and CEO HC? Nah, we have tried that.

That’s some next level everybody’s fault but Young’s narrative. Learn to accept nothing less. Hell no they will not give up on Young after a single season. And with a year coming up soon where they forgot to trade the 1st rounder, the floor’s the limit. OMy sources also confirm that ownership has lost their blind faith that the Super Secret Backfield Limbo-Mesh Bubble-Scream Offense is playing to Young’s strengths, as Reich had promised in the job interview. They want to see more stretching of the backfield.

He always seemed totally beholding to his WRs winning those jump balls. That’s our ceiling right now, without the jump balls. They aren’t being thrown.

The opportunity was there. These idiots do listen to the fan base, they felt safe to do what they wanted. Because people were supporting it like the latest stimulus check. If you were lobbying against Wilks, and now feel nothing about flip flopping.. front running… I can’t take that seriously.

I get it. It can be night and day better than what was shown the door, but it isn’t perfect so you don’t want it. I read a LOT of that sentiment around here, especially this past December and January. I am like that in my personal standards for one thing I do, definitely, but I don’t do NFL football. That 6-6 out of the blue wasn’t perfect but it nourished me in a way no other stretch of football the Panthers played under Tepper’s yoke has, and there was legit reason for optimism. Which was dealt with at lighting speed. We are Better than That! By the looks of it we won’t suffer that type of mediocrity for the foreseeale future, nothing to fear. Clear sailing to the port of perfection.

It’s the kind of game Dallas traditionally fugs up. And we have had their number (hell yes!) for as long as we have been in the league. Every time I am worried, apprehensive, basically overestimating them, we kick their asses. It’s great. We used to anyway. I mean it seems just senseless to hope this time around.

Tepper will easily see the problem, what was missed: only a shorty can understand how it is for another shorty. These tall guys have an ‘off’ perspective. Is Doug Flutie still alive? Get him on the phone!

The football I watched, was all higher quality viewing than a Panthers telecast. Not even close. I am not seeking out the Jets and Raiders, but watched Commanders/Seahawks, Texans/Bengals, Falcons/Cards, I think that was it. Even Falcons Cards, which was the closest. Oh, Saints/Minnesota too. Even Jameis. Especially the Dobbs kid.

That’s the huge point (lack of downfield). They conceded this to the other team in the first game. It is inexplicable unless you see them sacrificing the W-L record for practice for the top rookie. What the hell else are they doing if not just running reps for this kid? There has yet to be a game plan that demonstrates we intend to even have a will to impose. It is all defensive play calls, on offense. And this is from a team that demonstrated they could play .500 ball on a dime last year with an approach based on their strengths.

Dalton got the hell beat out of him. Yes. I saw that. I don’t want him to be injured, but he understands what to do at least. He will hang and chuck it. Somebody has to do something to make the field they are defending a little more like every other team’s area. We are in constant red zone. Won’t get out without expanding the field with some throws.

I am definitely nearing the end of the road. I know better than to blame him, and never have. His game? Yep I am guilty. Do not believe in him as what he is basically claiming to be, a top NFL starting QB. The longer he looks overmatched the more bitter I am feeling about watching him play. I do not like it. The last game was as bad as the opener. His gaming of the combine, btw, was so obvious that it was comical. It became a problem that our people apparently couldn’t see the truth when he threw on his pro day. This could be a different post but what the hell: I swear, I gave up being some college draft scout expert on who we should pick in the 3rd or 5th, a long time ago. I make no claims in a typical draft. I might look at the guys we are considering at #12 or #22 but I don’t research video on them. When something crazy like this tradeup happens though, I am going to have to do some homework. I saw things pretty quickly that warned me away in no uncertain terms. I wrote about them here. Couple of things and they Are the impediments he is not overcoming to date, from what I can see. It played out. When I looked at Stroud, he was much more the physical model, athletic enough, and his arm? It was there. Clearly he had the arm advantage. It looks like the other NFL quarterbacks that I have watched since the ‘60s. Thousands of games. In other major sports, there are preferred body types for every job. Outlier body types, if they are exceptionally talented, do earn a position. Some get taken down the draft, some are offered tryouts, but they are NOT lauded and pedestaled at the very top of the heap and people are not trading their futures for them. Trying to outsmart the establishment by blazing a new trail, they just outsmarted themselves. If Reich was for this, he should have never been hired. I was shocked these lifers went along with this. I still struggle to believe that I could see something so clearly and they are 1000x more football than I am, didn’t.

Yeah it’s the situation not the rookie. hen has he ever looked the part since pads went on? Reports of problems came quickly once things got a little more hands on, congested, faster, more real. Then when it shirts and 7 on 7 we got good reports. That ain’t the scheme yo. That is an overwhelmed player. Just the opposite of what he was claimed to be. And loudly claimed. The rest of us can’t see it. We hate him (I am starting to, because he sucks okay?, but it not a thing ‘he’ did. He can’t help what I object to, it is what he was given to work with. He is not the first to not have enough you know…. He doesn’t have what it takes to live up to the overall top pick. I won’t put the idiotic wager of future picks thrown in, on Young. That is these idiots listening to the fans. Next year’s pick will be too low to get a franchise guy. Everybody knew that. Lol I have to laugh at what they have done, because it was reasonable to think that we were on the rise and well positioned before they got their hands on this. Anyway we do not want him to fail but our feelings do not matter, in the matter. And the pleasure you sense is generated by the tears of his loudest one note trumpeters. Not the failing and the losing which makes me ill if I think too much about it.

I’d like to win a game. Can we restore the rule of: play who gives the best chance to win? When this new subcapable so far quarterback earns that sentiment from the coaches and teammates, let him be that guy. He hasn’t earned crap it was all given to him. The abuse of trust is glaring now.. Like, I trust my leader to have my interest at heart which for all players is Win. So win something. Make me think you at least want to. Play the best player. It is not the little guy.

Try a Bench Bryce and Win a Game protest, see what happens.

You have opened your eyes. Congratulations, I guess. Honestly I don’t know how much more I can hang. They do intentional bad things and want me to support and watch and applauud. Why? Where is my regional pride? Really? Not over a wreck of a football team masquerading as mine. Nothing about it is mine anymore I hate what they have done to my favorite team and to my favorite league in my favorite sport. I fuging hate it. It is less entertaining to me than ever. It is very difficult to have good feelings about the Panthers and really the NFL in general. I don’t like the direction they have gone at all with the globalization efforts and watering down the game with their rules designed to make it ‘watch’ like flag football track meet stuff. This really is no fun at all anymore, I am mostly hanging to get some laughs from the people who irritated me greatly fawning over midget boy and his adequate arm, when they finally accept their folly.