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Dude, I have a degree in journalism from Grady College. Times have changed. Moreover, editorialists have a whole lot more leeway than your average reporter. What Fowler did all works.

"Elite talent?" He doesn't necessarily have elite talent, but it's proven to be a helluva lot better than ours. Any NFL analyst will tell you that. His weapons are legit.

You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm fairly sure that most rookies, even some HoFers are closer to Bryce Young's level of production and understanding than C.J. Stroud's. I'd also bet that their lines weren't as porous as ours. You've missed Brandt's (and others') whole point.

He's made a few very good plays off script, and has thrown into some tight windows. You're acting like he hasn't done anything. The point is that you want to give him an NFL caliber O-line and better weapons in order to see more of those plays. At this point, he's looking kinda like a chicken with his head cut off, somewhat frenetic too much of the time, and the origin is really below par O-line play and no one that really scares anyone on the opposite side of the ball.

Half-way clean pockets and open receivers have been few and far between also. Let's tell the truth.

Injecting yourself into the story doesn't make for bad journalism.

Yeah, this is about as pointed a piece that I have seen any writer ever write about Jerry Richardson or Tepper and the state of the team. All the---shall I say---understated innuendo pertaining to Reich and maybe even Bryce Young. He essentially called Tepper a meddler. I could take it that Tepper is a bungling idiot in reference to both the sports and should just run the business side. Tepper deserves all of it. He's sold fans a bill of goods thus far, probably because he has surrounded himself with a bunch of yes-men.

And that's exactly why I haven't judged him harshly. We gotta fix the O-line point blank, and get a route runner and a speed demon.

Yes, we did. Andy asked for more deep shots among other things. https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2023/09/25/panthers-seahawks-week-3-2023-frank-reich-andy-dalton-bryce-young-deep-balls/

I'm thinking that they ought to pick Martavis Bryant off the Cowboys PS. Hell, might as well.

Yep, forgot to mention the Hurricanes. The NHL is a far cry better than soccer.

You ever heard of Duke, UNC and NCSU (not that I personally follow them)? Plenty of stuff to do in the Triangle outside of sports though, like walking safely down the street, or returning to your car that's still there after a jaunt.

Well, that's something. I thought Freddie Coleman was somewhat being an apologist yesterday when someone said that Tepper had betrayed Young by hiring and keeping a bad staff. I will say that the staff is still relatively new, but I expected more. I thought that experience alone would have begun to cover up some of our ills, but who knows what's really going on? They could be thoughtful and analytical, or they could be in disarray. I think that the presser where Reich began to talk about Tepper and his ownership style indicated some fractures.

I will admit that he's come up small---shown little (har har har). Seriously he has shown some ability to improvise outside of the play script. He is largely accurate when he has good time, including in some tight windows. Other than that, I don't know.

No one cares about some meaningless, hollow winning record (which we still might not have by the way) and a journeyman QB who is not the answer to our prayers. We need to fix the line and play the guy that we invested so much in so we can see if he can be a franchise QB. Some of you just don't seem to understand that many rookies lose games with INTs and make plenty of mistakes. Most are NOT CJ Stroud, and really none of them have been. But we need to deal with the problems at hand, and a Band-Aid QB ain't a long term solution.

I'm probably at least 75 percent sure that we picked the wrong QB, and maybe doubled down on it (Levis...). But I'm not prepared to say right now that Bryce is a bust. It's his first season, people, in very sorry and unexpected circumstances. Once we get at least a semblance of an O-line, better coaching and all that, then I will draw a definitive conclusion.

If Bryce's ceiling is Teddy, then we definitely fuged up royally.

You know, I have said in the past that I believed in acquiring quality vets for the O-line as opposed to drafting them. Nothing in the past 5-10 years has really changed my mind.

I agree, but I'm not holding my breath. I don't know if we can fix the line for him so that we can see. There have to be fixes available, and then our FO has to have the skill and the will to acquire them.

Upon further inspection @X-Clown, your math must be a little off, or if you're referring to Antonio Gibson, obviously he's a running back. Bottom line: Howell has weapons. Much like Young, he has an O-line problem, but arguably better weapons.

Ha ha. I meant Logan Thomas. Terry McLaurin is legit; any football analyst will tell you that. If Howell isn't getting him the ball, it isn't his fault. I can say something similar about D.J. Moore and Fields (and Bagent). D.J. and Terry both have 47 catches for the year.

Good work!

Howell has got more practical moves than finesse jukes, but he's a decent scrambler. He still hasn't locked that job up. He's somewhat shaky. He needs more protection if they decide to give him a run next season.

I saw it the other way around. People didn't really get in the Bryce train until right before the draft after the FO began leaking that he was the pick. People talked about Bryce like a dog. Sure there may have been a few talking about the S2 test, but I don't believe that most people pay that kinda stuff any mind. I said that the FO had to get the pick right---especially if there was a big dichotomy between their play---or they'd deserve what they get as far as criticism. Well, it's not looking great, but Young needs a better line and better weapons.

Scary Terry didn't get the nickname for nothing. He's legit. The other guys are decent too, including Jordan Reed and pass-catching back Antonio Gibson.