MasterAwesome

This is a horribly coached team. The same damn penalty three times by three different players lining up in the neutral zone. Awful.

Panthers blowout today.

I know I'm late but this was too funny to me. To answer your bolded hypothetical, apparently by your own claim he would still be a 3rd rounder lol.

Are you still pretending you're not an alt and just joined the boards last year? Cause that's a hell of a throwback to call someone out for a 10-year-old take lol. Most people don't care whether someone is an alt or not but you are one of the few people who use the term "alt" disparagingly to insult others which is what makes it super weird. Are you @TheRed? You remind me of him which piqued my curiosity. He was a regular for ~10 years until he disappeared off the face of the earth...less than 2 months before you joined with your current alt.

The thing about Burns is, he's obviously a good player and he has had good production but can we honestly say that he has improved in any way since his rookie season? We've been saying for years now "oh just wait til he takes that next step" but it's his 4th season and he seems like the exact same player to me. Which is a very good one, but I'd be much more reluctant to trade him away if I felt confident that he has yet to reach his ceiling, which to be honest I'm not.

DeAndre Hopkins is probably a legit example. He put up 1500+ yards and 11 TDs in his 3rd year (pre Watson) catching passes from Brian Hoyer, Ryan Mallett, TJ Yates, and Brandon Weeden, with a 32-year-old Nate Washington lined up across from him as the #2 WR.

It would be silly and impulsive to cut him after one game based on his total body of work this season. But I am slightly concerned that this performance is gonna snowball into a "yips" type situation if he doesn't have the mental fortitude to overcome it.

It’s weird how low PFF rates him…50.8, which is garbage level. Shaq is 66.2 for comparison.

Yeah I mean I don’t necessarily have a strong opinion one way or the other cause I don’t pretend to have the ability or means to have evaluated a DB’s performance throughout an entire game (considering most of his match-ups were not even on screen lol) but I’m just sharing what PFF thinks as a data point.

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-week-8-game-recap-atlanta-falcons-37-carolina-panthers-34 And IIRC, the Rams game where Donte Jackson got a pick-six, he still had one of the lowest PFF grades in the game, like in the 40-50 range. So PFF clearly thought highly of CJ's performance beyond just the interception.

Marvin McNutt is 6’4 and still only 33 years old. Fitterer better get on that phone ASAP!

PJ at the very least proved the last couple weeks that he belongs on an NFL roster, contrary to popular belief that he’s only here because of Rhule favoritism.

As a Christian McCaffrey fan….tasy football owner, I’m ecstatic that we traded him to a team that can maximize his talent.

Seems like genuinely a good trade for both parties.

Which is an odd thing to say about a team with a 2nd year “generational talent” 1st overall QB.

Your post sounded so goofy that I just wasted 10 minutes of my life scrolling through the Falcons’ message board to confirm that you’re talking out of your ass lol. Their fans definitely want to win and they’re a lot more complimentary of our team than 99% of this board. You can always tell who watches too much Real Housewives cause they experience everything through the lens of a soap opera.

We lost to the Giants by 3 in NY back when we were under Rhule and had an awful Baker under center. That’s the team that’s supposedly gonna destroy us in the first round of the playoffs? The Panthers team that showed up last Sunday against the Bucs is night and day different from that team that lost by 3 to the Giants in Week 2. We just have to wait and see if that game was a fluke or if we might actually have made strides.

On a somewhat related note: Ja’Marr Chase is expected to be out 4-6 weeks with a hip injury and the Bengals just so happen to be our opponent next week. If Horn comes back and locks down Higgins, then I suddenly feel a lot better about our chances to contain that Bengals offense.

Tbh I didn't watch the interview where he gave this quote, I'm just going off of the article that I linked. The article makes no mention of Darnold and clearly attributes this quote to Wilks talking about Horn, unless the author of the article made a mistake.

I'm not inclined to go that far, but I did find Wilks' response interesting about Horn this week. Usually I roll my eyes at people who read too much into coaches' answers and maybe I'm doing that here, but Wilks almost seems annoyed? Or a bit dubious? He thought Horn was on track and "for whatever reason" he made that decision himself not to play. I'm often wondering when a player sits due to injury, if that decision comes from the player himself or if it's a coaching/medical decision not to clear him to play. This one sounds entirely like Horn was cleared but decided for himself to sit out...which, if he's legitimately in that bad of shape, I would rather he be cautious instead of risking exacerbating the injury. But it just sounds like Wilks' perception of the injury seems somewhat at odds with Horn. There are players like Cam, Thomas Davis, and Jonathan Stewart who are tough as nails and almost beg coaches to let them play despite constantly dealing with lingering injuries, so I dunno I'll give Horn the benefit of the doubt but it's still a little disappointing. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article267759257.html

The guy is built like a tank for a cornerback and his two injuries are completely unrelated so you gotta hope these are just flukes rather than a testament to his fragility. But definitely frustrating as a fan who wants to see our young exciting corner on the field.

The pocket was even still pretty clean 5 seconds in lol, PJ bailed a bit prematurely.

He's not ignoring them, he just legit is barely on here lol.

Despite being wide open, he also doesn't even turn to look for the pass until PJ is already on his 2nd or 3rd read lol.

The current one thought Terrell McClain was gonna be an All-Pro #NeverForget