CPantherKing

In the redzone and not going to DJ Moore... says everything you need to know

Bozeman bull dozing for Foreman. Nice

Come on DJ. Make people miss. You made PJ do all the work on that pass.

Now Moton unfocused and unprepared. Unacceptable

These WRs need better footwork

DJ does not even want to block a back up DB

DJ is not ready for this game. Use him as a decoy and give the targets to other WRs who want it

DJ Moore getting scared to cut it up field and just danced for a 50 yard 3 yard gain. Could not trust his blocks or get physical.

Uncatchable balls that hit the receivers hands... ok You want PJ to morph into Drew Brees or just go and hand it off to the WRs down the field? Good to great WRs go and get the ball. They adjust. They use their body control to make those catches that are in their catch radius. Average and soon to be cut WRs bat the ball down, can't run the ball down, quit on their routes, don't expect to be targeted, round out their routes, and don't get their head around fast enough to find the ball. If you are a WR and PJ can over throw you on a 5 step drop with 2 hitches, then you are not good enough to be a #1. Better luck being a #2.

DJ deciding to not show up again today. Poor footwork on the sideline and letting the ball hit his hands and drop to the ground while being uncontested by the DB. DJ continues to be his typical 4 hot games 13 cold games self.

It's more the receivers than PJ. They don't seem hungry or ready. PJ has it hitting their hands. PJ is not the best QB in the league; he is not Drew Brees. These WRs need to make a play or get cut.

Hopefully Wilks covers Burns with Shaq like he did last week. If Burns is left to defend the run alone, then I would keep running at Burns too. It's too easy to exploit. Burns is an excellent pass rush specialist and nothing more. Snow putting Burns in coverage and having him contain the run was a recipe to get beat.

Running behind Bozeman looks really good... sorry CMC didn't get to run behind a Bozeman led OL. Apologies to everyone who had to suffer Rhule's Elf experiment.

Wilks D > Snow D NFL D > College D Coaching really does matter

Yea yea yea. Heard the same thing with Hasselbeck, Brady, Warner, Brunnel, Beuerlein... You can have your RG3 and Tannehill. I'll take my Russell Wilson and Nick Foles while hearing this nonsense from others. Aqeel Glass is still in the eyes of scouts and the Bucs Christensen has him on their list of QBs. You may not hear his name for 3 to 4 years, but he will take over and never let go when he gets his chance. Better than PJ Walker, Ehlinger, Heinicke, Rush, and Geno. There are a few QBs from the 2022 class you will hear from in a few seasons that went under the radar.

Sounds like Baker Mayfield coming out of college and going #1 to the Browns. He is a typical overrated Ohio St QB who gets carried by coaches, OL, receivers, running game, and defense. He struggles under pressure and when he is in a situation where he has to carry the team he gets frustrated and struggles to show he can produce game winning drives. He is not a playoff/championship QB for the NFL level. He will be a game manager for a bad team who needs a QB who can win close games at the end of the 4th quarter - they will wish they never drafted Stroud. The top college QBs are not groomed to be successful in the NFL. The better QBs coming out of college for the NFL game are the ones that perform well on a bad team and can consistently carry their team to wins. If they are a QB for an undefeated top program, they are not tested enough to even consider making them an NFL franchise QB.

Wilks is allowing the correct decisions to be made. Players who actually give the Panthers the best chance to win are being played now. There seems to be an NFL level game plan in place. The coaching understands how to play the chess match with play calling now. Wish CMC was behind the Bozeman led OL and allowed to play with patience behind the LoS. I think Wilks is capable of leading a playoff team and should be given the chance to prove if he can build a championship team. If he can lead this team to the playoffs after all the mess he has been handed, he deserves a few seasons as HC. Or... DC if he can lure Byron Leftwich to be the HC and he mentors Leftwich. The defense is playing more like an NFL defense and Wilks is game planning to cover the weaknesses players like Burns and Brown have had against the run by covering them up with a run defender. Rhule and Snow just let teams keep picking at those run defense weaknesses from Brown and Burns. It's worth seeing how far Wilks can push this team and its foundation. Panthers still need a better front office and scouting department. This Browns, Jets, and Lions level scouting isn't going to cut it.

Trading Sam Darnold for Pizza Logs (aka deep fried pizza, aka pizza egg rolls)? Best trade made by Fitterrer! ... and Dan Morgan has always struggled to run a business. This place gave him so much poo about the failed pizza business.

Corrected

and then CMC picks up the playbook and the 49ers become the best in the NFC West Geno and a Rams team in need of a CMC or OBJ are not going to keep a CMC focused 49ers team from taking that division

I got poo'd for that too. There are 2 QBs that are the best in the 2021 class and they are still on the street I believe. They are better than PJ and anything the Panthers thought they had in Baker and Darnold. I like many more of these low round and undrafted QBs than the 1st round QBs being passed around in the NFL like they can be something they were not in their first 3 seasons. Buechele, Rypien, Rush, Walker, Ehlinger...

It wasn't roll outs. There was only one designed roll out that PJ passed the ball after he broke the pocket. The other roll out PJ threw while he was still in the pocket. A receiver didn't run the correct route and PJ scrambled outside the pocket one time to throw the ball out of bounds. PJs success came inside the pocket off of 3 step drops and screens. His 2 TDs were delivered from inside the pocket with good footwork and timing. He stepped up into the pocket when receivers needed more time to develop the route. PJ has better footwork than Darnold or Baker. He had many 3 step drops and hitched up into the passing lane. He held to his hitches and lanes even when he got pressured, hit, and leveled. Baker and Darnold would pull the ball down, take the sack, and try to escape. I'm sure not having Elf to step up in the pocket helped a lot. I remember way too many times Baker stepped up in the pocket only to have Elf or Elf's defender in his face. Bozeman, Christensen and Corbett gave PJ the room he needed to be patient and trust his footwork.

A good QB is not hard to find. SEVERAL good QBs are one good coach away You want a good QB? Then find a good coach. Bill Walsh knew how to spot them and understood how to develop them quickly. Andy Reid, Mike Holmgren, Sean Payton, Joe Gibbs, the Harbaughs, and McVay to start with a few will never have trouble finding a QB. You only need a QB with average athletic instinct and average intellect/intuition to form an NFL great. Walsh developed Ken Anderson, Dan Fouts, Joe Montana, and Steve Young. All done in a single season of preparation for them. 3 of them converged in a single conference championship weekend. The preparation by Walsh took years to spot these QBs in a single afternoon and develop the QB and a system for them in 1 season. Spotting an NFL championsip QB is not hard at all if you learn how to do it. I see too many make the mistake of running with the top college QBs thinking it is easier to take a top college QB and coach them up for the NFL. I wanted Brian Griese and Tom Brady coming out of Michigan as franchise starters. Outside of a miracle to get Peyton Manning in 1998, these are the first 2 QBs I was willing to see the Panthers draft. Hard pass on drafting a QB from 1995 to 1997. It's not hard if you know what to look for in a QB. Patience in the time it takes to spot a QB is the hardest part. Could take 3 to 5 drafts before you see another one (1 to 2 if you are lucky). It's not hard. You just haven't put the time in to figure it out.

Ickey moving to OG

And then the front office realizes that they will have to beat CMC and the 49ers in the playoffs to be a champion... ooops That was a huge mistake. Those draft picks and anything the Panthers do is meaningless for the foreseeable future until they prove they can beat the 49ers in the playoffs.