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As much as we collectively hate Matt Rhule now I expected 10 pages of people throwing a party at the wild, not really likely, chance that we will both acquire a new QB and have that QB facilitate the exit of our favorite effigy to burn. For the record: as much as I still *do not really want* Deshaun Watson I am firmly in camp "how bad could it really be?" if he gets what he wants and we end up with a new head coach. Who's he likely to pick that will do worse?

Huddle tin-foil hat night sounds majestic.

Meh. I still don't particularly want him for the same reasons I didn't want him the first time we all made our fingers bleed posting about him, but I'm certainly not in a pitchforks and torches, burn the witch, damn the man, fug this team / league / country / world / solar system / whatever else if we sign him sort of mindframe about it either.

I would, personally, rather not end next season (or start the 2nd quarter of it for that matter) adding another QB to the growing list of stupid things we've done at QB in the last few years. With Winston there is a better chance of that happening than not happening, so I'll pass.

I gotta give Rhule credit for one thing. If you'd told me this time two years ago that the word "flexibility" would make me start violently dry heaving I would not have believed you. But he's made it do so. And I just vomited on my keyboard b/c I typed it. Damnit.

Every time I read that [fine example of an intellectual powerhouse] DJ predict we take a corner I break into uncontrollable laughter. It's really becoming a problem.

I wouldn't die on a hill denying that, doesn't change that I dislike how the end played out. I just don't like that a playoff game can end on one OT possession (be it a TD now or a FG 13 years ago), never have, never likely will.

The way that game ended was disappointing, even if I don't give a rip one way or another who actually won. Knowing it was coming from the time the coin toss was over in a playoff game is just a bad product.

Truth is AB's behavior has been so bizarre (I want to say lately here but it's been so long that it's not really "lately" any longer) that I don't believe he's healthy in his head at all. I don't have a high enough opinion of my non-existant medical skills to say what caused it, or even if I'm really right because we don't really KNOW these guys, but it feels like it would be sily to discount what (from an outsider's perspective) looks like a drastic shift in behavior after he got his head nearly taken off by that dirty SOB Burfict. Maybe that hit didn't do it, we'll never really know. Maybe he's always been barely holding it together and he got scrambled just bad enough to put him over the proverbial edge. Whatever the case I think he very clearly needs help and I hope he gets it. He'll face consequences for his actions whether he does or not, and I don't believe the man should be given a pass here, but I also really don't want to read about some tragic end for AB in a few years.

Yeah any answer other than Carruth is objectively wrong.

S20 ultra

Yeah I mean I get the excitement surrounding this game and I'd probably put it in the top 5 for regular season games but I could probably also find enough other games people got hype for that knock it down out of that. Recency bias is real.

Works for me just fine in Chrome (and FF fwiw) mobile.

I'm sorry but your trying to play word games with your "pissing and moaning" as it's been called is driving me to distraction. I'll help. Yes it's pissing and moaning, just because you think you have a good reason for said pissing and moaning does not the act change. Your reason is also highly subjective, "We need zero penalties". You do not, in fact, NEED zero penalties to win (case in point: we won). Zero penalties might be nice but it's a want, not a need. So you're pissing and moaning over an opinion. You have every right to that opinion and to said pissing along with said moaning but you also get to deal with the fallout of it being unpopular. Own your pissing. Own your moaning. Christ man I'm pushing 40 and I can't bring myself to be so curmudgeonly. Here's a differing opinion: I don't give a single rat's ass about one penalty. I enjoyed it, I bet the rest of the team enjoyed it, and it didn't hurt poo (nor will it if it remains a one time thing - and we have no reason not to believe Cam when he says it was). Lighten up. *edit because I felt like ranting just a tad more* You know the only thing missing from your post history about Cam recently is "act like you've been there before" and we can be back to peak Cam whining.

I dislike ending up on lists like that out of the blue but meh. The logical part of me keeps pointing out that with even competent QB play since week 4 the Panthers could easily have 3-ish fewer losses. I'm not even in the same area code as believing this team is good enough to actually be considered a threat to win much, if anything, in the playoffs but I understand the sentiment. So fug it.

The problem is Deangelo has run his bitter mouth to the point that he could be giving me elite level insightful analysis and I just don't want to hear it. If a 'star™ ' tight end with one good season ever is such a beacon of grudge that he makes Deangelo look like the level headed one I'm just gonna go ahead and pass on their silly podcast.

Stop. Just stop.

It was cool. I giggled like a little girl for a second because of how excited Cam looked when he was doing it. But I can't really put that on a list of overall cool / great team moments. I will still laugh every time I think about it because of how many people probably felt personally dunked on when he did it, though.

Man last Sunday to this Sunday damn near gave me whiplash.

This thread is better than the other threads PURELY because someone used dingus in a sentence.

...come on man.

I was upset that we let Cam get beat to poo the way he did. I was upset when we cut Cam, especially because of how we did it. I have not been thrilled with what we've done to replace him. Those parts of me are happy to see that he might be coming back to Carolina. The rational part of me is pretty sure that if we do send him out there behind this OL we're just going to finish the job we started the first time he played here and the team failed to assemble a decent offense around the man. Assuming this does happen I hope that part of me is wrong, but as they say, I doubt it.

I have no real reason to think that his current level of play while receiving reps with the 1s and being the starter would suddenly change for the better if he was getting backup reps only. No way I want him to transition from the starter role back down to backup long-term. I do think his ability to remain in the league can only be salvaged by playing becoming a backup but I don't expect him to be good, or even acceptable, at it without too much coaching to make the situation viable.

Since I couldn't pick which one of the 6.022 x 10^23 other bumped Darnold threads to post on this one will do. The only part about the whole thing I'm mad at is the decision to go into the season with PJ Walker as the only other option on the roster when the (at the time presumptive) starter is a reclamation project. The Panthers gambled and lost - that I'm fine with, I lean to gambling type decisions myself (this is probably why I'm not running an NFL team). There should have been literally any other QB with some sort of starting experience on the roster so there was an option if the gamble started going poorly. In hindsight it was a bad bet, sure, and at the time it was still a very risky one; not hedging that bet is the real sin.

That was an absolute dick move from a QB who is apparently just a slimy little piece of poo. He'll fit right in with his slimy piece of poo Coach. I'm glad Reddick called his chubby ass out.