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I've endured watching Jimmy Clausen play under center. Don't be telling me what bad QB play is.

Still don't trust Sam Darnold to not give a playoff game away but a defense like that coupled with a good run game, that may just be enough.

Canales is saying he called the flea flicker which just utterly baffling. Why call that when you have momentum? Why call this when ball security was a huge question mark due to the conditions? Why call a play that had one, maybe two players on a route and neither are going toward the end zone? Given that Canales had called out Legette in a prior game for a lateral that wasn't part of the play, I doubt this was Rico improvising, either.

Not sure how to feel, to be honest. The heavy rain made me think whoever had the better running game today would have the big advantage. 138 yards to 19 yards is a travesty, but also a confirmation that our run game has gone downhill over the last few weeks. Our tackling was not good, and it was especially painful seeing Mayfield making our guys whiff. We did at least take advantage of the turnover but the pick was not good nor was the missed field goal. I have no clue what was going on with that flea flicker - if that was even the designed play or just Rico doing something incredibly dumb - and the refs, boy, they went and screwed us over multiple times. T-Mac has been manhandled like crazy and that's not called but he gets a flag? Wow. Worst part was actually the team rallying back - despite everything that happened - because that meant putting my faith in this third and Evero defense to make one key stop and the entire world saw it coming that the Bucs were going to pass. And of course, the guy was wide open. Classic Panthers raising my spirits to utterly crush them. But they haven't done that to me in a long time. I don't like it, but it's like we're finally back to what this Panthers team was before Tepper took over.

All I can say is that it's been a long long time since there's been a Panthers game I cared about this late in the season. Have to be ready to be massively disappointed. Or elated.

General observations: 1. Too much pressure without having to send extra guys. Generally a bad situation to counter. 2. More success running out toward the perimeter. And yet, we kept going back inside where we struggled. 3. Panthers receivers beating man coverage remains a problem. 4. I feel Bryce has been baited into that type of throw before. 5. Seemed there wasn't as much misdirection.

I'd rather see the Falcons somehow blow this lead because it's the Falcons.

All that offense and it takes a play on defense to win.

...well, that was not Purdy.

Allen had a guy open for the win and he whiffs it.

Needed no mistakes to win against a superior opponent. Called ball game the instant Chuba fumbled. More surprised we almost clawed back but Horn... man, just flat out dumb mistake.

Dicker playing like the Chargers kickers of old. That uniform is bad mojo.

Now that's a backbreaking interception.

Lions fans given the biggest lump of coal for Christmas.

On the NFL on Netflix, the Lions gave to us... five turn-overs!

The Lions are in the spirit of giving (the ball away) today.

Broadcast has that preseason vibe. Don't like it.

I'd be looking real good at the upcoming draft class for a Plan B that only costs us a late round pick or no pick at all. We're already getting a good return with Coker. Even if XL can turn it around, Moore/Renfrow aren't sticking around and so we should pick up another guy anyways.

I'm not exactly comfortable asking O-line combination number 12, 13... whichever one we have next week to pass pro long enough to even attempt more deep shots. Even if we had a prototypical gunslinger QB with a rocket arm, even guys like Coker who has shown great speed often still has a defender draped on him anyways. Seems that we but need dimes for those deep shots to succeed whereas other teams have a larger margin of error.

Same. Some play designs are actually pretty good, but Canales just doesn't strike me as an offensive guru with how some of these plays seem to not help make things easier for our offense at all.

Luke still has it.

I'm starting to get the impression the Colts were going to collapse even if they never lost Daniel Jones.

Eddy couldn't even kick 54 yards reliably with us. These new K-ball rules adds around 5~7 more yards, apparently.

Old man... Rivers!