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I’d grab the Heini…. Wait, that didn’t come out right.

Things are really bad when you make Leon Hess look like a model owner.

But they went with a smile… and some acid reflux.

Your high school qb in the 80’s HAS better arm strength than Bryce.

Could we splurge on a center in the second round? Cade Mays at center looks serviceable as a later round pick but, I’m not sure that you can count on that too often…

Is there a fifth option for welded shut and hermetically sealed?

I seem to recall (hazily) that the Bryce camp was lobbying hard for XL. Does anyone else remember that or is that just a fever dream?

We better start drafting some O-line talent or find UDFA gems that can be developed. For salary cap sanity, we need some eventual starters on rookie contracts to restore a more balanced cap allocation across the board.

If he keeps showing up biggly when given the opportunities, I think they will try to resign him rather than letting him walk. Why he didn’t draw more interest from other teams this past free agency period is a question I don’t have an answer for. Happy it worked out for us and we got to retain him.

You misspelled Ian Thomas.

BC deserves the love. He looked great last week, too.

Mr. Scott taking one for the team. Your sacrifice is noted.

A win despite the best efforts of the zebras. Sweet!

A nice feel good win for the Panthers. Onward!

Rico’s output last game is still a net positive for the team long term, even if it postponed BY’s reckoning by another game or so. Thrilled with the idea of retaining him and having Chubba and Rico for the next QB that replaces BY.

This. The Panthers paid up big time to get the number one pick. We gambled and lost by selecting a unicorn; mistake number one. Now the team is so over committed to shaping a Bryce-friendly roster, just to justify the original decision to trade up and draft him; mistake number two. The Panthers brain trust will now double down on the above by signing him to a new plus size contract next year? If he hasn’t proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is a franchise QB by now, how can they possibly throw even more money at this experiment? Will some adult in the room please explain the concept of ‘sunk cost’ to Tepper? Absent ego, cut your loss and move on.

Jake was an alpha. Bryce, not so much.

The first two game balls should have been given to Rico and the Fins run defense. Bonus question: why hasn’t BC been starting at guard in Hunt’s absence?

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

This will be an unpopular take but, I think we need another draft of just BPA across the board. We are not ready yet to draft another ‘franchise’ QB. Take a flyer on a late round QB, sure. We desperately need to build out this roster. We have too many starters who would be backups on another team’s roster.

We can’t even fail successfully…. [sigh]

Luke could make the player-to-DC jump. Let him get a couple years of success as DC and then the jump to HC is less of an adjustment.

And Canales responds, “No one else would take the interview… “

I like early 2025 Mendoza, hoping he continues to play at this level the rest of the season. I am also warming up to Moore. It’s nice to have choices and not just settle. No more franchise killing trade ups, please.

This suggests that Canales has job security through next season. A coach on the hot seat with a ‘win now’ mandate typically is not focused on player development.