Khyber53

I don't want the guy to fail. I really don't want that for anyone. Have I thought he wasn't the guy and that this was a total swing and miss? Yep and I've said it often. So very often. Would it hurt me to be wrong, dead wrong? Not one bit. I'd happily chirp about how wrong I was. So, he's apparently maturing and the time on the bench seemed to have helped. We've got a bye week and then a game against the World Champ Chiefs coming up. Is he going to play lights out in that one? No chance really, they are the world champs for a reason. But if I can just seem him limit his mistakes, recognize a handful of opportunities and make the most of them, then I'll keep feeling that maybe Canales is helping turn the kid into a QB. But let's get real, really real. QB ain't our only problem. It's a big shiny jangly one, but this is a team that has a bunch of young guys, a couple of good players and a bunch of guys that would have trouble earning a roster spot elsewhere. And we've got to grow the good and be able to figure out which ones are weeds the need to be yanked out and which ones are the good shoots that just need to be tended to carefully. We are at the bottom end of the league, have been here for some time now. Down at the bottom of the well there are three groups: those sinking down fast, those that are long-term bottom dwellers and those that are finally starting to claw their way back up through the mud and muck to the light. The last two weeks have made our long-term bottom dwelling asses look like we are finally starting to claw our way back up. We're going to lose games to the mid to good teams, but we can and should be able to beat the other bottom dwellers and whoop those coming down to climb over their bodies on our way back up. New Orleans and New York just got pushed down and scrambled over. KC will kill us, but maybe we can catch a couple more of those sinkers and stand on them. If we can do that, we will be moving into and then past survivor mode. And maybe that quiet, little and timid QB might find something in himself once he has a few more teams under his feet. That well is mighty deep, though. It could take time. Detroit didn't get there over night, and neither did Kansas City.

This ^ 100%. It was a win, enjoy it. Some young guys, including Bryce Young looked like they might have something. And after the last few years, that says a lot. And Chuba, well, Chuba got a big payday this week and he played like he's still making a case for it. I think he was the diamond in the rough we've been needing. Glad to see him being dominant in a game and getting some notice league-wide. Money well spent. And Wonnum.. wow, can't wait to see him keep developing, too.

That look on his face as he was pacing the sidelines before halftime said an awful lot about whether he thinks the Monday morning meeting will be an exchange of a playbook for a banker's box or not.

W beats any stats. For one game, at least.

He's growing up some very young players very quickly. I'm interested to see how much more he can get out of them, or put into them. I've had my doubts, now he's piqued my interest.

There's no better story than a redemption story. But, we're only on chapter 2. Hope he keeps improving, but there's a lot of pages left to go. Still, it's nice to have two wins in a row and seeing some green shoots coming up from the manure pile we've had sitting there for a few years now. Still too early to tell if those are weeds or not.

It's more than I could have hoped for. And I will cheer and admit my errors of judgement along the way.

Maybe Bryce is loading another river stone in his sling. Kid might go down as the coach killer.

Yanno what? He's showing improvement. I'm going to sit back and let him work it out. Maybe it all comes together and all that hard work starts paying off for him or it will tell another story. It's not like we're planning on going on a tear and get into the playoffs or anything, but that last win kind of took some of the desperation edge away from my thoughts on the team. Let the kid play, he'll either grow up before our eyes or make the case that we undoubtably have to move on. Right now, I have no reason to question his work ethic. I just have questions about the results of it.

Hey, I'm glad for this. Chuba is the kind of guy you build a team around. We need those guys, desperately. Will he still be making less than his stablemate Miles Sanders?

We needed the room, be prepared for a lot of deck clearing over the coming weeks. Trade deadline has passed but releases can happen for folks we decide won't be needed for the rebuild.

Coker needs to be the starting slot receiver, just keep him out there, run him into the seams of the defense and just wing it to him.

Daaaang! Bryce killed an opposing coach! Things might be turning around!

It was a win, something rare, let's just enjoy it for a bit, pat some backs and say "good job". We all remember how to do that, right? It has been sooo long. Give it a day or two then we can go back to picking the carcass.

Wish I could say there was going to be a win here, but I'm just not seeing it. Panthers 14 Saints 31

We need a new QB. We shouldn't pick one in this draft before the third or fourth round. It's not about the QB position at all. It's about building a team. We need to concentrate on defense right now, nowhere else. We need the best D-lineman and/or the best MLB in the first round. Players who can impact every single play of the game. DB would be great, but it's a luxury that we can't afford in the first round. We've got to grab the best first or second level defender available to us, perhaps trade back in to the first for a second dip. At QB, we just need to grab a journeyman vet out there and roll into next season with the intention of building a strong defense under a new defensive coordinator. Build the defense well and it will give a young QB more chances.

I'm glad he's performing admirably as a back-up in a number of positions. Hopefully he can remain here and do some good.

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This ^ 100%.

To officially be "tanking" would mean that you could win a couple if you really tried. I'm not sure we can win any of them, no matter how hard we try. There's tankers and there's suckers. One is a temporary thing, the other is a long-term deal. We're on what? Season 7 of "tanking"? Let's face it, we are bottom feeders in this league right now. If there was relegation in the NFL, the Panthers would be making next year's schedule with the Sun Belt Conference and just trying to stay in Division I.

He came to be a part of this and did his part here. Sad that we couldn't be better for him, but he's got a better opportunity now. He was a rental here, anyway. Best of luck to the guy. Now Jalen Coker will have more opportunities to show us the future here.

And yet, Jamarcus was an even bigger flop. And that's why I chose him over Bryce, after much consideration.

After purchasing this team, Tepper had it in mind to make heavy use of analytics and attempt to modernize how this team is built based on installing a 3-4 defense like Pittsburgh (the team he had been a minority owner in before) and pushing for a more pass-heavy offense. In the process, he jettisoned the team identity of being a smash mouth football team on both offense and defense, and created a six year losing stretch (is it seven now? eight?). Our defense has never made the actual transition and he has had his fingers all over the QB choices and trades we've made or tried to be in on. I get it, though. He wanted to modernize the team, put more butts in stadium seats and create a perennial play-off team, rather than an on again, off again team. And he tragically mis-read the room, as well as his choices in management and coaching. So, now here we are, standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin... again (apologies to The Kinks). When it is all said and done, Tepper's draft picks haven't been the worst ones we've had. The worst one in Panthers history was when the owners of the other 31 teams of the league got together, looked over all the ownership options, and "drafted" Tepper to be our franchise savior. Yippee. He had won the Hedge Fund Heisman, after all. Studied under the Rooneys. He's proven to be the Jamarcus Russell of NFL owners.

I tried telling you... No one ever listens.

Trade back for multiple picks. Multiple multiple picks. We have an entire team to build. We aren't one guy away from competing. Let some other QB desperate team way overpay for the right to be cursed by the entire Sanders family.