DeAngelo Beason

All QBs drafted in the first round from 2009 to 2016 were released from the team that drafted them. I'm not going through the list for you. There are two of them that we should all be extremely familiar with in Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold, however. "Short leash" has a double meaning here. One, not enough time, and/or two, unrealistic expectations of just how much they should be carrying the team. Baker had 4 years in Cleveland, for example, but three of those were very solid seasons. For whatever reason, the fact that he wasn't a world beater meant he should be discarded.

I actually think Cam Newton is directly to blame for the crazy short leash these QBs are given now. He was so good so early in his career that he reset the standard for young QB play. Before he showed up it wasn't uncommon for the learning curve to be a full two or three seasons. The high draft pick guys that had short careers prior to him typically had injuries or off field issues.

100% correct. I think any of those "good" coaches that may have hypothetically been candidates for us wouldn't consider the job not just because of Tepper, but because of the catastrophe they'd be inheriting at the QB position.

Chances are Bryce Young does indeed get another coach fired.

100% chance he's much, much better than Bryce Young. 0% chance we bring him in.

I've got us at 4 wins.

We'll see. It's not looking good for him right now, but I know if you actually watch the tape XL is getting himself wide open very frequently. Like more than anyone on the team. That's the hardest thing to do as a receiver. The other things come with timing and repetition, which neither Bryce nor XL have managed to establish with each other.

Madness.

Ocho seems extremely confident that XL has the tools. I agree. I still maintain that Bryce is making Legette look bad. Just watch the tape. His ball placement when throwing to Legette is abhorrent. They have no chemistry. It's on the QB to establish timing and he has yet to do so with XL. Receivers get "cold", and that's happened to Legette a few times where when he finally gets a decent ball thrown his way and he drops it. It's not an excuse per se, but it's very much the reality. I've seen the best WRs in the league suffer the same fate when they aren't able to establish a rhythm. If Bryce and XL sort out their timing, Legette is legitimately the most dangerous player on the team.

Luke and Cam were both victims of a team that utterly disregarded investing in an offense. Kuechly had to play with his hair on fire nonstop because the offense couldn't put up points. Our time of possession was right around 30 minutes on average, which was the lower middle of the pack for that era, and really bad for a team that was supposedly built for ball control. Kuechly had some hard miles racked up on him as a result, and it cut his career short. They consistently failed to invest in Cam Newton. It wasn't until he was already battered and beaten that they decided to start drafting weapons for him. He would still be the QB of this team had it not been for the leadership hanging him out to dry immediately after drafting him. We fielded one of the most pathetic OL groups and receiving corps in the game for almost a decade. Cam Newton was genuinely a force of nature to have achieved what he did with that offensive roster. In short, two of the very best (possibly THE two best) players in franchise history were victims of a draft strategy that blindly focused on defense (with several very bad misses), and tried to patchwork the offense year after year. If we'd simply invested a bit in the offensive line I believe the core we had could have competed for and won a championship or two.

You can hear how comfortable he is saying it and how easy it rolls off his tongue, and that's because I guarantee you he (and his many african american teammates) have likely used the word with each other frequently and for quite some time. In short, he's almost certainly been given a pass.

The NFL Pro Bowl has become one of the more disgusting, disgraceful events in all of sports.

I absolutely did not agree with the penalty for the hit on Davante Adams, but it is what it is.

Well, I could see why some wouldn't vote for him, given the cheating and all that. Brady, of course, will come out squeaky clean when the time comes despite his track record of cheating as well.

Yes. That same game where the QB had 160 yards passing. That's the game I'm talking about. The QB who can't carry his team, but instead has to be carried by his team. Yeah. That same game.