DeAngelo Beason

As I've mentioned before, I think the big thing missing with XL is nothing to do with him as an individual. It's his chemistry with Bryce. Bryce is constantly misplacing balls when he's throwing XL's direction. The times where he hasn't we've seen really nice plays, and we've seen just how wide open he gets. I think that's on both of them, but ultimately we see great QB's bring the receivers up, not the other way around. It's up to Bryce Young to establish timing and consistency with his receivers. If we let XL walk and he goes to play with a real QB I just have this terrible feeling he's going to turn into yet another member of the ex-Panther-bum-turned-pro-bowler club.

Congrats to him. Hope he lives up to it

No one. There are only a few guys in the entire league right now that I think have "all-time great" potential.

If there has ever been a player in the history of this team that needs to earn an extension it's Bryce Young. So far he has not. The media can gaslight us and him all it wants, but this dude has had only a few games in his entire career where he performed at an acceptable level.

This. Panthers drop like flies early in the season every year.

I think we all want him to succeed. It's just a matter of how confident we are that he will, and how long we are willing to continue sucking because of him. This year has GOT to be his last opportunity to show he can be an nfl qb

I had a meeting with Wesley Walls a couple years back and Greg came up and sat down with us and chatted for a bit. The topic sort of came up. My sense was that he knew it was a major rebuild and was going to be ugly. Nothing necessarily to do with Rhule specifically, but he knew it was a sinking ship.

I would very much liked to have seen Jake Delhomme's career if Tommy Jone no hurt Jake. I just know that roster and the leadership were destined to hit paydirt but Jake was never the same after the elbow injury, and unfortunately he was the sole reason they didn't make it back to the big one. I think that 08 team was the best in the league, and Jake masked his inability well all season til the Arizona game put it all on display. I'll go back to the season prior even and say the 07 team was primed to be a competitor. Jake was off to a fantastic start that year (for a Panthers QB). They may have been a championship caliber club for a few seasons after 08 too.

As one of his biggest critics, I have to admit when I see that picture that I feel just the slightest little spark of hope... then I realize this was from last year, and that all hope is lost.

All he needs is 4 all pro receivers and Rob Gronkowski at tight end with at least 4 pro bowlers on the o-line. We can never know if he has potential if we don't surround him with the pieces necessary.

Yes.

David Tepper*

No one is more paranoid about the cap than Carolina Panthers fans. One of the more bizarre things about this fan base.

The QB isn't a QB, and the lineup of opponents doesn't look good. I think it will be another bad season. The league is not built in a way to mask bad QB play anymore. I'm figuring 11 losses this season assuming we split the division games... and the sad part is if we had the most average of average performance from the QB position I can genuinely see this roster delivering 11 wins or more.

I was very unimpressed with the 1st and 2nd round selections, but the rest of the draft was really solid.