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At a certain point, when every QB looks horrible, you've got to start thinking the problem isn't the QB. PJ, Sam or anyone will look like garbage behind our line.

This. You honestly cannot evaluate this offense. Every drive starts going backwards with a stupid penalty, and every snap is a prayer that the QB will survive.

Yup. The amount of people I heard complaining that they'd commit seppuku if we drafted another high round LB. They act like stud MLBs grow on trees. I like Horn a lot. Really I do! But Parsons was the right pick for us there. There was so much talent available for CB, as our current roster proves, and giving up what? 6th, 7th rounders? Now, our top 10 pick is just one of our very talented stable of CBs, and we've got a glorified backup as our starting MLB. That was a potentially catastrophic mistake. Keep JCJr as a backup/rotational guy, but he's not a starter.

$75 for a "Red Blend?" There's no indication what percentage of which varietals, or which grapes even came from Napa. I'd take a hard pass. Conversely, $45 for a Napa Chard is a damn good deal. Chalky means the grapes were grown in limestone rich soil, which is a Napa staple. So it will be drier and less buttery, but still a quality bottle. That'd be my choice. And you couldn't pay me to drink a California sparkling.

ITT: I learned a bunch of people weren't paying attention to Terry McLaurin before yesterday. Dude is a monster. I don't know exactly how many, but a sizable chunk of Heinicke's completions this year are because he just throws the ball deep, and McLaurin makes a catch that has you going, "how the hell did he do that?"

I'm really surprised we lost. I wouldn't be saying that if Cam Newton weren't starting. He's the reason I even have hopes and expectations to be dashed. Welcome back! We'll get em next week!

Whatever happens, if we lose this, it's on the offensive line. I don't care if it's Sam, PJ or Cam, starting crucial drives on 1st and 20 is absolutely hobbling, and I've seen it way too many times from this unit.

Great news! She said if I skip her birthday to watch football this week, I don't need to bother worrying about her birthday ever again. Wow! Talk about a win-win! I honestly never thought she'd be so understanding. I'm a lucky guy.

Wife's birthday is on Sunday... Exactly how long in the dog house is seeing Cam's entrance out the tunnel worth?

"Ric Flair's heart is with the 49ers" He's dead to me as far as my football fandom goes.

Clearly Cam and CMC didn't miss a beat in their season and a half apart. I watch that, and I can't imagine how that's not a fumble when you execute it at game speed. Cam and McCaffrey executed if flawlessly with 2 days of practice.

Mood. Big mood.

I won't be instantly dismissive of anything critical of Cam, or tempering our expectations, but I will say that their critiques don't seem to go any further than, "He's not the same QB he was in 2015, and you're an idiot if you're getting your hopes up." What they're utterly failing to take into account is there's more to being a QB than just your stats. You need to be a field general, a leader and a motivator. I don't see how you can't look at the smile on Robby's face in the end zone, the entire team huddling around Cam on the sideline, and the palpable sense of swagger that we had on Sunday, and say he's not gong to be able to make an impact on this team. Yeah, nothing in there you won't find in an average message board poo post.

Agreed. YouTube and Reddit were fine. But this was pretty much the entirety of my sports app comment section:

- quote from an internet rando to an internet rando

I've been reading a few articles about yesterday's game, and then making my way down to the comments section. I was surprised by how overwhelmingly negative the comments were: "Sir Cameron Newton: Leader of Men, Lover of Puppies...Esquire," "The Cardinals didn't have Kyler or Hopkins," "He's washed," "Only 8 yards passing." On and on and on and on... And then I realized something. Damn, this feels good! As good as I feel basking in the glow of victory, and the poetry of Cam being a Panther again, I must admit, it needed a little extra flavor. And all the salt people are coming out of the woodwork to dish out today... It's been a couple years, so I forgot the Panthers experience isn't complete without haters popping up to talk poo nonstop about Cam Newton. I didn't realize how much I missed it. I didn't realize how much we needed it, and how much it's part of our identity. Because as upsetting as it might be to have people talking poo about us when we're trying to enjoy our win, it means they're talking about us. Two years. Two long years of silence. Two painfully long years of irrelevance. Just bland, flavorless, nothing. And then Cam's back. And then we win. And all of a sudden people can't shut up about us. It feels so right. So come on, haters. Dish it out! You're just making it better!

The offense not being a liability shows just how good this defense really is. We might actually have a contender here, boys!

Certainly.

Make millions of dollars in a single day, then nosh on some microwave brussel sprouts on a private jet. I don't know if that's country, but it's a lifestyle I could very much get into.

I'm not watching anything by Pat Macafee until that mf puts on a shirt.

Then we'll feel reeeeeally good about him being our backup!

Thanks for (re)sharing! I don't know if people can truly appreciate how fugging hard it is to draw something blurry, but that's an amazingly talented artist.

Yeah, you're too good for it. Better fug off, then. Woe betide us who remain here.

Jeez, chill Shaq. Are you really surprised reporters are asking about probably the most significant story in sports today?