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I don’t the rules well enough. Ball hits the ground and moves but one hand stays in control

Then the Panthers accept the penalty and they attempt a FG again

This game is horrific to watch with those penalties

Same reason Bryce has I think one in his NFL career. He is the size of a middle school kid.

If it short I’d rather get the FG than take the risk. 2 score game

Flag Bowl

He had 2 horrific ones on that drive and one great one. Thats not the math you want. We got lucky his bad ones didn’t prevent the good one from having a chance to show.

Almost a pick 6 bad Bryce itching to come out. Canales better quit letting him throw downfield

That looked like a dumb prayer to no one throw.

It was a bad throw. Simple as that. Can WRs sometimes catch bad throws? Sure. Do we need our WRs to catch bad balls at a higher rate than other teams? Yes. Bryce’s ball placement has been bad for 3 straight seasons.

Saints had a ton of calls against them that last drive. Seems more like a flag happy crew flagging everyone thus far IMO

That’s a really bad drive to allow. Saints O had countless penalties against them and we still allowed them to march the field

Any team that can has chance to put hands on a QB is going to do it

It’s likely because of the location. Jordan alone the Panther sideline. Icky was stupid. Is what it is

Bryce is an Atlanta QB. PFR separates domes from retractable roofs. Pure domes, really dictated by NO is his worst work. Just like Atlanta gives the open roof setup his best work https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/Y/YounBr01/splits/ complete Jeckyl and Hyde performances with 2 opponents. Atlanta and the Saints are the extreme variants of Bryce to date

Heck, not sure the Saints are worse without Kamara….last 7 weeks he broke 30 rushing yards once.

Packers lost to the Browns this year heck, in the disaster finale Rule season, with an interim HC, the week after we cut CMC and starting PJ….we whipped Tom Brady. good teams lose to bad teams all the time, good teams lose to meh/average teams every single weekend in sports, multiple times over. You can not be a good team and have good wins. Really bad teams generally can’t stack multi good wins but average teams can

well, would be a disclaimer on that, they could beat anyone w/ that strategy if a team doesn't show up or plays poorly. We could play the Rams 10 times and play well in most, they are going to beat us the majority of the time. Pretty big disparity in talent still exists IMO.

if you didn't watch 3 plays.....the D that played the Rams looked exactly like last years. I mean the Rams are a very good offensive team but just how easy that walked the field us on all game is a tad concerning. and the Panthers should 100000% roll out the same gameplan vs the Saints. All you need is Jaycee Horn not to give up 2 massive TDs and it's an easy ugly win. We know how the winning forumula. It isn't balance. It's leaning on the run and having Bryce make very few throws that matter. Hope he can when the few moments call.

and we won a game in the playoffs.....where our leading receiver was Fozzy Whitaker w/ just 39 rec yards. That feels like a 2025 Panthers type winning setup.

Yep, the board has amnesia to the weekly swings and declarations made. The same cast of characters has been talked about vastly different repetitively and you only have to go back as far as the game before the last one....and just keep repeating that pattern largely backwards. I personally feel confident that this team is not bad and it is not good. And while that is nice to get back to be out of the literal dumpster......I don't view this team as an average team w/ a puncher's chance. All average teams are of different molds. We are more the, if a really good team plays bad, you will lose to us variety. We aren't bad enough where you can get away with a bad day vs us anymore.

Yep, we really have risen from being so that you almost have to try to be that bad….to average (which the league is basically engineered for you to be average)….and I do worry that the brainiacs at BOA will do and treat that as. We basically have a team that doesn’t stink yet not a thing scares someone. Division being down also complicates real perspective. Bucs and Saints have the 2 easiest schedules to date this season and one team stinks and the other likely is .500ish off that advantage

yeah, with a 7-10 finish and borderline top 10 pick still being on the spectrum of finish possibilities (at still wouldn't log as the best Tepper season given we have gotten there in a different really weird season that didn't make a lot of since).

I'm waiting until this entire odd season plays out fully to really judge anything. Or maybe I should say, change what the last several years has locked into place. This is one of the weirder seasons I have seen and hardest teams to really judge. Its a very schizophrenic team/season. And there are 2 very different ways the finish could present and the board would view things vastly different from both ends of the at finish spectrum.

Bryce hasn't been pushing the ball downfield in a lot of wins. I think that's basically how lose games. Asking that of him. Not sure why people want to lose a game we can win with the proven hide Bryce most of the game and win ugly approach. and people sort of skew the Rams came up. he did not push the ball downfield nor was he asked in that game. It was the same thing as the Saints game. There were just 2 random 4th all or nothing plays that present take shot gambles