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When you add up the amount of draft capital we gave up for Darnold, Baker, and Bryce.... Umm... No. We need to build the rest of the team. Take a flyer on a guys in the later rounds who has a lot of tools, but at the end of the day, we're not a QB away. We gutted our team to get a QB, and now we're shallow and have glaring issues in several spots. We need to rebuild, restock, etc. Then we can figure out if we're ready for a rookie QB.

Tepper does himself no favors firing Canales. I have no clue if Canales is the guy or not, but he's not going to be able to get a top tier coaching candidate next year. Sure, folks will happily sign up for $60 million from Tepper, but it's not going to help the franchise. Canales is going to have to grow in the job. Speaking of that, our roster is going to have to grow as well. We are so talentless in so many areas. Is Bryce the guy, I'm feeling 90% a no. But we have no pass rush, little DT depth, corner depth issues, etc.

I don't really disagree with the premise that Tepper took the franchise and broke the whole damn thing. The results are there. I understand that new owners want their own guys. I understand that there's always growing pains when you transition to a new leadership structure. The problem is that Tepper tried to run a NFL team like his business. The NFL doesn't work that way. There's more than a fair share of luck in the NFL. Every contract and draft pick is a gamble. So we're here. Tepper needs to let Dan and Dave run this team for at least two seasons before he STARTS to make a judgement. Tepper also needs to get his community affairs in order. The Rock Hill thing is ugly. He's a rich man, he should foot the bill. Expecting entire communities that don't have your level of wealth to foot the bill is just plain greedy and mean. Good business, but not a great look. There's still a long way to go as far as the Panthers, Tepper, and the community. Tepper needs to fix it all, and part of that is by disappearing and doing good.

I'm so sorry @hepcat! My father and I shared a lot of good memories from many Panthers games as well. He died a couple of years ago. It never fully heals up, when someone that important to you dies. All you do appreciate the good times, the lessons, and be the man he raised you to be.

The Panthers aren't in shape to trade Bryce off without some real pertinent compensation. He's still going to count against our cap, and we're just barely getting out of his trade, still missing a lot of assets. If I'm Miami, what does Bryce offer? What a Panthers fan says? Or what the tape says? They won't ask about our starting QB. Right now, Bryce has zero trade value. Why give up assets for him when he's going to come onto the market at the end of the season if he's still sucking? Why even want him then?

I'm most concerned about Bryce's confidence. It's not looking good. If he can't get it back together, he's going to become Zach Wilson. I don't want that for him, for the team, or for us the fans. While Bryce does own his failures and problems, it's also up to Dave Canales to put Bryce in position to succeed. Watching some of the breakdowns of the game (QB School and Aaron Duncan), what stuck out to me was the general disorder on a lot of these plays. Protections, routes, and Bryce, there was plenty of blame to go around. They are going to have to get this ship in order or it will sink.

Really? People pay the inflated apple watch price and a data plan??? OMG.... I just realized how foolish some people I know are.... wow.... I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The apple/hearing aid thing is HUGE. Talk about a disruption to the ecosystem! $4k-6k for hearing aids now just $250... It will be interesting to see how that works out. Honestly, I don't really see the appeal of a smart watch other than quickly seeing the notifications so I know who I'm ignoring instead of being surprised about it =P

I don't know about the whole syngery thing =P I roll with my older fitbit versa 2, Sennheiser wireless earbuds on my pixel... I'm sure there are bonuses, but I've seen android users with apple watches, and too many people to count using air pods. I think a lot more people just get what they can on sale. Or they follow the trends...

Sorry, I'm preferential to my own burgers. I have a hard time eating Cook Out. Whenever I do, it creates a brown volcano in my guts. It's not pleasant. As far as where I go out for a burger... The Wendy's near my work has been kind to my guts and hasn't tasted too terrible. Honestly, I avoid fast food as much as possible. When we do go out to eat, it's usually for something I don't make usually or do well, lol.

I'll say right now, it's kind of fair. Dave designed the offense and called the plays. He prepped Young to play. That was kind of a major part of getting the job. Bryce's failures reflect on Canales. So it's very fair to say it was his fault. Bryce did come out and own it, like he has. Now Bryce looked like poo after the game. Very upset. Everyone, from the defense to the ST to the toilet cleaning crew understand that QBs NEED confidence. Bryce is on the verge of losing it. The only way Bryce is going to feel confident is being able to execute the game plan and find success. Can that happen? We'll see another try on Sunday!

Man, I had a Moto X with a leather black that I LOVED. It just felt so good to hold without a case. Sadly, the screen got totaled, and I couldn't replace it with insurance, again. Both times from a fall, one with a case, one without. That was such a great phone for me though. Now that I've used the big three, it's really all about price now. I think we really hit peak phone performance right now. It's hard to find a phone with an abjectly terrible camera, screen or battery life under $300. Cell phones are tools, and it's important to find the right tool. Good luck there!

I'm rocking a Pixel 8 Pro. Generally, I'm pretty happy with it. I still get those Pixel photos, the video is much better (especially with the blackmagic camera app), battery life has been great for me. I haven't had many real issues. It just works, doesn't get too hot (unless left in the sun). The screen is beautiful, HDR does pop. Speaker sucks, but that's how it goes. It's been rock solid. My wife on the other hand has not had a good phone since her iPhone4s years ago. Everything she gets (S8, Pixel 3, S21, iPhone, Pixel 8 pro) has had some kind of issues. From wifi to bluetooth, to battery life issues, quality issues, etc. She's the ultimate lemon getter. Guess that explains our marriage! For reference, I owned a S21 for a little while before I got an iphone 13pro. So I think I've played with the big boys here. My son is still rocking my S21, though he keeps running the phone to 0% so I'm not sure how much longer it will work. Performance wise, it's still great. Photos are fine. He's had zero problems (except him being a dumb dumb with the battery). The least impressive phone was the iPhone. I'm just not an iPhone person. I guess the better question is, who do you feel more comfortable listening to you? They all listen to sell ads, who are you more comfortable with =P I like google assistant. Samsung does win for hardware. It's really bleeding edge mobile in the android space. The tensor chip in the pixels is good, not great. If you end up using something hardcore on your phone, then that's an important consideration. I have a few games that I play and they work well on my Pixel 8 Pro. The AI features have actually been handy to translate stuff, asking Gemini for stuff, etc. I get that most AI is a total gimmick. It's not really AI, more machine learning fill in the blank stuff. I'd also go to a place like Best Buy and touch'em all. The hand feel is important, and one of the things I'm not super thrilled by the race to a thinner device. I've got big ole meaty hands with sausage fingers. I don't need a dainty phone, lol. Like I said, I'm happy with my current Pixel 8 Pro, and don't feel a real need to upgrade right now. My wife...maybe her next phone won't be a lemon...whatever it is!

I'm still full of hope(honestly, for a lot of things, even non-Panther things). Later in life, I've become more of an optimist. But to each their own. I will say my hope with Bryce has gone from a 75 down to a 25 in a week...so not much more to lose LOL =P

I would say we're over the 24 hour over reaction period, but this is the Huddle....bup bup bup? Now that we have 17 official games from Bryce, this is not good. I'm a Bryce "hoper" in that I want him to be the guy so we can move forward as a franchise. I caught a PFF video about the results from their analytics perspective: What really stood out is that Bryce has more games of sub 40 PFF play than he does over 70 (which is slightly above average for QB play). Now we all have opinions about PFF grading, which isn't perfect. But we've also been subjected to the incredibly bad play calling and execution of offense under Reich and this week of Canales. So what does this mean for the next 2-4 weeks? Not much. I think we're going to have to ride with Bryce to see if he's able to actually play better... If we're 0-5 and he's playing like garbage do you wrap it up and see how Andy can ruin our draft position? If he plays average but the D looks like swiss cheese and we're 0-5? Look, I don't know what the answer is. It's not my job thankfully. Canales needs to get the football right with this team (his words). If not, we're going to see a repeat against the Chargers. We need to ride Bryce though. He's going to have to figure it out. Man up as the old farts like me say. Canales needs to toughen this team up, especially with the loss of Brown. All things considered, I won't mind us losing so long as we're playing hard and playing with some sense. That was missing Sunday.

Well... Thurman and Ray are both holdovers from last year. Sheriff was claimed off waivers. Cherelus is a ST lb. Wallace is a 3rd round rookie we drafted in the spring.

I see your avatar shares the opinion. So far, Tepper has proven to be a pretty incompetent owner. Being good at gambling with other people's money does not prepare you for owning a NFL team.

I'm not sure. Sadly I'm not involved in the hiring of coaches for an NFL franchise, even as poorly run as the Panthers. But if I were a betting man (which I'm not), I'd wager that Tepper didn't want to give Harbaugh the same control he gave Matt Rhule.

We'll see. We tried the hot college coach in Rhule. We went for a steady handed vet. Now we try the hot shot coordinator. Either you can coach or you can't. Tepper also needs to be patient here. He gave Rhule a lot of time. He canned Reich before the end of his first season. If he goes off and fires another coach after a few games, no one will want to work for him except to get the bag. That's not going to help you build a better team when you have to overpay (which we did for Canales) for coaches and fire them one after another. It sucks for fans, but that's where we are right now. We'll keep finding that rock bottom (week to week would be hilarious and sad) until we don't.

I've said it in another couple of threads, but we have to give Canales time. When he was hired, it was said he was the right hire a year too early. Dave will have to learn on the job. He and Morgan need at least 2+ years like Rhule got. We'll have a good idea in the first part of year three if there's any hope for the future.

This was not an ideal start (understatement much?) for Young, Canales and the rest of the Panthers. If I'm the Panthers, I am going to ride Bryce Young all the way through the season. This is his big chance to determine if he's the guy, a guy, or an XFL QB... While hindsight is 20/20, Bryce was supposed to be a savant of play whose brain allowed him to maximize his limited frame. Supposed to hasn't been very useful to him or us. I don't think Tepper can really afford to fire yet another coach. When we hired Canales, I think it was @Verge (pleases correct me if I'm misquoting you) who said that Canales was a good hire, just a year too early. Canales needs to learn how to be an effective NFL coach. If we go back to the GM/Coach rotation again, are we going to get stuck with a retread HC again? I don't care about Teppers money, but the perception of him being meddlesome will chase off the good coaching candidates. We're going to have to give Morgan and Canales at least Matt Rhule's time (2+ seasons) to show some patience. We also need to rebuild the talent level. That's going to take time. I know we all want to be the failure to hero turn around story, but we're not set up there. We traded away (can't change the past) a really good WR, CMC, Brian Burns (he is talented!), and a pick that ended up being Caleb Williams (who didn't look particularly great in his debut FWIW). We are not as talented as we need to be. When was the last UDFA that made a splash for us? Feels like Andrew Norwell... Winning will cure a lot of ills, but I don't see that happening if we continue to play this way. Hopefully Canales is able to find a lot of good teachable moments. Right now, it feels like the same old crap. That sucks as fans. As far as Bryce - he's either going to turn into the DUDE, or he's going to lead us to a high enough record to get another chance at QB darts.

Because the chances are low of the actual vehicle, less than that of a regular car. Most fires are occurring when guys like me, enough knowledge to be dangerous, attempt to set up a 240v/80Amp circuit in their garage. But unlike those guys, I know when to call a pro, lol. You'll hear more about it because EVs are new, and everyone wants to make a point. Counter to that, in my nearly 15 years of driving 485 outer to and from work, I've only seen regular cars (ICE) burning or burned out on the highway. I've never seen an EV burning on the side of the road... Of the house fires where I've lived, the number of EVs to cause it is zero. The ones I have seen (in the NE Charlotte/Concord area): car fire (was in poor repair), bad electrical (in the house), pouring hot ashes into a trash can over night, and a multitude of other things. So the myth of EVs causing house fires is more related to FUD or bad electrical work.

I will say we were not the only team that looked ineffective and out of it. Honestly, as hard as it's going to be for the fans, we need to give Dave time to learn to be an NFL Head Coach. That's just how I'm looking at things right now.

So who else is looking forward to the post game Canales? How much positivity can he find here? We learned a lot? Can only go up? We got taken out behind the woodshed and whooped... What do you have Dave. If Bryce continues to have games this bad, he's going to lock up his replacement for sure.

Welp, so much for the off season hope... Glad that's out of my system! On to other interests! Not going to ruin my life for a season.

Thank you @lumbeecheraw75! It's great to get some first hand knowledge instead of a bunch of us arm chair critics As far as owning a Tesla, I do like the tech, hate Musk, but the killer for me is the lack of manual controls. Having to use the screen for drive mode, no stalks for turn signals (I use them, a rarity in NC I know), etc. Glad to hear yours is still going strong at nearly 100k miles! I do love the idea of one for sure, but for me, it's not a financial option. I've got just under $12k left on my accord, and it's stills a beast on gas mileage, relatively engaging to drive (6MT). Hopefully we will continue to see more charging stations out there, and more investment in EVs.