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With a running throw in a gap in the line against school level competition with a smaller ball while his WRs slow up to catch it? That is his reality and not a hot take. His film from then proves it. Can he throw it far? Sure. Can he do it well? No and he was so bad at it that he didn't even want to try when guys were open deep lol

They won't draft another QB the owner loves him lol. And once they pay him his help level will decrease. What a waste of a great roster and coaching staff. The media wrote them off half way through the season last year because they were so weak against contenders. McDan will get fired after that extension when they are still not winning in the postseason and I am curious how he matures through that process. His 2nd HC gig could get someone a SB, his talent is there for sure. The bar is so low it's in the ground. People are just losing their minds with another Tepper quality Panther year lined up while others are just doing fan things, irrational to anyone but them but that is also normal in any fandom. I go away for a bit and come back for the laughs. Poor fans, it's freaking bleak and this go around isn't much better than the last just some changes in the SSDD approach that has been the norm the last couple of years. Sign the best OGs for too much and then use scraps at center just lol.

Didn't he not beat a winning team all season while putting up pro-bowl numbers? Faster, better arm, bigger....still a weak point for his playoff team with all of that talent around him. People are so twisted up in the Panther fan base that they can't tell how ungrounded they are at this point.

Young's play at QB wasn't the OGs' equivalent of falling on your face and missing a block, it was actually worse as it was historically bad. Wasn't the line middle of the NFL pack for time to throw even with all of those plays that were blown up in the middle? As far as his mentality what does it matter? He doesn't have the tools and they are only going through the motions because they way overspent. He is a human punching bag again this year and if you don't see that then you are not prepared for another year of Panther football. Acting like there was ever anything to build up is really funny. Dude's tool box is near empty and his best trait is he is actually durable with his tiny frame.

It's 50 guaranteed and they can walk after tear 3 or pay 30ish to walk after 2. He isn't playing 4 there, especially now. Edit: 100 guarantee. How was the other info so wrong lol. Either way they still bought the division year 1 of that if he is healthy. It now says just 25 mil I dead money in year 3 so they can absolutely afford to cut him after 2 years.

Cousins is a 50 mil bet that he helps them win a terrible NCFS race but it's a 2 to 3 year deal anyways. He would also be great when picking a project...which apparently they didn't but they couldn't know that when they signed him. Cousins may hate it but he could be the expensive backup next year or ask for a trade. How they did it with lack of communication reeks of issues in their FO. That isn't praise just saying it is understandable given it was a rookie QB even if they chose to go about it as poorly as they could IMO. I think you are way over reacting to people here saying it makes sense even if they really did it in their worst way.

He is a QB, on a rookie deal and Cousins is old coming off an achilles injury. Which QB they got is the part that is highly debatable if it was good. Yeah they could have used that on more tallent but Cousins doesn't win in the postseason so it wouldn't matter anyways. Chances are good they take the NFCS regardless this year or it goes back to a Bucs team that just breaks .500.

Having Lynch as the foundation and then Russ on a rookie contract is what made them have a great run as a contender before anything else, even with that nasty D at it's height as the rules where changing. When they stopped leaning on Lynch they lost a SB. When they leaned on Russ and what came after Lynch is what made them playoff appearance team at their best. You need both to be SB contender, SF came close but proved they don't have a good enough at one of those in the SB. Running is important, even if it's not working and still in this modern NFL even if a bit less then it used too. But you have to be able to throw it and that is where Carolina implodes. Trying to build like Seattle has been a failure in Carolina since they went and hired Fritters. It's so incredibly stupid that that is still what they are trying to do with all the options out there to choose from. I still have no faith this round of leadership will end much different than the last.

Dalton could have won 5 games before his body gave out. Young won 2. They could have taken the division with Stroud. The only future worth talking about is who they draft in the top 5 next year. Young's future is a deadend in the NFL.

In the mid-form of the season when you start to see the skill set come into play, I guarantee it - knowing what we know now - a lot of people would take C.J. Stroud number one… over Bryce Young. With what we saw this year, hindsight's 20/20. Everyone can go back and say, like bro, C.J. Stroud is a star." Newton caused a stir with his comments thanks to his close association with the Panthers. LoL

They were screwed after picking Young regardless. You can't sit the #1 pick while Stroud is out there lighting it up. So they played him and will have to do it for another year. Young was always going to be a lose-lose situation at #1 but the 'experts' and CFB fans just wouldn't admit it pre-draft last year. Yes Young needed to sit but he should have never gone #1 anyways. Reich was a bad HC, Young was a bad pick and nothing that happened last offseason can change those facts. Dalton would have been more fun to watch for sure but it's such a low bar because of how historically bad Young was not because how great Dalton would have been. Reich might have stayed longer with Dalton out there but it didn't sound like he had a lot of love working under Tepper and he came into the job with one foot in retirement. Stroud might have saved Fritterer in 23 but the team would have a franchise QB and Fritterer would just find another way to get himself fired with his team building ability.

Someone does and apparently he didn't tell anyone about it before the pick lol

I thought his contract was fat to make it happen and no one really thought he would playout at least that 4th year, just a bonus year to make the numbers work while including the guaranteed money that made it happen. It could be his last contract and to me it reads as he has 2 years and then they will see what happens then at a higher then normal cost. That QB room and the owner/gm meeting room away from cameras too. Just depends on the personality types. Cousins is a old pro with a fat contract and a no trade clause. IT could blow up or be just fine this year. By next year that's when it ramps up. Cousins could get a trade done and find another spot to finish this contract. It's 35 mil dead cap to cut/trade him after year 2 and 12.5 mil dead cap after year 3. If Cousins wanted to play somewhere else then he could give that a try but either way after year 2 the team has options. If the rookie grows and is worth it at year three then even that dead cap would just be a normal QB pay outside the rookie wage scale. Looks like they may get 1 year of rookie pay advantage and then the option year if things go well for them so 3 years lost and 2 left. They should have given a heads up to the owner, Cousins tho. They had plenty of time to say what the plan was. Cousins isn't young but it's still a trashy move when he just got there 2 months ago. That was also a rather big move considering the player and their needs. Just dumb way of doing it all IMO but I always get 'it was for a QB and you have to take shots when you see them'.

They look like they might just be the Bryce Young of centers... And if they were that great at OC then why didn't they pull that trigger the last 2 years...

Doubtful Cousins plays the full 4 years of that contract anyways and they had to do it to get him. It was a year early so that is why I called it dumb, not stupid. Build the team up and give Cousins a year then draft a rookie high to coach up. Cousins' confidence will be fine because he is an old hand, if anything this will most likely piss him off and he has a career year lol. The dumb part was doing it the year they put in that contract with Cousins. All they had to do was wait until next year. That is why I called it dumb. Given the GMs track record at QB I think this doesn't work out anyways. Again, it's a QB which is why I said they took their swing but just not impressed with the how. Like the GM didn't tell anyone he was a target at 8 in house? Anyways, if he works out they have a QB now and then in the future. I just thought how they did it was dumb and not really impressed with their pick anyways.

'We need to overpay OGs to protect the QB after spending all that on a QB' also the same people 'Using a recently injured convert OGs at C is fine because we always have an UDFA C' Sure sure makes total sense.

All that seems to have changed are the optics with Tepper. The rest seems par for the course this go round. They think they have cracked the code, again, which means it's probably all going to go pear shaped, again lol.

Hubris. It should be familiar by now and it looks to be a common tendency in people Tepper employs. Thankfully it is also hilarious to watch people try to prop it up. Straight Chandler vibes on this one. Will it be health or just being flat out bad for Corbett? Maybe both lol.

At the end of it all they have a playable QB and took a swing on their next up...even if it was a dumb as hell swing. Given the Panther's situation, that team could still take 2 wins vs the Panthers this year so some of y'all might be laughing a little too soon...

It's how all those failures here got the job in the first place. At some point it just has to be called what it is, more of the same with new twist. Morgan was a big part of the failures of last year and this year he is making his own so it's 0% surprise. This team is built to fail and at this point I'm just thankful to Tepper for one thing and that is that it really is entertaining even if it's for all the reasons I never wished for. I wouldn't be shocked if it's another 2 win season. Spending all that money on OG and then ending up with the C they have lined up is going to be peak Tepper quality entertainment.

It's so bad and it's hilarious. This team looks like it wants to never win. 'It's so new' and yet it's just another way of doing the same crap. Ignore injuries, build around past mistakes making new mistakes to justify it, poorly valued projects (at this point just admit they don't see it as much of a project as reality does) and then just flat out bad hiring (process and people). I think a Madden sim would do a better job after years of this and yet people still find hope to burn. Morgan is SSDD for Tepper in the end.

2nd round WR curse just got brought to the first. The Panthers used to have a good Wr and no QB where now they have nothing good. Watching this dumpster fire burn is the only thing left and they did not disappoint again.

Hahahahaha what a failure hahahahaha. This team is going to fail so hard again under Tepper and his people. 5th year option lol

It's the NFL, quality over quantity should be the standard. Or you could do what they did last year and do neither again I guess.

LOL did the Chargers relocate to Denver and Houston looks like Atlanta's failed unis. Alternatives? How about should be forgotten.