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Lamar threw a bad pick and had a fumble early on, just dropping the ball while trying to spin out of a sack, that led to Buffalo points. He started rough but finished stronger. Pretty good candor there on his part.

Eh,Teddy is a longtime NFL player and was on the team in 2023, basically the prototype backup. I bet there was regular communication and Teddy didn't come in cold. Wouldn't think much of it considering the move was made for the playoffs when the stakes were highest.

Lamar did plenty to contribute to the loss. Just something about the playoffs. Gotta eliminate those gaffes in these games.

Playoff Ravens. Boom.

Playoff Ravens, you love to see it. Buffalo not wanting to put it away though..

It's like watching Jake back in the day, though Lamar is obviously infinitely more athletic.

Playoff Lamar strikes again.

Buffalo can't afford to have any more drives with zero points. Harbaugh will wise up and just let the OL and running game push it down their throats, taking Playoff Lamar out of the equation. Baltimore is the AFC version of Philly's running game.

There's the playoff Lamar we all know and love.

Gross. Screw the Eagles.

Screw the Eagles. Nice little non-call for that center holding.

No real disagreement, but it's fair to say that some players just aren't built for certain assignments. That can certainly be a condemnation of the coach.

I think they were feeling themselves a bit much coming into the game and it compounded the 'bad day' aspect of things. Either way, it happens, and Campbell is a good coach overall. They need to cool it a bit with the trickery but not much, easy to get too cute and that's exactly what happened with the Williams dagger of an interception.

Luvu wanted to leave and was not going to stay no matter what. Can't blame him. No one in Carolina could figure out how to properly use Chinn and he sure wasn't a fit for Evero's cloud-soft whatever it is. Chinn had options from other teams and ultimately chose Washington due to scheme fit - the attacking style is working out well for him. I'm still not convinced his best fit isn't as a WLB/SUBLB but Washington seems to have him as close to his rookie performance as anyone thus far.

What comments exactly? The one where you damn with faint praise? "While I agree that there are better candidates to bring that here, let’s look at why Quinn could be that guy to at least stop the bleeding" Or the one where you make no assertion whatsoever about his potential for success and list every possible outcome? "Whether he turns out to be a successful McCarthy style retread, the Defensive version of Frank Reich, or a transitional guy who hovers at .500 is yet to be seen."

Lions are the best offense in the league. That's doing just fine in this situation. Not ideal, but staying in the game.

What narrative is that exactly? I said it's a dumb 'stat' in all cases for all QBs. Analytics and data analysis has its place for sure but the more arbitrary, esoteric things like this can be dumb. Guess my lack of narrative doesn't fit your narrative though.

I just find that particular esoteric 'stat' to be an eyeroll for any QB and make fun of it wherever it pops up, always have. The fact that it was tossed out ad nauseum across Pantherland these last weeks led to my sarcastic comment. Bryce played better for sure, but the BIG TIME THROWS stat itself is silly in any context.

And hear about BIG TIME THROWS.

I feel the same as my initial assessment - mid- to low-level starter over time with occasional flashes of more, a la Teddy and Alex Smith. I now believe he has way more chance of maintaining that type of performance over time than I did after the first 2/3 of his career starts, but it is going to take another 1/2 to full season of next-level play to buy into him being good enough to really be worth counting in the 'franchise QB' territory. If he does it though then I'll be wrong and everyone involved will be the better for it. Will revisit it around Weeks 6-8 next year but won't give it a second thought until that point. That said, my bias is that I think you have to keep swinging until you get a true upper-tier guy if you want to be perennially competitive in this league. If your QB isn't clearly in the top 5 of the league, then he's not good enough to win without the stars aligning. Teams spending that kind of money on a Tua, Trevor, Kyler, Geno, etc are just trying to maintain a status quo and hoping that the stars align and lightning strikes for a season. That speaks as much to the business of the NFL though since teams need fans and fans need hope, so it is what it is.

As if him being currently employed actually prevents anything... come on now. That's exactly why there wouldn't be anything publicly known, but we aren't naive enough to think that the conversations like that don't take place. They absolutely do, and quite often, in one way or another. It's the same thing with fans declaring "Why didn't we talk to So-and-So player?!?" when they sign with someone else; in many cases preliminary conversations took place, it was just clear it wasn't going to work and there was no upside to either party disclosing that. Exact same thing that happens in every business and industry in the world. With respect to Evero, I've never been a big fan and don't like the kind of scheme he runs (which is not exclusive to him or Carolina these days). I do believe/am willing to give the benefit of the doubt that if Canales and Morgan (or any other staff in this situation) thought a better option was available and viable at this time, they explored it before this particular news about Evero staying came out.

Who says they didn't? We have absolutely no idea what all goes on behind the scenes, be it the coaching staff, free agents, or anything else. No reason to automatically assume that anything the public didn't hear about never happened... in fact, I'd say that a sign of a good staff and FO is the ability to operate without everyone knowing every detail.