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Lot of parallels between Clowney and Bryce, Chief among them being that folks with eyes and a lick of common sense struggled to understand where the hype was coming from. Clowney just rode the wave.

Shame for him that he didn't end up panning out but man, Carolina has such a horrible, horrible history with WR selections. It's kind of impressive in a dumpster fire kind of way.

Just to be clear, they have not yet actually activated him. That move is still to be made, though Coach Sunshine is optimistic about it being soon.

Exactly what I was going to say, but in this form.

The fine is ridiculous but that was a bad decision to drop his head completely down. Hopefully he learns from that.

Rhule was clearly going to be a bad hire from the start, but at least taking a shot on a college coach can be explained. Handing complete friggin' control of an NFL franchise to a mid-tier college coach with zero success against real college competition and basically zero NFL experience is where Tepper went full dumbass, and that's a bit outside the scope of just 'bad coaching hire'. Reich was a similarly bad hire of course and was not going to achieve anything in Carolina, so this is not an excuse for Tepper going full dumbass again, but the cupboard was pretty bare and contributed to him looking even worse than the below-average coach he already was. Layer Tepper meddling and coaches acting like spies into the mix and you have another scenario that extends beyond 'bad coaching hire'.

Shenault says otherwise.

2017 called. They want their news back. https://www.espn.com/blog/minnesota-vikings/post/_/id/25242/virtual-reality-played-a-role-in-transforming-case-keenums-game And until he's wearing a brain stimulator like Kirk Cousins in the Quarterbacks show, he's not giving it his all.

It was downright negligent to not have a valid backup on the roster. Lo and behold...

My concerns started when Tepper retained Ron and Marty for 2019, were heightened to alarm levels by the Rhule hire, and I hit 'just friend' when Rhule was retained in 2022. Now basically entirely apathetic, but that is also aided by the giant turn-off that is the NFL's monster push toward gambling. Love the players themselves giving it their all, but I was a diehard since '95 and the current ownership and decision-making has completely killed my investment.

Thank you, we'll be playing for the bracket championship! Focus has been on teaching and prepping them for the jump to middle school tackle, so on defense (my side of the ball) we have strong/weak orientation, multiple coverages and formations including split field, blitz packages, and a bunch of pre-snap calls that other teams don't. It's a little out of place for flag and they sometimes make the painful mental mistakes that remind us they're still only 11, but our boys will be well ahead of the curve next year vs the kids on teams that just come out and rely on the best athlete to do his thing. One mom jokingly said yesterday that she 'blamed me' for her son now constantly pausing NFL games on TV and talking about the coverage he was seeing Great feeling to help kids love the game at that level. Back on topic though, no surprise that Bryce looked a little better in soft garbage time. He is no more than a really expensive low-ceiling project QB at this point.

Apologies if my sarcasm was not evident. No, I did not watch it, as I was coaching my 11 yr old's flag football team. We have up far fewer points than Carolina did.

To be fair, 4/7 for 58 is a pretty good day for Bryce.

Yup. He had a moment here and there but has otherwise had a very nondescript career. He made it to year 7 though, lot of players don't last that long.

Now 13-21 in primetime slots, 1-3 in the playoffs. 65-48-2 in non-primetime games. Unclutch may not be the right term, but he is the Matt Rhule of QBs - inferior results when the lights are brightest and competition the best.

Horn passed his curse around this year, but he is healthy. Monkey's paw.

Especially not Diontae Johnson on a 1 yr. deal. Besides, trading him at this point further hampers the offense, and wasn't that a core issue in the first place? Being unable to evaluate anyone because of major talent gaps? He's not an All Pro but let him play out the year unless a blockbuster trade offer comes through the door and avoid letting defenses absolutely swallow up the middling talent at other positions.

Yup. Been 10 months now and he was supposedly ahead of schedule 12 weeks post surgery. He's not playing this year.

If it makes you feel any better, Burns wouldn't help at this point AND the offense would possibly (likely?) be worse.

Which was exactly the point of letting him go, to spread the resources. It was no guarantee that the FO would make the right moves but seems like they made positive decisions with that money thus far.

THE problem, as in singular? No, definitely not last year but moreso this year. Arguably the BIGGEST problem? Possibly yes last year, definitely yes this year.

They're not particularly good and they've been doing a lot of blocking. Nothing crazy going on.