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Dave found the playbook in the hidden safe. There will be no stopping them.

Considering that the post that I responded to was before yours, I hadn't made it to yours, so no need to act like you were ignored. And note that I also said "some/all of their guys to varying degrees", meaning that different teams have different approaches all across the spectrum. Frankly, Carolina IS a losing team and until proven otherwise any approach that keeps the starters off the field is ripe for questioning given all of the turnover at the key positions. Yes, San Diego has had a lot of turnover as well, but Jim Harbaugh gets more credit for knowing what he's doing as an HC and how to evaluate a team than Dave Canales. Just the reality.

No one is suggesting that first-teamers play entire preseason games. However, there is little doubt that a team with a new coach, new schemes, and new players at key positions would likely benefit from getting a few drives under their belts during the preseason in true game situations. I get that a lot of the league is moving toward this model but when the best in the league do something, such as the Chiefs, 49ers, etc still playing some/all of their guys to varying degrees, it's fair to think that it adds value. Like everything in recent years though, the rubber will meet the road here in 2 weeks and time will tell how Canales' strategy works out this season.

That throw was 70 yards through the air and is exactly the reason why arm strength matters. It's not because teams should just go verticals all the time - that would just be stupid - but because teams that can capitalize/work some magic from long range win games because of it. Not every game and not every time of course, but better to be able to do it than not.

Nor can Bryce for that matter.

Carolina is still currently the worst team in the league. Just sayin'. Will be for at least 2 more weeks when the regular season starts.

Clausen was awful but also a consummate professional during his time here.

Thus the 'dumbass' in the comment. And yeah, the team was struggling and Rivera/Hurney was stale, but everything Tepper has done (or signed off on as you mention) has been 2 days late/5 dollars short at best and utterly stupid and disastrous at worst. Plus, those people advising him were his own selections. The failure here is not zero sum by any means.

God these types of 'highlights' are freaking worthless. Hate this dumb trend where you can't actually see anything contextual. Looks like nice placement and a good catch though.

The peaks have been high for sure but 7 winning seasons in 30 years and only 10 total at .500 or better, no back-to-back winning seasons ever, and the utter tripe of Tepper's (6 years and counting now) tenure means the organization has been a smoldering dumpster fire for much of its existence. And that pursuit of the perfect record you mention was a decade ago now, basically irrelevant. I've been with the team since day 1 and take the good with the bad, but let's not try to sugarcoat it. Just the plight of the Panthers fandom.

Don't really disagree, but there is a lot more evidence supporting one of those than the other at this point.

Bryce completed a pass vs the NY defense on one field while Jamison picked off the NY offense on the other.

Good choice for today. Dante Hall did more with less as a returner than Devin Hester, who was very, very good but ultimately overrated, benefitting greatly from superb Bears ST play.

Bryce is objectively not very good at this point and appears to have developed nothing further than where he was last year, he and the offense are not having a very good camp at this point, and Canales keeping him and the offense off the field can sure make it seem like they're being hidden even more while at a minimum giving fans nothing to actually be positive about. Sorry man, but while spouting nonsensical badmouthing is dumb, it's entirely rational to criticize and have a poor outlook at this point. Doesn't mean the team (and especially the offense) can't still develop of course, but there is zilch to support that at this point.

Bingo. Just like Canales (though to a lesser degree than Bryce IMO), have to show notable and steady improvement to hold the benefit of the doubt. 2021 Lions were 3-13-1 but got steadily better as the year went on and looked like a competent football team a good amount of the time - gotta be like that.

Nowhere did I say he wasn't good and nowhere did I say that Carolina should keep going for retreads, though ironically that's exactly what Dak would be in this scenario... if he wasn't, why wouldn't Dallas keep him? I said he's not good enough to bother with at that cost for a team in Carolina's position - that money needs to go to a game-changer, and Dak is not that kind of player. If Dallas isn't getting it done with him these past 8 years, there is absolutely zero reason for a team to expect him to be their missing piece.

Just checking the thread out but what a non-sequitur, as if having an anticipated expectation for the future is 'fortune telling'. This is the kind of intellectually-empty statement that made things so divisive last year. Still have the rest of the thread to check out but bet it's a lot like the prior days. It's realistic to expect things that have happened to continue to do so. Wonder how the team will look on the field this weekend.

Him, Chris Harris, and Kurt Coleman all fall into the 'flash in the pan' category, guys that captured lighting in a bottle for whatever reason and over-achieved for a season before fading away into JAGness again. It really is crazy just how forgettable, if not outright bad, the safety play has been for 30 years aside from Mike Minter.

Not sure I feel as strongly about Woods as you seem to but 'one of the best safeties in team history' is an extremely low bar. There is Minter, Deon Grant... and no one else outside of a couple of flashes in the pan.

No one 'passed on Lamar'. Baltimore was not letting him go, full stop, and they were just letting him test the market and negotiate. Any team that invested time reaching a deal was going to get matched by Baltimore. He was never actually available. Regarding Dak, he does not elevate the team around him. He is a slightly better Kirk Cousins. If you think that is worth hella money and hanging your hat on, go for it. Meanwhile, Dallas will continue to go nowhere meaningful with Dak at the helm.

No one pursued Lamar because they weren't going to do Baltimore's negotiating for them, and Dak is absolutely not any kind of answer. I recognize that it's been a miserable several years but there is no need to do stupid things. That is how the team reached this point in the first place. That won't stop Tepper from doing plenty of stupid things of course, but the objective situation can't help that.