PleaseCutStewart

I honestly thought he played really well in the Seattle game despite our D having arguably their worst game of the year and having zilcho run game.

FIFY

The defense is playing like crap because most of the players on D aren't worth a crap. And that is something we knew when we lost as much talent as we did and spent all of our FA money on offense. I could care less about the D - what I want to see is how good our receivers/TEs/RBs/oline will look now that they have a somewhat competent QB back there.

Andy Dalton looked way better in 1 start than Bryce did in 19 games... Granted, I think I could go to a random no-name FCS school and see a better QB, so that isn't saying much. Nobody here thinks we are now a superbowl contender by going to Dalton. But now, we have hopes of being within single digits late in the game; not being down 30 and knowing that even if they played an extra 10 quarters Bryce would never lead the team to 30 points.

Wow, if that isn't a "I give up on this bum" type of answer, I don't know what is. This is leading me to believe that he hasn't been working hard if a coach says this during a presser

Lol, I'm trying to envision an oline of all 5 foot nothing guys that weigh 300 pounds

True, but this is probably the best oline we have had since our Superbowl year. Dalton did pretty well with quick passes against Seattle and hopefully he can do the same this year if our oline can keep blocking well.

How great would it be if Canales did this "off script" and never told Tepper. Canales would be my hero if that was the case.

Why not? If Darnold, Geno, and Baker can have a resurgence, maybe the football gods will also bless Dalton

Sadly, those 2 TD passes is the same number Bryce has had his past 9 games... And take out the GB game, and it is 2 more TD passes than Bryce has had the other 8 games...

sounds like he has 3 times the passer rating and touchdowns as Bryce and half the INTs in the same span... I'll gladly take slightly below mediocre (Dalton) over wanting to stab myself in the eyes he is so awful (Bryce) every day of the week

Pretty good deal to get paid and sit behind the disaster of a QB named Bryce. Front row seats to that comedy

Canales just told Tepper "go fug yourself" and made the decision on his own. Sources: my dreams and wishes

Is this where the Bryce nut huggers say something like "he was playing the 85 bears defense every game during that stretch"...

Maybe Bryce hasn't recognized yet that he is supposed to throw to the receivers wearing Panther's jerseys, not the other team's jerseys...

Sounds like the famous last words for him if he is putting all his faith in Bryce

This would be amazing if this happens. Hopefully somebody leaks that Tepper is a bigger freak than good ole boy Jerry Richardson

It's like the five stages of grief - we went through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and now we are just permanently stuck at acceptance... That our team is awful and will never be good again

His confidence is in the Lord because he knows it will take several miracles for him to actually play well and win a game for us. He might want to consider atheism or agnosticism because I don't think the Lord has confidence in him

And give me a reason why we don't break that record

At this point, we might have to hope for a Bryce injury if we have any chance of winning a game this year

Nice, time the our MVP pineiro to prevent us from getting shutout!

That's great in theory, but when everybody on your team sucks, I'm not sure what draft picks or young talent you are going to get... But yeah, we definitely need to rebuild whether Tepper wants to admit it or not.