Proudiddy

I’m half joking when I say someone from the huddle could step out there and do what he does, but I’m not. Because what he does is exactly what I expect from someone with little to no experience trying to make things happen. The way even when he tries to avoid mistakes, he seems to find them. Watching him try to run away from a defender twice his size and still get hawked down, then him try to do the smart thing and tuck the ball away, only for the said defender to punch the ball out with ease. Watching him scramble out of the pocket, get squared up by a defender, one on one, and then he tries to juke one way. No, the other way. No maybe I should’ve went the first way. Then trip over himself and fall forward while fumbling. The Jessie Bates game - those picks he threw? You see most QBs might make a throw like that a couple times a season. He has done it 2 or 3 times a game, multiple games in his career. He did it twice against Jacksonville this season. It all looks like someone who is new to this. It looks like someone who has no idea what they’re doing and are in way over their head.

I now dub Bryce, Turnover Fred.

That late pass to Tet yesterday where he beat his man… my God, I can only imagine how frustrating that is. As a receiver you only get a couple of those a game, at most - beating your man deep, and the QB doesn’t even give you a fuging chance to make a fuging play on the ball. It’s not even close. It fuging sucks.

And again, I just don’t think people realize how much his limitations impact the game. Again, watch that second play from scrimmage. The DBs are literally shadowing every receiver UNDERNEATH. They are mirroring their routes underneath, playing super aggressive because they only have to cover about a 10 yard box downfield stretching the width of the field. Do people understand how much more aggressive defenses can be and are when that is the case? This is insane.

I just can’t see any team turning him into anything. He literally can’t throw downfield. Back in the 80s or 90s, MAYBE, because west coast offenses used the short pass to supplement the run game, but that has evolved to where every QB needs to be able to throw it deep. Even in games we have won where we minimized Bryce’s impact by running the ball, it still always feels like he’s dangerously close to fuging it up with a fumble, stumble or pick. I just don’t see how that works anywhere.

Dave looked pretty damn competent in his role wherever he’s been when his QB is physically capable of playing the position. Now, to be fair, being a HC is different, but I digress… Can Coen’s QB throw the ball further than 15 yards downfield? can Baker? Can Bryce? one of these things is not like the others.

I literally stopped on the second play after watching the entire Pats secondary just run underneath all of the receivers BECAUSE THEY ARE DARING HIM TO fuging THROW OVER THE TOP AND HE CANT. and this douchenozzle says, “and so yeah, you can see right there the panthers want to keep it short and sweet” to excuse it. No, dickhead, we don’t, we don’t have a fuging choice.

21/33 for 196 yards and 2 INTs. and yes, while both Baker and Sam were undoubtedly neutered here with organizational dysfunction, no matter how bad they looked here, everyone can admit with hindsight that we were the problem. And even in admitting that, they still more often than not made us competitive. These are irrefutable stats from two seasons plus of starting. But continue to cherry pick posts if it helps you cope better. and fwiw, we saw what Baker looks like with competent coaching. What’s that you say? Who was his OC in his turnaround season? Ahh! Dave Canales! But I guess Dave just forgot how to coach a stud like Bryce.

Refuses to pass on 3rd downs despite being down to the point you have to pass and take chances. Subs him out on QB sneaks. Refuses to try a Hail Mary from around the 50 down multiple scores, instead runs a little baby TE screen. Rarely schemes up deep throws. Runs more often than passes in goal to go because they don’t trust his decision making. these have all been trends for SEASONS WITH BRYCE, except for the Hail Mary screen. Again, if you have a QB that you prefer to sub out situationally, you don’t have a QB. The fact that we are at this point after so much fuging overwhelming evidence is mind blowing. He has to have paid someone off or got dirty pictures of someone, because I just can’t fuging understand.

At being the worst Check out those big time throws!

I also like how all of these people keep trying to make Bryce’s shortcomings an organizational failure. Don’t get me wrong, the organization is f*cked. But, even with Baker, Sam, and PJ, as impotent as our dysfunction made them look, they still had flashes. They still won more. They still competed in a fair amount of games. With Bryce, the vast majority of these games are over as soon as they begin. It’s him. He is THE problem. I really wish they would quit pissing away entire seasons sticking with him. Because I promise you, if Andy was playing, everyone would be posting their “well, I’ll be damned” takes. It would blow you away how suddenly solid our entire team would look with a functional NFL QB.

I have no problem with them saying they had a great week of practice. I believe them. i literally read this earlier: It’s simple. And Jaycee is alluding to it. The play calls were working, but the Pats took off on us with Bryce missing wide open passes at least 3 drives in a row, starting with the throw off the Pats’ players facemask. It also became abundantly clear that the staff doesn’t trust BY at all. Once he missed the open throws, they usually tried to run with minimal success, then tried to pass again which resulted in failure. The plays were there to be made. The guy pulling the trigger can’t make them. That’s why the drives stalled. Then, as the blueprint has played out with Bryce since he became starter, the snowball starts rolling and eats up all the little pieces in its path along the way. The offense can’t sustain drives, the other team picks up momentum, the defensive morale goes down the shitter and they start giving up everything, etc. The offense kills every fuging semblance of confidence and momentum every week. These games look wildly different if we had any kind of ability to sustain drives and score TDs on offense. It’s like being a pitcher with no run support… you can keep pitching lights out, but when you don’t get any support, you start to crack. That’s what happens to the rest of our team every fuging Sunday. The one guy that the entire team depends on is the worst player on the field more often than not, and it results in the rest of our team bearing the responsibility of it.

It doesn’t matter. You can’t hurt him. I watched an interview with DeMaruice Smith a couple weeks back where he explained how the franchises are set up. He said he reviews their financials, but there is no way to ever know what they really make because the teams are set up as multiple, almost countless LLCs under the umbrella of what we know them as - The Carolina Panthers. And he emphasized, they make money hand over fist. It’s probably impossible to count the money they make as a profit per year. Good, bad, average… doesn’t matter. They make money beyond our imagination no matter how they perform. Im sure it’s why they’re so selective about who they let in, because it’s wealth beyond measure year in and year out. Tepper dgaf about nothing we say or do. We’re stuck with this fuging arrogant asshole until he takes the team somewhere else.

That’s my Door Dash Driver! *T.O. Face*

Question was, “Will Bryce be your starter next week?” Dave said absolutely. Said Bryce is being competent out there, he’s leading us, he has good energy and focus, and he’s the guy to lead us. i think I’m good off watching anymore of this poo.

I used to fear us ever losing the Panthers to relocation. After this run since the 2015 Super Bowl being stolen from us, and especially since Tepper bought the team - I honestly don’t think I would even care anymore. For so long, being born and raised in NC, I have viewed them as part of my identity. But, if I shook some fuging negativity off my plate by Tepper taking his shitty franchise elsewhere so I don’t feel beholden to torturing myself with a guaranteed loser year in and year out, would it really be so bad?

I don’t even know why there is an argument otherwise anymore…

I stopped myself from posting a reactionary thread during the game musing how I desperately hoped he has some kind of erotic asphyxiation fetish and has a horrible accident partaking. because not only is he the shittiest owner in all of pro sports, he proven time and again that he’s a fuging horrible person too. I’m so fuging tired of this poo. I never ever could’ve imagined someone buying our franchise and running it into the fuging ground LIKE THIS. Most people couldn’t make a franchise this bad even if they actively tried. It’s unreal.

He isn’t able to make routine throws. That’s the problem. Even throws you would expect would come naturally, he fugs it up. I said earlier in the thread, they got Tet because Bryce supposedly needed a receiver with a hug catch radius to mitigate some of the off/target throws - and he STILL misses him 9 out of 10 throws. Whatever we do to try to compensate for his weaknesses, he just gets even worse at whatever it is. We went and got XL to help take the top off of defenses and also get it to him quick and let him do damage with YAC. And Bryce can’t get it to him in advantageous spots either.

What do you call a QB with size deficiencies, athletic deficiencies, and a noodle arm? an insurance salesman.

Meanwhile, Baker is out here looking like a Steve Young 2.0.

I could be wrong, but ngl, from my observations, Andy is not what he used to be, but his arm is still noticeably stronger than Bryce’s. Even when Bryce tries to throw a pass on a line, it hangs in the air forever. It’s enough of a difference that allows him to get it where it needs to be.

When you go so long watching a mediocre piece of poo who is unable to make the routine throws, routine becomes exciting.

Dalton came in and made it look easy. Simply because he makes the easy passes.

If Tremble had a competent QB and coaching, he would be a fuging pro bowl TE. I’m not omitting the fact he can’t stay healthy as a contributing factor as to why he isn’t either, I purposely left that out because the vast majority of his in-game injuries are from him trying to do too much to make up for the lack of everyone else. So tired of this poo. Tremble is a damn good player. He deserves better.