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I just worry about Chinn at FS. Its going to be a lot harder to put the stamp on the game he did last season and it takes away some of his strengths and puts some of the things hes not quite as good at in the forefront.

Of course PFF can be inaccurate and isnt the be all end all but there are some pretty interesting numbers. I had mentioned in another post my concern about Chinn being at FS mostly and his grade kind of showed that. Ian thomas being our 2nd highest graded player on offense and Luvu being our highest graded defensive player were both pretty surprising to me. Safety in general seems like a pretty rough spot. https://www.google.com/amp/s/pantherswire.usatoday.com/lists/panthers-pff-grades-week-1-jets/amp/

Maybe so. To me it looked like the sit on the lead coaching on both sides of the ball we have had since the franchise started basically it feels like.

Rhule himself said in the postgame conference that they stopped blitzing after a while because they trusted the front 4 to get pressure.

Chinn at mostly FS I dont especially like. He did fine for the most part but he definitely wasnt able to put his stamp on the game like he did most games last year. I think it takes a lot of his strengths away and highlights some of the things he isnt quite as strong at. Its only one game though so we will see.

Certain people were prepared to complain no matter what, and actually one or two that I was expecting to, arent.

This is the most stout our line has been against the run in years it feels like. Especially the interior. Our dline is straight up bullying them when they try to run.

Our quarterback is 17/22 for 235 yards and 2tds in the FIRST HALF, and some of yall have been bashing him the entire time. He hasnt played perfect sure but some of yall need to look in the mirror and be honest with yourselves.

That throw was 52 yards in the air across his body on the move. That's that potential you hear about.

Good strip by the FB. Why did we cut Armah again?

It is interesting, I will say that. He seems to love going with youth and doesnt really factor inexperience anywhere but the online. Everywhere else he has seemed to prefer young guys so far.

The contract was only a small part of what I was saying. What I was saying is he even offered that long of a contract is because from the start they knew they were starting a rebuild that would probably take more than 2 seasons to see the end result. If they are really bad this year and draft a qb early and they appear awful the season after that then I could see his seat getting really hot, but right now they haven't even found a qb they are fully behind that they dont think is a project. Hopefully Sam becomes that but by the investment it seems like they are taking him as a gamble. Hopefully it pays off.

Rhule wont be fired after his second season. I would pretty much bet on it. He inherited the start of a rebuild. Tepper seems impatient sometimes but he has mentioned the rebuild multiple times, the same as Rhule has. While Tepper really doesn't worry about money much most likely he didnt give Rhule such a long contract planning on firing after his second season of a rebuild.

To be fair besides maybe the quarterback part, you really shouldnt know the answers for the first couple seasons. If its instantaneous success then it could be carryover from the previous regime. Our franchise has changed literally as much as it could the past couple seasons and as far as I'm concerned it's still not finished with the complete rebuild that they started but so far things look promising to me.

To be fair Cam did get called out for some stuff early on if I remember correctly. I'm pretty sure I remember Thomas Davis telling a story about jumping on him to go to the weight room with the rest of the players and some stuff like that.

The people complaining about the captains are the same ones agreeing that Sam wouldn't be one in the other thread, so it checks out.

Sam is one for all the people saying he wouldnt be. The list of captains announced Thursday includes: Linebacker Shaq Thompson, running back Christian McCaffrey, cornerback Donte Jackson, defensive end Brian Burns, quarterback Sam Darnold, center Matt Paradis, right tackle Taylor Moton, and long snapper J.J. Jansen.

Welp, this didnt age well. Sam is a captain.

You act like for years we didnt have a huge amount of fans that were bigger Cam fans than Panther fans.

The deep ball is definitely a cog. It is very overrated by some people. There are plenty of short and intermediate routes that definitely arent check downs. I would say the saints offense thrives off of intermediate routes much more than any deep balls.

For the most part I would say our offense isnt built on taking that many down the field shots. Its built on timing and getting the ball in the playmakers hands with some separation. Its much more based on yac than deep balls.

That's what I was thinking. They dont have similar skillsets at all. I have thought for a year or two that Howell reminds me exactly of young drew brees, even the negatives.

Maybe there is an "elephant" in the room or maybe the former patriots player who has been around the locker room knows more than we do about what is going on in the locker room in NE. Which is a much more complicated offense than we ran. This is why everything with Cam is so divisive. You can see negatives in a player without there having to be an "elephant" in the room. Do those "elephants" exist? Of course they do, but you can say negative things about a player or you could think it wasnt the best move to give Cam a giant contract in the shape he was in a couple years ago and not be an "f150".

While I do agree with this common thought in some ways, the main thing Rivera did is not protect Cam from himself. Cam always had a physical battering ram style that from his rookie year caused people to be worried about his career longevity. Honestly that is the main thing that made Cam so special. The problem is all of his major strengths (giant arm, not crazy fast but pretty fast for a qb but very big) were the ones that fade the fastest and his weaknesses (timing, touch, sometimes accuracy) were what you have to live on later in your career. I think it was evident from his first season on that there was a chance that he wasn't going to be potentially great for long.

I wonder how much more of an affect there is to home field advantage early in the season. So much bigger crowds and noise compared to what they are used to. With all the restrictions last year this is a lot of the players first times experiencing a crowd like this.