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Also personally had numerous contentious debates here about Fitterer from people who liked him a lot which largely resulted in a response of some variation of "you're a fan you think you know better?" We see how that worked out.

People loved Dave Gettleman. Man even had his own catchphrase.

Sounds like the same kind of shoe shining and letting off the hook that folks did for Scott Fitterer. Been there done that. We won't get the lucky breaks we did last year with this years upcoming schedule. This years draft needs to be a homerun. Don't get cute. Good luck.

How to blow a lead for dummies in the second quarter. Pressing and poor shot selection.

The Panthers haven't drafted a center in the first two rounds since Ryan Kalil. Had one there waiting to solidify our OL and we traded up to take an RB with a torn ACL. The only people still rationalizing it are the Panthers FO or their family members I guess.

LaMelo and especially Kon and Miller have been handling business. Even Bridges has been more consistent as of late. Hornets bench needs to get it together though. Too much ugly basketball.

I hate this argument because it just casually glosses over the fact that many people here on the huddle argued Cam would struggle with the playbook and wouldn't even do much his rookie year because he was regarded as a project. Whereas Bryce Young was afforded every benefit of the doubt before and immediately following the draft. Comparisons to hall of fame athletes across different sports etc. And the flip side of this is we have no idea just how good any of these receivers could be because we have never seen them with another QB who could raise anyone's ceiling. Everything has to go perfect across the board for us to even move the ball more often than not.

Meanwhile we're over here holding onto Andy Dalton and his zero career playoff wins like our team culture depends on it.

Maybe needs it's own thread at this point.

Probably just something with their HTML coding. But anyways. I do like us finally drafting a Center. If it lands that way and we take the best one available I'll accept it as progress.

For some reason that link takes you to 2021. For reference these should work. https://www.drafttek.com/m/2026-NFL-Mock-Draft-Round1.asp https://www.drafttek.com/m/2026-NFL-Mock-Draft-Round2.asp

Looks like PFF finally took the gloves off. "Young finished as the Weeks 1-17 QB19 in his 2025, third NFL season, underwhelmingly marking a career-best season-long fantasy football finish. His full-season 71.5 PFF offense grade is just the second-best among his three NFL seasons. After improving his passing play in 2024, Young worryingly reverted to his rookie season form in multiple categories." "Young’s stable rushing metrics are also notably decreasing, resulting in his yards per rushing attempt average declining from 6.5 to 5.8 to 4.2. After averaging 0.38 missed tackles forced and 4.0 yards after contact per rushing attempt as a rookie, Young’s respective per-play averages decreased to 0.16 and 2.3 in 2024 to 0.11 and 2.0 this season. Young, 24, is firmly on the hot seat entering the 2026 offseason and could oneday fimself as another team’s reclamation project."

Right and RB's now are a dime a dozen you draft them in the later rounds. Not to mention all the money we put into two FA guard signings $153 million. With that much investment in the interior OL you shouldn't need a 2nd round running back anyways let alone one that is already injured. It's wild anyone with a functioning brain is still trying to justify it.

Are you employed by the team?

I can agree that relying on things beyond our control when we had the capacity to firmly establish our own hold on the division at a time when the division has been at it's lowest point in many years is mediocrity at absolute best. And a small group of people trying to awkwardly use the opportunity to dunk on anyone applying legitimate realistic skepticism of the circumstances is borderline cult like. Overall there seems to be an even split of glass half full glass half empty sentiment within the fanbase. I'm teetering between both until I see how we navigate the draft and FA. If we land a solid draft class and solid FA class and actually strengthen the QB room I'll be quite optimistic of our outlook going forward. But as any long time fan of this this franchise knows full well seeing is indeed believing. No benefit of the doubt for anyone involved has been earned yet.

https://lakeshowlife.com/marc-stein-just-validated-what-every-lakers-fan-knew-about-dalton-knecht-all-along Fưck the Lakers

In terms of the mutual relationship between the offense and the defense I agree we need to cease making excuses or accepting the bare minumum from either unit. We need to raise standards and expectations across the board. There should be no more water carrying and rationalizing sub 150 passing yards through 3 or more quarters. It's year four.

If Canales has any interest in his job security he has already had conversations with Dan Morgan about upgrading the QB room this year.

Canales certainly has his faults but what semblance of a passing game he's been able to create at times with Bryce Young is admittedly impressive. I mean Wilks had both Darnold and Mayfield at one point and managed to flat out get his ass handed to him by the Bengals. He's bounced around the league ever since for a reason.

Brother man right now I put him as a top 10 corner but I think it's homerism to even put him top 5. He's got work to do same as anyone else.

Darnold flashed the physical talent here but let's be real his decision making was also at times absolutely atrocious. That was always the only question with him. He checked every other box. Really he was more a victim of timing here more than anything. Rhule as his coach certainly did him no favors. And the interior OL when he was here was disgusting. For all the cries about the OL Bryce's rookie season it was much worse before. Now we have the highest paid OL in the league and people actually tried to rationalize 54 passing yards in an entire game lmao. All in all Darnold has made significant strides and while certainly coaching matters I think that is much more than just that. Adversity and being dumped and passed over seems to have had just as much if not more of an impact for his present day progression.

We certainly see eye to eye regarding the QB. I'm just saying I try to apply the same standard to any of our perceived cornerstone players and particularly the ones who are taking up a steep portion of our salary cap. I hope to see Jaycee have a resurgent season this year.

He was a solid defensive coordinator here but I don’t really see why McDermott should be held in much higher regard than Ron Rivera on the whole. Sean got his own Cam Newton like Ron and still couldn't get past the conference championship

Reading some of the wisecracks in this thread you would think the Panthers steamrolled their way into the division title and the playoffs instead of being swept by the Saints splitting with the imploding Bucs. Keep your sense of humor boys you're gonna need it with the upcoming opponents.

I mean we're splitting hairs there. Based on annual salary he is currently the third highest paid in the NFL. He's gotta step his game up and continue to step into the role. I certainly hope he does and he's largely an easy player to root for. I can appreciate speaking up for "our guys" but getting swept by the rebuilding Saints with the division and playoffs on the line and just waving that off sounds like a loser mentality but that's just my opinion.