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Are we still blaming everything solely on Reich? QB to this point looks like a coach killer. How much can you try to develop a guy just for him to look like a deer in the headlights?

Bryce where is the elite processing??? This is ugly

I like Bryce scrambling some to a degree but he makes me nervous. Definitely don't want to try to force the issue with him as a rusher.

Bryce had TMac for a first before the JT drop. He's got to settle in.

I mean even with a free play. With a QB known for some ugly turnovers. Chucking it into triple coverage?

Panthers offense is in classic form. Looks like another 5 wins maybe.

High pass.

You don't throw that. As a third year QB. No.

BIG oof.

They need a better waterboy.

Reich was terrible but we ran a shitload of plays from shotgun because Bryce was a rookie and nearly all of his snaps in college were from the shotgun. He had very few traditional under center snaps. This was discussed extensively before drafting him. I feel like it's unfair to pin that solely on coaching.

Still insane we didn't last year given how bad we were the season before and we had a first time head coach. But at least Canales is learning.

Expectations as of right now are nothing more than the young players developing and Lee taking the next step as a head coach. Need to see both unequivocally. Beyond that the obvious elephant in the room is LaMelo Ball. I put the odds (and this is being extremely optimistic) of him remaining relatively healthy throughout the bulk of the season at 50/50. If he gets a low grade injury early and puts up absolutely no argument about sitting and collecting millions then you have your answer and we can move forward accordingly.

Lewis and Zavala out. I'll be keeping a close eye on the OL depth. I'm a bit perplexed about the Scourton situation. If they're being cautious that's fine but I saw some comments from Dave where he was displeased with the lack of conditioning from some of our guys in the joint practice. Not a huge deal but also not something to overlook either considering we're about to be heading down to Jacksonville for the season opener within 3 weeks. And needless to say it isn’t going to be any better.

I view it through a different lens. Expectations are extremely low for UDFA's. He has 21 career starts scattered across multiple seasons in random spurts and he's never entered any camp getting starter practice reps. The worst Panthers QB the last several years would be Darnold due to his draft position and the fact he received starting QB practice reps all along and still stunk more often than not. And he had all the phsyical tools any QB could ask for. Plus we paid that dude $27 million and for some reason some folks have more barbs for Walker than him. Strange.

This thread is clearly for amusement more than anything. But yes Walker regardless of how people may feel about him has sadly been one of the better Panthers QB's the last several years. Why that irks some people idk.

You're such a fraud.

I don't know why anyone expected much different from these lists. They are largely based on name recognition and what each team did the year before. Few people in the sports media realm are going to give this team the time of day until the Panthers flip the narrative on it's head. Just how it is.

It seems like he's inferring that more in terms of QB3 not a Dalton replacement. And let's be real. Dalton is 37 and missed multiple games for a thumb sprain. At the end of the day I like Andy the person but I give zero fugs about that. The Saints moved on quick fast and in a hurry and we mock them mercilessly for their QB situation. We need to at least try to be consistent here.

Right but that's a low bar

Hung? Bruh. This man has $113 million in career earnings. He's living his best life and we are helping him. Legitimately some of these convos are too reminiscent of the Jerry Richardson just happy to be here years. But at least back then we had a winning season almost every other year. It's weird some of you are going to such lengths to talk about killing someone when all anyone wants is a QB who isn't cheeks.

We are 4th in the league in OL spending. Either way we are doing more for the overall group than we have in many years.

9th highest paid backup QB for 2025.

Rustling huddle jimmies on a Friday night eh? In all seriousness I would prefer not to go backward. But Andy Dalton is unequivocally not it. So it should be a priority to at least attempt to upgrade Jack Plummer.

Sounds like a nice day for our young pass catchers. Can't read into it but growth is growth. It would be a welcomed relief to see a more competent perfomance from the whole team on Saturday too.