Icege

Chuba pls

I expected Elflein to be awful, but Matt Paradis has given me a whole lot of gas money for the Tyler Linderbaum bandwagon that I'm driving.

Myles Hartsfield out there making a case for the final 53

oh poo!!!! Keith!!!

yo fuging ew Sam

Hate to see it for Slye, but he's gotta perform if he wants to be employed. With how awful this OL is and question marks surrounding Darnold, you can bet your ass that we'll be leaning on the kicker to produce.

Damn Joey All Santoso needs to do is make another kick and the job is his if it isn't already.

Pat Elflein is fuging terrible. The whole OL has looked suspect, but knocking down that DL jumping to bat the pass about the biggest push he's gotten the entire night.

Oh this defense is going to be a turnover FACTORY

So... a little worried about the offense ngl This defense tho? Let's go! ᕦ(ò_óˇ)

Lmao doinked it in

(D)ARNOLD

CJ got lit up lmao

Nice long drive. Was not expecting that. Would've preferred points ofc... but some good to take with the bad. Sam still stares down receivers (especially if he decides that's where he's going presnap), but his feet look much better like Smitty pointed out. Got a lot more zip on the ball, but is his decision making improved? This man DJack said he isn't afraid to tackle Would like to get another look at Sam. Hopefully he comes out for the second drive.

Oh snap, going for it

Kicking competition time!

Terrace Marshall Jr is going to be so good for us omfg

Watching Pat Elflein is making me sad.

Put the seatbelt on that man

Going to need to see a significant improvement in redzone play calling as well as 2min drills. The QB change doesn't help near as much as getting CMC back and having competent TE + OL play. Take the MIN game, for example. From the 11yd line at the beginning of the 2nd quarter: 1st & 10 - HB toss to the right. Brandon Zylstra is asked to seal the edge vs. a DE who muscles right by him and forces Davis to accelerate towards the sideline. Moton, who is pulling, almost stops to help but has to turn his attention to the DT that Miller was unsuccessful blocking. Had Moton not had to slow up for either of those defenders, he'd have kept going and crushed Gladney and left Davis 1-on-1 with just Harris to beat. Loss of 4. Why was the #5 WR being asked to seal off a DE? 2nd & 14 - Inside handoff on the option. Edge was set, but Gladney read the play and got inside Robby and was there to keep Davis from bouncing it outside. 3yds and a cloud of dust. Might have been worthwhile if it was an RPO rather than a read option. 3rd & 11 - Looks like a levels concept on the right side with Robby and DJ running in routes. Just 2yds of depth between the two with only two yards separating them vertically (and DJ, the deepest man, still being a good 5yds short of the 1st down. 5 targets for the QB, and only two of them are in the endzone/passed the 1st down marker). Davis runs a Texas route and Teddy tries to get it to him with his two "deep options" taken away, but the way the play was drawn up means that Robby and Davis are on a crash course for one another. Kendricks was sitting there in zone, made a jump on the ball, and you can see Davis slow up just before it gets to him because he's worried about bumping into Robby. As a result, Kendricks gets the INT. This was bad play calling capped off by bad play design. Jumping to the 3rd quarter, Panthers are on the 17yd line: 1st & 10 - Fast collapsing pocket. Good coverage all around, Teddy has to get the ball out and tries to get it to DJ who is absolutely smothered. Ian Thomas could have been a target, but again by play design he's getting ready to bump into Curtis Samuel once he gets to the endzone. DJ almost came down with it anyways even though Chris Jones also got away with DPI by holding his left arm down. Teddy put the ball where only DJ could get it. 2nd & 10 - Read option again. OL gets no push. Davis tries to follow Reed to the outside, but Harris knocks Reed backwards into Davis for... yup... 3yds and a cloud of dust. 3rd & 7 - Davis beats the LB on an out route, but Teddy has to pull it down as he winds up to fire because the OL can't protect against a 4-man rush. Paradis got hit in the side by the DT, freeing up the other DT to make a beeline for Teddy, who evades the lineman and scrambles to the 10yd line, 3 yards short of the 1st down. 4th & 3 - Slye's FG attempt is blocked by a defender that Chris Reed stepped out of the way of. It was also his man that had knocked over Paradis on the previous play. Finally, the 2nd to last drive following the Vikings muffing the punt. Starting at the 9yd line. 2:10 left in the game, Panthers are up at the time 24-21: 1st & 9 - Inside handoff goes for 4yds. Colin Thompson pausing in the hole ended up being a good thing because his hesitataion caused him to get in 3 defenders' way all at once, which made room for Davis to push forward. 2min warning. 2nd & 5 - They run the same play, this time for just 2yds. DJ and Thompson both to a shittacular job of blocking Kendricks who hit the hole and stopped the play. Vikings are forced to burn their final time out. 3rd & 3 - The infamous "Teddy got DJ hurt" play. Teddy had mentioned that the play came in late and called for shifting Robby to determine if it was man/zone coverage. The team lined up with 6sec left on the play clock (FOLLOWING A TIME OUT NO LESS), and had Teddy been able to check it into a run play (which several Huddlers scoffed at) not only would DJ not have gotten hurt, but it would have left the Vikings with barely a minute on the clock rather than almost a full 2min had Davis been stopped. Instead, we got an inaccurate throw and DJ rolled his ankle. Teddy had an opportunity and missed for sure, but for Brady to not get that play call in until there's 15sec on the play clock following a time out is asinine. If Brady can show improvement as a play caller and revisit some of the plays where he has two receivers in the same spot on the field (something that infuriated me about Shula's offense when he was here), then I'll start worrying about him getting poached.

Gettleman shat the bed with the 2016 draft, but he might have made up for it with the 2017 draft. His only pick from then that didn't pan out was Daeshon Hall. Obligatory imagine if Hurney didn't move on from Butker reminder.

Flipped a 7th for a 6th so... from offseason cuts alone, the Panthers have offloaded Greg Little and Denzel Perryman for a 6th round pick. I'm ok with this, especially if that 6th can get the team another player as good as Deonte Brown, Shi Smith, or what could've been Trey Smith.

Can likely clear up $7M ~ $12M in the offseason, which would keep the cap a little closer to what it looked like going into next season. The team looks like it's going in with the roster that it has for this season and next, with the option to reboot afterwards. I like that it also means that if Sam stays, he's still got Robby. If Sam goes, whomever takes over is going to have incredible weapons, a strong defense, and hopefully a competent OL. The team has this season and next to find answers outside of Moton & Christensen (Tyler Linderbaum pls). 2023 will also be the year to get out of Shaq's contract which puts the current projected available cap according to Spotrac at... $162M Will have a lot of the current young guys under contract as well... Strap in for the ride y'all

Woodyard's face lmfaoooooooo