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Looks like the team is rolling with Chuba Hubbard, Miles Sanders, Rahim Blackshear, and Mike Boone at RB. Boone's low snap count vs. BUF makes more sense now.

I don't know about players needing to develop being a fantasy football thing as much as it is just a natural thing for people to have to improve at their craft. I can understand your frustration as well but we see guys get bigger, stronger, and faster in year two after getting to the pros all of the time. XL's injuries and other struggles during college have been well documented. I believe that those definitely affected his growth in college, but I also don't subscribe to the idea that a 24yr old kid can't learn how to get better at what he does.

Dunc is my favorite of the Panthers content creators. Level headed, stays above the mess for the most part, and knows ball.

I'm not expecting a significant impact by XL until year 3. His rookie season, like all rookie seasons, should be about development. Very excited for what a full NFL offseason workout plan will do for him. He's already an athletic monster.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I get it. You're doing a whole "He'll never be Cam so he'll never be worth trading up and drafting at #1" shtick rather than trying to have a good faith discussion about football. My mistake. Carry on with grinding that axe of your's.

Mike Purcell was also cut from another team, can't remember who. He played under Evero in Denver as well.

A top tier QB is supposed to throw across their body where a FS will be instead of taking the wide open WR underneath?

I think that your desire to see a shot to the endzone might be affecting your judgment here because this isn't a matter of whether or not a fan sees somebody that they think is "NFL open" as much as it is how the play is designed and taught to be executed. At the very beginning of the play, Sanders goes into motion before resetting to his original spot. The defenders' reaction tells Bryce that it's zone coverage (cover 3 specifically, as they show a single high look rotation just before the snap). It's a play action designed to have Bryce throw while running to his right: XL is the quick hitch for a short option, Adam Thielen looks like he has an option route and settles into the space between the zones, and Diontae is flying upfield on a post. The safety drops while shadowing Thielen over the top, meaning that he's going to be carrying back to that area you're wishing it was thrown to. By design, Bryce is supposed to take the wide open Thielen underneath.

The way that play is designed, Bryce is supposed to go over the top if the safety drives on Thielen which would open up the endzone for Diontae. But because the safety doesn't drive on it and open things up behind him, the ball goes to Thielen. It's another option, yes, but it's not the correct option to take in that scenario as you're proposing.

At full speed it might appear that way, but it wouldn't have been a TD. The safety over top would have picked it had Bryce gone to Diontae. The defender doesn't drive on Thielen until the ball is being thrown. It was a good play.

Max Duggan has been released by the Chargers.

He's right tho. There's a reason why a lot of people left for the Discord or just left the board in general... and it wasn't just because it was the offseason. It was because of how toxic this place was with the same group of people posting in every thread the same (disproven) complaints. They justified their chosen behavior because they said that they were: a) entitled to being douchenozzles since the team sucks and b) the real victims because a couple of Bryce Young fans leading up to the draft hurt their feelings. Multiple people have shared that this has been their experience. To continue to dismiss it as if it isn't the case is, as you said, just silly.

INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS