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If Henderson just got a concussion and will possibly/probably now miss next week as well, gotta think missing 2 games of stats at this point of the year might knock him out as he was only just entering the discussion the last few weeks anyways. Same goes for Judkins going down today too, and Dart's god awful game likely removes him from the conversation as well. It will be interesting to see how the voters compare T-Mac and Egbuka if they end up with stats that are nearly identical. Egbuka burst onto the scene and put up the bulk of his stats early in the year when Baker was playing like the MVP front runner. While T-Mac was just more consistent throughout the course of the full season (ex. Egbuka has 8 games of 42 yards or less, T-Mac has 4 of them, while T-Mac still scored 3 TDs in those 4 games, where Egbuka only scored 1 TD in his 8). It would be a shame if they put too much weight on the final game of the season if that ends up being the division decider, as I think T-Mac has had the better SEASON while Egbuka had a better peak output during that first month or so but way cooled off since. Maybe Warren goes off in the last 3 games (they still play tomorrow), but it does seem to be down to T-Mac and Egbuka right now.

After he fell down and got back up to run, that next time going down was him clearly giving himself up, which draws an immediate whistle, no different than a QB sliding in that situation.

What he's done for the locker room culture is incalculable and will have an impact on the franchise for years to come, and I thank him so much and give him full credit for that. But I still think he's beyond terrible as a game planning and play calling coach, and if you suck at both of those, you really shouldn't be an NFL HC. He's not a Dan Campbell, there are very few HC's who can be successful as rah rah guys, I don't think Canales can be one.

crap, did Horn just break his hand/arm getting trapped in there on that gang tackle?

That's the same throw Bryce made last week to T-Mac in the same exact spot, threw it behind him when a little ahead of the WR is an easy TD

But I was told he isn't able to make contested catches today

I've been saying all year that I think Canales explicitly tells Bryce when to be throwing to T-Mac and when he explicitly shouldn't be, it's like Canales has specific times he only wants to use him as a decoy and others where the ball MUST be thrown to him. Far too often he's either the only read or he was never in the progression before Bryce threw to someone else, it's really strange.

You're really going to complain he doesn't come down with a contested catch when he was basically getting tackled while trying to make the catch? C'mon now, he's had plenty of plays this year he should have made and didn't, but that's not one of them

Serious makes no sense, especially with the type of big bodied pass catchers we have, Justin a 4 yard curl or slant to pick up an easy first

Anyone know why we have the old logo at midfield? I'd think if we were doing that, we should be wearing the original helmet for the game as well, so just odd to see that on the field while wearing the black helmet

We have the old logo at midfield? why?

It's not going to happen, but if we're not going to make the playoffs, finishing last would be WAY better than finishing in 2nd. And before someone jumps on me, no, this has nothing to do with improving our draft position, it's solely due to the schedule next year. Give me a 4th place schedule over a 2nd place, no question about it. And again, before anyone says it's only a few games that are affected... well, we may end up missing the playoffs by 1 or 2 wins in the end, so yea, I think those 3 games against 4th place finishers instead of 2nd place, could very well make the difference between making or missing the playoffs.

I’ve been saying this all season, including after wins where I felt we won because of players making plays as opposed to the staff having a well called game. But calling out issues you see after wins just gets me called a bad fan. They both need to be replaced, but I’d keep Bryce over Canales if it was between the two.

No, but his noodle arm can't execute them at an NFL level either But that's besides the point, I've called out Canales all year for being a terrible play caller and in game decision maker and been told I'm a bad fan for doing so. He's just not a good NFL HC, the only argument to keeping him around is if there is a belief amongst coaching prospects/agents that no legit candidate would be interested in coming here after another quick HC firing, but even then, still might be worth making a change and hoping Tepper's big wallet can convince a legit HC to take the job

Seriously, all the "rigged" talk just makes people sound dumb. Beyond it just being an absurd notion in general, what incentive would the league have to rig a Panthers-Sants game? They don't care about the Bucs making the playoffs instead of us, just nonsense to think the league would even want to rig this game if it ever did such a thing.

Been saying it all year long, as much as Bryce isn't the guy, Canales is even more so not the guy. I want both replaced, but if it's one or the other, bring back Bryce and send Canales packing, he's terrible

I think the other hand had the ball under control, but since the first hand came off the ball with the entire ball touching the ground, even though I think he had it under control, I don't think it's going to stand as a catch

Cmon T-Mac, you have to get beyond the sticks there, rookie mistake

Literally punching the ball the second it hits his hands and then uses his arm to push down T-Mac's hand as he's trying to re-adjust to catch it on the bobble. It was 100% an excellent breakup by the DB and literally a 0% drop by T-Mac. If you want to blame a Panther on that play, you have to blame Bryce for throwing it behind T-Mac instead of ahead of him.

Not catching a pass is NOT the same thing as dropping it I will bet you my entire life savings that isn't ruled a drop, and you know why? Because it wasn't, it was a bad pass first and foremost, but even putting that completely aside, it was a great play by the DB to break it up, as if he hadn't punched the ball the second it touched his hands, then it would have been a TD. You telling me to be objective while saying he dropped that is downright comical.

Someone watching on TV, please go back and pause the replay where the defender hits the ball. Unfortunately that doesn't seem possible for me to do on Sunday Ticket, I can only go back to watch key plays they choose, not just rewind.

100% should have caught that? Honestly, what in the world are you smoking?!?!?! The defender punched the ball the split second it touched his hands, there isn't a player in the history of the NFL that would have been "expected" to catch that. You know sometimes it's okay to just say the defender made a great play on the ball.

I'm sure people will say I'm just blindly defending my guy, but the ball was thrown behind him and the second the ball hit his hands, the defender made a great play to break it up. If the pass was out ahead (as it should have been) it was a clear TD, but that was much more of a broken up pass by the defender than anything close to a drop.

Gren has been my comp since early in his Freshman season, it's who I've always seen when I watch him play. But I did like the comp I saw just before the draft of a V-Jax and Plaxico combination as well.

Eagles and Lions on a level below ourselves and the Cowboys?!?! Uh, what now??!?! KC being on another level below that is also interesting, but harder to fault that one when they have a worse chance at making the playoffs than either the Lions or Eagles