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Again, one play doesn't change a full game's narrative. They had 32 carries for 200 yards. Take away Etienne's single long run of 71 yards, and they only had 129 yards on their other 31 carries. If I told you a team had 31 carries for 129 yards, I don't think anyone would say that team defended the run poorly in that game. I'm not excusing this game, the players, the staff, any of it. I'm just saying people who look at final box scores and try and make the averages or totals be the narrative for an entire game are just being purposefully obtuse to try and make their point and hoping people won't realize it.

I've seen people bring up the "7 yards per carry" a few times already, and while a little bit true (and also a little false), it's also a tad disingenuous Because they didn't average 7 ypc, they averaged 6.3, which is 10% less. And if you remove the 71 yarder that Etienne broke off, they only averaged 4.1 ypc the rest of the game. I'm not saying we were great, and you can't just pick and choose plays to remove from stats to fit a narrative. But our rush defense was nowhere near as bad as saying "they averaged 7 yards per carry" seems to insinuate.

Is it weird that this makes me like him more at the moment? Rhule would have tossed the entire team under the bus, but Canales steps up after almost the entire team looked terrible (and half the time due to their own dumb mistakes that have nothing to do with the coaching) and said he was the problem and not the players. It does show some leadership to do that and I kinda like it, but man, post ass kicking pressers aren't going to help us win games or win over the fans, need to turn it into wins.

My bad my Wildcat brother I feel like I spoke it into existence for him to become a Panther, and all I did was saddle my GOAT with this team, this offense, and unfortunately this "Quarterback" My excitement of the last 4 months since we drafted him has quickly turned into "oh poo, please just don't ruin his career before it's able to get off the ground and show him to be the player I know he can be"

For me it’s the small but dumb mistakes Not getting his other foot down, catching a 5 yard pass and then running back to the LOS to end up with a 1 yard gain. Its maddening to see an NFL WR make the mental mistakes he makes, and that’s before you get to his limitations as an actual pass catcher.

I’ll be honest, I was thinking we need to try and trade XL by the end of the game too. He just doesn’t “get it” and I’m not sure he will, he still has trade value right now before the rest of the league gets it, I wouldn’t be against exploring that option once Coker is back.

It wasn't even 4th and Goal, that's what makes it worse, he could have tried to scramble for a 1st down as it was 4th and 1 at the 5ish. And yea, T-Mac is a #1, told ya'll for the last 2 years, hahaha

I've been saying this since the middle of last year. He's not a good QB but he has a live arm and isn't afraid to try any throw, he'll cost us games, but he'll help develop these young pass catching weapons better than Bryce will. Just develop them for the year and go back to figuring out the QB situation next offseason.

Will it though? Not sure how anyone can defend him after this one, yes, we've had other issues too, but he's been awful

"was" but most certainly isn't now, T-Mac is the real freaking deal, he's shown it today too. Miscommunication on that pass he didn't turn his head on just now, but beyond that, he's looked the part

seriously? throwing it away on 4th down? cut him now, fug

damnit, give him that catch

No way he goes to a team with an OC as a HC, he'd go somewhere with a defensive minded coach so he can just run the offense how he pleases. Wouldn't surprise me to see him end up somewhere like with the Lions

Should have been the gameplay from the start He had a nice catch on that play that was called back too.

Yep, hope for a PI call to then be able to kick a FG That half was just embarrassing

Will they still do a halftime after all this or will they just do halftime as if it's in between quarters and take a long commercial break?

The Florida based teams really should never open the season at home in Week 1

Arizona's game was also delayed 2 some hours last night as well Now this Apparently I must have pissed of Thor this week, sorry Greg

I mean, what do you want them to show you, nothing going on in our game because it's in a delay? Of course they're going to show something

Seriously? Kyler getting sick last night before a game they should win easily Do I just start Jordan Love in what should be a high scoring game and not risk it? What a way to start the season, lol

I'm just hoping they put Hunter on T-Mac in the redzone so we can get the NFL version of this

Uh, what now? Horn Jr listed as 3rd on the outside instead of as the backup slot, which is currently left blank? Can't tell if that's just some weird oversight or the team taking a shot at Horn Jr and saying they feel he's playing like a 3rd stringing despite us not even having a backup slot right now.

I swear I just saw a report yesterday that was the literal opposite, how he stayed in Charlotte this offseason and completely re-vamped his body and conditioning and was looking great because of it.

Is he healthy enough yet to be the starting slot in Week 1? If not, does that mean Horn Jr is going to be our #3 in week 1 with Moore being #4? Talk about going from a position of strength a week ago to one with big question marks right now. Overpaying to get T-Mac in my auction draft Monday night is starting to look much more appealing right now than it did a week ago as well. I figured there were enough mouths to feed and he was still a rookie, but now, he's looking like he could see a seriously high number of targets this year.