Mage

There is nothing abnormal about experiencing soreness in a shoulder in your first game a week after injuring it. Seriously, have none of you played sports before or even worked out in the gym? Rhule has made it clear how he feels about Darnold. Not sure how some of you do not see this.

He's also basically said that Darnold isn't the starter anymore, without saying it. Joe Person asked him if Darnold was healthy would he remain the starter, and Rhule's response was that he would need to see him and talk to him this week before deciding anything. Don't get me wrong, there is PLENTY to complain about right now in regard to Rhule and his QB choices. But let's get rid of the narrative that he's trying to protect Sam or anything like that.

Matt Rhule in the press conference was asked if he felt Darnold's shoulder had anything to do with his lackluster performance and he basically said "no, I didn't see that as being the case." Nobody is trying to put Darnold on IR just to "save their asses." In all likelihood, he probably is really experiencing soreness the day after taking his first contact post-injury. Think people are way too caught up in some conspiracy or whatever. Rhule doesn't care about Darnold anymore. It's pretty blatantly obvious he's given up on him.

Look I'm not trying to defend Rhule but he's so clearly thrown Darnold under the bus. That relationship isn't being repaired. I don't know why you keep trying to push the narrative that Rhule is looking to make an excuse for Darnold or that he's trying to convince people that Darnold can still start. You'll never hear a HC talk as lowly to the media as Rhule did about Darnold yesterday. Dude was straight up asked if the team could win with Darnold and he said he had to watch film. Again, that is him basically saying "no" without saying no. Plenty of things to criticize Rhule for but he's been blunt about Darnold over the last 3 games. I've never heard a HC speak so lowly about his starting QB.

Matt Rhule criticized Sam Darnold about as much as you will ever see any HC criticize their starter. Any chance of a long-term relationship between the sides is over if you read between the lines. Darnold might start again but it is going to end up like the Bridgewater relationship. Fractured.

Darnold's response is even worse. Just puts his hat on and sits down. Doesn't even try to talk to Robby. You can tell he's gutless and isn't a leader.

Welp guess we found out what happens when Sam throws more LMFAO

Now that, that is a hospital ball

Don't get me wrong, this offense is horrible, but worse than 2010? You have no clue what you are talking about if you think that. Clausen's Y/A was 5.2 that season. Terrible

He's cheeks

Sam Darnold is doo doo

Sam Darnold is hot garbage

I truthfully think we should put PJ Walker in the game.

They are cuffing Darnold too much. Yea, he's bad. But at this point you just have to let him throw. Whatever happens, happens. But we aren't going to win the game with 3 yards and a cloud of dust in the run game.

DADDY GILMORE

POS

IMO Panthers are flat-out a more talented team than the Patriots, especially with McCaffrey back. I'd be really disappointed if we lost this game.

Because this thread is dumb as hell.

And yet the Panthers are currently projected to be in the playoffs halfway through the NFL season.

Bro, it's a press conference.

Bro... it's just a press conference.

It was supposed to be a prop gun. Baldwin is not responsible for what is in the gun. You would not be expected to be handed a gun on a movie set that could kill someone. Actors are never the ones who handle the guns or what is in them.

I would hope all people would understand Alec Baldwin had nothing to do with what went wrong in that incident. Not really comparable to the Broderick incident.

Because it isn't that easy. If it was, why doesn't every team just trade every player on the last year of their contract? Nobody is giving up anything worth having, just so they can have Donte Jackson for 8 games and then have to re-sign him to a nice-sized contract. The only teams that do anything like that are teams going all-in on a Super Bowl and they only do it for elite guys like Von Miller. Donte is good but he isn't an absolute game-changer like Von is, even at Von's age. 8-game Donte on his last year gets us, at best, a 5th. Maybe, maybe a 4th to a team really, really desperate to win this season.

Sounds like you are the sensitive one.