Mr Mojo Risin

All of you guys saying we need to find a WR would be singing a different tune had Young hit Mingo on that 99 yard TD. This is why casual NFL fans aren't GMs. It takes more than 1 game to develop a young team and that's exactly what we have, a young team with brand new coaching schemes. It's going to be a bumpy ride with plenty of lows and hopefully enough highs for a solid season. No one is coming to save us so might as well strap in and enjoy the ride.

You're allowed an opinion just like Mr. Scot is. If you are tired of reading his posts why click on the thread? If you are tired of reading his posts why are you responding to them? I thought Young had some bright spots as well as some mistakes. There are concerns about his future and just how good he can be but no judgement should be passed on the dudes first real action in the NFL. It's disappointing to lose and only score 10 points but I will again say no other #1 overall pick has won their first game in the NFL in 21 years. Gotta have some patience.

Gotta stop overreacting after the first game of Young's career. How many years has Burrow been in the NFL? Their offense played worse than ours did today. They didn't even score a TD. Manning threw 28 INTs his rookie year does that mean he was frail and couldn't read a defense? Lol I know im preaching to the choir and the people on this message board will continue to whine and cry like grade school children because our rookie QB didn't throw for 400 yards and 3 TDs while our defense pitches a shutout in the first game. And we magically snap a 21 year NFL streak of the #1 overall pick losing their first game of their career. But by all means continue its entertaining to me I usually get a pretty good laugh at the hot takes and overreactions you people come up with. Grade A comedy

Fun fact for all of you throwing a tantrum over game 1 of a 17 game NFL season, the #1 overall pick hasn't won an opening day game since 2002. Relax.

The problem we had this preseason was sustaining drives and having 1/2 people miss their assignment and ruin the play. How often that happens in week one will matter a lot. How fluid do we look? How comfortable will Bryce be? Will he make panic decisions? Is our defense playing fast or do they look slow? There's a lot we will get to see from this team week one besides a win or loss

I feel like taking that deal for Burns only works out if we're committing to a full scale rebuild which we aren't. 3 picks in 3 separate drafts we wouldn't have been able to replace Burns this year with that. And while we wait for year 2 or 3 of the rebuild we are also wasting the years and rookie contracts of Derrick Brown, Jaycee Horn, Chinn, and even Young. whereas with Burns it gives us a more complete defense. Hopefully a top 10 at worst top 15 unit this year (hopefully). Next year when we have even more ammunition we could see a nice 3-5 year window with this core of players and hopefully have a Seahawks LoB/Russell Wilson type team if it all works out.

Smith should have went 1st ballot. The WRs that got in before him had worse numbers (or close to the same) and played with better QBs. Absolutely criminal. 5 9 185 lbs. Small market 3rd round pick drafted as a STer earned everything in his career. Over 1,000 receptions Amost 15,000 receiving yards and a triple crown winner. If that's not worthy of 1st ballot I'm not sure what is. I'm sure the reason he's not in isn't even performance related. They probably hold his personality/fights with his teammates against him

So far throughout TC and preseason he's played the NB or slot CB position. I haven't seen him lined up at S or LB yet

Nope will be surprised if he makes it over some of the other guys on the roster

Exactly reminds me a lot of what DA was for us. Not a world better by any means but solid enough to win a game or two in a pinch if we need him. If he's asked to play multiple games in a row then yea we're probably screwed.

It wasn't perfect by any means but he did drive the offense down the field into the redzone and while the INT wasn't good I feel like the defender just made a great play on the ball. He was lined up in man and was able to look into the back field at the top of the route and make the play. The play before that Dalton threw a really nice pass to Ian Thomas (who is so incredibly bad at catching the ball) a better TE probably catches that for a TD. It was also Daltons first action of the preseason so seeing him get a solid drive in is mostly what I was referring too. If he completes one of those balls for a TD we probably aren't having this conversation

https://sports.yahoo.com/best-worst-pff-grades-panthers-180515424.html Top 5 Offense: 1. TE Giovanni Ricci: 84.0 2. G Brady Christensen: 78.8 3. OT Ikem Ekwonu: 76.6 4. QB Bryce Young: 75.4 5. C Sam Tecklenburg: 72.1 Bottom 5 Offense 27. QB Matt Corral: 48.6 28. G Michael Jordan: 46.4 29. QB Andy Dalton: 44.4 30. TE Ian Thomas: 41.2 31. RB Camerun Peoples: 27.9 Top 5 Defense 1. ILB Deion Jones: 77.9 2. CB Herb Miller: 77.1 3. ILB Brandon Smith: 74.4 4. OLB Yetur Gross-Matos: 73.9 5. CB Jaycee Horn: 71.5 Bottom 5 Defense 25. DT Shy Tuttle: 47.3 26. ILB Bumper Pool: 45.6 27. OLB Eku Leota: 39.6 28. CB CJ Henderson: 28.3 29. ILB Kamu Grugier-Hill: 27.4 Some personal notes: - Icky played a lot better than people wanted to give him credit for because he gave up another sack. He's definitely had an up and down preseason (mostly down) but I think the worries are a bit overblown and exaggerated. Let's wait until the regular season before we start declaring our young LT a bust and in need of a position change. - No surprise to see both back up QBs in the bottom 5 on offense. Both struggled although I did like what I saw from Dalton. Don't believe we'll be keeping Corral on the 53 but can see him wind up on the PS. - Good to see our back up LBs in Deion Jones and Brandon Smith play well. Hopefully both make the team but I think only one of these players will make it. Despite Grugier-Hill having a pretty rough game I think he and Deion Jones make it as the back ups. - No surprise in seeing CJ Henderson score so low again. I'd wager he has the most bottom 5 finishes out of all of our defensive players. I can't wait until we can finally replace him with someone that can actually cover and doesn't panic when the ball is in the air. However, it is season 1 under Reich and Co. and upgrading/replacing every single position in one offseason is borderline impossible to do. Gotta roll with what we got. Onto the Regular Season!!!!

Welcome to the Carolina Huddle. Do yourself a favor and NEVER read a gameday thread the day after. The people here don't use logic to reason. They are extremely emotional posters and it's very weird.

There's a reason fans don't belong in front offices of NFL teams. This quote pretty much proves that

Yea...Wilks is going to groom and develop AR into a franchise QB...lol. The amount of nonsense I read on this board is crazy. How many athletic QBs are drafted into the NFL and provide glimpses of shock and awe through their playstyles? And how many of those QBs fizzle and flame out? AR would be on a worse trajectory than Trey Lance if he was drafted here with Wilks

Curious to know if Lions plan to play or rest their starters tonight. Seems like the dress rehearsal is no longer a thing anymore with a mix of teams deciding to play or sit their starters for almost all of the preseason games including game #3.

If Young stays healthy he will probably be the best QB this franchise has had. I think he has the arm talent and the smarts to be successful in the NFL. We have one of the best coaching staffs you could ask for to groom a young QB into the franchise player we need him to be. Just can't panic like the sky is falling after a rough performance or two. Cam had plenty of rough games when he was here and he turned out to be pretty damn good overall. If Young stays healthy I think he will have a fairly solid year. Maybe not playoffs that will largely depend on how the o line/defense/overall health of the team performs, but I don't think we have anything to worry about when it comes to the QB Young just needs reps and experience at this point.

Zay Flowers has similar measurables @ 5 9 182 and he plays for one of Steve Smith's former teams....you never know

Aside from a few 3rd down miscues (missed blocks, wrong route, etc) it hasn't been THAT bad. It's not like we are turning the ball over a ton or look completely outmatched. Just a few mental errors that can absolutely be cleaned up in time for the regular season but will it happen? We'll see the injuries and seemingly the musical chairs at RG are also concerning. Maybe they expected Corbett to be back by now or maybe it was the plan to have Zavala start their from day one who knows. Hopefully it works out.

Would love to see us tune up our 3rd down offense and string a couple of solid drives together

I mean I get it we all long for our team to have a nice crisp offense that doesn't have any hiccups and puts up ton of yards like the Chiefs and Bengals of the world but this team isn't there yet. They need time. And that's the last thing a perennial 5 win team's fan base is willing to give them. I think Bryce Young looks as advertised and will still need some time for him to "own" this offense. Same with the oline. There will be growing pains but I fully expect us at the very least to remain competitive this year. Just need to have some patience.

The Steelers dominated the Bills starters on offense and defense. It's preseason and we have a brand new everything pretty much. Aside from a few individual mistakes by the oline on 3rd down we've looked about as we should for a preseason. Just have to learn to R-E-L-A-X

Lol

Not good for Cade Mays hopefully Zavala or one of the other guys steps up to fill that RG spot tonight

Are the dress rehearsal games no longer a thing anymore? With only 3 preseason games you'd think the 2nd or 3rd game would be the dress rehearsal but even going back to last year I don't think many teams had a "dress rehearsal" unless I'm mistaken. The Panthers were one of the few teams with a Qb controversy last off-season so it made sense we had starters playing in all 3 games but for other teams I don't recall seeing many starters. Anyone able to clarify?