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Outside of Tet, we’ve gotten minimal contributions over average drafts. We’ve got a potential OROY in Tet, but would it surprise you that the 2024 rookie WRs/TEs have more yards (1327 and 7 TDs) than the 2025 class (1169 and 9 TDs) for far less draft capital? I love Tet and he’s been huge but let’s not act like the rookie class outside of pick 8 has been driving the win total. Scourton has done decent but the impact of CSW and Wallace is similar to Ransom and Scourton but again we used far more draft capital this year. It’s nice to see more depth but the key measure to me is getting 2-3 average or better NFL starters, and right now that’s just Tet. If Scourton gets there, the draft is better in my eyes but the only other draftee that might have a chance is Ransom but he may a wee bit overrated in here because he caught a ball Mayfield threw right to him. Made the play but is he still replacement level?

No, not you. If you look at my post time, there was another thread on the rookie class between your post and mine. Same praise as two weeks prior and they’ve posted almost word for word matches to other articles on Panthers related sites with no credit. Posting the same content after every win is annoying and posting about the same topic (rookie class) just clutters. You had interesting content, other thread added nothing and got more posts.

My son and I had great seats for the Bryce scramble/Sanders TD and the game ending interception. It was awesome but damn it if the loss to NO didn’t hit harder knowing we would have clinched at the game.

I wasn’t thinking 8+. I’m still critical of our GM, DC and QB but we’ve won big games and we’ve got a good chance at the playoffs. Way more than expected but just my pet peeve that I still get annoyed like we are all set and all’s good. The AFC North is the only other division where we’d be close (1 game back) and we needed Tampa to fall apart (1-6) to get in this win the division chance in week 18. Job isn’t close to done and the current crew needs to improve a lot to get us to SB contender.

Umm, no. 2017 was way better. CMC, Moton, Samuel and Butker. Heck, 2021 with Horn, Tremble, Hubbard and Christensen was probably better. 2025 seems solid because 2018-2024 were poo with maybe one good player each year. These praise threads are kind of funny. We have a solid win and they show up, literally the exact same poster and content. Not after the bad losses like NO. In case no one’s remembering, we have had rookie impact/starters since Rhule came to town. It’s more a factor of losing all our strong vets from CMC to Cam to Moore to Olsen to Luke to TD to Short, even Reddick and Luvu and many more. Dressing a lot of rookies has been happening for years because we had really bad starters and bad depth for a while now. It’s nice to seen some plays from Scourton but let’s not act like TMac isn’t our only impact rookie. Right now, if we look at players who are at least average NFL players and TMac is it. We had 5 rookies who started games last year and the undrafted one is the only one I could see developing into an average WR2. Scourton may get there but right now the 2025 draft isn’t some panacea, it’s a good draft for depth. If we really want to compete we need to get 2-3 impact starters every year.

I was there and it was a blast. That interception was right in front of us and we were on the Tampa side so it was fun to see them scatter like roaches. Two notes on attendance. There were still way too many empty seats. We were loud but it could have been even louder. Losing to NO might have taken the top off. Second, there were less Tampa fans than other games. My son went to the Miami game and said there were way more Dolphin fans than Tampa fans today.

I was at the game, which was awesome, and XL was brutal. I wouldn’t call him a possession receiver. If you had bad hands and you can’t toe tap at the sideline you are missing 2 key must haves as a possession receiver. Coker should be the starter over XL.

Vikings offense was 9th in scoring in 2024 and 25th this year. Seattle went from 18th last year to 3rd. It goes both ways. Darnold has done very well. He’s got 8000 yards, 66%+ completion and 59 TDs in 2 years with 2 games left. He’s contributed a lot. Ask Justin Jefferson if he misses Darnold and ask JSN if he’s happy with Darnold. I’d love to have Darnold.

While it says we converted later, it 100% impacted the game. First, the clock stopped on the incompletion and we would have had another 12 yards on tha drive. We didn’t score but the play calls change. Seeing as how we lost on a last second long FG, an extra 12 yards and running the clock down another 17 seconds (or forcing NO to use a timeout) likely means at a minimum we go to OT and at best we score and win the game.

I didn’t realize we were in FG range until after we missed it. Against a team that has scored 7 points into the 4th quarter, you sure as hell go up 10 in the 4th. Add in the fact that his clock management before halftime cost us a chance at a TD, Canales in year 2 is showing some seriously bad HC decision making.

Gave up a FG, messed up the clock to not give us a chance at a TD before halftime and called a general poor game. Could have easily had another 7+ points and not been in position to lose last second.

Who cares today? Our D was letting WRs run wild and we were up 17-7 and Canales didn’t kick a FG in range, badly managed the clock before halftime taking away and chance at 4 more points and Iky derailed a drive where we were rolling with a 1st down at midfield likely costing us a FG at minimum. We could have easily been up 27-10 in the 4th. Shouldn’t have had to cover anything. This was an easy win that other people really fuged up.

lol. You said one mistake by coaching. I gave you 1 defensive coaching mistake and multiple Canales mistakes (offense and HC decisions) and you are trying to twist it and say I don’t blame Evero. When I say coaches screwed up, I mean offense, defense, STs and HC decisions like time management. Who else am I blaming in my comment: There was one defensive formation in the last seconds of the game that cost us. It’s OK to be wrong. You just twist the response into something that wasn’t even my prior argument.

Wait. You are speaking out of both sides of your mouth. You said this There is one major coaching / braintrust decision that had a major effect on this game, but I doubt it's one you're thinking of... Over here: https://www.carolinahuddle.com/?app=core&module=system&controller=content&do=find&content_class=forums_Topic&content_id=479724&content_commentid=7008092 Which is it because “massive coaching failure” means I was completely right over there?

Exactly. I’m an absolute critic and the no sneaks is one of my reasons to get a new QB but today was definitely not on him.