Gapanthersfan

I wonder if Canales and Tepper have done nothing but argue back and forth this entire time about Bryce. He’s unfixable, but to Tepp, that’s unacceptable. Then Tepp sees the meltdown of Mr cool Thielen and knows the locker room is about to check out but he can’t let that happen. I don’t know. BY not getting benched after half on Sunday rings weird to me. It was the obvious move to make at the obvious time, but it didn’t happen. Why? I’m really interested to see Tepp’s reactions when Andy throws 3 TDs this Sunday. If he looks like his IBS if flaring up when the camera points at him…. lol.

There is literally 0 to gain by putting BY back on the field. What does anyone need to see at this point that hasn’t already been shown? We’ve seen his size. Lack of motivation. Didn’t gain a single pound since last season. Arm still weak as ever. Can’t see over the lineman. He does not have a single above average NFl attribute. This team was on the brink of losing the locker room. I bet those dudes are pumped at practice today. First game of the season is this Sunday. With that said, Tepper is going to Tepper. Canales probably told him to sit BY for the season to learn and that he’d start next season. He couldn’t outright call the owner’s son a bum. When asked if it was his decision, he said that he’d keep that information private, or something to that regard. Everyone can read between the lines on that one. Does he take a frustration jab by saying it that way? It kind of has that feeling. It’s a question he knew he was going to get so that is the answer he planned to deliver, so it’s not like he was caught off guard with it. this conversation should of happened after the first game. “Hey Tep, if your boy lays another egg, I’m pulling him at half.” I know I read too much in to things, but it’s just a weird go for me. A coach with autonomy over the team would have pulled BY at halftime, 100% of the time. I understand the company line that BY is our QB. Cool. What else would you expect him to say. I could see that meeting being pretty heated and Canales snatching his man card back from underneath the brass balls. At least I hope that’s how it went.

lions, panthers… same thing.

I can’t wait to see our ‘pointless’ 7 win (bold!) season while an actual team has the chance to possibly congeal.

Next week represents game 1 of the season.

This. Benching at halftime would have told the team, “I’m in charge of this mf’er.” That’s a big sack move. I’m not dogging this incredible gift from Canales. It’s given hope for seeing a passing touchdown that isn’t going the wrong way.

I said in another thread, I can’t find a glaring liability on offense. If Dalton can drop some 25+ yard dimes, we have some dudes that can make hay. Picks be damned. I’ll take a 2 or 3 pick day for 35 points on the board. We just need something. A spark. Anything. We won’t be good, but it has potential to be fun to watch, and the tone in the stadium… hope.

Brock Bowers going to redrum tho

What makes me hopeful is: I can’t think of anyone currently on the starting O who is a straight up liability.

I’m not saying we’re good. I’m not saying Andy doesn’t have multiple picks in a game. I am saying we have a very talented line and playmakers who have been held back and are begging to EAT. 24 points this Sunday. Poo bombs away. Post up your # and this will be fun to revisit after the game.

Halftime yesterday was the crossroads at which the wrong road was taken. It was a gigantic middle finger to the entire room, sans Bryce. If another crossroads comes up next game and he still goes wrong… stick a fork in it.

I grew up in Raleigh from 84 to 2005, moved away for school, spent 2 years in Queens, now in GA since 2009. I’ve kept my Panthers love open and honest, even foreign lands. I’ve donned either my Morgan or Minter jersey while watching every game I could. I even rocked it at various sports bars in NY, yucking it up with Giants and Jets fans. When I came to GA I didn’t make a ton and only had 4 days off a month, but I got nfl ticket and remained committed. Since they don’t play college football in NC and I didn’t go to one of the major schools, I only started paying attention to the panthers in 2002. 2003 completely spoiled me, and I was locked. I haven’t missed a game since. this unwatchable garbage is so frustrating because it’s a team that I think is close to competing and the talent is there, but with Bryce under center, their will is broken before they step on the field. I said in one of my manifestos yesterday that football games are won when you can break their will before they break yours. These dudes know there is no hope with our current qb situation, and they hate the owner for putting us in this position. Our only hope is/was a coach they truly believe in that fields the best possible talent available. I’ll continue to watch albeit more detached. I know he won’t survive the season, so there is that. My concern is that he gets so many key people injured that even a QB change will be futile.

His only road to salvation is if Bryce leaves the NFL or is cut by the team. This can hopefully begin to restore the locker room. The players at this point have to know that it’s not Canales’ call. As it is now, Bryce even being there is too much for those dudes. He screws up the energy that badly. 1. cut Bryce or he retires 2. Start Dalton for a few games, build some team chemistry and something, anything positive. Have Plummer get some meaningful reps and tutoring from Dalton. Have the line gel behind an NFL caliber qb. 3. play competitive ball. Probably still lose, but don’t look like losers. Right now, we have a bunch of dudes who know that they’re not losers, but they sure feel like they are. If Canales can find a way to turn that around before they accept losing, then we have something in him.

He needs to fast track his NFL divorce and move back to Cali where he can become a sports psychologist himself. I’m not saying it in a teasing or mocking standpoint. He literally can no longer live in the Carolinas. Dude probably can’t even grocery shop or pump gas without some jackass telling him how much he sucks. That’s miserable, and he is not physically able of making this work. He needs to reach some sort of restitution over breach of contract, learn from this largely self inflicted trauma, move to the other coast and restart his more anonymous life where nobody hates him. Get plugged in with a good money manager. He could even write a book. Just not NFL ball ever again. Vegas is probably off limits, though.

Bryce was the feel good, little guy can make it in a big man’s game story these pundits desperately wanted. It’s hard to see truth when emotionally invested. Bryce is now dumping all of these man crushes on the dance floor at senior prom. It’s going to be brutal in the media for him this week. This kid for his sanity really just needs to walk away from the game. It’s only going to get worse.

he shouldn’t of started the third quarter. Canales really goofed up there.

I want everyone involved in talent evaluation leading up to drafting Bryce over CJ brought up on federal fraud and racketeering charges

Every time they pan to CJ on the sideline when the D is on the field, he’s laser focused watching the game and you see him just studying. I’m not a fanboy but dayum

Just no words. It’s cheat code level

I don’t think there’s a QB in the nfl I take right now over CJ.

At this point, I’ll say that it’s Tepper costing him money since T is the reason Bryce is still playing.

All day. He really just needs to walk away. What he has to hear and endure on a daily basis? What he has to hear every time he goes out in town? Now he’s talking about giving it to God? That’s kind of worrisome to hear him say. I feel sorry for him on a personal level.

This is correct.

Too late to edit: I can’t find anything regarding a struggle he had with alcohol abuse. I retract that portion of my post.

For the life of me I know I’ve heard/read it from somewhere. If it’s false then I retract the statement.