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The defense is visibly better with him playing. Qb holds the ball much longer when the first read is always blanketed.

Burns and Icky having anything else than a single digit score completely invalidates the entire list.

2023 Panthers were SHUT OUT the last 2 games of the season. We have a clueless overbearing egomaniac owner who gave us a new reason to hate something else every week. 2023 had maybe 6 or 7 players that look like they’re trying. Of those, only Hubbard, Thielen, Brown and Luvu have seemed impervious to the malaise. Maybe something changes, but this current squad is a special breed of awful.

Burns is the anti Thomas Davis. He is the anti keep pounding. Keep pounding means at its core, never quit Quitter. Worse off, he quit his teammates over $$. Once a quitter, always a quitter. It’s a cancer to be around. Bye.

In a weird way, they may actually mix well together, both having such brash personalities. Tepper May really take to the ‘just win. Period.’ Mantra that is Harbaugh, and give him free rein. I could see Harbaugh getting in Dave’s face about team management, and get his way. Sometimes it takes 2 similar personalities for something like that to work. Jake was the only QB we’ve ever had that would have meshed with SS89. They had this weird mutual respect type relationship where they could tell each other to STFU and it not go to blows. Fortunately for us, he is a proven winner. He’s also the one most likely to say to Tepper’s face that Bryce is trash, and Dave actually believe him. Dave wants to win. He knows Harbaugh, if nothing else, wins football games. He brought SF and Michigan back from the dead. He builds a winning culture and expectation.

Benching the guy you just doled out huge $$$$ to is a nonstarter. After his payday comes, He is exactly the type to check out. New GM doesn’t need that kind of heat.

Here’s something cool I’ve seen other teams do that I think could work for us. survey the college landscape and find a QB who has all the physical characteristics necessary in the NFL. Tall, big arm, accurate, natural leadership, etc… Additionally, find a guy who makes average talent look great. A guy that always finds a way to make it work. The formula in the NFL for a consistently winning franchise is to find a stud qb, that doesn’t need top talent all around him to make it work. A stud qb means that the offense will consistently be able to put up 24 points with good caliber players, and then you can afford to splurge on an all pro free agent to get you over the hump. Resources can be shifted towards an attacking defense that creates turnovers. Bryce will never be able to make it work week in and week out unless he is surrounded by top talent at every position.

Our next QB better be able to throw a nerf ball through a brick wall. Enough of this depressing jump pass noodle arm BS. He fooled me with the GB game. It was one of those everything went right so he looked good games. My dad used to say that ‘even turkey can fly in a stiff breeze.’ Its even funnier in a thick Jamaican accent.

If we’re trying to build a new locker room culture, I don’t want him within 1000 feet if BoA. Cut bait before he can see another training camp. It is what it is. Brown and Luvu elevate teammate. Burns has made others work harder to try to cover for his deficiencies. I wonder how many first down were given up due to a tackle he should have made. GM’s have taken notice. His disappearing act is well known.

So let me get this straight, 1st round Burns can’t shed a TE block and we’ve heard nothing but contract all year… meanwhile undrafted Frankie Luvu is a humble playmaking machine that throws linemen around like they play for the jv team. He impacts every game. He is the top rated LB about to hit… and barely a contract wisper.

Tepper is in a weird spot. The losing can not continue, but he may be starting to see that Bryce wasn’t the right pick, and may not be an NFL caliber QB… So what direction does he go because he can’t have it both ways? Does he risk yet another embarrassing season just to save face? What if none of the top prospects are willing to work with Bryce? Does Tepper have to tell them to give Bryce 1 year and if it doesn’t work then they can bring in their guy? All of the gm and coaching prospects know what kind of person Tepper is by now. This is going to be very interesting.

I’m rightfully jaded on this FO. Yawn until I can see something that resembles winning football. The root of the doo doo that we have to endure is the owner’s ego, and his refusal to hire anyone who doesn’t acquiesce to him.

Dollar bet with someone: Tepper will repeat the same mistake from last year. another coaching overhaul firing popular coaches who haven’t been given a fair shot, install yet another confusing scheme, and have another god awful record. When he could have just left this in place, build continuity, see what we really have with coaches that know the players, and go from there. This constant rush to get the awesomest coaching staff hasn’t really worked out so well. After the latest show, does he really believe he’s going to hire better then we currently have?

Bryce is a Scion xa. It starts every time, but regardless of the hype, it is exactly what it looks like. I have a 2013 Lexus GX 460 with 172,000. 5,500 lb V8 AWD premium gas drinking dinosaur, and I love every bit of it. It’s the best Toyota I’ve ever owned, and I’ve owned a lot. Easily 350-400k miles capable. This is Calias Campbell.

You do give Jake rightful props, but I can’t buy that take… yet…, but anything is possible. 2003 Jake started by coming off the bench at halftime, throwing 3 TDs to beat the Jags, had an insane playoff run, then came back after being down at half to prime GOAT/Belicheck… and almost won on the biggest stage there is. Jake… with a little help from 89 and the most talented roster we’ve ever had… led a comeback and almost beat the greatest nfl dynasty of all time, in the SB. My God that’s depressing to know where we once stood to where we are now.

I’ve heard nothing but lip service for 5 years and keep getting kicked in the nuts. Nothing can be said or done in the off-season that will make me believe we will win a game next season. I’m still going to get nfl ticket, but I’ll probably spend most Sundays fishing

Give me 1 reason to be hopeful that we will play at least .500 football in the next 3 years.

Panthers are officially the heel in a game that more and more appears to have prearranged outcomes. The NFl carefully vetted the type of owner they wanted for the Panthers and Dave fit the bill. I truly think they love what’s going on with our team. Did Richardson irk them and this is payback? The owners knew exactly what Dave would be like. The utter chaos he would bring. They had to of known he was a complete head case with the time he spent with the Steelers. They knew that we as a franchise would be completely screwed if he took over as owner. The only sign of hope, winning, of returning to some semblance of prideful panther football at the end of last season had to be quickly dismantled. Impugned. we are getting played, plain and simple. The owners dropped a no-nothing egomaniac head case on us as our owner… and knew it. There is no way that our current state of affairs was not intentional. Dave doesn’t want to win. He wants to be worshipped, it’s just that a winning football team is a prerequisite for that to occur… and no amount of money has been able to buy it for him. Only a VERY serious sexual or racial allegation would budge the needle. Heck, he let the first black head coach of the panthers, who was loved, respected and WINNING go without even consideration… and where was the injustice there? so yeah, no good vibes here. I guess I’ll have to keep rewatching 2003 and 2015 highlights. The ‘screw you’ drink toss, symbolically, hit all of us in the face, only it was the other 31 owners who did it.

Paid the incident lip service, had a good yuck it up, then talked coach search and Brice. Yup, looks like this one will fizzle quickly.

But they seem to yuck it up in the end, kind of illustrating the point of the 2 tiered, see what we can get away with system.

Tepper: The greatest unifier the franchise has ever known.

Is this the only time in history the entire board has been 100% unified on something?

The only reprimand, if they are serious about doing so, is telling him no to something. Give him something money won’t sway. Money doesn’t matter at his level. He will find a work around for being banned from the stadium. That won’t do squat. let them announce on draft night, Carolina is ineligible for this year’s draft class due to a major infraction of league guidelines. If the league valued integrity they would do this, but they don’t, so they won’t. The case is pretty cut and dry. It’s clearly on video, already with 10s of millions of views. And silence?

Fixed it for you.

It may not seem like a big deal, but it is a big deal. I’m sure he’s cooked something up in his brain that has him believing that he has committed no foul. I wonder how locker room talk is going to go this week. Im not sure how Tepper will be able to beat this, but I have no doubt in my heart that he will. This has quickly become the most clown showiest professional sports franchise I’ve ever known. It’s almost like a guy who has made billions off of tanking business was essentially given a b market NFL team and in 5 years had managed to annihilate the fan base to the point where they actually want their team gone. Weren’t they the same team blew up everything when a popular coach found a way to start winning games, fans came back and morale improved? Doesn’t sound so conspiratorial now, huh.