Gapanthersfan

I want the panthers to win. Full stop. No one ever cared if Luke, Greg, Jake, Pep, SS, Davis, Mills, Walls, Stewart, etc were given a fair shot. It’s not a fair game. When you’re THE guy, it’s just how it is. If we start an ugly 0 and 4, there are plays to be made but Bryce isn’t making the throws and the boo birds are out…. the locker room won’t be aw shucks we’ll get em next time, we believe in you Bryce buddy, we’re still gelling. Nah bruh, there going to be some grown ass men coming over to his locker to talk to him. If it comes out showing promise and people see true progression in Bryce, especially mechanics, different story. Give that dude some time.

Bing go. In the locker room, they want to win to win, but this is their paycheck. their career. Their bank account. If they see last year’s Bryce for the first 4 games in a row… it’s not going to be a patient environment…. And it’s not just the players. The front office is the same way.

Very short leash. No excuses. The fact that he chillaxed all summer is a real bad look to everybody, especially the locker room. QB is the leader of the locker room and sets the tone. Morgan has lived it. He will pick up on the vibe quickly.

Character traits matter. There is a type of man they are now targeting. You can coach the finer points of the game. You can’t coach character. Are they going to play every down like their life depends on it? See Derrick Brown, Smith, Cam, T Davis, the entire 2003 squad, etc. Burns came in with all the tools but never chose to hone his craft and gave effort only when it benefited him. Bye Felicia. It’s a new era. Mad dogging you, bro.

This right here. Bryce 100% gives off the take it or leave it vibe when it comes to football. There is 0.00% win or die vibe. You’re the #1 overall pick on a team that believed in you so much that they gave up the farm, you turned in the most putrid QB performance seen in almost 20 years, and you go home and chill? You got shirt tackled on the regular. It’s a miracle you still have a spleen. You’re supposed to be the alpha leader in a room full of grown ass men. Wat Dah Fark bro?!! Alls I’m saying is Dan Morgan was a dawg, wants dawgs and knows one when he sees one. Bryce better start barking.

The whole reason behind having a stud franchise QB is that he can make more happen with less and resources can be distributed to other parts of the team. Look at the best teams that win consistently. Franchise QB, good to great o line, some decent WRs but not necessarily elite. RB is plug and play. QB can make every throw and is a threat every time he touches the ball. They consistently move the chains. Opposing Defense plays on their heels because the QB is a certified BMF. Draft capital mainly goes in to recycling the lines. they’re not constantly trying to get another WR killed with hospital balls. I sincerely hope we reach that level one day.

More BS than all the cattle ranches in Texas.

My concern is that Bryce is going to require a lot of premium resources to make his style of play work. He needs first and second round talent. His game is: play breaks down, his beast o line buys him half an hour of scramble time and his first round WR makes magic happen. Unless Morgan and co are draft and FA wizards, the defense will be filled with a stud here and there, but mostly JAGs. It’s damn near impossible to win a championship with a crap defense. in this instance, Bryce wins but panthers lose. We win 7 to 11 games a year, just because we’re so loaded on O. Ground game goes for 180 yards and 3 TDs a game behind a nasty line. Defense gives up 21 on the regular.

Tepper cuts bait early, but I hope he realizes that his instincts up until this season have been completely wrong. Promoting Morgan is a big deal here’s why. I’m glad culture was brought up. I do think Morgan will get things rolling in the right direction. He’s suited up in that locker room. He knows Panthers, bust you in your mouth, football. Players will respect him. I guarantee he along with Brown are the undisputed leaders in the locker room already. Their philosophies are almost identical. This is good. I bet they’ve already talked about this. The fact that Tepper finally promoted someone from the old guard, may be a sign of showing some humility. Morgan was a DAWG. He knows what it takes to win, and he knows what winners look like.

I really think this is where the crux of everything lies. Frank and co had no clue what to draw up once Young was the pick. He’s been around long enough to know a coach killer when he sees one. He knew it was a ship destined to sink. He saw how the skill set of the line players didn’t match the scheme. Same thing with receivers. He saw how 0.0% of the Bryce hype was actually true. He couldn’t wait to get fired, and used the weekly decapitation attempts on Bryce as leverage for Tepper to finally do so. Hell, he probably bought Ickey a G wagon as a show of appreciation.

Do you expect it to stop with our current staff? Tepper passed on Belicheck because he knew Bill wouldn’t stand for that crap. I’m on record before we even went on the coaching search that Tepper would never hire someone he couldn’t influence. I sincerely hope for the good of our franchise it stops. Would Reid? Tomlin? Carrol? Harbaugh? Parcells, etc ever be ok with the owner critiquing plays? We’re trying to attract and keep good coaches and players. I hope he sees this and stops with the Mickey Mouse ish.

.. because all of the top coaching staffs in the league would be 100% cool with the owner telling them the plays he likes and the ones he doesn’t.

I like TMJs game and potential. For him to succeed, he has to have a QB that throws an NFL ball. He needs to have it fired at him. A 22 yard dart to the back of the end zone on a post route. Same with Mingo to a certain extent. He’s also not a ‘just give me the m’fin ball.’ He needs a stud QB to elevate his game.

The greatest season, with the best coaching this franchise has ever seen. That team had the heart of lion. Went in the Lou. Double OT. In to Philly and then beat their brains in. That team came back after halftime, against the best QB to ever play the game in his prime and almost won the damn thing… Brady starting on his 20 instead of the 40 wins 8 times out of 10 anyway. If John Fox doesn’t pull Rodney Pete at half in Jacksonville, that season never happens. Pretty crazy to think about. If it would have been the Giants instead of the Panthers, the made for TV movie would still be playing.

Not all signings are supposed to be DUDEs. At worst, he’s quality depth, an equally pressing need.

That we would again be stuck with no depth because we keep giving away our picks.

I see him coming out guns blazing like he did in ATL for us, then regress back to the mean by the end of the season. If he makes plays that wins games for them, it won’t bug me in the least. I’m happy he’s gone.

I can’t wait for Burns to start racking up the whiffs and missed tackles that go for big gains, just to behold the wrath of the NY media. I despise what he did to our team last season.

I could see that certainly happening.

Burns quitting on his team over money showed his true colors. He got exactly what he deserved. The NY sports media. One trick pony better find paydirt in the NFC East. I’d have let him go for a pack of grape big league chew so I’m really pretty pleased with what we got. As much as I disagree with forking over big $ for free agents in the beginning stages of FA, nothing they’ve done has been out of line. I’ll be patient and hopefully less synical.

Love this move. He is the guy who will pick up 2 to 3 clutch plays in a game that mean the difference between winning and losing.

Our best teams were built off of success in the draft and wisely getting free agents that just fit, and didn’t bust the bank. 2003. BPA. Smith. Morgan. Peppers, Ricky Manning. Minter, moose… Free agents Jake, Rucker, proehl, and Davis. 2015: Norwell, Ted Ginn.. among the incredible drafted talent we had. I really hope this is different and I do believe in our vision, so I hope it works out.

1000%. Please just at least make it watchable and less demoralizing. if we do nothing else this year, please just be able to score more than 10 points and keep the other team under 100 rushing yards a game. There is something completely demoralizing when every run goes for at least 7 and you can’t do a thing to stop it. It’s early still, but I really want to see team building, because we end up losing the same way every single season. Several key guys we bet the farm on get hurt, we have 0 depth, more injuries pile up from players playing out of position or trying to overcompensate. 0 depth. 0 ‘Target’ shopping acquisitions. No second and 3rd round picks to positions we don’t really need help with, but they were bpa with stud potential. See the greatest player the panthers have ever had. Agent 89. you can never go wrong with line building. We 1000% need the guys we’ve gotten. I just hope they aren’t shortsighted, again.

Doing everything they can to make BRYCE win right now. Same thing I said a while back. We will be so resource heave on line and WRs, the rest of the team will suffer.

This is what I’m trying to get at. Yes, we are god awful on offense. Unwatchable. Completely. Unwatchable. This just feels like a more aggressive version of the same approach that continues to fail us. Instead of building through the DRAFT, building quality depth and keeping core pieces, the way pretty much 100% of successful programs go… we do it the Panthers way. We spend big in FA with long contracts and assume our draft will land 5 starters, everyone works out and doesn’t check out mentally and everyone stays healthy. Year after year we end up with 0 depth, but use the same approach anyway. I pray that our talent evaluation has improved to the point where we can draft and shop at Target and land some quality depth that still cares about winning. Again, I don’t hate any of the additions I actually love them, but I see a similar trend as what’s failed in the past.