Gapanthersfan

100% Andy has probably put an easy $8 million in dude’s bank account.

I think if the mentoring by Thielen and Andy goes like I hope and truly believe it will, X, by game 12 will have us saying Johnson who? My prediction is that by week 7, we will have traded Johnson for a solid linebacker and X will start really coming on. Additionally, Dalton is THE guy that Mingo needs. Dalton can put the ball anywhere. He’ll put it exactly where Mingo wants it to be. Confidence is essential, especially at WR. Mingo has seen a season of hospital balls and off target circus catches. It doesn’t take a genius to see how skills would atrophy and the demotivating funk sets in. You see how this 5’9” kid is about to kill a career you’ve worked your whole life towards? Naw, bruh. I really couldn’t imagine. You put in to that kind of work your whole life, get drafted and think your dream is coming true, then you meet your starting QB. There would be a full metal jacket, how’s that bar of soap feel, meeting. He may not blossom, but this is his one chance to show the NFL that he’s actually useful. I’m telling y’all, you can’t have better mentors for young receivers than Dalton and Thielen. Here’s the correct way to do this with surgical precision. Our home growns will finally develop. Johnson will blow it up this year and the allure is there, but for the first time since 2003, we have mentoring that is capable in helping a raw WR talent realize potential.

Y’all fall in love too quickly. I’d like to date a bit longer before buying a ring. No trade yet. Get him 2-3 more games, 300 more yards, 2+ more TDs and let the contenders in need get a bit more desperate. Big contracts to damaged goods 1 year rentals… fraught with peril. Defense needs help. No more big $ on offense, please.

You can lose but not feel like a loser. This is where we are now. ‘Winner’ and ‘loser’ is a mindset. We swapped 1 person before the cancer had a chance to metastasize.

Once X and Andy develop some more chemistry and he coaches him up… it’s going to be so beautiful. Andy is good for these dudes confidence. He doesn’t throw hospital balls and his passes are very consistent.

I would much rather give $$ to homegrown dudes. Character matters. To dish a big contract to someone who hasn’t even been on the team a year… that’s gonna be a no from me, dog.

Is he yet another guy who we would give big $$ to and then peace out? This is all a part of getting the right kind of people locked up long term. Robbie Anderson part. 2. He’s obviously talented so why did the Steelers let him go? If we can get at least a first, I’d seriously consider. I don’t like giving someone that’s iffy big $$$. Robbie. Anderson.

And we have a winner!!! But for real, it just 1.

Please don’t panthers this one up. No stopgap washed up has been. Just roll with what we’ve got. Keep our draft capital.

X needs to do whatever Chuba did to improve his pass catching. Dude REALLY put in work and it’ll prob bank him at least a couple more million come contract time.

Healthy Thielen and we win by 10. We keep their o off the field for 5 fewer minutes and we don’t have nearly as many 3rd and longs. You could tell in Andy’s reads that he didn’t like what he saw. It ran clunky. Old panthers ish. Everything looked harder. Plus side is X now has the pressure of his first start behind him. Now it’s time to grow. More I think of it, the more I like the idea of growing young talent under a Jedi master, building it up and then letting handing over to the hopefully future QB. We don’t need the blind leading the blind. So also this, do people have any idea how freaking fortunate this team is to have both Thielen and Dalton? Knowledge. You couldn’t get more fundamentally sound dudes. That’s who I want mentoring our young guys.

The most important position group on the team got real help for the first time since, ever. Dan is building it right with the right people.

The last LB from a better era of Panthers football. Speedy recovery Shaq.

I could see that as well, especially if we can’t stay healthy at LB. But like I said, a top 5 I’m not sure really benefits us. I’d really rather go stud DE in the first round. Let him develop with Andy at QB where there is a chance of the other team playing from behind. Andy plays a key roll in developing talent on D with his ability to keep the offense rolling. It’s tough to learn anything when the other team is up 3 scores and they spend the entire second half running it down your throat.

I’m glad we never gave him that third game. How bad is it when we underestimate just how damn bad Bryce could play. We all expected to see at least something. I think we’ll pick at 8.

Andy looks like he warms up with 185 and reps 225. Bryce looks like he warms up with the bar and max is 155. Maybe. Andy is 6’2 220. One is a football player. One makes his teammates feel like they’re at their grandma’s funeral. Forget oceans 11, how this elaborate scam was pulled off is beyond human comprehension.

Bravo. my takes: 1. Please don’t panthers this one up. No big name overhyped FA who comes here to retire. These moves set us back further every year. Keep the staff intact, keep Evero for at least 2 more years to build the right way. Draft young. No tweeners. No projects. Just honest to God football players. 2. We are no longer the laughing stock, get right game for other teams, and that feels really, really good. 3. I wouldn’t say we’re bad. I’d call it not good… but that’s an ok place to be as long as momentum is in the right direction. I’m actually really ok with being not good. All it took was a QB change to go from F it, burn it to the ground, to I actually want to watch this stuff. Amazing.

It’s the fact that he lacks any true physical NFL ability, and would rather play video games than improve…. I would be flabbergasted if anyone came calling. The Sean Gilbert deal… at least he was a football player.

Big, fast accurate guys with big arms typically have a game that translate well to the NFL. He looks like he is an all out dude.

6 for 66 yards and an end zone TD catch in traffic. Not too shabby. Right now, he’s still feeling his way. It’ll come.

He is perfect for the job. He is playing well, throwing beautiful TD passes and having a good time. The line has played well. I’m not deluded in thinking it’ll be this way the rest of the season, but we have real, legit talent throughout the offense so I really don’t think it’s fools gold. This will be a potent offense this year.

Absolutely correct in all points. He’s not a young guy, he’s not the future long term, but his game is still more than adequate until he proves that it’s not. Some of y’all just need to enjoy the ride.

I can accept that. I have found his number of these types of mistakes to be far below what most other QBs have had. His accuracy helps him in this regard. What I’m seeing is a smart and accurate QB with a good line, good arm and good receivers…. is good stuff.

is a good QB defined subjectively (how he looks/feels/unmeasurable attributes) or objectively (data driven, measurables, etc).

Very fair statement.