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Can’t get a decent stream. And the game is lagging too. Just reminding we are patterned to win this week.

What are pork buns?

Yeah so what is the letter? I disagree with the concept of it, I like to stick with merit. And remind people that I wanted Wilks… not trying to hold anyone back, just it is so much of a rigged game in coordinator market with that kind of payoff sitting there to tilt the scales in an even race. Competition. But conceptually, if you are gonna take those kind of extreme measures you need to have a winner every now and then. Make it too hard to award those prizes, where is the incentive? If you are gonna do it set it up so some gets a payoff. I am not sure anyone has so far.

Great nutshell description (of his ceiling).

Yeah it is interesting. If contracts run through the league year that is March. Any HC will be hired well before. I tend to think the common sense application of this would need the coach to be a loss to the team. If he isn’t signed for next year then we suffer no loss. OTOH why institute something like this and be stingy with doling out the picks… the team did employ him as a DC for three seasons giving the platform to showcase his potential to move up.

I don’t think I can do another year of Bryce, much less two.

I wish I thought the team was full of sharks, that would operate this way. Man as far as blaming coaching… you can hire a great chef but if all he has is dog food for his ingredients, you are gonna get dog food. Do you blame the chef? When you give that chef some nicely marbled top grade beef, and it still tastes like dog food, then you blame the chef.

I disagree. Look, Carruth was a POS. She was a POS too, let’s face it. A stripper running an old game on him. The child was truly the only innocent there. He wasn’t innocent. She wasn’t innocent either. She just picked the wrong rich athlete. Play stupid games…. You don’t know what you are setting in motion. I can’t compare that to Fred Lane’s death. Free country we can disagree.

Hard salami provolone sliders/finger sandwiches dressed with tomato slice and mayo/vinaigrette concoction. Banana and cherry peppers are on hand. Onions. Whatever you want. And a bag of cheese puffs in a bowl. I guess with the Bucs it should be rum but fresh out. Beer and tequila. Coffee and water if you don’t drink.

April 27 2023 Darkest day in Panthers history behind the day Fred Lane was murdered.

How many of that long list of QBs started a full season? 3 seasons? Seems like every spot starter forced in by injury is on there. Typical.

Off of that post you quoted, you seem confused. This is simple. Years of hearing excuses from Bryce Young fans have taken a toll. Like, that perspective that isn’t mine is fed up, doesn’t have room for more. So fug it, let’s just really make it perfect for him. Get him everything he could possibly want and then some. Let’s dump some more assets at the alter. Then get some 6’ and under beasts for his OL. So maybe he can see where he is throwing. Whatever it takes.

I will allow that sometimes the players sound smarter than I expected, vocabulary seems broad and seems like they know what the words mean when they use them. A lot of them. Some others are perpetuating the cliche. But our organizational IQ? Bryce Young is our starting QB and we have no one to challenge him. Low end of the bell curve.

Well, maybe it will save us some money down the line when it is time to give him a new deal. Might be one of the unsung Benefits of Bryce.

It was obvious to me. I said so, loudly. Not even based on his college tape but his horrible mechanics and weak arm, clearly visible on his pro day (yes it is weak for the NFL). And struggle he did. Three years in, he is still struggling. Big surprise, the way to beat the Panthers is stop their run game and make Bryce beat you. You want to ride that little pair of threes into the river you will need a life jacket.

I am out of things to say that haven’t been said 100 times. If we buy him a Pro Bowl WR and a Pro Bowl TE and sign 5 really really short OL so he can see, and he still fails most weeks, will people finally give it up? If so let’s do that, please.

Knowing that Frank played and coached NFL quarterback his entire adult life. And he was built for it. I can only get to one viewpoint of what he would think of Bryce and the NFL game. I’d love to have some of the conversations between him and Tepper leak but they never will.

I don’t think it matters. Just off the intangible superstitious stuff, we are screwed. We have the Seahawks’ superiority over us that we just witnessed. We have beat the Rams once doubt we do it twice. Our up down or win lose pattern/streak is still strong and would be intact if we were to beat TB meaning we are down the next game.

That was always the fear, expectation, concern, etc, I had. Someone showed a still shot from his pick last game and said it showed that the defender closed 3 yards on that ball in the last portion of its flight. I forget the number. 10 yards I think it said but that sounds extreme. When guys are open by a step, any slowing down to wait for the ball lets the defender back into the play. That sort of stuff makes the margins so small… these NFL CBs are not slow. It is a league that highly values foot speed; the 40 times and drill times are scrutinized down to the hundredth of a second when evaluating these players on both sides of the passing game. Receivers and defenders both. My thing with his arm strength (or anyone’s) was always “why do you want to do that? Plus pay extra picks to put yourself in that situation?”. Asking for trouble. I wish there was a way to measure velocity on the back half of a throw compared to when it left the hand. Or really get accurate reading of the flight time of a ball from the near hash to the sideline, 10 yards down the field. Because teams could use that info. I have always seen this as being a disadvantage with Bryce but it is beyond my ability to quantify it. I think it would show what that arm strength is really about, a lot more than just measuring how much air can you put under it so it will fly as far as possible.

We didn’t break Bryce. He is exactly what he was at Alabama, better really, because they have him employing proper footwork at least some of the time - vs never like when he got here. He is a college level player, improperly equipped to thrive in the NFL. That’s all it is. All it ever was or ever will be.

Time for a Campbell’s Chunky Soup commercial.

Shough was a second rounder. We don’t know what he is but he looks like some very good potential. And the price allows you to indulge without a ton of loss if you are wrong. I am really against trading future 1st round picks, and exponentially so when talking multiples. I can’t sign off on some mega deal for a vet in the midst of a bad relationship. No matter his talent two years ago.

I am almost as old as he is, and I hate to say it but he was too old to start a journey like that would be - if done right. What’s he gonna be, coaching an NFL team at 78 years old?

A developmental QB should have been taken in year two. Absolutely you have to buy a ticket to the QB lotto when he is your starter. Showing what he was showing, I mean. You do that, and even if you don’t hit you leave no doubt with him that we aren’t playing around. We have intentions of having that guy under center. If he wants it to be him, get on the stick.

He is the second rounder that got away. He gets some benefit of the doubt, you can afford to be wrong. Those other guys are high picks. Like that, (snaps fingers), we are free of the millstone. No 5th year 30 million necessary. No extension. No more Bryce hell.