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Fair enough. When they whip our asses and we have a losing record remember your post. Maybe put down the bong.

SF might be beatable. I doubt we have much shot vs Seattle or LA Rams.

I’d have to put it this way. Which one has more to overcome? Bryce overcoming Canales’ limitations, or Canales overcoming Bryce’s? My opinion says the latter is most likely.

We are still the Panthers. Here is what I expect: that ankle swells up and we don’t get to see consecutive weeks.

Burns isn’t a complete player. DJ was very good but at this point T Mac looks better. And he should considering where they went in the draft. But that doesn’t always hold true. CMC, yes you could put him higher and definitely on actual league accomplishments. T Mac does give flashes of HOF quality. So much goes into actually being that and it has to be year after year so… not right now. But the potential is pretty obvious to my way of thinking.

Given the lack of value fits to our defensive needs at number 8, I got it then. As far as being a guy critical of all the offense padding at the expense of our defense I wanted defense. It just wasn’t there. But he has totally looked the part since he got here. Looks like a great pick.

That is not necessarily true. You get a shot to get your foot in the door you take it and worry about stuff like that later. (Difference is he wasn’t going to get the offers Ben Johnson was going to get, he was not a hot name with that track record. Many have pointed out what a long shot he was). He may have known he couldn’t do but so much with Bryce but saw that if he could turn a Bryce led team into a winner then someone would notice. I am not saying I know what he was thinking, just that if I were in that position it might be what I was thinking.

Without a single sack.

That means you have a good team. Everyone has those games, not everyone wins them.

In the prediction thread I made a post saying we should look for the up. Without using any footbal knowledge just basing off of results and the pattern… we had and have flipped from home winning streak to road winning streak. Where we could not win. We were on a two game road streak going into today. We have been up down up down like a yo yo. Every week. up down up down. And it would be played in Atlanta where Bryce, for whatever reason, turns in his best performances lately. I don’t remember 2023 but last year he was excellent. If that pattern held, and it did, it was a lock. Ended up being a great game for us and for Bryce but however it got there, that pattern said it was going to get there. Can I explain it? Not more than that.

We were talking a couple weeks ago about the threads started before the game was over. It is a mixed bag to date. Let’s see the follow up. Historically the follow ups have been big letdowns. Putting two high performance games back to back would be new ground. That I have been waiting to see him do.

Ahh, way over my head. My ipad has this thing where it bugs out into double taps from a single tap. Does it on spaces, and on the quotes here which I usually catch. Then it stops and acts normal. My apologies. I definitely didn’t get it - and it was funny now that I know.

It’s about his floor not his ceiling. If you really want to be serious and not just fan. I really wish I had seen it, I did radio. This is one I am sorry I missed. This was probably his best game as a pro so I guess the ceiling got raised a little more. But that floor is what puts food on the table.

Looking at it with only the 11 games - which is incomplete - you have to go back past 2021. Yes we need another season to see it a bit clearer, but as of right now it looks like it’s slamming.

It is hard to say he has lost the locker room when you watch that. And the 5 others.

I don’t mean to pick on you but you beg for it. You back on the Bryce train now? Is that what you are saying here? Gold. On on on off on off on on on off on.

I ain’t doing it right now but I suspect if I took out the Falcons games poo would look a lot different. That this comes against one team, especially the last two away results, is …. Unique. Lol at the Falcons. Someone is losing a job again.

Making the playoffs *would* be a big deal. Bet someone In Tampa loses a job if we take the division. A 5-12 season followed by the playoffs would for sure be a big deal. I don’t see it happening even with some bounces. Our record vs teams with winning records is not very good. Squeaker against Green Bay. The others were blowouts. And I heard today we have the hardest schedule in the league the last 6 games.

You got me, you said it was a safe wager… no one was close. I have read it. And said there was one that was close. I speculated it wasn’t serious, but the fact remains it was close.

I don’t understand, you speculated and I said that there was one that came close.

He loses his Atlanta privileges. Or maybe we trade him to the Falcons.

There was one, but I think it wasn’t really a serious offering.

Not seething. I posted I was prepared, by my cynicism. He owns Atlanta. Something like this was almost bound to happen it is our fate as Panther fans. I say the same thing as usual. We have 6 games left let them play out. See you couldn’t just say that Bryce had a great game and you believe in him. When people make it personal and think they can dunk on people after he has a good game, that is what irritates.Thinking you won and being a shitty sport about it. You haven’t ‘won’ yet there are 6 games to go. And I still think if you ‘win’, we lose for the next few years.

I am not sold off of one game vs a team he has seemingly owned but still holding back as much as I can to let it play out. Gave the reasons. It isn’t the same but there have probably been career .225 hitters that owned HOF pitchers. Ownage is sort of a mystery of the uinverse that has yet to be explained.

I feel like they thoroughly analyzed the options way before the coin toss. And knew what they thought was the play. Without the TD and game over rule, they probably made the right play.