LinvilleGorge

Yeah, Shula was the QB coach. I honestly completely forgot about Chud. When he took the Browns job we should've swung big for an OC instead of just promoting Shula. Yes, I guarantee Shula leveraged his "success" with Cam to get that job and just proved that yeah, it was Cam not Shula. That bum got carried for years by a generational talent.

Cam had his most efficient passing seasons under Norv after his shoulder was trashed. Meanwhile, Shula never got another NFL OC job. He finally got a college OC job at South Carolina and got his ass fired mid-season because he was making a presumed 1st round QB look like a guy who wouldn't get drafted. I give credit to Shula for Cam's rookie season and creating an offense that maximized his skills at that point at the NFL level. But Shula never evolved his offense beyond that. I desperately wish we would've seen a Norv Turner tyor coordinating the offense for Cam starting in year two or three but we let Shula ride him into the dirt.

The problem is that you have a very small handful of legit good games to cling to vs. all the rest of Bryce's career. He has to be at his absolute best. Even "good" on the "Bryce curve" is below average for NFL starting QB standards and "average" on the "Bryce curve" is "we need a new fuging QB" for NFL starting QB standards.

Damn, that'll be a historic year for QB's on IR across the league.

I was pretty shocked to see us get three primetime games. 6-11 honestly feels like a pretty rational prediction with us playing a decision winner strength of schedule.

Hate it for him personally and hope he recovers well. But honestly, reaching an injury settlement and moving on would probably be a best case scenario for the Panthers. This signing always felt like a desperate knee-jerk reaction to losing out on Milton Williams. Williams was a logical scheme fit while Wharton just wasn't. He's best used as a rotational interior pass rushing specialist in an even front. He's way too small to play the nose in a 3-4 and he lacks the length and juice to play the end. Healthy he's a nice roster piece in the right scheme at the right price but we overpaid him to play him in the wrong scheme. The signing just never made any sense to me and I said so at the time.

Sorry, everything in sports is blue to me. Panthers, Tar Heels, it's gotta be blue. LOL

Because Wade Phillips was playing chess vs. Shula's checkers. Shula very predictably countered the opposing D having success in the pass rush by keeping extra blockers in so that he could still run his same slow developing downfield route stuff. Phillips knowing we had no receivers he was scared of vs. his secondary and running primarily man coverage countered this with "blue dog" blitzing. Essentially if the man you're supposed to cover stays in to block you blitz to nullify the extra blocker, now it's back to hat on a hat football and Von Miller vs. Mike Remmers one on one is a nightmare. Shula had no plan C. There was no counter to the counter. We were cooked at that point. Screens? Chip and release routes from the extra blockers staying in to take advantage of the guy coming in hot on a blitz? Quick slants or drags to get the ball out faster? Nope. None of that. The guy was a fuging moron.

My parents went to the Truist golf tournament in Charlotte last week and a bunch of former Panthers were doing the pro-am thing. They had great things to say about all of them, even Smitty. They said they were all having a lot of fun and super friendly and engaging eith the crowd. Specific players mentioned were Smitty, Luke, TD, J Stew, there were definitely more but those guys come to mind immediately.

I mean, Bryce isn't very good but Kenny Pickett is fuging terrible. That we paid him like a good backup was insane. Pickett should be on league minimum deal just hoping to make a roster.

Reportedly heard by bystanders before he threw his beer at a fan: "let them eat cake"

Not wrong.

It speaks volumes about what a joke the field of sports journalism is.

I still reserve my right to bitch about how incompetent the Panthers are at running a football organization and point to the mountains of evidence in support.

If we extend Bryce on a franchise QB contract I'll check put as a Panthers fan until the nightmare is over. I'll just go back to being a general football fan and tuning into the most interesting games of the day. Hell, I've been halfway there for years. For years I've been alf ass watching the Panthers on one screen while watching other games on other screens.