LinvilleGorge

#1 PG and top 10 overall recruit just committed to UNC.

Ryan Day is basically Dabo Swinney fully embracing the new era of college football and the portal. He's a recruiter and program builder, not a great Xs and Os type of coach. The way this new era is shaping up, I honestly think it may evolve more toward the Xs and Os type coaches and away from the stereotypical cheereleading motivating type of coach that has come to largely define the college game. These top programs can't pile up 4 and 5 star recruits throughout their depth charts anymore. If that guy isn't starting he's gonna take a bag elsewhere and transfer. It used to be that very top teams were just head and shoulders better than everyone else and a lot of that had to do with their depth. Their twos were better than most teams' ones.

Not sure how high we're gonna be on Fano to be honest. We seem like we prefer bigger mauler types of OL. Fano is the opposite of that.

Yeah, at least we ended up getting Coker as a UDFA. Sucks that XL is likely a bust but finding Coker as a UDFA takes some of the sting off of it.

Which leads me back to saying we should've fuging drafted McConkey. LOL

If we move XL in a WR for WR trade I'd prefer to trade him for more of a classic slot WR. That's what this WR corps lacks. I like T-Mac and Coker on the outside. Now we need that shifty guy who can get open immediately and create separation in short areas.

Yeah, I think getting ousted from the Panthers reignited that blood and guts fire in Smitty. He was done here. Those two alphas just couldn't coexist at that stage in their careers with Smitty knowing he was barely hanging on as a star and Cam knowing he was just emerging. Those energies just weren't compatible.

Nice, he's transferring to UNC.

LOL

Not blaming him for everything, just "singling him out". I love it when morons call other people morons. LOL

Pitt must be truly terrible. Good. fug 'em. Can't stand Pitt. They play shitty dirty ball in both football and basketball.

Oof. Veesar went from probable last night to OUT. No Eilson or Veesaar is gonna be a tough road to hoe today. Putt sucks, but hell without those two guys so do we. LOL

Yeah, I was about to say I hope he's doing okay health-wise because he's not looking good in that pic.

Dumbly blaming the best player on the team for everything.

Yep, choosing a narrative. LOL This is how you end up singling out players from over 20 years ago who were single handedly making us relevant at the time. Stop being dumb.

The whole team did. The overall effort was pathetic. Singling out any individual is just choosing a narrative.

I just think he's tired of getting the hell beat out if him behind trash tier OLs. Hard to blame him for that. At some point, I think he's either going to retire early or force his way out of there if they don't get it fixed.

Going into the season? No. But it's easy to see how that could change quickly during the season. All I'm gonna say is he better improve that QB room. If Bryce reverts back to "pre-improved" Bryce Canales might not be here in '27. If I was him I'd want a legitimate fallback plan.

That's what sold me on Burrow in college. You could tell he didn't have a big arm by NFL standards but what set hin apart was that he can throw the same ball whether he's standing in a clean pocket or running for his life. There's seemingly no drop off in velocity or accuracy.

I mean, you can only go so far with the propping up. When a guy's numbers are as bad overall as Bryce's you have to try to find specific niches to sell. It's just funny that they're honing in on where he's probably weakest to try to prop him up. Whether it's a pro-Bryce conspiracy or not, it echos my chief complaint about PFF's analysis for years. When your purely statistical analysis badly skews from the eye test of actually watching the games, it should be screaming at you that you need to modify your system not double down on it. PFF is awesome at compiling stats but their grade systems are highly flawed and they never seem to try to improve them.

Thats not what im saying. The allure of getting on that Tepper payroll does.

No reason?

Hey, remember when this clown called Caleb Wilson a lazy pussy and then we learned he played the whole second half with a broken hand? LOL

He got better this year. But he was still overall bad. It's about the incredibly low physical ceiling he has.