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The list becomes the guys who have no other NFL HC options and are willing to be a doormat for a fat check. I ain't judging. I'd cash that check too. But it is what it is.

I honestly won't find it the least bit shocking if it turns out that what got Reich fired is insisting to Tepper that Bryce needed to be benched.

Well, it's playing out. The game isn't over but right now it's looking like that Alabama/TCU national championship game and we ain't wearing crimson red.

They still can't get over their previous narrative that this guy is some type of football savant. It's embarrassing watching them just keep repeating the "Bryce will be fine" mantra. Bryce will be fine based on what? Aside from pre-draft opinion what is anyone seeing on an NFL field to cling to?

What would I do? Step one, I admit the mistake and trade Bryce for whatever I can get. Yeah, I'm gonna be roundly mocked but it is what it is. The guy's a bust. I'm definitely looking at QBs in the draft and I'm bringing in a vet like Jacoby Brissett or Tyrod Taylor or Gardner Minshew to compete. Tag and trade Burns. Go after Tee Higgins. If I fail, I'm still adding at least one solid vet WR and I'm bringing in at least at least one starting caliber OL. I'm going to use the early portion of camp to have a LT competition between Ickey and Christensen with the loser playing OG.

This is the only actual possibly hopeful situation. That Scott Fitterer is the problem. Because if he's not it's Tepper. I'm heavily leaning toward it being Tepper but it sure would be nice if it's Fitts because you can't fire the owner.

I doubt extremely seriously that we draft another QB this year but we should consider it. And we should bring in a solid vet like Jacoby Brissett or Tyrod Taylor or Gardner Minshew and have a legit QB competition in camp. You can't just hand the job to Bryce again after this disaster of a season, massive investment sunk or not. If you want any locker room buy in you gotta make him earn it.

Average is a curse unless you're able to put together a supporting cast like the Dolphins or Niners have. You're better off if the guy busts. You might dupe yourself into sticking with average and paying him like he's a dude like the Giants did with Daniel Jones.

We've all been wrong before. We've all wanted prospects who went on to bust and didn't want prospects who turned out to be great players. I've certainly done both and I'll do both again in the future. It's fine. It's the folks who can't swallow the bitter pill and do mental gymnastics to create ever shifting narratives of excuses while refusing to acknowledge their own fallibility that baffle me.

It wasn't deleted. We never delete stuff. It's just hidden. Mods can still see it. One of the mods hid it it but it wasn't me. Hence my confusion.

I literally have no idea what you're talking about.

If we'd drafted Stroud no one would be complaining.

Per the draft pick value chart you need 5 #30s to equal one #1.

Imagine having three straight winning seasons. That's what the Niners have had since that trade. Panthers fans can literally only imagine that. Yeah, they blew that trade but what keeps it from being an all-time awful trade is the team success they've had in spite of it. Winning fixes everything.

The two times we've been anything other than completely awful under Tepper were his first year when he was focused on business operations and during Wilks' interim period when he was likely just focusing on the future. He's probably still heavily meddling currently because he's desperate for Bryce not to be a bust. Well, Bryce hasn't thrown for over 200 yards since before Halloween and has only thrown for two TDs post-Halloween. He's thrown for under 200 yards in 8 of his 12 starts. Zero 250+ yard games. Bryce's bust-o-meter is bouncing off the rev limited right now.

Three of the four worst trade scenarios in Panthers history have happened in the Tepper era. 1. The Bryce trade 2. The CMC trade 3. Turning down the Burns offer The other one being trading for franchise tagged Sean Gilbert.

Not just draft night. The entire off-season cycle leading up to the draft. Our only hope is that the media doesn't turn on the "Bryce will be fine" narrative. If they do, it's gonna be UGLY.

This is the part the defenders refuse to acknowledge. Our QB isn't giving us an opportunity to compete. It's really that simple. Forget all the stat breakdowns. Just watch the games. There are plenty of plays where we don't have a chance. The OL gets blown up or receivers don't get separation and there's no running lanes to scramble. That's true. But there's also plenty of plays where there's an opportunity there and our QB doesn't give us a chance. Today featured a lot of them. It blows my mind that people are actually saying they were encouraged today simply because Bryce threw the ball down the field. Yeah, he did. But the results were awful. He didn't EFFECTIVELY throw the ball down the field. Honestly, he made me realize why we didn't throw the ball down the field more this year. We threw the ball 20+ yards more than 5 times twice all year. Week 3 when Dalton went 4/7 with a TD and today when Bryce went 1/9. Folks, we have a QB problem. I'm sorry, but it's really obvious. We have other problems too, but we absolutely have a QB problem.

I honestly don't care. I just want Tepper to significantly reduce his role in the football operations. I don't like Harbaugh but I'd actually be encouraged if we hired him simply because that would be a sign that Tepper has at least sold Jim Harbaugh on significantly reducing his role in the football operations because I don't think Harbaugh would take the job otherwise. Now whether or not it would actually play out that way? Who knows but it's be entertaining if it didn't because Harbaugh has never exactly been known as a great tongue biter.

We'd definitely be in the mix this year, that's for sure. We'd honestly probably be in the mix if we had simply played Dalton. I honestly thought we would've rode Dalton until the wheels fell off after his promising game in Seattle. There should've been no rush to get Bryce back out there

Yeah, pretty baffling. They have every right to be mad but the anger is misdirected. Kadarius Toney is the dumbass who lined up offsides. Be mad at him.

And Smith's ceiling was as a game managing average QB while playing for arguably the greatest offensive coach of all-time.

I just don't understand how everyone could see Mac's NFL limitations and yet convinced themselves that Bryce was some kind of super processor who would be able to overcome his. This narrative that Bryce was overcoming a talent deficit at Alabama was especially baffling. It's ALA-fuging-BAMA. Bama in a down year is still absolutely a top 10 NCAA roster.

5'10" guys with subpar arms generally go undrafted.

You expect a rookie to have some rough plays, bad games, missed reads, some bad turnovers, you expect them to be inconsistent. It comes with the territory. But you want to see flashes of special talent. You want to see them have some games where you're like "Damn! He looked like a legit franchise QB out there today!" It just hasn't happened. My concern is this might be the best Bryce is gonna look. Most 1st round QBs are drafted largely on potential. You expect them to get better as their experience catches up to their talent. With guys like Bryce you're expecting their experience and mature beyond their years mentality to carry them. Mac Jones was a similar guy. He threw for nearly 4k yards and 22 TDs vs. 13 INTs as a rookie. Everyone was talking about him as potentially the next Brady. Well, look at him now after the NFL has got more film on him and can better exploit his talent deficiencies. I fear it's very possible that we're seeing the best of Bryce right now.