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Derrick Henry is a freak among freaks.

Enough with the sobfest, let's watch some good football. Bills came ready to play. Already up 7-0 less than 4 minutes in.

I've long said in the Tepper era the Panthers would literally he better off making major decisions via Huddle poll. As comical as that sounds and as terrifying as it is, it's just objectively true.

The guy was non-existent his entire college career before blossoming in a gifted extra year due to COVID and he goes from being a guy who probably doesn't even draw UDFA interest to a Panthers 1st round pick. That's amazing.

There's something to play for now. When he was playing well last year we were basically already out of the playoff picture. No pressure and a lot of teams were probably looking past us.

Bryce is an all-time bad multi-year starting WH, LBs suck, XL sucks, Corbett is not a center and can't properly snap a football, Evero is worse than useless.

I said it leading up to the draft that I have no idea what the evaluators are looking at when they watch this guy on a college field and translate that to elite QB prospect. He checked zero physical boxes and nothing about his play stylistically translated.

At least it's Carolina where they're lobbing you softballs. Still sucks, still awkward, but imagine what it would be like in say NYC or Philly? LOL

I mean, we've all watched "battles" play out where the "winner" doesn't win. Hell, Moehrig basically flat out said that Ransom should be the other starting safety in his preseason sideline interview and still out trots Nick Scott.

Sure looks that way. Can't blame that sideline incompletion on QB play. He had all the room in the world to get both feet down and just didn't.

You gotta consider starting Mays next week.

Yep, pretty much. I don't know how anyone didn't see what was going on when he showed up to the Combine and hid underneath that hoodie and backpack all weekend. I guarantee you he'd been chowing down at the buffet as hard as he could and came in chubby to weigh in as heavy as possible.

The Raiders earned that pick fair and square. They didn't trade up to #1.

In the conversation for biggest of all-time.

Me too. I just want us to move on from Bryce. I don't need to beat him down in the process. It sucks to watch someone who seems like a legitimately decent guy being publicly humiliated but it is what it is.

Tepper's Panthers in a nutshell. Lots of big talk, lots of getting embarrassed on the field. We've churned through GMs, coaches, and QBs. It's very obvious what the problem is and unfortunately it's the one problem that can't be fixed. Tepper ruined it. We used to long to consistently good because we couldn't put together winning seasons, but now we view those years of being sporadically good as the good old days.

It just sucks all the way around. It sucks for us that Bryce ain't it and it sucks for him to get a chance to live out his dream just to realize he's simply not good enough. That's what you're watching. A young man coming to grips with that reality. At least he put millions of dollars in the bank in the process.

There's no future with either one of them. IMO, soon it's going to come down to proving to your locker room you're willing to try something and playing the QB that best allows you to evaluate your receivers.

I think Dalton will suck too. But at some point you lose your locker room when you keep trotting out trash at QB. You just lose your credibility to hold guys accountable.

We benched him after two games last year. If he looks like that again next week you gotta do it again. Probably at halftime.

You're not wrong. Hindsight being 20/20 they should've cut the cord then.

It's called padding stats against soft zone in late game situations trailing by multiple scores. The D isn't trying to stifle you anymore, they're just trying to avoid giving up big plays.

Offense is just really hard to come by when the opposing defense knows that you can't stretch the field because your QB is incapable of it. We saw the same thing with Campaign after his shoulder injuries and Cam was nowhere near as overall physically limited as Bryce even with a trashed throwing shoulder.

My only concern here is that if you do this I think you're also having to commit to a full reset again. Canales will lose the locker room sticking with Bryce.

And it honestly should've been 120ish yards with 4 turnovers including a pick six without the bailout flag.