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Meanwhile, David Tepper...

The problem is David Tepper. I'm completely completely convinced he's making the key football decisions. He runs the Panthers like Madden franchise mode toggling on and off the features he wants the AI (his actual football front office in this case) to handle while he handles the parts of the business he thinks is fun. High draft picks, key free agent signings, key re-signing, big trade deals, etc. That's where he probably steps in and makes the calls then he lets the football people deal with the day to day stuff of low low level FA signings, day three of the draft, low level afterthought trades, etc. I just can't be convinced that actual professional football people keep making such consistently awful decisions on their own accord.

It actually got talked about a decent amount here. I mean, it just doesn't matter. He doesn't have the physical talent. No amount of work he can put in is changing it.

Actual replay of the Eagles trying to finish that game

That's a potential season derailing loss. I mean, they REALLY blew it. From Barkley dropping the game sealing pass to the D just being an absolute matador down the field to give up the winning score. Wow.

That's as sorry if a clutch situation defensive outing as you'll see. Wow.

The Eagles' front seven is trash. They can't rush the passer and they can't stop the run. Do they have a bunch of guys hurt or something? I thought basically their entire D was UGA studs.

That injury has turned him into Bryce Young. He just cannot make the throws.

The Falcons better start spying Hurts and playing contain on the edges. Dude isn't even going through his reads because he doesn't need to. Running lanes for him everywhere. It's like they didn't even prepare for a running QB.

Physically he's built about the same as Bryce. But dude can run. I mean he can RUN run.

That dude was WIDE ASS OPEN and Cousins could just barely get the ball to him. They really need to just play Penix.

Cousins is shot. It's over for this dude. The Falcons gave a poo ton of money to a dude that is DONE.

I called this not long after the draft.

I think Sam Bradford's might still have the edge.

We were a team playing without a QB. We might as well have been wearing leather helmets since the forward pass wasn't part of our capabilities.

We couldn't find out who we are on offense because we were playing with a QB who couldn't throw the ball effectively beyond the LOS.

They're shocked he's no longer being coddled. Hell, I am too to be honest. But Bryce has been playing this game for a long time. No player who has been playing as bad as he has since suiting up in the NFL should be shocked they finally got benched.

The way Bo Nix is looking Zach Wilson is gonna be playing in Denver pretty soon.

Holy poo. LOL I'm gonna have to see if I can find that.

Yeah, we're still in all likelihood gonna suck hard. I just want to see something different. Watching an NFL QB who completely lacks the ability to throw the football effectively beyond the LOS is just absolutely deflating.

I don't think Canales thought there was any chance Tepper was going to give his blessing to bench Bryce this early when he gave that answer yesterday. Trust and believe benching Bryce after these two games isn't something you'd have to force on a coach.

It could be that Canales is a new HC and doesn't have his "coach speak" game up to par yet, but I was surprised how matter of fact and honestly final the decision sounded. I expected something along the lines of "We want to give Bryce a chance to take a step back and be able to sit and learn without the pressure of playing right now. Andy Dalton gives us the best chance to win right now and we think it'll benefit Bryce to watch how an established vet operates in a starting role." But the way Canales put it out there it honestly sounds like we've flat out turned the page.

They'll have an opportunity to catch balls beyond the LOS. That's pretty much all I'm asking for at this point.

To be fair, two of those three had a resurgence by getting the fug away from the Panthers. LOL But trust and believe that Darnold is gonna start looking like Darnold again in the next week or two

I just want a chance to maybe be able to fairly judge our overall offense. Bryce wasn't providing the opportunity.