LinvilleGorge

Yeah, I'm not expecting improvements for them from benching Tua for Temu Tua. I understand why they want to get a look at the rookie but honestly I'd play Wilson and see what my offense could look like with a guy with high level NFL tools even if it's just a few glimpses in an overall pile of poo.

Playing for Tepper's Panthers doesn't seem like something that would ignite a fire under a guy already sounding like he's ready to pull a Luck and just walk away from it all.

Yeah, that's my fault. We're so late into 2025 I'm already living in 2026. LOL Oof, they're cooked. Wonder if they just eat that extra $11M or designate it post-June 1 and take two stiff jabs on the chin instead of a haymarker? Good lord Panthers, please be paying attention to this

Oh I'm sure they'll try I'd just be floored of they find a taker.

See above. He's as good as cut. They'll eat $18M but still net $47M in cap savings.

This also essentially confirms the Dolphins will release Tua this offseason. They can save $47M by cutting him and that's not even with a post-June 1st designation. And before anyone asks... hell no.

Yep. Do not get tempted to pay physically limited QBs like franchise QBs.

And they're bypassing Zach Wilson to go straight to rookie Quinn Ewers. Makes sense. I think everyone has accepted at this point that Zach Wilson isn't panning out as a starter, might as well use the last three games to get a look at the rookie.

Classic example of a guy who cashed in on being a one year wonder in a contract year. He had three career starts in his first four seasons then had 6.5 sacks in his fifth year with 10 starts and we give him $40M. He's a fine rotational guy but he's not a guy you pay like a legit building piece.

No idea. I just know that my initial reaction was "What??? That makes no sense for our scheme."

It's hard not to when we've been irrelevant for the better part of a decade. I would too if I had any confidence in that not giving the organization the excuse to continue to delude themselves. I certainly won't be mad if we win the division but it'll make me nervous about what dumbass decisions that could lead to.

Losing the last three with Bryce faceplanting down the stretch is honestly the best thing for the organization long-term. Sad to say, but that's the truth. Backing into the playoffs by winning a bad division with the Bucs in freefall might be the worst outcome long-term. Anything that allows the organization to cling to this farce of Bryce being the answer at QB is a terrible thing for the long-term of this franchise.

I just don't think there's any great teams this year. Seems like every team that makes the field this year has a shot outside of the NFC South and AFC North champs. Those are just weak ass divisions.

Oh, they're good teams. You're just jaded by the Pats/Chiefs dynasties of recent years. There's no dominant teams this year on the NFL but the Pats and Bills are legit SB contenders in this year's league.

Yep, we've found ways to win a lot of games we should've lost and had the good fortune of playing two playoff teams in offensive limiting bad weather conditions. The only difference between us and the Giants is that they've lost most of their one possession games and we've won most of ours.

He might not be but in the coaching search we basically have equivalency of finding a QB but we have no picks in the first five rounds and we're over the salary cap so we'd basically be looking at late round flier type picks and vet minimum type roster castoffs.

Yeah, don't mistake my defense of Canales as true defense of Canales. More just an acknowledgement of our situation as an organization and the lack of appeal to other potential candidates. Kinda like that Bryce conversation. It's about expectations. Canales basically is that mid-round pick likely backup caliber guy... who would be replaced by an equal caliber canididate. Based on that, I think it's unlikely we'd get an improvement and the carousel would continue.

This is why I'm okay with giving Canales another year. Not because I think he's good or that he deserves it but simply because I know that if we fire him he's going to be replaced by another third tier candidate with no other NFL HC opportunities with a very low likelihood of panning out.

The Turk signing never made any sense. Turk was basically a five tech pass rush specialist in KC benefitting from playing beside one of the best all around DTs in the league. He didn't fit our scheme at all. It was baffling. Just another example of a dumb ole Huddler seeing something obvious that our decision makers were evidently blind to.

The biggest problem is that his upward trend is still well below NFL average. At some point there's just too much evidence to ignore. I've been there for awhile now. Honestly, it only took a handful of games for me to realize that he just had too many physical limitations to overcome to ever be a legitimate starter. I get that the organization couldn't afford to pull the plug that quick after that investment but there's absolutely no way we should've gone into year three without legitimate competition on the roster. We always a year behind kn this Bryce thing. This year should've been the legit competition year and this offseason should've been the moving on point. Hopefully we'll play catch up but I expect the trend to cj tinge and next year will be the vet competition year.

I think you could give him Tom Brady or Peyton Manning's mind and he'd still struggle. If you can't see the field and you can't make the throw all the brainiac stuff in the world isn't gonna save you. He's not historically limited between the ears, he's historically limited physically.

What? No it doesn't. LOL Bryce has certainly proved more durable on the field than I feared but "size" does not just mean durability. Plenty of us talked about our concerns of him seeing over the line at 5'10" in the NFL, especially watching him in college where he'd usually take a snap from shotgun and then still hit a 3-5 step drop to gain more space to see the field. I talked about that ad nauseam leading uo to the draft and just got scoffed at and called a hate and lectured about how much more the Panthers brain trust knew about football than I did. Which is true. Professional NFL front office folks and coaches know a helluva a lot more about football than I do which is what made it so baffling that they were missing such obvious stuff.

I think it all stems from the lack of physical ability though. Nothing else really matters if you just flat out lack the physical prerequisites. He has issues seeing the field due to his size. He has a bad habit of backpedaling and not stepping uo I. The pocket sue to his size. His arm means he struggles to drive the ball down the field and squeeze it into tight windows. It's very telling that almost all of our pass attempts downfield are purely schemed up and usually come on traditional obvious running downs. We have to try to catch the D selling out against the run to give us a shot to throw deep. It all boils down to a lack if physical tools.

what?

There was a quick hook last year then they let him come crawling back. Then this year when Bryce missed a game we all saw that Dalton was behind washed. This is why I just want Bryce gone. We need to wash our hands of him.