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It's scrubbed. Seemingly her entire life prior to marrying David Tepper has been wiped from the internet. How I haven't searched high and low but when it became clear that she was going to have a real role within the organization out of curiosity I did a little bit of digging to figure out what her background was and what she might bring to the organization. I found nothing.

Would've been like taking Gabbert over Cam.

I'm not sure how hard we've tried. How hard can you really coach the owner's chosen one? I bet he got coached harder by Saban at Alabama than he has been here simply because Saban ain't afraid of stepping on toes.

One of the conspiracies about Nicole is of the Panthers'/David Tepper's own doing. They are quick to brag about her increasing involvement within the organization as an executive, but look at her profile. Zero mention of her professional and educational background or really any qualifications she has beyond being married to David Tepper. Just look https://www.panthers.com/team/ownership_business/nicole-tepper Now compare that to the profile of team president Kristi Coleman with all of the background info showing her clear qualifications for the position she holds. https://www.panthers.com/team/ownership_business/kristi-coleman Hell, go to Google and try to figure it out Nicole Tepper's background. It's like they've scrubbed the entire internet of any and all of her background info.

This was the stuff I saw when I watched Bryce in college. Somehow all the experts saw elite mobility and arm talent. It was never there. They played themselves.

This is all just stone cold fact. I got ridiculed and scoffed at all off-season for suggesting that Bryce's arm talent was NFL average at best and IMO was below average. Hell, I was wrong too. His arm talent is well below NFL average. I just don't understand how all the red flags were glossed over with this guy when draft prospects (especially QBs) are always nitpicked to death leading up to the draft.

They hire and draft folks who hold a good conversation over a nice meatball dinner. It is what it is.

Yeah, that was dumb. PI just doesn't get called on hail Mary plays. The one inside the five though? Yeah, absolutely should've been called.

Well, as soon as I talk about KC ref protection they miss a blatant pass interference that would've given them a 1st and goal inside the 5 with a stopped clock.

The ref protection KC gets is just crazy. Mahomes was absolutely inbounds on that hit.

I don't agree with Collinsworth here. He's acting like taking that sack was this massive blunder. I think Love did exactly as he was told. They dialed up a play to try to get the 1st and he was told if it's not there just eat the ball and take the sack to keep the clock moving. Don't scramble around and possibly push us out of FG range. Don't throw it away and stop the clock. Eat it and keep the clock moving. After the sack they're kicking a 48 yarder. You expect NFL kickers to make 48 yarders. He lost maybe 5-6 yards on the sack. Not a huge difference between a 43 yarder and a 48 yarder and a 1st down would've ended the game. Just don't think Collinsworth did all the mental math in that one.

Bryce Young was the "plug and play" pick. The "we just need a QB and we're ready to go kick some ass" pick. That's where these guys thought we were. I say this knowing full well that "these guys" honestly might just mean David Tepper.

What teams would Young be starting for that didn't have a starter go down with an injury? New England? Anyone else?

No one would have an issue with that trade if we'd picked Stroud. The trade up was understandable. We improved down the stretch last year and had every reason to believe that with a better coaching staff (in theory) we'd improve even more and that if the #1 pick is potentially available we need to shoot our shot because we might not have such an opportunity again in the near future. It all made logical sense. Then we picked Young over Stroud, hired this coaching staff, and now we're gonna end up handing the Bears the #1 overall pick this year, not to mention a #1 WR in DJ Moore, not to mention the 2nd rounder that was the crown jewel of the CMC trade.

Mahomes might have just thrown the game away.

Under Tepper we seem to routinely draft for RAS. It's been more about athletic profile than it has been about football skill set. Which makes the Bryce pick all the more baffling. It was a stark departure from the RAS mindset. Anthony Richardson would've been the RAS pick.

I don't know if Jordan Love is gonna work out in GB or not, but he sure has looked the part tonight. I'm just tired of watching other QBs make throws that I know that Bryce could never make. He just lacks the physical ability to do it.

It's like coaching. If you do it and it works you're praised for innovation. If you do it and it doesn't you're trash. It usually doesn't work for Bryce.

More and more now you're hearing announcers admit that there was a play to be made and that Bryce was either too short to see it or too short to make it. When we drafted him all the talk was at how good Bryce was at navigating on traffic and finding throwing lanes. Like his super processing abilities, it just hasn't planned it in the NFL.

We need somebody to come out of the woodwork with some juicy claims about Tepper that would make the NFL force him to sell. We might be down to that type of hail Mary to save this franchise.

What is your take? My take is that Bryce looks like all of the physical concerns were legit and all of the mental savant claims aren't panning out. I haven't seen him make very many plays all year that I wouldn't expect pretty much any roster caliber NFL QB to be able to make.

Damn, two back to back circus catches on desperation balls from the Packers receivers. Jordan Love is something like 18/21 for 200ish yards and 3 TDs tonight.

Sure you are. No one is censoring you. I mean, the whole year the Bryce apologists have been throwing literally anything and anyone else under the bus to run cover for him. The rest of us have just been saying yeah, we suck and Bryce is a big part of that.

This KC safety must have really done a number on himself. "We're not gonna show you the replay." Brian Cook out of Cincinnati. I remember liking him in the draft.

And the cope brigade holdout reward goes to this guy