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You can't keep leaving overmatched CBs on an island with a guy who is just absolutely smoking them deep. You have to have a safety rolled over the top of Evans every snap. Yeah, other guys might eat you up then. But you have to take your chances on that because what you know for sure is that Mike Evans is tearing you up RIGHT NOW and you gotta change that.

Gotta take your chances on that. If something is working you gotta try something different.

You can't play the coverage game when you're missing both your starting CBs and you sure as hell can't keep leaving those overmatched CBs on an island against a guy who is absolutely smoking them.

I don't think you can put a lot of stock on D-Jax's comeback. Achilles injuries have derailed a lot better players than him. That's a tough one to comeback from and a lot of guys are just a shadow of themselves afterwards

I'm not surprised. When you trade all of that and hand out that contract you're clearly all in. If he doesn't jerk his head out of his ass this is going down as the worst single roster move in NFL history. It's not just a huge bust of a trade or a huge bust of a massive signing. It's basically both all in one fell swoop.

I know that I'm shocked to see Rivera playing bad vets over promising rookies. Very out of character.

Who would've thought a year ago that Russell Wilson would be a potential huge negative in terms of luring in their next head coach? The guy just looked THAT bad this year and you're tied to him for a couple more years due to that contract.

Everyone I know who is a fan of theirs has been screaming for Howell for weeks. Now they're doubting he plays next week because if you put him in now and he plays well you're REALLY gonna look like a jackass.

I don't know about all that. I think we lost the game via turnovers and Mike Evans leaving tire marks on Taylor and Henderson.

I wouldn't hate it, but I'd rather take a DE or a CB. If we are taking a WR there I'd prefer an outside guy or at least a guy who can play on the outside. I'm a huge UNC fan so I love Downs but the knock on him as an NFL prospect is that he's a slot only guy. That's why I don't buy the borderline 1st round talk. I think he probably ends up going somewhere between the mid-2nd and mid-3rd.

Knowing all that I'd still prefer someone else.

That and not demanding safety over the top help on Mike Evans at all times after he'd already burnt us deep for TDs twice. When it happened a third time I was like... okay, somebody's gotta get fired for this poo. You know you don't have an active CB that can hang with this guy. Why are you still leaving them on an island with him? That was probably the worst a single WR had done us since Julio had "that game" on us after we let J-No walk.

I don't think so. He's a defensive guy and the defense actually got worse.

That's not what he said. He said Wilks with Darnold back as the starter. I'm not completely opposed with entertaining Wilks staying. But Darnold is not a long-term option at starting QB. If he's signed to backup money and is keeping the seat warm for a developing rookie, fine. But committing to Darnold long-term as the starter and I'm out. That'd be it.

WTF?

I still have no idea how they duped themselves into doing that. Stroud lit up the closest thing you can find to an NFL D outside of the NFL while Lance was playing against dudes that for the most part weren't even getting UDFA calls.

Me as a fan if that happens

Throw the draft value chart out. Per the chart, our 1st and 3rd. But the Niners spent three 1sts and a 3rd to go to #3 and per the chart it should've taken their 1st, 2nd and maybe a 6th. When it's for a QB and the phone is ringing the bidding goes wild quickly. I fully expect the Bears to put that pick on the block if teams are clamoring for Young and Stroud.

Same thing we're all doing. Talking about football and hoping we get better.

It's why I haven't watch much Panthers football in the past 5-6 weeks.

I would expect someone who would make a great DC to at very least make sure we had a safety over top of Evans at all times after he'd already torched us deep twice. Honestly, the D got worse after Snow was fired, quit, or whatever.

Winning meaningless games does nothing but hurt your ability to improve in the future. It's the downside of pro sports fandom. There's comes a point in bad seasons where losing literally becomes in your best interest. The fun thing about college sports is that there's never any competitive advantage to losing. You can always guilt free root to win. That's not the case in pro sports. Moral victories don't matter. They don't exist. You are what your record says you are. You're better off with higher draft picks than wins that don't contribute to a playoff appearance.

Can they keep him there? It's already a poo hole. He can't fug it up any worse.

Meh, why does it matter? He and his team can't control that. He's just trying to focus on what he can control. Nothing wrong with that.

Tepper has absolute zero good will equity to spend, but if he has any he'd be well served to spend it on announcing Wilks will not be retained to gut the team going into the final game to secure that L. But the guy is almost universally hated by the fanbase already.