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How do you blow a coverage that bad? No one ever covered that guy. He was open from the snap it just took Darnold forever to come off of the trips.

Great game. The Rams really blew that with all those late stalled drives with no time coming off the clock up two scores and then giving up a punt return TD.

Nacua is just roasting the Seahawks. 12 catches for 225 yards and 2 TDs and Stafford missed him in the endzone for what should've been another long TD.

Darnold is trying to Darnold and the Rams are out-Darnolding him. LOL

You don't even necessarily have to pressure him. He starts panicking whenever he has to come off of his first read and if he has to come off of his second it's a full blown five alarm fire he's a very talented thrower of the football but when he has to do actual QB stuff and can't just throw the ball like a robot it's usually not good.

Seahawks punt return TD makes this interesting again, especially if they can convert this two point conversion.

Probably not. I think he probably did just get duped by dipshit internet edge lords but as an NFL star you just gotta be smart enough to stay away from those types of idiots and for damn sure don't do any actions on camera they're baiting you into. There's a reason they're doing it and it's all about clicks for making you look bad.

Now we get pressing Sam Darnold. At least two more turnovers on deck for tonight.

Darnold hearing the boo birds. Kupp was open and he just missed. Announcers are trying to blame Kupp for running his route too deep but I trust Cooper Kupp over Sam Darnold based on history.

The Seahawks can't panic here. Just run your offense. You're leaning too hard on a QB that loves to throw picks when he's pressing.

That should've been back to back picks for ole Sam.

I think opposing DBs are Darnold's kryptonite. There's no specific team. It's just those pesky defenders wearing different jerseys.

It always happens. Darnold is talented guy but he must be predictable as hell on film because as soon as opposing DCs and DBs start piling up multiple games of film on him in a system it all inevitably comes crashing down.

Darnold gonna Darnold.

Oof... as soon as I brag on him Kupp with a crucial fumble to cost the Seahawks a great scoring opportunity.

Man, the Rams really did nab two great ones in Kupp and as soon as he started aging out, Nacua. They're so similar too. Both have good size and aren't great athletes but are just really smart football players and great technicians and natural catchers, then they just have a knack to make plays after the catch despite not having great NFL athleticism.

Nacua is really fuging good. He might be a better version of Cooper Kupp.

He's flat out said he's never officially retiring.

Banger of a Thusday night game tonight with major playoff implications. Figured I'd just make a new thread for it.

Oh, for sure. But that's where coaching comes into play. It was the perfect storm. You had a young, super confident, super talented QB paired with an extremely limited OC. That's a recipe for disaster. That limited OC is gonna lean into that all world talent and burn the candle at both ends with a blowtorch. UNC went through this with Drake Maye. Early in his starting stint he was doing a lot of the Cam stuff. The crazy cartwheeling Superman dives and lowering his shoulder powering through DBs, etc. A not great college staff reeled that in but Shula was just like yeah, this is fine. I really wish he had been able to leverage Cam's MVP season into a HC offer to save us from ourselves. We would've had our pick of the litter of excellent OC candidates groveling to come to Carolina.

The Shula saddling was criminal. Cam showed under Norv that he was fully capable of completing a higher percentage of passes in an offense that featured a lot more short to intermediate passes. Shula's entire offense was essentially "hey Cam, go be Superman". Cam was our leading rusher quite often and the entire passing game revolved around deep shots to subpar receivers. I mean, that's about the lowest percentage pass attempts in football. Panthers North learned from our mistakes with Cam and developed Allen and the offense around him like we should have with Cam instead of just relying on insane physical talent. They need Allen to be Superman here and there when Cam being Superman was our base offense. If we had replaced Chud with an OC like Norv I honestly think Cam is still our QB playing at an All-Pro level. I mean, just look at how hard Shula flopped at South Carolina with another extremely physically talented QB prospect. That guy absolutely needed Cam Newton to carry his ass. I don't think it was those hits that did in Cam's throwing shoulder as much as it was all those years of carrying Mike Shula's useless ass.

Cam definitely has the stronger case IMO but I think his career was cut too short for him to get into the HOF.

It didn't reach ridiculous levels until he left SF. The shirtless situps in the driveway kicked off the ridiculous era.

Exactly. He should be smart enough not to be fuging around with internet edge lords but duping an NFL star into doing something like this on camera unknowingly is exactly the type of poo they do for clicks which is exactly why he should be smart enough not to fug around with them.

He did lead the league in passing yardage in 2023, granted that was back when Tyreek Hill was like a video game cheat code on an NFL field.