LinvilleGorge

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.

When you point it out, sure. I've seen it. If I was him in that situation would I have picked up on it? Honestly, no.

Gonna need to see a longer clip than this to determine if he had any idea what he was actually doing. Hell, I pay a lot of attention to the Israel stuff and I wouldn't have picked up on that as being something anti-semitic. https://x.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/2001328476411056270?s=20

That post is a perfect example of this

I've made the T-Mac to Fitz comp numerous times. Everyone wanted to compare him to Mike Evans I just never saw that. Mike Evans dominates physically. T-Mac is more like Fitz in that he's a tall receiver who is good enough athletically but really wins more on polished route running and natural ball skills than by physically dominating. Now I'm not saying that T-Mac is gonna be Fitz, I'm just making the stylistic comp. I will just throw it out there though that Fitz led the 24th ranked Cardinals' passing offense with 58 catches for 780 yards and 8 TDs as a rookie while T-Mac is leading the 25th ranked Panthers'passing offense with 59 catches for 853 yards and 6 TDs with 3 games to play so there is that...

Fitz is criminally underrated because he wasn't a freak of an athlete. He's #2 on the all-time receiving yards list by a comfortably margin and #6 for TDs. He's another guy that I wouldn't put at #2 but the argument can be made.

I wouldn't put him #2 either I'm just acknowledging that a legitimate argument could be made for it.

I have no idea what the thought on Bryce is inside the building or how much pressure Tepper is putting on the situation but fear of Tepper's Panthers doing something utterly idiotic is very well founded.

TO is a top 10 WR of all time, probably top 5. Hell, you can make a compelling argument that he's #2.

IF he gets moved from Cinci my money would be on the Rams. This is the type of move the Rams have been making in recent years not pearl clutching draft picks but basically treating them like the NBA does. But man... the haul Burrow would fetch would be insane. He's three years younger than Stafford was at the time of that trade and they don't have a Jared Goff to offer to sweeten the deal this time around. I think Stafford would hang em uonbefore being traded to Cinci.

Yeah, I can see not playing him over Ewers as a freshman. I get that. Hell, I could even see the case fkr maybe playing Ewers over him as a sophomore if you had serious offensive roster issues where you knew you'd basically be setting him uo for failure. But that's not the case at Texas. You're loaded with 4* and 5* talent.

Betting on Tepper's Panthers doing something stupid has historically been a pretty safe bet.

Yeah, I think old man Arch basically git caught doing a Jim Mora "playoffs" reaction to fielding a question about Arch entering the draft? "Draft?! You wanna ask me about the NFL and this kid??? I just hope he can play decent at the college level." Red flags were FLYING when he didn't start over Ewers as a sophomore. Ewers was a decent college QB but a surefire NFL #1 overall pick should've easily leapfrogged him in his sophomore season. When that didn't happen you knew something was amiss.

19 tackles and 0 sacks for a D that's overall slightly worse than ours. Dude is completely washed.