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Unless you're on defense in which case you're riding the pine behind someone who should be loading trucks at the local Amazon warehouse.

How can he hold him accountable? Legette has a signature BOA sandwich and every other post the Panthers made on social media this off-season was something about him. The Panthers seemed poised as an organization to try to make him the face of the franchise.

Played better??? That's just embarrassing.

Somebody needs to get in his head and let him know that without football all that almost certainly disappears. His marketability is directly tied to him being a football player. With that said, I just don't think he's an NFL WR. To last in the league I think he's going to have to bust his ass and become a gadget type of player along the lines of Cordarrelle Patterson or Laviska Shenault. The big hurdle being that I haven't seen him show near the talent for playmaking with the ball in his hands as those guys.

Considering our LBs and safeties? Yeah.

It would probably be more likely to happen after week 4 or 5. Bryce gets benched again, then Dalton goes out there and either gets injured or looks like dog poo and then it happens.

My preferred reaction would be sending a late round pick for a Sam Howell or Jameis Winston.

It's wild how hard Arizona tried to give us that game and we were like, nah we good.

Those GMs took calculated risks and they won. No one would be complaining about that pick if he had bounced back and proved to be an elite NFL RB. But reality is what it is and when you take a calculated risk and lose you gotta own it. No one would be clowning Bryce for being five foot nothing a hundred and nothing pounds of he was out there looking like Drew Brees but we took a calculated risk and we lost.

The talking point is that Bryce sucks and we're losing games in large part because Bryce sucks. It's the folks desperately trying to cling to hope who have to come up with alternate narratives. The reality is what it is and our record is what it is. Is Bryce the only issue we have? No. Far from it. Is he part of the problem though? Absolutely. The focus is on him because the QB always gets too much credit when things are going well and too much blame when it isn't. That's just the reality of the QB position. But we traded a fortune to get Bryce because we thought we were getting a guy who could help carry our team and instead we got a guy who has to be carried and now due to the trade we're struggling to put the type of roster around him that might give him a chance to at least be serviceable. We failed both ourselves and Bryce with that trade. Now let me he clear, I don't think he's a starting NFL QB, period. But he's certainly not a starting NFL QB if he's on an offensive roster that isn't absolutely elite.

Don't forget that practically their entire starting secondary was out of the game with injuries by this point in the game.

What worked on previous possessions was no longer relevant. Arizona was no longer focusing on containment rush with soft zone behind it. They were playing aggressively again. The biggest thing that changed on that possession is that Arizona was just forced to actually start playing D again vs. hanging back simply trying to avoid giving up a big chunk play.

I want to see if Bryce was ignoring open receivers in the short to mid-range. We needed to move fast but we didn't necessarily need big chunks. We had time to have some 8-10 yard plays.

It always seems stupid when it results in failure. I want to see it. The whole field. What was there?

Yeah, I want to see if there was anything there. It's hard to tell on the television footage. I'm not gonna go through the torture of watching the entire game but yeah, I wanna see that last drive.

Yeah, Bryce actually started playing when we had nothing left to play for. Kinda like yesterday.

It's not just "week two". Bryce has started 30 games at this point and it's still the same poo. Unless the opposing defense is playing Charmin soft and we seemingly have nothing to play for, Bryce can't do anything. I'd rather try to land a Jameis Winston or Sam Howell for a late round pick than play Hooker but at this point we gotta try something else.

Brooks isn't "unfortunate". We drafted a RB coming off of a torn ACL. I give GMs a pass for drafting guys that run into injury issues while having no medical red flags coming in. It's football, it happens. But when you draft a guy with medical red flags and then he continues to get injured you gotta own that. You took a calculated risk and lost.

I want to see the All 22 footage of that final "drive".

I'd rather have a raffle to pick a random fan to start at QB than see Bryce trot out there again. That actually sounds wildly entertaining. I'd actually MUCH rather have that. LOL

Arch. How's that working out in Austin? LOL

He's a panicker. He panicked last week and threw the ball away on 4th down. He panicked this week right out of the gates and then settled down once he thought the game was lost just to panic again when he saw that we actually had a chance. His confidence is absolutely shot at this point.

5 wins? With Bryce at QB, this defense, and already down two starting OL? Man, I don't think we can beat anybody in the league unless they hand us the game.

Have you seen the guys he drafted last year?

What are you expecting or hoping to see out of Bryce? Yesterday absolutely killed any sliver of hope I was hanging onto. When we recovered that onside kick I was thinking, okay here's his chance. He's been having a really good second half while the opposing D has been playing soft protecting a big lead, his confidence had to be brimming, so let's see it. Here's his chance to actually show us something in a meaningful situation with a chance to go to 1-1 vs. 0-2. That's a massive difference. Historically speaking, your odds of making the playoffs are about 44% at 1-1. They plummet to 12% at 0-2. At 1-1 your season is very much alive and you're in the fight. At 0-2 you're already in panic mode because if you drop to 0-3 now you have a 3% chance at the playoffs statistically speaking. Your season is practically over before a leaf has changed. Anyway, I got sidetracked... so, Bryce takes the field with a legit opportunity for a meaningful game winning drive while playing well and what happens? He IMMEDIATELY reverts back to looking terrible. Looking timid. Looking unsure. Taking bad sacks. Missing throws badly. The refs threw flag after flag after flag giving us second and third chances and he just couldn't do anything with it. Oh, and I should add... all of this game against a defense that was missing practically it's entire starting secondary due to injuries at this point. It was an absolutely golden gift wrapped opportunity and he absolutely blew it. He didn't just blow it, he didn't even give us a chance. Practically every other starter and most of the #2s in the league are at LEAST gonna give you a fighting chance in that scenario. I've seen enough. I'm all the way out. This dude ain't it and those last two minutes proved it for me. Bryce seems like a legitimately good guy. A guy you'd be happy with your daughter dating. But he ain't an NFL QB.