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Worth the short term hit to get him out of there.

Sounds like the end is imminent. Good.

A big part of this plot was probably handing the torch over but this has been such a poo show he may have instead completely tanked his son's career. I mean, I can't exactly feel sorry for anyone when blatant nepotism blows up in their face but the guy would be infinitely better off back at Washington.

Hopefully some UNC booster has media ties and can get him a deal. Please god. No one is going to want any part of him with that succubus in tow though. The ship has sailed on getting another opportunity with her in the picture.

At this point I think everyone at PFF is just trying to get on Tepper's payroll.

Hopefully all for cause. Lots of talk about violations. Imagine cheating in the recruiting trail to assemble this mess of a roster. LOL I mean, Belichick cheating? No one could be surprised there. But damn, if you're gonna cheat at least do it in the process of building a winner. Don't cheat to build a dumpster fire. That can be done easily enough on the up and up.

At this point I just hope he's given them the ammo to go full Al Davis on Lane Kiffin and fire him for cause and not have to buy out his contract. That seems like by far the best bad outcome possible. If he had, I'd go to his agent and offer him a quarter of the buyout and be willing to go up to a third as an act of good faith and just to make this go away as quickly and quietly as possible but know that if you turn this down we'll see in court and we're going full scorched earth.

I do think it's improved but still not good. "Improved" isn't saying much when you just have to avoid being the worst ever to pull it off. LOL

I already said he was the best, you don't have to convince me.

Yeah, even vs. odd front is probably the more accurate modern nomenclature because you're gonna have five DBs in the field the majority of defensive snaps.

Quietly one of the best defenders on the NFL.

Nickel has become everyone's base D in the modern NFL. Standard nickel is a 4-2-5 alignment but you can also run it as a 3-3-5 stack. The Vikings and Patriots jump to mind as teams that run a lot of 3-3-5.

Yeah, that seemed very fake. The only fan meltdowns I found entertaining was that Eagles fan dude and he ended up being a fuging pedo.

The thing you gotta realize is that we made the move we made to draft Bryce because we thought we were getting a guy who can carry an offense. Giving up that much roster building capital you know you're going to create some roster holes. We just thought Bryce was worth it. He wasn't.

I figured there couldn't be many spending more than us with a QB on a rookie contract. Thanks for that.

I honestly think he's the best announcer in the game. Maybe there's some homerism to that take but I definitely enjoy his analysis.

Panthers fans at each other's throats over dumb poo. Yeah, the Tepper era strikes again indeed. LOL

Jealous of what? I have no issues with Roaring Riot. It's cool what they do and I'm glad people enjoy it. But when mountains get made out of mole hills it seems cringey to me. This isn't exactly the first time. That's all. Maybe if I put in the work they did and felt slighted if feel the same way. Mocking someone for posting on a message board while posting on a message board never ceases to entertain me.

Just curious, but how many of those nine other teams have QBs on rookie contracts? That we're top 10 in offensive spending with a QB on a rookie contract is pretty impressive. We're spending a fortune on the OL because we saw that Bryce really struggled under pressure. We spent cap space on OL and we spent high draft picks on receivers. You can't have top paid players everywhere.

I appreciate your concern, but I'm fine. LOL This white knight act is pretty cringe too.

Cringe is cringe. It is what it is.

Baker Mayfield fits Canales' offense. Canales wants to take shots. He needs a big armed QB with the guts and the ability to take the shots. If we're taking those shots it opens up opportunities for a guy like Renfrow or Horn to work underneath. The NFL passing game has evolved more and more toward the short passing game focused on getting the ball out fast but you need the threat of the deep ball to open up those opportunities. When everything is short and there's no threat vertically the defense can just choke you to death. That's why redzone offense is a lot more difficult. There's just less field for the defense to have to defend. When your offense has no credible vertical threat the entire field basically becomes redzone offense. And everyone tends to act like arm strength only comes into play when throwing the ball downfield but it also comes into play squeezing the ball into the tighter windows in the redzone. Sometimes you just gotta fire that fast ball in there and Bryce just doesn't have a fast ball. It puts a lot of pressure on the coaches to scheme guys open.

Not true about Baker.

Yeah, a guy suddenly balling out in a contract year only to revert back to his career norm after getting paid is a tale as old as sports contracts.

Oh for sure. The "change of scenery" leading to wildly different results is the exception not the norm. Yeah, it does happen but it relies on a lot of dominoes falling correctly. Right player, right time, right situation in terms of system, surrounding talent, etc.