LinvilleGorge

I'm gonna be honest, Bryce Young is one of those Heisman winners that typically historically got drafted in the mid-laye rounds after the NFL evaluates him and determines that he just doesn't have the necessary tools to translate to the NFL but a team takes a flyer on him on the long odds that he can still somehow translate that magic. If Bryce Young played at Wake Forest he's a UDFA.

We ARE the soft spot on the schedule. We are that team other teams look at and say, "Okay, we GOTTA beat THESE guys."

I'd just go back to what I did prior to the Panthers drafting Julius Peppers which was basically just being a general NFL fan. I had favorite players more so than favorite teams and would tune in to watch my favorite players or just tune into whatever the most intriguing game on at the time was. Hell, I'm already halfway there to be honest. I'm honestly watching Sam Howell far more intently this year than I am the Carolina Panthers. David Tepper has sucked the joy out of being a Panthers fan. We were never consistently good but we were good often enough to maintain hope. Tepper has taken hope out back and executed it unceremoniously.

If we want to win two out of three games we better schedule three college teams. Schedule UNC, Clemson, and NC State and yeah I feel confident that we could win two out of those three. I kid, but not really. There's not a single NFL schedule lineup you could put in front of us that I would have any confidence in winning two out of three.

This is just an unbelievably bad take. https://247sports.com/nfl/carolina-panthers/Article/Cam-Newton-fourth-quarter-comebacks-Aaron-Rodgers-123660439/ Not just this, but how many times early on in his career when our D was utter trash would we have a late game drive to put us up or tie just to watch our D go out there and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Can we please not poo on former Panthers greats while we're in the midst of literally the worst stretch of football in the history of an already bad franchise? There's just nothing to gain by shitting on pleasant memories. Hell, it's the only joy that we have as Panthers fans right now.

I agree but from a fan perspective it almost just doesn't even matter. Does anyone - and I mean ANYONE - have one ounce of confidence or even blind faith left that Tepper will get their replacements right? We're just stuck in this cycle of massive knee jerk reaction desperation moves until David Tepper comes to grips with the reality that he is the problem with the Carolina Panthers and he needs to remove himself or at the very least take a massive step back from football decisions.

No disagreement

It certainly begs the question of when he'll have enough and get tired of the comical public failing. How many body blows can the ego take and how deep will he dig the hole in the process?

I honestly have no idea how the process went down. But here's what I do know... There's a repeating cycle here since David Tepper bought the team. There's a poo show. Tepper steps in to loudly and proudly announce a bold move that was either completely his idea or that he was deeply involved in the process. This immediately backfires and another poo show ensues while Tepper disappears into the background. Tepper steps in to loudly and proudly announce a bold move that was either completely his idea or that he was deeply involved in the process.

No one would be overly concerned about the turnovers and the losses if he was also going out there and throwing for 300 yards and we were putting up points. Okay, cool. Bryce is showing he can do it, now he just needs to keep developing and learn how to better manage the game and cut down on the turnovers. Again, typical young QB stuff that lots of future greats have worked through early in their careers. But y'all, this looks like Teddy Bridgewater.

You hit on one of the big concerns for me. Bryce is committing awful turnovers while also playing very conservatively overall. It'd be one thing if he was turning the ball over doing typical rookie stuff. Forcing the ball downfield, trying to fit the ball in between three defenders, etc. That stuff happens with young QBs. But he's turning it over a lot while being a checkdown king. Oof.

The reality is that Bryce looked just like this during the preseason and lots of folks nervously laughed it off and lectured about how serious fans know that preseason doesn't matter and how much better Bryce and the team would look during the regular season with actual game planning. Now harsh reality is sinking in.

Oh, don't get me wrong, Tepper is THE problem. But moves like drafting Bryce Young and hiring the people who did it are why he's the problem.

Be honest. Right now Bryce looks like a future sports trivia question answer. "Who was the QB drafted #1 overall over CJ Stroud after the Panthers traded two 1sts, two 2nds, and DJ Moore to get the pick?" *everyone nervously chuckles and groans and shakes their head feeling the weight of the cringe*

If Stroud ends up being great and Bryce busts, yeah... this pick and trade up will be a part of sports cautionary tale banter for a loooooooong time.

I thinks this is the "bargaining and anger" step of the grieving process. Bryce looks like a bust, y'all.

It would be par for the course.

Watch that two point conversion and ask yourself if Bryce Young could ever make that throw in a million years. Arm strength isn't just throwing the ball deep.

Hell, at some point we have to be honest and ask ourselves if continuing to play him is actually helping him right now. He's going backwards.

Oof. That Bills fumble might have ended their hopes tonight. Dude got greedy trying for the highlight reel couple of extra yards and paid dearly for it.

5 of the Dolphins 8 remaining games are against teams with losing records. But their last three are against the teams with winning records. They have a chance over the next five weeks to set themselves up nicely but the schedule is setup for them to potentially back into the playoffs on a downward slide. We'll see.

It was so obvious. I really don't know how the NFL missed on that one so badly.

Yeah, Miami hasn't beat a good team yet and they have really cooled off offensively. They might have peaked too early. They looked like world beaters in September but you don't win anything that matters in September.

That change in illegal contact changed everything. It made some careers and it ended some careers. Ricky Manning Jr. was basically turned into a CB that wasn't NFL roster caliber overnight.