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I’m still in the 5-7 win camp. We are better than last year and won 5 games with a harder schedule.

I think it’s somebody no one would expect like Chau Smith-Wade or Tommy Tremble or something

This is a much easier schedule than last year. Outside of Buffalo and GB, there isn’t a game that we wouldn’t have a fair shot if we played like we did in the last few last year. New England? Not much better than us Miami? Probably more dysfunctional than us Dallas? Meh Jets? Prob only game we will be favored in Rams? Stafford can hardly move 49ers? McCaffrey will probably be injured by then and the defense is ancient Seattle? Probably one of the tougher ones but weird things happen in December Can’t really say anything about division games because they are all over the place. GB and Buffalo are going to blister our ass though

Yes. Rhule wouldn’t run the ball and defenders were taking his head off every play. When Rhule was fired the offense changed overnight with McAdoo and the run took a bunch of pressure off Darnold. However, Darnold is very physically gifted and has everything you want from a QB unlike ours. Darnolds problem has always been decision making.

This guy would have bullied him if it was his teammate. Does he really forget all the bullshit he used to give everyone for everything?

Okay I read it all. 1) Baker was way out of scheme here. He did not fit what the Panthers were doing at all and a lot of us said that. 2) Darnold fit McAdoos scheme perfectly. I actually think he started turning his career around here those last 6 or so games with Wilkes. We ran heavy and used him in the play action. He was terrible the year before because we never ran the ball and pass rushers just ambushed him every play. 3) I don’t think any other teams are going to spend the time and money to tailor the entire offense to Bryce like we have. Take him and put him on the Titans, Giants, or Broncos and see how he fits in.

It don’t matter, bring him out anyways. We’ll at least have a ton of experience

Yeah but then we wouldn’t have Nick Scott and David Moore and we can’t have that.

Give Caldwell the offense and Capers the defense and see what happens.

While we are all bitching. Did anyone else see Chuba lining up at FB? I saw him playing FB at least 5 times and running the ball from that spot 2-3. He’s not even a bigger sized RB. I’m actually pretty sure Dowdle is bigger than him. Why not use Tremble/Evans or idk an actual FB instead of having 4 TEs on the roster.

I believe Tepper thinks caldwell is some type of football yoda

I’m really not joking when I say I would be fine with Haynes King at this point.

DC is a problem, he is not our biggest problem. 1. Tepper (Sorry, can’t change this) 2. Bryce Young 3. Ejiro Evero Dave is like 4th or 5th.

He would just hire somebody worse on purpose to punish us.

I swear I didn’t know this article existed when I made this post. https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/panthers/2025/09/15/bengals-nfl-joe-burrow-panthers-andy-dalton/86165260007/?taid=68c857e44a6caf0001de123c&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

I’d rather watch Yosh Nijman run the wildcat

I didn’t say it was smart on their part, but ya know if the Bengals want a sentimental goodbye. Some Bengals fans on X sure are liking the idea.

With Burrow expected out for 3 months, see a lot of Bengals fans pushing to trade for Dalton. Would they do a 1 for 1? Dalton for Browning?

Zavala is filling in for Christensen and Mays for Corbett. Will bring up Kingston from the practice squad, he plays C and G.

I actually think we are going to win and then poo the bed for the next 4-5 games. Can totally see a bunch of excitement and then about a month of let down until Bryce is benched. Then we win a game or two and then Andy gets hurt. At that point we will start seeing mock drafts.

Yeah he does a great job picking apart everything 5 to 10 yards away. That’s what he did at Alabama because you had depth chart full of game changers and teams were just trying the “bend don’t break” approach. You don’t have that in the NFL and definitely not on the Carolina Panthers. He can’t get to the end zone in less than 10 plays or push the ball down the field. He crumbles with pressure and when he gets touched, the ball flys out of his hands. We have seen him throw it deep before and it turns into a duck and comes falling down awkwardly because he has no zip after 15-20 yards. You can tell this when he runs around taking forever to get rid of the ball, he’s waiting for somebody to be super duper wide open so he doesn’t throw a pick or to move closer to him.

I think he needs to learn how to return punts and kicks. Maybe consider a change to RB. Although it would be terrifying watching him field punts with the game on the line.

Had to get a running start to the LOS to make it go 20 yards

An elite QB is somebody who can take over a game. Somebody who makes those around him better just by being on the team. Mahomes, Brady, Manning, etc. The only “elite” QBs in the NFL right now are Mahomes and maybe Allen in my opinion. There are some very good QBs (Burrow, Jackson, Stafford) but they are not “elite”.

After watching the falcons game tonight, I think we might actually win next week. If we can not turn the ball over and defense plays below average instead of horrible like today, there is a shot.