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Actually he said he had Baker rated higher than any of the 2023 prospects so it isn't a leap to assume that if Baker was coming out this year that Ariens would have picked him. And Baker has experience good or bad. So yeah Ariens thinks he has a better deal. And until Young shows his ability it isn't just hyperbole. Personally I think Mayfield isn't a good quarterback who can be effective in the right scheme as long as he has a lot of talent. Not something he has in Tampa.

Seems McAdoo did pretty well with Darnold so he wasn't the problem. Rhule on the other hand- yeah he was inadequate at best.

This is your negative reality which we will see fall apart when the bullets start to fly. I will be sure to remind you of that making multiple posts just like you are. Enjoy it now as much as I surely will relish reminding you of this. The last QB who was drafted in the first round from Alabsma, Mac Jones, went 10-6 his rookie year. Serious question. Why are you trolling so hard. Who peed in your cornflakes

I hope we have the worse team that goes to the playoffs just like 2015. Reich will make it easy for Young by emphasizing running the ball and scheming people open. Given he is best under pressure I am not sure he will struggle as a rookie. Mac Jones came from the same program and how did he do his rookie year?? I'll take 10-7 this year which likely wins the division. And they mention Carr as a legitimate vet but ignore we have Dalton who a seasoned vet as well. Just saying....

Our stadium turf isn't very good either I hear.

Not trying to plug the Riot but they did a fantastic job in London. I like trips that are planned like this. All I had to do was show up and enjoy. Their team took care of all of us and did a great job. I will be going with the Riot when we go to Munich for sure.

I did the Riot trip and went with family to Paris on our own after the game. Cheaper and we had lots of fun. Stayed overnight and had a Parisienne meal etc.

It was awesome. You really missed a great time. I will be in Munich too.

I will let you know. Went to London and took the day trip to Paris in 2019. I will definitely be in Munich in 24. Kill 2 birds with one stone. Take my wife to Europe and see the Panthers. Did the first Panther cruise for the same reasons

Predicting success it is a crapshoot at best particularly when you don't know how they will do in the scheme they will play or who their coaches and teammates will be.

He had more tackles and sacks in 2021 versus 2020. Just looking at numbers he has shown progression. Did he look good in 2021? No but neither did the team. Football is a team sport and every player in dependent on the guys around him and his coaching. Javon Kinlaw was the other DT draftdon't. The first round in 2020 and his stats during his first 2 years was much worse than Brown. And he played for San Fran. Sure he only played 24 games over that time versus Browns 32 but like you said let's ignore scheme and playing time and just focus on individual performance regardless of context. It is fine to be critical if you have a valid point of view but in this case you dont.

Yeah and let's ignore the 7 thousand who went to the stadium in pouring rain to find out we were picking Bryce which everybody knew. Then over 1000 fans met Bryce to welcome him the next morning. Just because you keeping saying something doesn't make it true.

Don't agree at all. How many times did Snow rush only 3 in pass defense. He was doubled all the time. When we were getting gashed by the run all the time what did you think they told Brown? Focus on getting to the quarterback or focus on the run first and then worry about the pass versus Burns for example who always went wide to go for the sack. Brown has obviously improved but his 2022 was also influenced by a difference DC and scheme. So yeah it was scheme and what he was asked to do.

He gets double teamed on many plays and from what I have seen is more of a 2 gap space eater than a 1 gap rusher. Hence why he doesn't get a ton of sacks. To me our defense was set up to rush from the edge and sent linebackers and safeties to blitz last year. Under snow we played a ton of 3 man rushes with 8 in the secondary how exactly would Brown pile up a bunch of sacks? To me it is about how we used Brown not about his abilities.

Football is a copy cat league. Coaches see what others do that works and take elements for their own use. Since we are fitting the offense to our personnel it will be our version of offense using concepts from various influences. That is what everyone does. Here is an article discussing McVay and Shanahan. Note McVay and Kyle Shanahan. built upon the concepts of Mike Shanahan from 20 years ago for example and put their bend on it. https://www.theringer.com/nfl-playoffs/2022/1/26/22902126/kyle-shanahan-sean-mcvay-five-years-evolution

Reading this thread I thought the exact same thing. From what I have read Reich let his OC make the playback without much input so he wasn't steering him too much to what Reich would run. Of course Reich said that he would be integrating things and tweaking the playback but Thomas brought a lot of Sean McVays offense with him. He said he wants to take advantage of our strengths so we will be running a lot to take pressure off Bryce. We will take advantage of our good offensive line. He said the goal is to be able to run or pass out of the same formation so the defense has to defend both on every play. He said his scheme is to win. One game we might throw 40 times the next run 40 times. Adapt and do what works.

If you find that you are always upset because people or things don't meet your expectations, then lower your expectations and you will be happier. That doesn't mean you can't hope that the Panthers are much improved just don't expect it and then when we are you will be much happier. And if you are pessimistic you are expecting bad things that is much different from lowering your expectations.

Since fan is short for fanatic it makes sense they will be emotional

Ben was wrong. When something good happens for a pessimist they think it won't last and you can't be happy because now something bad will be next. Where an optimist will take a good thing be happy and expect more good things will happen. If you have to be a pessimist so you don't get disappointed you clearly aren't resilient likely have low frustration tolerance and are emotionally immature. I am an optimist and find my life is good and I can root for the Panthers and deal with losses or wins with little problem. Part of being an optimist is looking for the positives even in bad situations and choosing your attitude in spite of circumstances. Whereas pessimists stay unhappy and manage to see the negative in every situation. No thanks....

It is May, the time of year when we get to discuss the draft and free agency and hope our new brain trust can guide us to a winning season which eluded us last year. When new coaches come in they usually have a depleted team that it takes years to build up. Instead we have lots of weapons and both a good defense as well as great special teams. Young will learn to play within himself and let his teammates do the work. I have no clue how successful we will be but with our previous coaches like Fox and Capers they went deep in the playoffs in year 2. Rivera took until his third year but with all of them there needs to be early success or it likely won't happen. So Reich doesn't have a long time to win given Rhule took 3 years of the five Tepper said it would take to build a consistent winner. This is year 4 and we have been patient.

For defensive linemen the shift is not that great. They may have different assignments or have more 2 gap responsibilities instead of a one gap penetrating style that they are more familiar with. But things are pretty similar. It it guys like Burns who are now considered outside linebackers that really have a lot to manage. Especially if we use some form of Fangio's 3-4.

Considering you are in your base 25% of the time and in nickel well over 50% it won't be much different than before since we use the nickel a lot. I think it will make the defense even nastier especially if we bring lots of pressure.

Brown is 220 and might be able to do the job.

Did he play during the year and practice every day. Then he contributed. Was he a senior and expected to start or did he sit behind Mac Jones as an underclassman? I guess being on such a good team you have to wait your turn is now a bad thing. Did Maye sit behind Howell last year.?

All I said was Young was a finished product and Maye wasn't experienced enough to consider and the UNC fans all came out of the woodwork. Maye might be the greatest guy ever but not yet. If you compare them, Young is much better and it isn't close. If Maye came out this year they would be putting him no higher than the fifth best quarterback. Who knows next year he could be 1 or 2. Wasn't that the question?