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They looked exactly like I expected. 2023's worst team with a rookie coaching staff, a Bryce Young QB'd offense, an overachieving defense stripped of talent starting guys that were cut by other teams two weeks ago, a team that hadn't played any real simulated football together outside one series against another team's second string that was opening on the road against a divisional rival in one the harshest environments in the NFL. Anyone that expected anything different was just deluding themselves. It was only a matter of how badly we'd lose.

Not surprising even one little bit. I felt that our odds for a significant injury were higher because we bubble wrapped the team in the preseason. They went from playing completely guarded football to full contact high violence with no on ramp.

At least no one got hurt in the preseason! We might have lost even worse.

After preseason game 1 Dave Canales was asked why he played starters in Tampa but not in Carolina. He calmly stated that Tampa had a QB competition and Carolina didn't. "We know who our guy is here." I just don't see any scenario where a new coach with control over this choice would make Bryce the defacto starter after what we saw last year unless it was mandated when he was hired. So yes, I think Tepper meddled by only considering coaches that were onboard with project Bryce.

If you can declare Mingo to be awful and worthy of ejection to outer space why is so hard to do the same for Bryce? They were drafted at the same time. What has Bryce done to deserve more leash or an open mind?

I mean it's more gas in the lambo and a roof on their third home, but I take your point, they're working!

Any kind of turn around would have to start with this organization doing something right. What on Earth has given you the impression that’s going to happen inside five years?

There are plenty of us who saw this disaster coming.

We are in the valley of the shadow of death.

Sure things are drafted every single year. Hell some sure things go undrafted. The inability to identify a sure thing from a false promise doesn’t change what either is.

Canales wrote a book about overcoming infidelity, binge drinking and a porn addiction. I think he sees his own story as a journey and is projecting that onto the team. This is NFL my dude, by the time these dudes figure who they are you’ll be fired and they’ll be on different teams. Stop making excuses, it’s only week one!

No one cares about you acting enlightened after you’ve shouted down any criticism for months and actively insulted people’s intelligence for daring to be skeptical about Bryce. Sure he can heave it 40 yards, just 8 yards off target. You can keep trying to defend your terrible takes all you want. I’d rather you just do the brainless job of embedding other people’s thoughts and collecting pie.

You lose a team fast like this. How hard and precise do you think your WR run their routes when they never see a catchable ball? Sure there are some pros with pride like AT, but we have some other cats on this team like DJ that already have a history of getting mouthy about not getting balls. An opening blowout like today puts a lot stress on an already fragile situation. Canales pinch myself routine is already old, he needs to work on his second book… How I quit binge drinking TWICE!

The problem is franchises don’t give up on high picks as soon as they should. We had no issue walking away from Matt Corral quickly. But because of the capital invested in Bryce we have to suffer far longer than we should.

This is shameful. A disgrace.

Terrified to let Dalton show Bryce up.

Um um um I guess um I just need to um get better umumum.

This was always going to be what happened, it was just hard for some people to accept.

Thank god none of these players got injured in preseason, we’d really have been doomed then.

Anyone expecting anything different should seriously ask themselves why.

So by that weighting the only three players that out performed their draft position in the last decade were all traded away for peanuts.

LOL Moton’s agent is probably happy dancing about the barrel they have the Panthers over. If that restructuring is the only real option that’s A LOT of leverage.

My god, an entire season of historically awful football is fogotten like grains of sand on the wind by the same crowd anointing the new hope on one preseason drive against the Bills 2nd/3rd string defenders, which also required a 4th conversion. Yall can drink the kool aid I’ll keeping pitching my tent in the prove it campground. Stir the pot take: Plummer looked better, with less….by a mile.

I think the curse of the black cat isn't given enough credit. I've never been much for superstition but I've come to accept it's a blind spot and the Panthers are just cursed.

Plot twist, Beuerlein went on to have a decorated acting career under the pseudonym Eric Bana. /s