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It's week 12 and we're talking about the playoff picture.  We've both over and under achieved this season already.  Beating Dallas was unexpected at the time it happened, certainly Green Bay and in general having a winning record this deep in.  We've also underachieved by losing to Arizona and New Orleans.  This team could very realistically had been 8-3 right now and probably should be.  If we can be the same type of up/down over the remaining schedule then we just might sneak in.  At minimum I just want to see us continue to be competitive and improving.  

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He has a faint pulse on X.

I think it’s cool that no one can be really certain what the outcome will be.  That’s a lot of progress!

This is a real opportunity for us, I’d be happy with a competitive game and thrilled if we sack up for a W.

We all need to take a step back, DC has won 5 games with BY9 at QB this year...that is a miracle of coaching if you ask me.  Let's poo on him a bit when he can't win with a real QB.

2 hours ago, strato said:

The best memory of him that I have is that TD he threw where he knew it was good and turned around and didn’t watch it get caught. That is his high point.  It was so good that a lot of people lived on it and are still living on it. 

Honestly this is just blind squirrel, broken watch territory at this point.  I've chucked many a back yard football, occasionally they accidentally go exactly where they should.  

What we're really talking about here is just semantics.  Cannales says chuck one deep and Bryce hits Tmac for 8 yards.

25 minutes ago, Khaki Lackey said:

Schlereth sounds kind of smarmy for someone telling how great Bryce was for two years

People that get paid to talk always tend towards good cop / bad cop vibes.  Never count on anyone in sports media to deliver the unvarnished truth, they're going to deliver what they think the majority will tune in to hear. 

Bryce chatter has been two distinct camps, holdouts vs haters.  Apparently the holdouts aren't tuning in much anymore.

Dayum XL went 0-0-0 and had a grade 25% higher than Bryce.  Literally doing nothing is better.

2 minutes ago, Ornias said:

I love how Rico runs, but I am not sure he can survive the season at this pace. It is such a difference with Rico is in there, he explodes into the hole. Chuba seems to stutter step into the line. 

Rico has suddenness and sensational vision.

It's worth noting that we started playing something that looked like football after going down 17-0 against the Dolphins.  Up to that point we had rushed the ball 3 times and Bryce had two turnovers.  

Then we ran it 5 straight times with Rico and he started cracking off some big gains and led to our first touchdown.  Another 37 yards of rushing later, Bryce goes 1 yard complete, incomplete, incomplete to get that field goal before halftime.  Then we committed big time to the run in the second half and played some really nice complimentary football.  The Panthers had stumbled on a formula, and it started with Rico being crazy productive.  Something they only learned because Chubba was injured and Bryce started that game so poorly they were forced to lean on Rico.

Fast foward to Dallas, they essentially lean into the same game plan against the Cowboys and I think everyone was surprised by how quickly it started to look complimentary.  In my opinion the productive offense really helped the defense as well.  We played quite solid against a top offense.

Finally we make our way to the Jets and Bills, Chubba's return.  You can't say the low scoring affair and return to ineffective football against the Jets was all on Chubba, they were indeed a better defense and so was Buffalo.  But the production difference between the two backs in both games was both visually and statistically obvious.  The bigger picture is the offense took a major step back as well.  They are other moving parts and it's isn't all one thing, BY9>Dalton by a decent margin at this point.  

But yeah, Rico's vision and athleticism is just better than Chubba and it jumps at you.

Rico is popping but so is the Oline, the running lanes have been massive.  

Hey we’re picking at the threads of timing of completed passes in a win instead of being totally deflated by another miserable performance.  Six games in there’s little doubt we’re a much better team than last year.  A couple more plays in Arizona and this team could very easily be 4-2 right now.  
 

I’ve hated on Bryce plenty, when he deserved it.  I’m not above enjoying the win and resetting expectations when he raises the bar, and he has. I’ve sold many stocks too soon as well, sometimes that still worked out.  

 

Week to week revisionist history does nothing for me.  I’ll just live in the moment and today was another great day.  Proud of Bryce and the entire team.  

There’s no conspiracy here, they pivoted to a heavy rushing attack after Bryce turned the ball over twice and it worked.  Bryce continued to be hit or miss even after settling back in.  Bryce has got to play better for downstream players like T’Mac to eat.  
 

I'm just going to enjoy the win this week.  It took a terrible start to lean on the run game, but boy did it pop once they did.  Dowdle has been a bright spot all year.  Defense played with some heart.  This team has been very emotionally fragile and it felt like some dudes got pissed today.  I'm taking the week off of shitting on the team.  I'm proud of the effort today, need more like this.

Schlereth calling us back to back....somebody call up Morgan!  Schlereth got that dawg in him!

Baker was cheeks for the most part during his time here.  You can't just divorce that from Matt Rhule though.

The worst part of Baker and Sam is they gave our front office (and a lot of fans) seller's remorse.  A shadow whispering that we gave up too soon.  That hangover now has holding onto Bryce far too long in fear of making the same mistake.  Two wrongs don't make a right.

Our King of Swing....Sultan of Speed....Maestro of Motion...and Protector of the Realm....

Ladies and Gentlemen....GIVE IT UP FOR.....BRYYYYYYYYCE YOUNGGGGGGGGGG

This is a tough one to digest.  I do think they probably locked in for practice this week, feeling themselves a bit and sensing an opportunity to build on the Atlanta game.  Then boom, punched straight in the mouth and reminded forcefully of your place on the totem pole.

Carolina has no identity, no attitude and certainly no resilience.  This all starts at the most important position in pro sports, the Quarterback.  Week after week, sound bite after sound bite, this will be the tale until BY9 is gone.

Shadeur is a lightning rod that was unable to secure a backup role at Cleveland.  Why should we roll the dice on him vs someone like Hooker who's already on the roster?  Who cares about media rep?

**Opinion alert, this is just my opinion**

I think the Panther's are broken at the talent evaluation level.  The most fundamental skill an organization must have.  I think this is what plagues organizations and blesses others.  Everything has to start with getting better talent in the building.  Without that you simply can't make a solid assessment on anything downstream so eventually everything gets churned and the problems recycle.

It seems plain as day to me though, if you look at the team since Tepper our talent level has dropped every year which is somewhat insane.  We only accidentally hit on draft picks nowadays and have to try to spend our way to competitiveness on talent other teams drafted and developed.  There is no better mascot for this joke than Bryce Young.

This is all to say there is no fixing the Panthers until you fix talent evaluation.

Sorry there is nothing.  Tepper is a man who collects toys and he doesn't need the money.  He can get more of that easily, there are only 32 NFL teams.

He has established an identity, just not the one he hoped for.  Our identity is D.O.O.R.M.A.T.

Disappointing
Outrageous
Overwhelming
Regrettable
Malfunction
Annual
Tradition

That game was an anomaly.  The Falcons did everything wrong and Pennix had one of his worst outings.  Things just aligned in a way that the final score didn't really tell the story.  We were outplayed in most regards.  

With that said, it was nice to see us not make any glaring errors and take advantage of mistakes.  The team look prepared.  Looking back from this week though it's painfully obvious they got to hide Bryce against the Falcons and that was probably the best upgrade you could give the team.