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1 minute ago, CarolinaLivin said:

Chiefs also among those teams

With the way Williams played on Sunday, I expect the Chiefs to bow out of the Mack trade talks.

That's the KOD (kiss of death) right there. Sam's done.

2 minutes ago, Sir Purr said:

I know how much some of you guys love pulling for losses to get dRaFt PiCkS!  When does Huddle tank season officially start? I'm new at this and want to be prepared, I may even buy jerseys of the opposing teams so I can really get into the spirit this year. Thanks in advance!

Your pal,

Sir Purr

We have 1 pick in rounds 1-3.

17 minutes ago, SOJA said:

New O-line

Armstead-Christensen-Paradis-Rookie/Daley/Brown-Moton

 

We need a new Center badly. FA, or draft, we can't go into 2022 with Matt Paradis.

7 minutes ago, jayboogieman said:

They probably should have made a run at Lincoln Riley.

Caleb Williams is not eligible until the 2024 NFL Draft. Do a Riley/Williams package like Arizona did with Kingsbury/Murray?

It's the right move. If you want your team to be defense-forward, you need your whole team built around that. Run the ball, no turnovers, play good defense, and make just enough plays in the passing game to win. It's classic Rivera. It's classic Fox. It now seems like it's also classic Rhule/Snow.

This philosophy can get you to 8-9 wins. On rare instance, your offense can get hot and make a bit of run, but it's a far more difficult way to try to win. Not only are the rules slanted toward offense, but as you've seen, there are just some phenomenal athletes on offense. Those guys are going to be beat perfect defense. Think about the TD that Horn gave up in Week 1 to Davis, or the TD that Thielen scored yesterday.

(a small aside: its clear Rhule is a figurehead/motivator for Snow, but philosophically, Rhule's longtime mentor is the leader of the team).

No one cares that he's younger than Joe Burrow anymore...

When we were 3-0, I said it was more like 2002 than 2003, but nobody wanted to listen.

3 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Did he play well or did he catch a break?  Why go around the edge when you can apply pressure straight up the gut?   I say we move Erving to LG, Moton to LT and Christensen to RT.    You can only continue to beat your head against the wall so many times before real damage is done.  Stop the freaking insanity!

Moton looked awful on the left. 

Erving to LG, and Christensen to LT. Keep Moton on the right.

15 hours ago, @bonafidebanter said:

Do you remember how Fit traded away from really good OL, especially in the early rounds?

Like the guy who the Bears drafted with our second round pick who hasn't played a single down.

15 hours ago, @bonafidebanter said:

This is after you spent all of your picks on defense in the previous draft. How is that working out right now. When you load up on defense and neglect other areas of the squad, you better hope your defense can actually win some games for you. That isn't happening right now especially with C-Mac out. Not a good look on Fit's part.

Fitt wasn't the GM when we went all defense in the draft. His one draft was about evenly split between offense and defense 

I fear a similar game to the Vikings game last year where we control most of it but Kirk Cousins does Kirk Cousins things and pulls out a miracle fourth quarter come from behind win.

3 minutes ago, SBBlue said:

All games are must win.  If you are talking playoffs hopes, which is looking like a stretch now,  10 wins are normally enough to reach the playoffs.

The easy path is to win these 7: 
Vikings, @ Giants,  @ Atl, Atl WFT, @ Dolphins, Pats

For every game we lose in the easier batch, we have to win one of these:
 @ Cards, @ Bills, @ Saints, @ Bucs, Bucs 
 
In reality, if we can't win any in the hard batch, we'll be one and done in the playoffs anyway.

 

Just @Giants,  @Atl, Atl, WFT, @Dolphins, Pats get us to 9 wins which was a reasonable (even optimistic) expectations going into the season.

The irony is that in the preseason 9-8 or 8-9 was seen as a reasonable to optimistic view.

2 minutes ago, Whatev said:

Did you watch the Ravens game last night?  Where they talked about that one player that has played everything from safety, to cb, to either end, and LB?  Yes, a top tier CB in that position can garner top money, but you give me that Ravens kid?  I'll take 4-5 of them all day.  

Ideally, that's how we'd used Chinn.

19 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Now in the past, we've tossed it short to  Anderson and let him run with it. I'd like to see more of that again. Keep him as a field stretcher for sure, but get him the ball more short as well and let him run with it. We do that with DJ Moore and we've done it with McCaffrey. Why not more with Anderson as well? I'd say it's worth a shot.

When teams commit to taking away Tyreek Hill deep, Andy calls drag routes for him to catch and run. Brady could do something similar for Anderson. Maybe he is but the line isn't allow for that either, I don't know.

1 hour ago, SCO96 said:

Here's the scary thing, that kid isn't even 25 yet! He's only going to get better throwing the ball.

His play will fall off not long after he turns thirty if he doesn't radically change his play style. Hopefully he can get a chip before then.

49 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Nah, if you don't think Sam is the answer and you think there's a guy available on the clock who can be, you take him. You don't have the luxury of picking up your franchise QB at your convenience. You gotta jump when the opportunity presents itself.

I'm more worried about their evaluation process. They said yes to Teddy, and then yes to Sam. They looked at Fields and Jones and said no. 

The defense forced two turnovers in the third quarter. We were still outscored 7-0.

3 hours ago, BIGH2001 said:

 This team reminds me a lot of the 2002 Panthers that started 3-0 with a young defense playing out of its mind before crashing back to earth and finishing 7-9.

I've had the same thought. The question is where is 2022's version of 2003's Jake Delhomme?

This season will be more like 2002 than 2003.

1 hour ago, iamhubby1 said:

 

Nah...well, maybe...Nah it's @Waldo

 

Edit to add. I was going to edit, then decided not to. But it said I did edit. So now I am going to. 

 

I mentioned in another thread that I'm curious what we do defensively. We're primarily a man to man team, but that doesn't typically play well against a quarterback as mobile as Hurts is.

5 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

 

AJ Bouye is currently wearing #24 on the Panthers roster.