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And because of this you're going to hold onto highly unrealistic expectations of him. You'll never be satisfied. At this point it doesn't matter where he was drafted. We got him. We aren't getting another Cam. We lucked out. How often do QBs drafted in the top 3 or even at #1 turn into absolute studs? It doesn't matter that they "should".

but it's ok to more pressure on the QB when the whole situation around him is a flaming pile of poo? this whole idea that a QB can/should turn a pile of chicken poo into a chicken salad is pretty lame, because in the end it's still just chicken poo and shouldn't be eaten.

and get clicks. just find last year's news when you want attention and say the same damn thing every time. lazy man's job. are they saying anything new? no. why? because they either aren't smart enough or they are desperate for attention/clicks. or they just like being the next in line to beat a dead horse. which apparently is all we do around here so i guess they know their audience.

it's like it writes itself. you don't have to do any thinking. just keep repeating the same things that everyone else does.

we're probably up there as far as the whiniest in the country, too.

Y'all sure know how to make mountains out of pimples.

Probably. At the very least you'll see him blow up a few big runs and go, "yeah....now I get it!" But the guy is going to be a stud and he'll be one this year. It might be a slow start out if the gate, but we'll see it.

you will.

Being food insecure means you have trouble securing food. It's mainly in reference to poorer families and children in homes where they don't have access to food consistently. We all need to be doing more, especially those who have a lot more.

unless you qualify for medicaid. you don't get the best places, typically, and it's no resort area, but if you need long term care, that's an option. you either have to be REALLY well off or at the poverty line. it's a challenge to get by, but i'm around a lot of people who manage to pull it off. i know a lot of people are stressed that they won't have a million in their retirement built up, but they don't need to. unless you are fixed on having this one particular lifestyle and want to live it up while you're retired, you can make it. you just have to learn to be smart and adaptable and get past this idea that retirement is supposed to look like it did when boomers retired. unless you lucked out, you're not going to have it easy when you retire. but life isn't meant to be easy. just manageable.

i guess we needed something else to be upset over. why not this?

That's one way if looking at it, for sure, and I think that opinion is justified. But it's still just an opinion shaded through the lenses of suck that has taken place since Rhule got in. Like I said above, I think we have the foundation for a good team. Not that we are a good team, but we have the foundation for one. That's what I see and I see us building that with Morgan and Canales. Last year was as bad as it's going to get and it's going to get better this year and going forward. That's just how I see it. One of us will be right. I hope I am. But neither of us know for sure at this point because we haven't played a game.

Every team, including ours, has talented players on it. Disagree with that all you want, but it's true. We are not devoid of talent. Now do we have depth or as much talent as the top 10 teams? No. But we have talent. We have the players needed to get us to 6-8 wins. We could have even pulled that off last year with better coaching. I think we're definitely going to be able to pull that off this year. We can at least pull off 5. Does more need to be added to thos team in coming years? Sure. But guess what? We will. This year was about ripping pieces out and reinstalling the floor. From here we build up

From conversations I've had, there's a lot of women folk that would watch just for Canales.

I think people are underestimating the talent we've gotten in our team now. Not saying we're great, but I think we're going to be a lot better than people think. We're not that far away from being a solid playoff team. Mock, poo, and/or disagree all you want, buy I don't think we're as bad now as we were last year. I think the coaching situation was the thing that sunk us. Not having such a clusterfug of a coaching situation cost us 5-6 games.

then we're stuck. tbh, at this point i would settle for just making it interesting. forget winning a superbowl for now. just get a team that can win games consistently and hope that it's enough to get to the big dance. we want superman. we aren't getting superman. we had him and we blew our chance with him. find a way make it work and hope that we can with this little guy and quit wishing our lives away for the second coming of superman. it just ain't happening.

the problem is if we're waiting for Cam v2, we're going to be waiting decades longer. our best hope is that bryce is better than we all think he is and that canales is able to work some serious magic with him and the scheme to help him live up anywhere close to the potential we thought he had. he's a smart kid. we just have to be able to have a situation that allows him to use his smarts. the truth with cam was that een he had to have a system tailored for his skillset coming into the league. the difference between him and luck (which was the debate in '09 when we thought luck was an option) was that with luck, he could be placed in any offense and it would work...hence the higher floor he had than cam. cam, though, needed an offense that was built around him to reach his potential. he could have done alright in a more pro-style offense, but to reach his ceiling (which was seen by a lot of people as being higher than luck). i don't think having to have an offense tailored around what you can and can't do well is a problem for people who can develop around them...after they've truly identified what those can and can't items are. we didn't have that last year. i think we have that this year. we want a guy who can carry a team on his back, but those kind of guys are very rare. we don't need to spend our time trying find that guy, because even when you have them there's no guarantee that they will be enough. championships are won, quite often, by teams who learn to compensate for less than the greatest QB play. you have a great defense and can protect the ball while wearing out the other defense and you've got a chance. we don't need Bryce to be superman (despite where we drafted him and what we paid to get him). we just need him to be able to run (manage) a good offense.

feeling uneasy or just plain bad about the upcoming season is entirely justifiable after that ride last year. i feel hopeful, but i feel like i have the forces of the universe rising up against me in that. i'm hoping that we've run though our batch of bad coaching for a long time. things have to get better sometime, right?

hopefully OL upgrade and scheme change will limit the number of times he's thrown around like a ragdoll.

i tried that but i probably fugged it up when i did it somehow. either way, another musk fail.

didn't work

Scheme fits the LT better than last year and he's coming in not as lazy/entitled as his year 2. Lack of depth on an OL that is still vastly improved. OL will be better, especially for the run game. We have two proven WRs that are good route runners. Jackson and Theilen. As a #1, Theilen isnt who you want, but as a #2, he's what you could hope for. I think we've also got two young receiving stars in the making with Leggette and Sanders. And Brooks will be a ton of fun to watch, but I think we'll see good things from Chuba and Miles thanks to the OL and scheme. We've got a lot to look forward to. Go ahead and brace yourself for some pain if you want or protect yourself from being disappointed, but if you put some effort into it you could actually enjoy being a panther fan for a little while. I just don't think life is very fun waiting for everything to fall apart. Find a way to enjoy what you can.

i think the guy's going to be a mad dawg.

i don't blame anyone for being frustrated. plenty of reason to. i think that's the easiest path, tbh. what is tough is trying to look for reasons this could work and choosing to feel that maybe this could work out. that mindset definitely doesn't come naturally. anyone can pick out solid and legit reasons why this won't or probably won't work with bryce and the panthers as a whole. it takes some creativity to see it working. we shouldn't have to be creative trying to see it working out, but that's where we're at. it's kind of like bryce trying to see his receivers....you have to find holes to peep through.