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Option 3....Reich didn't have a clue what to do, especially with a rookie QB. It wasn't that he wanted to draft a different QB. It's that he wanted a vet. I think he was in over his head even in Indy and barely managed to hang in because of the established QBs he had to work with. He knew what to do with vet QBs looking for a second chance because that's who he was as a pro. And the (limited) success he had as a player himself transferred on to his players. He didn't really have to reinvent much in Indy like he was going to have to do here. He was a likeable guy, but he wasn't enough as a leader as was needed for the cast of coaches and personalities he had here. To pull that off you'd need to be the biggest and strongest personality in the room and he never was. It was just a bad fit for a weak leader and head coach. I just don't think anyone except that for that cokehead in Indy knew just how weak Reich was.

Nice goal. I like it. I have another one for him.....be better than Olsen.

BY didn't get Reich fired. Reich got himself fired by being way in over his head and being the head coach of a coaching staff who did nothing to help him out. Of course they were all sold on the idea that BY was pro ready out of the gate by Fitt so they felt he didn't need to be developed (like every rookie should be). They had no clear vision. And no solid plan in place, nothing worked, and the coaching staff was too busy playing hunger games to be coaching so they panicked and did the same thing over and over. It was a complete clusterfug that we had a rookie QB who needed help thrown into the middle of.

yeah i watched a good bit of him. hard not to put out of my mind that he was having his way with a bunch of small school guys. guy could still be good.

he's supposedly running, but it's probably just straight line stuff...no cuts or anything. probably not much reason he couldn't do walk throughs, though.

i hate that. such a rough life he's had. so much promise coming into the league. was hoping that something would click for him.

How do you know they do and he doesn't? Anyways, it's all personal opinions and none of it has to be justified to anyone. And is there homerism at play? Maybe. And that's ok. But there's also the possible bias that because he was a panther pick and panthers suck at picking he must suck. And that's also ok. Does all of it (or any of it) jive with the way you see it? Maybe....maybe not. Does it have to? Nope

Say two guys buy a pair of 48" waist pants. One of them is already 45" waist. The other has a 32" waist. The guy with the 32" waist has more room to grow to fit into the really big pants.

Thank you cba

i can say with 100% certainty that he hasn't failed this year.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10118808-cowboys-trolled-by-nfl-fans-after-panthers-trade-up-to-draft-rb-jonathan-brooks lots of goodness in that one.

before the draft i had heard that the cowboys were really wanting him as their new bell cow RB. they'd been following his recovery progress and hadn't seen anything to dissuade them from drafting him. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texas-jonathon-brooks-becomes-first-rb-chosen-after-cowboys-jerry-jones-called-him-outstanding/

whoa...one of the great producers. thanks for helping good albums great.

nope...sorry. THAT GUY said it didn't happen.

hey look everyone! it's THAT GUY! and he loves it

First, I think I'd be ok with 5 wins as long as we are more fun to watch and we see improvement. At my most optimistic I see us at 8 wins. And B....you could very well be right about Bryce. You probably are. I'm just willing to give him a other chance with a better situation and I see reason to feel some hope. Hope involves risk emotionally. I haven't had much reason for anything close to sustainable hope for a long time as a panther fan so I grasp at it when I have a chance just in case it works out. If it doesn't, at least I allowed myself a chance to feel good about the team for a little bit and to me it's worth the risk.

The guys who are the top 3 in the draft compared to XL have less room for growth. Especially Harrison. He's been groomed his whole life for this by a legend. He's naturally gifted and well trained for being the top. He'll get better, but he won't get much better than where he is right now, imo...not compared to XL. I'm not saying that XL will be better than Harrison, just that Harrison's floor is a lot bigger than XLs because of the investment made in him from essentially birth. He had advantages that XL just didn't have. XL is just now getting into a position where he can receive solid coaching and opportunity he's never had before. He's naturally gifted an old supposedly very coachable and takes to coaching well. There's no telling how good he can be.

Who is to say what's realistic and, even at that....who the fug cares what anyone's "realistic" take is? I'm not upset by anyone's take on it. I'm just an advocate for something other than the take that there's no reason to be optimistic. A realistic take, in my opinion (because there is no objectivity in anyone's take at this point) is that the season hasn't been played yet and there's been movement that can be seen as us heading in a positive direction ...or a negative one, depending on your perspective. I don't believe the part to be an accurate predictor of the future if changes have been made. And don't think you aren't allowed to get in a discussion with me just because I'm a mod. I don't ban people for disagreeing with me. I just look for reasons to feel good about the team. It's easy to feel like crap about it based on the past. I'm just tired of feeling like that so i quit. We aren't losing yet so why not take a moment to feel ok about what's going on? Again, that's just me. I'm giving an alternative to the easy pessimistic takes.

Is it worse than being pessimistic about the season way before it starts?

cousins is no cam newton. he's no jake delhomme. he's got no clutch in him. he's kind of a matt ryan lite.

i ain't slowing nothing down. if it leads to a cliff...so be it.

this. more than anything else, they needed weapons and dammit we got 'em.

i love it. in a draft where you screw over the pats and the cowboys and rip off the rams, i think we did good. i don't have a problem with the rams, btw. but it was nice not getting the bad end of a deal like that deal for once.

I think KB was hungry.