Teddy B I’m sorry, it wasn’t all your fault!

[pantherj]

Yeah if Teddy were here we would have more wins, but a lower draft pick and less heat on Rhule. Amazingly Rhule brought in a worse QB and put himself in a dire situation.

[Pantherxtreme]

2 hours ago, JawnyBlaze said:

Teddy was trash. I’d still take Darnold over him. But he wasn’t the only problem. 

Ha.. This Sam Darnold quarterbacked team is some of the worst Panther football I've ever seen and I've watched nearly all of them. 

We were in every game last season even though we had a rookie coaching staff and undermanned talent wise. Teddy was the reason for that. 

[Urrymonster2]

Agree that teddy isn’t the long term answer for any franchise, but he is capable of keeping an offence moving.

big criticism when he was here was the inability to get in the endzone… so far he’s on track to double his TD output he had with us.

Not clamouring for his return or being apologetic for him, but this is yet more evidence that our HC/OC combo can’t plan a proficient game plan, call effective plays on game day etc.

 

first TB and now Darnold, so far both QBs started ok, then massively tailed off as the season progressed. Not only that we are getting less out of them than their previous (and next) teams have.

Im convinced we have a HC/OC > QB order of priority to fix right now.

[SizzleBuzz]

2 hours ago, KSpan said:

Denver also has the #3 defense by scoring in the NFL and caught Dallas on their worst day. Teddy and the Broncos have had their clocks cleaned by every other competent team they've faced, noting that garbage time have made things look closer than a few actually were (Dallas today included), and barely snuck by WFT. 

What does this mean? That Teddy is exactly who we know him to be, a middling QB who can avoid losing games when things are perfect around him but can't/won't elevate the team to rise to the level of higher competition. He's having a much better year than Sam, sure, but Carolina wouldn't be going anywhere with him and this staff except to perhaps a wild card loss. 

I'm not going to say that watching Carolina lose is a good thing because this is pretty awful, but it will be worth it if it exposes the emperor's lack of clothes and gets things on the right track. I will say I'm 100% with Jawny that last year was more than enough of Bridgewater's milquetoast BS when things mattered the most. Good riddance.

...just "sling it" baby...

[top dawg]

4 hours ago, JawnyBlaze said:

Because even if Sam is playing worse now (and I’m not denying that he is) he still doesn’t play that infuriating chicken poo style of football that Bridgewater plays, with his wobbly floaters and passes anywhere but square and in stride. 

Like Dirty Harry says, "A man's gotta know his limitations." Darnold obviously doesn't know his. Give me a competitive game of football over a trainwreck any day. Darnold doesn't have the aptitude to be a signal caller! He hasn't shown the competency to even be a game manager because his decision-making is abysmal. No way I'd rather watch Darnold! 

[kungfoodude]

56 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Like Dirty Harry says, "A man's gotta know his limitations." Darnold obviously doesn't know his. Give me a competitive game of football over a trainwreck any day. Darnold doesn't have the aptitude to be a signal caller! He hasn't shown the competency to even be a game manager because his decision-making is abysmal. No way I'd rather watch Darnold! 

Yeah, anyone who would willingly choose this as an option is fuging nuts.

Most frustrating offense to watch since Pickles.

[YourLastThought]

9 hours ago, hepcat said:

Asswater is better than Sam Dogpiss I’ll admit it

Yikes that's a double edged sword in chosing which of those lovely liquids I would have to drink down. 

[YourLastThought]

4 hours ago, Urrymonster2 said:

Agree that teddy isn’t the long term answer for any franchise, but he is capable of keeping an offence moving.

big criticism when he was here was the inability to get in the endzone… so far he’s on track to double his TD output he had with us.

Not clamouring for his return or being apologetic for him, but this is yet more evidence that our HC/OC combo can’t plan a proficient game plan, call effective plays on game day etc.

 

first TB and now Darnold, so far both QBs started ok, then massively tailed off as the season progressed. Not only that we are getting less out of them than their previous (and next) teams have.

Im convinced we have a HC/OC > QB order of priority to fix right now.

This to me stuck in my mind as a great summary. I agree with you in the order you have listed regarding HC/OC> QB . It's sad at this point but I feel like leadership is to blame now and not as much on Teddy or Sam. Teddy or Sam aren't great but I feel like our coaches are not putting them in position to be successful or even marginal middle of the pack QB's.

[FugginPoo]

We should’ve kept Rivera 

[mrcompletely11]

Why in the hell didnt we just roll with him one more year instead of what we are doing?  Godalmighty

[Pimpdaddy]

5 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Why in the hell didnt we just roll with him one more year instead of what we are doing?  Godalmighty

...thats what I thought was the plan....and process..

[Icege]

YES

AGREE WITH ME MORE
 

[BrianS]

3 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Yeah, anyone who would willingly choose this as an option is fuging nuts.

Most frustrating offense to watch since Pickles.

As frustrating as Teddy was to watch, it definitely wasn't all his fault.  It's also not all Darnold's fault either.

I think Joe Brady is in over his head.  He's just not ready to be an NFL coordinator yet.  What he did with LSU was trememdous.  But he didn't call the plays.  And that LSU team was most definitely stacked.  Justin Jefferson and Ja'Marr Chase against college competition is just UNFAIR.

We've definitely made poor decisions at QB.  But it wasn't all them either.  We just aren't right on that side of the ball, despite having perhaps the best set of skill position players we've ever had.

[frankw]

Can't keep looking in the rearview. He wasn't the answer at the time nor was he going to be the long term answer anyway. Let it go.