Bootleg Football[ft. Brett Kollman]: The Panthers are actually a sneaky good team?

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1 minute ago, rayzor said:

I think we're significantly better, mainly due to an upgrade at QB and a huge upgrade in the coaching staff. 

People look at this team and focus 9n the fact that we picked first overall, but we bought that spot. We didn't earn it.

And once the team was handed to an at the very least competent coach, we were quite a bit better with no upgrade in QB. I think had Wilks been given the gig much earlier, we would have been a 9+ win team. That's my belief. Luck or not, we would have pulled it off.

And i think we're going to be much better with this staff and QB.

And yeah, Young might struggle, but I don't think his struggle will be as significant as most rookie QBs. Mentally he's ahead of the game and mentally is the is the area that they have the most challenge with.

I actually don't disagree that if Wilks had this team earlier we would have won more games.   But I think that is largely the competition we drew that year.  We were competing while not exactly doing what I call playing great NFL football. 

Which I mean, it could happen again.  Schedules to an extent make teams.  Good teams largely have weak schedules.  Best teams last year did. Really bad ones, tough schedules.  And the prediction on SOS more times than not is hard to predict.