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

[rayzor]

4 hours ago, CRA said:

I mean in fairness, we won a game last year with 32 passing yards.  I think overall the division will be slightly better overall than last year.   So I think our schedule might be harder. 

plus, just the rookie QBs factor and winning games being hard in the NFL.   Learning how to win and all.   I suspect we could actually look like the better team sometimes and just struggle putting it all together at the end.   People seemed to have removed Bryce Young from going through rookie struggles and learning.

I think the 6 to 9 win range is probable.  Lot depends on just the randomness of NFL games and how the ball bounces.   Don’t think we will be good enough offensively to overcome things when they don’t go our way.  

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.

[CRA]

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.