Sax's 2024 Season Prediction: Nope

[d-dave]

I want my Panthers to get better.  I also want to see what Bryce can do.  Bryce is the key this season.

If he is able to make the plays when they are provided (and there will be a LOT of running the ball), then I think we'll be better.  Maybe not winning more than 4 games, but that's double what we did last year.

If Bryce poos the bed and doesn't look like an NFL staring QB, then he helps us out to a top 3 pick where we can get a high level QB prospect and try again.

That's how I look at the season.  I HOPE that Bryce and Canales are able to have a productive season, that the Panthers are fun to watch and surprise a few people.  I know we're not deep enough to be good, but I'd like a few surprises here and there.

But if not, then Canales gets to pick his last QB in Carolina.  He'll either get his guy and do well, or he'll be out after year 3 or so.

[rayzor]

i haven't been incredibly encouraged by what little i saw the first couple weeks of TC, so i haven't really been keeping up with them for a little while. I'm hoping that things will look better when the season starts. i do know my enthusiasm has waned a little. i think they are capable of winning. i just don't know that they will have it figured out for a while.

all i hope for at this point is they at least make it a little entertaining.  

[CRA]

8 minutes ago, rayzor said:

i haven't been incredibly encouraged by what little i saw the first couple weeks of TC, so i haven't really been keeping up with them for a little while. I'm hoping that things will look better when the season starts. i do know my enthusiasm has waned a little. i think they are capable of winning. i just don't know that they will have it figured out for a while.

all i hope for at this point is they at least make it a little entertaining.  

I have embraced the fact trainwrecks provide their own form of entertainment. 

[Day1PanthersFan]

If we are as bad as predicted 

I think we are back in the hunt for a head coach by week 10

 

[CRA]

3 hours ago, Day1PanthersFan said:

If we are as bad as predicted 

I think we are back in the hunt for a head coach by week 10

 

Nah.  Blame cycles are a thing.  Carolina most likely just has to acknowledge they don’t have a QB to compete. 

[rayzor]

51 minutes ago, CRA said:

I have embraced the fact trainwrecks provide their own form of entertainment. 

we used to be cardiac cats. it was stressful, but always entertaining. 

now we're more like the coma cats.

[rayzor]

30 minutes ago, Day1PanthersFan said:

If we are as bad as predicted 

I think we are back in the hunt for a head coach by week 10

nah....it will be obvious that coaching isn't the problem. they won't bail on Canales. it will be QB that becomes the priority next year. 

[Brooklyn 3.0]

The thing I'm looking forward to the most this season is watching Bryce stans/apologists/homers join the rest of us here on Truth Island.

[Chaos]

6 hours ago, beo said:

Just now I was watching that fluky 88 yard touchdown from St Pierre to Gettis against Baltimore in the 2010 game. Honestly can't remember the last time a play that exciting has happened here. I guess maybe the Cam return but I think we all knew deep inside that it wasn't going to last. That it was just a fleeting feeling. But that TD... the crowd sounded so lively compared to it's (rightfully) nonexistent state today. It was a hell of a play. 

Then something dawned on me. Good god. I'm feeling nostalgic for 2010. When that realization hit... all I could think to myself was "damn."

Was that the same game with the back to back pick sixes?

[Ricky Prickles]

3 hours ago, csx said:

He's had a beard since day 1 in Carolina and at least since at least 2021 with the Bears.

Damn I forgot about that. I must be getting old, my memory apparently isn't what it used to be.

[mrcompletely11]

3 hours ago, Jaxel said:

Get wreck for Beck?

Skewer for Ewers?

Which one we going for?

Beck had a great 2nd half last year.  Would like to see him replicate that again

[Joe Bear]

7 hours ago, beo said:

Just now I was watching that fluky 88 yard touchdown from St Pierre to Gettis against Baltimore in the 2010 game. Honestly can't remember the last time a play that exciting has happened here.

There are many examples, because you're skipping over a lot of seasons (and a few winning ones).

But the most notable for me was Luke picking off Russell Wilson and returning it for a touchdown in the 2015 NFC Divisional Playoff against the Seahawks. The stadium was shaking, it was so loud and active.

[jayboogieman]

1 hour ago, CRA said:

I have embraced the fact trainwrecks provide their own form of entertainment. 

I don't like trainwrecks. I've embraced I'm going to watch a ton more college football than NFL, including the Panthers.

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

There are many examples, because you're skipping over a lot of seasons (and a few winning ones).

But the most notable for me was Luke picking off Russell Wilson and returning it for a touchdown in the 2015 NFC Divisional Playoff against the Seahawks. The stadium was shaking, it was so loud and active.

and the next game as well