Dalton Mic'd Up

[NAS]

I hated the idea of Andy starting last year, now I wish he was here 4 years ago instead of Teddy B.  Big fan of his game and how he conducts himself as a leader. 

[Tr3ach]

6 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

Hopefully Dalton can be our starter for the rest of this year and into next.

You can definitely see the vision from Dan Morgan.  He did what he set out to do- give the QB something to work with.  Obviously, they thought (and hoped) it would be for Bryce, but regardless with Andy Dalton we are able to see the vision.

He couldn't have done better than signing Robert Hunt & Damien Lewis.  We were all skeptical about moving Corbett to center, but that has worked out great, also.

Robert Hunt is as impressive an interior Olineman as I have ever seen.  He really is a bad, bad MF.

Chuba has developed into a borderline top-10 back.  A true 3-down back.  I never expected that of him as a rookie... he deserves a lot of props for his hard work to develop himself, especially his pass catching.

Diontae Johnson looks like a WR1 in this scheme, and him & XL looked like the most legit WR duo we had since DJ Moore & Robby Whatever in 2020.

At this point, we already have the sunk cost of BY9.  Even if he sits this year and next, he will still only be in his 4th year in 2026.  It's not ideal, but it's also not the albatross for this franchise it appeared to be a few weeks ago.

Our offense is legit, and that hasn't been the case since TJ Watt wrecked Cam's shoulder in 2018.

This rebuild looks so, so much better than it did 2 weeks ago.

The defense (especially with injuries) is unfixable to a certain extent this year.  We're probably going to have to win shoot-outs if we are going to win.

Regardless, another offseason and getting Derrick Brown back should put us in a legit position to compete next year.

At this point, I'll take that.  I am sold on Canales as a coach, and I feel more optimistic as a Panthers fan now than I have since before Cam left.

Canales is scheming guys wide-ass open left & right... I can't remember the last time a Panthers OC was doing that honestly.

And Evero will be fine, too, once he gets some horses back on the Dline.

For all Tepper has gotten wrong over the past 7 years, hiring Canales and keeping Dan Morgan as GM is showing signs of being a good plan to get us back to relevancy.

 

I agree about Dalton for sure.  Bring him back for another year and go all in on defense this draft.  Especially pass rushers.

[strato]

Other than the downplaying of the disaster that Bryce is, I see things very similarly. The future has brightened up a lot.
 

 

[Jackie Lee]

32 minutes ago, NAS said:

I hated the idea of Andy starting last year, now I wish he was here 4 years ago instead of Teddy B.  Big fan of his game and how he conducts himself as a leader. 

He is definitely not taking this opportunity for granted. Also I see no noticeable signs of degrading arm strength, don't see why he couldn't bridge us for a couple more years. Obviously the locker room loves him

[ForJimmy]

6 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

He is definitely not taking this opportunity for granted. Also I see no noticeable signs of degrading arm strength, don't see why he couldn't bridge us for a couple more years. Obviously the locker room loves him

Our OL is doing a good job at keeping him upright. I will say his arm looks fine, but it’s only been 2 games. Hopefully he can keep it up for the next 13 games 

[Jackie Lee]

Highlight clip. Sounds like the real captain to me

 

[kungfoodude]

Also good to see all the fan nonsense about Bryce pouting/sulking is completely untrue.

I think our team chemistry is far better than some of us think.

[kungfoodude]

Also good to see all the fan nonsense about Bryce pouting/sulking is completely untrue.

I think our team chemistry is far better than some of us think

[Seltzer]

20 hours ago, strato said:

Other than the downplaying of the disaster that Bryce is, I see things very similarly. The future has brightened up a lot.
 

 

It's like what happened in the mountains... it happened, it's over, and all you can do is move forward.

Dwelling on the past changes nothing... and regardless of anything & everything, the future here looks far more promising than it did 2 weeks ago.

Having a QB playing like Dalton does mitigate this situation 1000x over though for sure.

The whole goal is to find a QB.  The way we did isn't ideal, and giving up all that draft capital for BY9 sucks ass no doubt, but it's not the end of the world.

Teams miss on QB's... it just happens.  

[kungfoodude]

28 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

It's like what happened in the mountains... it happened, it's over, and all you can do is move forward.

Dwelling on the past changes nothing... and regardless of anything & everything, the future here looks far more promising than it did 2 weeks ago.

Having a QB playing like Dalton does mitigate this situation 1000x over though for sure.

The whole goal is to find a QB.  The way we did isn't ideal, and giving up all that draft capital for BY9 sucks ass no doubt, but it's not the end of the world.

Teams miss on QB's... it just happens.  

Yeah, the big sting is the trade up price. That will hurt for a very long time. Had it worked out differently and we just drafted him at 9, it wouldn't be nearly as big of a deal. 

Either way, time to move on. It's a very long way to build a winner here but you can at least see that it might actually be possible for once.

[Captroop]

One thing that is so clear from watching that video, and it's hard to explain what exactly this means, but you know what it looks like when it's not there:

Andy Dalton just looks like he belongs on an NFL field.

 

It's his rapport with both his teammates and his competitors. It's the way he reacts to things going well, and things going badly. It's the way he effortlessly encourages his teammates on the sideline. It doesn't look like he's hyping his team because that's his job. It just looks like it's his nature.

He looks like he's in his element when he's playing the game.

[Gapanthersfan]

On 10/2/2024 at 12:10 AM, Jackie Lee said:

Oh and PJ lol 

 

 

Don’t show me this sh*t. It was the last panthers game I decided to torture myself with in the dome. It goes a little something like this:

I can’t remember what the play was, but with not much time left, Atl iced it and I told my wife it’s time to go. She said it’s not over yet, to which I replied, babe, I’ve watched this team play a thousand times, I know how it goes in the dome, bla bla bla. As we’re almost to the ground floor, I hear the place get quiet as a church and then the sound of people panicking. Someone mentioned the panthers scored. We rushed to the gift shop to look at the tiny ass tv they had near the ceiling. 

I was, and still am so sick over missing that epic moment. Had we won, that would have been our version of the Mike Vick levitating play. 

I will never, ever, walk out on a panthers game early ever again. 

[strato]

1 hour ago, Captroop said:

One thing that is so clear from watching that video, and it's hard to explain what exactly this means, but you know what it looks like when it's not there:

Andy Dalton just looks like he belongs on an NFL field.

 

It's his rapport with both his teammates and his competitors. It's the way he reacts to things going well, and things going badly. It's the way he effortlessly encourages his teammates on the sideline. It doesn't look like he's hyping his team because that's his job. It just looks like it's his nature.

He looks like he's in his element when he's playing the game.

He didn't have a losing season as a pro until his 6th year. He knows his business. He has been the man that the whole organization looks to. And the fanbase. It isn't too big for him.

He had some tough years and has now been bouncing around for a while, I am sure he relishes this opportunity to work.

[Jackie Lee]

1 hour ago, strato said:

He didn't have a losing season as a pro until his 6th year. He knows his business. He has been the man that the whole organization looks to. And the fanbase. It isn't too big for him.

He had some tough years and has now been bouncing around for a while, I am sure he relishes this opportunity to work.

Yeah his big knock was always choking in the playoffs, the fact that they had playoff intentions every year is like a foreign concept to the era of the team. What were people calling a success this year? 5 wins? lol