OFFICIAL Panthers vs Buccaneers Game Day Thread

[TheSpecialJuan]

https://x.com/joshnorris/status/1873497258744049767?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

[ProcessBlue2]

10 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

https://x.com/joshnorris/status/1873497258744049767?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

Eye roll

[mrcompletely11]

12 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

https://x.com/joshnorris/status/1873497258744049767?s=46&t=xeIgh_-Vr2aKxBkBJdfnKA

What a ball licker.   Bryce was maybe a c+/b- today

[45catfan]

2 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

What a ball licker.   Bryce was maybe a c+/b- today

Defenses should just sit back in coverage until Bryce can find an open target. right?  I mean collapsing the pocket on a 5'9" QB that gets happy feet and panics under pressure isn't the best way to defend him.  Ooops, oh boy...hopefully NFL DCs aren't going to read that.

[csx]

How did anyone think the roster could compete today? 

[raleigh-panther]

3 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

We have set Evero up to fail but I mean....does he have to fail so spectacularly???

My honest opinion is that it's about 80% talent and 20% Evero. 

I mean, this defense is horrifying.

I do not believe that anymore 

I have never, ever 

1. Seen so many players have no clue where the ball carrier is

2. An unwillingness to tackle or lacking techniques to tackle

3. Not even aware of the rules as in the 2nd and 27, an offside and they just freaking stop 

These are pro level players. They are in the nfl.  Top 2% of college.  …and this, is what we see…week after week after week 

there are freshmen in college that would do better

time to stop being Mr nice guy with these players and their business decisions 

[RJK]

Nowhere else to post it but how did the panthers fumble baker and darnold so bad? Darnold looks like stud right now 

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, RJK said:

Nowhere else to post it but how did the panthers fumble baker and darnold so bad? Darnold looks like stud right now 

Tepper

[ProcessBlue2]

8 minutes ago, RJK said:

Nowhere else to post it but how did the panthers fumble baker and darnold so bad? Darnold looks like stud right now 

I was screaming this two years ago. Let me dust off my old talking points real quick. 

1) Darnold struggled in 2021 in Joe Brady's scheme. If you remember this is where he was getting sacked every play. 3/5 of those OL aren't even on an NFL team anymore. Which is why I get irritated when people complain about this OL. Matt Rhule was also about to can Joe Brady's ass because he had Darnold throwing the ball 30-40 times per game and eventually did.

2) In 2022, Baker was still getting used to McAdoo's scheme the first few games, then Rhule got fired and Wilks went to the run and was very Play Action heavy. The scheme was perfect for Darnold though, which is why when he came back from injury he did pretty decent. (9 TDs 3 INT and 1200 yards in 6 games)

It was just managed horribly. If Wilks would have had another season to build pieces around Sam and we would have kept DJ Moore, this franchise would have looked different.

[frankw]

Both Baker and Sam got humbled mightily here and that has gone a lonnnnng way for them in their overall development to this point. With how poorly managed we continue to be I don't see them being the same QB here. We ruin everything.

[csx]

1 hour ago, raleigh-panther said:

I do not believe that anymore 

I have never, ever 

1. Seen so many players have no clue where the ball carrier is

2. An unwillingness to tackle or lacking techniques to tackle

3. Not even aware of the rules as in the 2nd and 27, an offside and they just freaking stop 

These are pro level players. They are in the nfl.  Top 2% of college.  …and this, is what we see…week after week after week 

there are freshmen in college that would do better

time to stop being Mr nice guy with these players and their business decisions 

You had some points. No need to go to extremes.

[csx]

1 hour ago, RJK said:

Nowhere else to post it but how did the panthers fumble baker and darnold so bad? Darnold looks like stud right now 

Darnold was looking ok here. 

Tepper cleaned coaching house instead of going with what was showing some potential and toughness under Wilks.

Wilks and Darnold might not have amounted to much but at least we'd have Moore and some draft picks. It wouldn't have been the spectacular failure of last year.

[Tbe]

1 hour ago, RJK said:

Nowhere else to post it but how did the panthers fumble baker and darnold so bad? Darnold looks like stud right now 

Because this fan base + ownership want immediate results.

Like all QBs, they play well when the team plays well.

We were trash when they were here. 

[ProcessBlue2]

21 minutes ago, Tbe said:

Because this fan base + ownership want immediate results.

Like all QBs, they play well when the team plays well.

We were trash when they were here. 

You know- the fugging media is to blame too. All the reporters that follow the Panthers use to just squat and shittttt all over Darnold and Mayfield every single game. 

Bryce hardly gets anything except from Newton, who at this point has almost zero people taking him seriously anymore.