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Is the LaMelo hate just because's he's injury prone or what? I'm always hearing immaturity but he's not some menace off the court and he's never waivered in his commitment to the franchise when asked. Feels like Cam Newton all over again and folks just hating on his personality when we aren't winning.

So he's concerned about how it looks to future hires but he's going to fire everyone if the player he picked is no good? Doesn't make sense to me. Would take a king's ransom to get anyone to come here. Obviously Bryce is a big part of it but say he stinks it up next year. The runway for Morgan and Canales is longer because they've had more success in less time than Young has.

These are difficult, costly roles for Tepper to fill given his reputation and so far Bryce has done the worst job of them all. I'm not buying that Mr. Analytics is hinging the whole front office on some gut feeling about Bryce's potential. Nonsensical narrative from a fanbase still mad he meddled with the pick.

To be fair these were known issues and his physicality was supposed to make up for all of it, we just haven't seen it since he was drafted. And he still looks the part by NFL standards so it's kinda crazy how the strength hasn't translated at all.

thats on chuba he had hands on it

Luke's answer to the question at 1:00:00 is great. Hope to see the guy coach one day.

Everyone saying we should be thankful and move forward with him because we made playoffs, ignoring that we got lucky and stumbled in despite a bottom 10 starting QB.

I know Cam playing again has become meme but this would sell tickets and legitimately improve the team

Can he start

Playoffs are cool but if it means another year of Young it could do more harm than good. I worry about the development of the receivers and this basically gives Canales another free year where Bryce is his scapegoat.

Or if you're going to bet the farm on a small guy who will get rocked by NFL players on a regular basis he better be special. That's what I heard. Regardless, him being vague about it is kind of my point. Few in the media raised any concerns about Bryce's game outright. His passing ability was highly praised across the board even after Stroud had the more impressive Pro Day. There was the dumb debate around batted balls that eventually got squashed and I remember some game tape blogger types talking about his poor footwork, but even that was hand-waved away because he was a "dynamic playmaker" and we had a respected coaching staff that could fix him.

So much revisionist history around the pre-draft Bryce hype. The media was practically united in saying that if he were a couple inches taller he'd be the perfect prospect and it was just a question of whether he'd hold up in the NFL being that small. The Panthers did not create the mythos around him they were just the team that bought in. The team was largely praised for the move after and for surrounding him with what was considered an all-star coaching staff at the time. Yeah part of the fanbase wanted Stroud but let's be real, we're coming from an oversized franchise QB who injured himself out the league. There was some analysis here on the limitations of Bryce's game but people were mostly just concerned he was going to turn into dust when he got sacked in the NFL.

I’d like to apologize to Frank Reich. Was he washed or did he just see this coming? The world may never know.