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You nearly aced it with the first reply, I was impressed. A&M is like Florida, under the radar NFL factory(compared to bama/GA). I never got the three players either, plus only reason I knew about Nic was he was a recent 2nd rounder.

Well, I think there is a slight difference between, you should know Lane will move on from you to look out for himself….and you should of known if your school made the CFP with Lane he would ditch you before it started. Hard to see that one coming. but it really highlights how college football is really meaningless and pointless. I mean a coach makes the CFP and is like nope. Not interested…..I need to go to LSU so I can get these kids to what? You certainly can’t sell the idea you are there to help them win a natty lol .

10 more years of winter

I don't know where Morgan's approach lies. Last draft looked like a lot of analytics. XL was definitely not the choice for someone who eyeball watched a lot of tape. One season of production does not a 1st round pick make. He was also involved in the Shitterer regime so there's that to consider as well. This draft looks very promising, but we also have to consider how many god awful players we had so we may have gotten more return than normal because our cupboards were already so bare. I think we cut bait with Sam and Baker way too early. The "competition" between them was a joke. Of course we also had General OOU so there was that too. It's like the FO has been drunk the entire time Tepper has owned the team just to tolerate him. I can't make heads or tails of 90% of what's been done other than someone has a bottle or 12 in their desk drawer and keeps turning it up every time he walks through the door.

Should and shouldn't are hypothetical.

That's partially why our front office ended up the way it did. Fitterer signed on to Tepper's heavily analytics based approach. Morgan prefers old school eyeball scouting. As far as "genes" our last few quarterbacks have had both the OMG and WTF genes. That's nothing new in Pantherland.bThe only difference was how far and how fast those throws went.

Going back to Reid who once said something like. "when in doubt go for a lineman" any type

Which it shouldn’t.

Micron just announced it is leaving the consumer market and Crucial as of February 26 will be no more. While Samsung and SK Hynix are guaranteeing most of its supply to business contracts for AI companies, leaving a tiny supply for its consumer markets. Combined with Micron those three companies make up 96% of the world's Dram supply with almost none of it going to consumers. It's so bad that Samsung Mobile is having issues getting supply from Samsung DX which is causing internal issues and will lead to a shortage of phones and higher prices in February. AMD announced a 10% price hike across its product line going forward as of today. GPU's will go up here shortly, ram has already doubled this year and it will keep going up. Storage has seen a smaller increase but a bigger one is coming for it as the next generation of AI cards are being built that require a ton of HBM on the boards. Rumors that both AMD and Nvidia will eliminate lower tier GPU's for the next generation if not sooner. So the end isn't in site and it will totally affect next generation consoles, the PC building and prebuilt markets and everything in-between including cellphones. Pretty much seeing the end of the main stream gaming industry end before your eyes right now. Storage pricing doubling to tripling over the next year to two. Consoles starting at 699.99/799.99 and up for what you would've spent 400 on just a few years ago. An entry level PC build starting in the 3k range considering the new reality for ram, storage and GPU costs. The cost to entry will be too high for most consumers after this shift is finished in 2028 and that's if a consumer market even exists by then.

You know who else had a high completion %? Teddy 2 Gloves. He could check down with the best of them. I'm one of those people that watches and analyzes a lot, my brain does it by default, and it's something that I fully expect our scouts and FO to do religiously. Football is a sport I enjoy, and I actually watch footwork more than most. It drives my wife nuts, especially with our local hockey team. I can tell within a few games usually if a goalie is going to make it or not just by watching their feet. That's why I said stats give you a direction. They help show you where to look. They're a tool. As long as you realize that they're a tool to be used, not relied upon for absolute certainty. I trust my eyes too. And I trust what I'm seeing. 3 years in, and Bryce's footwork and mechanics look almost identical to his rookie season and Alabama. Every time I see that jump pass I want to scream. Or when he squares up to the line of scrimmage to throw a pass instead of stepping into it to drive a throw. He does seem to have some sort of clutch gene, but he also has a WTF gene that rears its ugly head too.

"I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."

I know he's been cagey in certain situations (I expect that) but I don't see him running a full on, phony "competition" like Fox did.

Giants won a Super Bowl with that formula.

He has been that guy the whole time, TBH. Proved it several times previously.

Ole Miss shoulda known it was over when Kiffin's ex wife, brother and son went to see both the Florida and LSU campuses. lol

Yeah. I think it was the 2nd Bucs game in Darnold's last season here where if we won, we could take the division. It seems like they just threw it to Evans over and over and over and over, and we had no answer.

Bout all I gotta say bout that

I might agree. But as long as the coaches don't, then yes, we're "stuck"

That's what I was referencing in the comment about John Fox. Not a single one of us believed that Rodney Peete actually beat out anyone in a true competition. It was all just bullsh-t lip service from John Fox. Week 1 proved it... definitively. Mind you, I don't think Canales would necessarily go that route. He'd likely just say "Bryce is the starter" and leave it at that.

Skip ahead to 18:39 for some Panther praise. https://youtu.be/1O-DLS___Lg?si=6hBhCaWdmcTZvdZe

Since 95% of the Panthers road to the playoffs go through Tampa *follow me on this* tie breaker #1 head to head.... stay with me here..... we lose all the other tie breakers after that so losing to Seatle or NO without sweeping TB = no playoffs they can afford to lose to one of the two... because if they swept tampa and tampa wins their other 3 games we win via.... tie breaker #1. Literally I've run all the scenarios and unless tampa loses to both atl and NO we have to sweep them.

We're not stuck. Stuck is when the guy shows just enough to keep faith with him. We're way beyond that point. Move. On.

Know who had phenomenal, "best in the league" completion percentage some years back? David Carr The problem with the vast majority of football stats (even "Next Gen" stats) is that they tend to be inextricably entwined with someone else's performance. Completion percentage is affected by drops, bad routes, etc. Interceptions aren't always a quarterback's fault, but nobody else gets blamed for them. If a tackle gives up a sack, it might be because someone else missed their assignment on a given play. There's too many different possibilities, and unless you're willing to go back and watch a sh-tload of film, you're not going to understand everything that happened. That's why I just trust my eyes.

I mean, I don't think there is much chance of a "competition" anyway. He is either gonna be the guy or they are gonna move on from him.

Again, the Bryce stans need to get on the same page. It was just complained about when I didn’t include 2023 on another discussion and left it out. Because they wanted to talk about his growth. the Bryce stans bring up Trevor, not the haters I have never said Trevor is above average lol as a NFL QB. but yes, Trevor can be a headache basket case AND the league leaders in drops can be a big letdown (paired with injury) in a convo where someone calls them great. They have been hurt and dropping the ball unlike any other team. Thats not great weapons at your disposal if they are hurt and not catching