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(6) Joey Ellis on X: "Jalen Coker had a career night Saturday in the #Panthers loss to the @RamsNFL. He expects the loss to hurt, but know it'll benefit Carolina for the better. "This should be the standard now. We are a playoff football team. We're gonna continue to let this fuel the fire." https://t.co/WI03xzHKJG" / X

Coker looked amazing, but if I remember correctly he wasnt in the best game shape when camp started, which ultimately leading to him getting injured. Hopefully that was a bit of a wakeup for him to take his health more seriously in the offseason (and I have no doubt it will, guy seems like a pretty committed dude).

I think he does but he wants TEs that are just as good at blocking as the are at catching. He likes showing 3 te sets and making the d guess wrong if it’s a pass or run.

We have the opportunity to draft Moton’s replacement and depending on who it is, possibly can sub him for Icky and slide him over the next year to replace Moton.

I feel just like Coach feels (6) Carolina Panthers on X: "This is what family looks like https://t.co/CZTHenqx3M" / X

I mean, I think you're being a little hyperbolic with the last statement, but point taken.

Pass rush was the biggest issue in tonight’s game, and we were tied for 28th in sacks this season. That is a major area of need that has to get addressed this offseason. I just don’t see a path where there’s a game changing QB you can bring in with where we are drafting and quality of veterans that will be available. We certainly can do better than Dalton as a backup, and should ideally have a developmental guy (perhaps a day 3 pick this year). We have bryce for one more year on a reasonable contract and then I think 2027 is the year that you reset that position (unless he massively improves).

Agreed, honestly basically bringing this group back as a healthy unit would be alright. Brady Christensen should be resigned to a very reasonable deal with him recovering from the Achilles. Atleast we're alright at 4 of our 5 spots with Lewis, Mays, Hunt, and Moton, Nijman was decent. While if we can snag a deal on someone, take a stab, however our resources need to go to Linebacker, Pass Rush and a real option outside Tmac (coker is amazing, but if we can get someone who isnt braindead opposite Tmac, we can fully unleash Coker AND Tmacs full potential, cant move him into the slot if racoon boy is out there licking doorknobs).

If it’s a patella he’s gonna be fine.

Nah he had a good season. Falcons fans were ready to shoot him like a horse but they’ve come around.

We need to trade XL this offseason. He’s a constant negative play for us. Would truly be an addition by subtraction

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He's a limitation of the offense. There's just no way around it. Seems like a great guy he's just really physically limited. That isn't going to change. It's the one aspect of sports you can't change. Your physical tools just are what they are. Every team cuts guys they hate having to cut every single year because they have literally everything you want in a player and member of your locker room except for the birth given raw physical talent. Bryce just doesn't have the physical talent to be a successful starting QB. Your offense is just too handcuffed at the most important position on the field. We've seen what Bryce at QB is going to be. A handful of good games a year, a handful of plays here and there, but mainly below average to bad play. Bryce as the backup? Honestly, hell yeah. Sign me up for that. Bryce as the starter? I mean, we've seen it.

Mike Kaye said on twitter tha his contract is not going to expire that there are still years left on the deal. Maybe they added years and we don’t know it?

It was a fun game to watch, back and forth, good plays on both sides. Competitive. That's all I think we all wanted is to be in every game. This sounds weird but it's better that they lost and played great. If they won they wouldn't go far in the playoffs and the expectations for next year would have been too much. Now, we see progress and we're all hopefully for another step deeper into the playoffs with the right roster moves.

Thats on Dave because Bryce doesn’t make any actual reads and just throws where the voice in his helmet tells him. Did you notice the rams starting to mill about on defense around in seconds 10 to 5 on the play clock? Thats because the headset cuts off at five seconds and whomever is telling bryce his reads doesn’t know where the blister is coming from. You’re gonna see that a lot next year.

Also a little nitpicky but I think the initial wording for 3 vs 4 should be flip-flopped. Bad is worse than "not good".

Well, it’s rare to have great everything. Thats why the pairings matter. Maybe you have a dominate DL and a weak secondary. It can work. Maybe you have a dominate OL and okay RBs. if your OC and QB are both essentially okay to below average then that’s not going to work. Dave needs a QB to help him. Bryce needs an OC to help him. Neither are built to uplift the other. But are in need of the assistance

He's clearly a 4-5 right now. The question is obviously not "Do we give him $50+ million per year or cut him?" even though that seems to be how half of the people seem to present it. The reality is that it's nonsensical to just cut Bryce and completely give up now. We're paying him either way. Bare minimum he gets 1 more year. I would give him the 5th year because it would make him one of the cheapest starters in the NFL and unless you're incredibly biased, you have to acknowledge Bryce is at minimum an above average backup even if he gets no better. So worst case, he doesn't improve and you have a pricy backup/below average bridge starter, perhaps for another rookie qb, on a contract that won't remotely cripple your team and still give you a chance to build a strong roster around your next QB. I don't think you can assume Bryce can't get better either. Darnold is proof of that. And his Jets years weren't any better/arguably worse than Bryce's 3 years here.

Where he was taken and how much that cost definitely is a big sticking point. But I think we are past that. Obviously he wasn’t football ready and developed and ready to elevate average receivers, other than Thielen lol. We are and have been playing the future game of is he even gonna be a average starter. Seems to me.

We are drafting an OT for certain now. I was wanting one for the eventual departure of Moton, but now it's not even about depth for the future. It's a need. Sucks for the big man. I hope he has a successful and speedy recovery. Again, the gratuitous playoff birth keeps on giving. You had better believe I'm going to be extremely interested in picks 14-18.

Interesting last thoughts, which inherently mean that Bryce isn't a good QB, and that the pairing is ultimately set up for failure because Canales isn't great. Then what are we doing here? I suppose we're wasting time, which seems more likely than not.

I mean there were two things that couldn’t happen in the last drive. Bryce taking a sack or Bryce running around holding the ball for 10 seconds. One of them did happen… His constant lack of urgency and understanding of the situation is infuriating. if the play wasn’t there he should’ve just thrown the ball away.

I never bought into just forgetting about a whole season. His contract doesn’t forget about it. The record doesn’t. The Bears won’t forget it either, lol. This was Bryce’s 3rd season. Now we get to find out if he makes it four years in a row of bad play to start the year.

Pipe dream guys. At #14 he might have been there, but dude will gone like a fart in the wind at pick 19.