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Especially if you're wearing corduroys.

I think about the only thing you can do is when they go empty in some of those heavy WR sets.....trot him out there for those looks and run a crosser for him and give him a shot if he has room to run. I mean if we are attempting to set him up for success. Dude is just so small and inexperienced. You can't have scenarios where he could be forced into run blocking and he most definitely isn't ready for life on the outside. I was hoping we could phase him in w/ Renfrow late this year but it doesn't look like Canales can adapt his O to that type of slot WR (and Bryce does struggle w/ throws to small guys it appears). I think odds are Jimmy would deal w/ a bad ball worse than Renfrow, just in terms of personal safety.

And even in baseball they already went full circle. Everybody figured out analytics was the way to go, and now everybody's making decisions the same way. So now what differentiates you as a team if you're just crunching the numbers like everyone else? Oh yeah like actual knowledge of the sport and experience with what works and what doesn't. So ultimately it's circled right back to old guys sitting in a room talking about who's got a hotter girlfriend.

I reminded me of the tactic of burning the bridge behind you so you can’t retreat. Sink or swim.

In house analytics are probably the only ones that should actually matter because that analyst can work hand in hand with the coaches breaking down the film. I like PFF as a statistical aggregator much more than I rely on their grades. Their grades tell me the opinion of PFF and how their accumulative play by play grading system viewed that game, season, whatever. The bigger the data set the more useful that grade is going to be but it's always going to be flawed. It'll give you a very high level overall idea, that's about it. If a guy grades really well in coverage for the season he probably is a really good coverage guy and vice versa. They can basically tell you if a guy is really good or really sucks and then there's a ton of gray in the middle and you have to figure out how that guy is going to translate in the role you have in mind. For instance, you don't want to sign Moehrig planning on primarily using him as a deep FS.

I’d say the majority of our players are content just coming to work, get paid, go home, and football is the least of their worries. They don’t have any aspirations to change the culture, to win, to revive a struggling team. Our guys aren’t hungry, or they’re hungry for the wrong things. If football is a team sport then every man has only been for himself since Tepper took over.

The problem is, the 10 yard hail mary Young threw on Sunday is on film for all to see.

This is a tough one to digest. I do think they probably locked in for practice this week, feeling themselves a bit and sensing an opportunity to build on the Atlanta game. Then boom, punched straight in the mouth and reminded forcefully of your place on the totem pole. Carolina has no identity, no attitude and certainly no resilience. This all starts at the most important position in pro sports, the Quarterback. Week after week, sound bite after sound bite, this will be the tale until BY9 is gone.

I take back every bad thing I've said about them. Well some of it. No, they still suck.

lol they are literally twice as good as you thought!

He's going to get the same little play we ran for David Moore to open the game at some point and that's about it. Hell, if nothing else, run a straight line and try to trick Miami into thinking Bryce can hit that pass to open up TMac a little.

There are so few official stats in football. The rest are subjective and debatable, it'snever going to be baseball because there are too many moving parts every play. PFF makes money off selling the certainty that their stuff is trustable and usable. First betting or fantasy and now they are targeting teams. You don't bring that in house unless you are a sucker or lost objectivity IMO.

I don't disagree, but to be fair the college game is so dumbed down sometimes it can be hard to even evaluate QBs on tape. You look at Cam's Heisman year at Auburn, there's honestly not a lot that translated to the NFL. But Cam ended up translating very well. He could absolutely do a lot of things that translated to the NFL, but just wasn't asked to in Auburn's college-style option offense. The one quality that I feel translates best to the NFL is when a guy can carry a team that's not stacked with talent. Bryce won a Heisman surrounded by elite talent, many of whom are NFL stars today and still couldn't win a National Championship. Cam was surrounded by a bunch of average (at best) college players that never made it in the NFL, and yet he won both a Heisman and a National Championship. Guys that can take average (or even below average) talent in college and both win games and put up big numbers are the players I think NFL teams need to look at. That's not to say that there haven't been great QBs who were surrounded by great talent in college too (Joe Burrow, for example) but a guy who can overcome a lack of talent around him and still be great is someone who I think has a leg up once they get to the NFL.

No poo?! Well spank my ass and call me Mary. I've sold them short.

I mean Ron was fine, but instead of yelling at halftime when they were blown out by Pittsburgh, Id prefer he use a bit more smarts and not put Donte Jackson on prime AB 1 on 1 and then be mad when he gets torched

I'm not sure what his role will be. He's not been on special teams yet and when he's played wr it been a dump off.

All I remember is people bitching about stoic Ron. All we needed was a new owner, gm and coach. .....welp

You just nailed a big issue I have with PFF. They act like their grades are completely objective when in reality they're based on the opinion of the person grading the play. Like in the situation I outlined above. I can see why one person might grade that incomplete pass to T-Mac one on one deep negatively when you had Tremble open underneath. A lot of that depends on the offensive mindset of the team. Are we a conservative offense leaning on defense or are we a team that wants to be aggressive on offense? If the former, that play should probably grade negatively because that offense is looking to control the clock and methodically advance the ball. If the latter, that OC and HC probably applauds taking that shot counting on still being able to convert and move the chains on 3rd and 4. They'll value the opportunity for the big chunk over the safe play in that situation. They're also assuming they know the play call and the read. Was that missed throw and actual miss or did the receiver make his cut two yards deeper than he was supposed to? Did that DB blow the coverage or was he playing his correct role and someone else screwed it up? Yeah, that receiver was open early but he was the 3rd read in the progression. A lot of these situations the only person who objectively know the answer is the play caller and the outside observer is forced to work off of assumption.

Two fingers!

You can count them on one finger.

the smaller the player, the higher the odds of a hospital ball.

This is a young team that hasn't won anything. That is a hurdle in itself. But beyond that you need guys who can rally around each other. You need competitors who feed off one another. Where is that here? It's plainly obvious this team has no real leader. You can't expect the guys on the defense or your running back to carry the torch. They are complimentary leaders. You still need that guy who is leading you into battle so to speak. The spark. All we have is someone who can apparently wow some middle aged squares at dinner but where is the generational Payton Manningesque field general leadership we were sold on our #1 pick by so many LOUD voices before the draft?

I am

Everything I have seem with them is about hiding subjective interpretation behind layers of stats to hide what they really are based on. If it was just stats then we could all do what they do based off of box scores stats and such. That's their magic in their equation, subjective input delivered as fact.

I have a bad feeling about this. And I'm not sure for who. Its the same feeling I had after the Atlanta win.