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16 hours ago, WarHeel said:

Why’s that? He got fired here and went to the Super Bowl the next year. You could say people wanting to get rid of him didn’t age well.
 

This isn’t the flex you think it is.

They were the #1 defense in the league when he came onboard. This isn't the flex you think it is. 

Just like when he was let go here there are two different narratives playing out. The national media is making it all about the Super Bowl but Niners fans are saying it's been bad for awhile and the defense regressed this year under Wilks. 

14 hours ago, CRA said:

I mean, he should be a first ballot HOFer.  I think Luke is technically the best football player Carolina has ever had.  Others played more entertaining positions.  Luke technically the best at his craft vs how good others were at theirs. 

Luke's career was definitely more consistent but peak Cam was otherwordly at times. Greatest football I've ever seen was him carrying defensive lines and that time he ran backwards like twenty yards, dodged every defender, and still picked up a big gain.

On 2/12/2024 at 12:14 PM, t96 said:

as Cam said and got absolutely trashed for... I'm loving Cam as a media analyst

Shannon Sharpe was on his podcast last weekend and said before the Manningcast he pitched the same idea to Cam. Those two would have been gold. Cam fumbled the bag.

6 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Or you have to hope you are the Nick Foles/Trent Dilfer.

Think it would take a miracle for him to live up to the Mahomes and Brees comparisons but championship game manager is still very attainable. There's an argument to be made that he always has been.

I don't like our odds of drafting a QB who will make an impact on day 3. Not when there are so many needs we could more easily address with that pick. 

The 1st pick in 2025 is what's TBD. Bryce is either going to make us competitive next year or put us in the spot to draft his replacement.

On 2/7/2024 at 2:50 PM, CRA said:

And when he has played, has never even had Bradberry type moments shutting down a Matt Ryan to Julio connection to even claim he is being overlooked by people. 

Because teams respect his coverage and avoid him. A legit shutdown corner when he's out there.

19 hours ago, PanthersATL said:

It could be that CBS doesn't have the streaming infrastructure setup to handle a super bowl-sized audience on the 4K transcoding/distribution backend. 

It's likely a CBS decision rather than a cable company demand

This. It's a massive upgrade in infrastructure and there aren't enough compatible TVs or worthy 4k broadcasts to justify the cost. And for network TV it has to be done in every market or you run into technical and legal issues. Same reason it's taken forever to get to 1080p (I'm pretty sure ESPN still broadcasts in freaking 720p, for example.)

Because as we all know Rhule loves players with small hands and short arms 

17 hours ago, BrisbanePanther said:

I wish Ickey wasn't from NC. Then we'd get people being more honest about how he's been very not good. Who cares about situation. He was picked high enough to be the unstoppable anchor for a decade. Too many excuses for him.

You act like his rookie season never happened. Every group on offense got worse under Reich, so it stands to reason that maybe it's a bigger problem than Ickey. Got nothing to do with him being a local.  

15 minutes ago, CRA said:

I like how before the season started this was deemed a terrific spot.  Better than Young's. ....and then after the season it was deemed a horrific spot for Bryce. 

I mean, never bought into that hype of the added talent BUT, to an extent, Bryce did have something to do with why it went so bad.....and CJ had a lot to do with why it went so well in Houston. 

I do think Andy Dalton showed a bit of a red flag.  Gameplans were skewed for Bryce.   He is part of the why.  All it took was an old washed up vet and the passing attack was different. 

Because we were so horribly wrong about the coaches. We were legitimately drinking the kool-aid and thinking we might have the best staff in the league and it turned out to be the worst. I really think that's the difference and not that talent.

I don't think we were that off about the players. Burns and Sanders definitely underperformed but we also had guys like Luvu, Hubbard, and Brown who exceeded expectations. I think we can all agree Ickey was a victim of the scheme and the jury's still out on Young.

Says he was put in a better situation in Houston.

The Nicole talk is so tired. She would have been in Tepper's ear regardless of an official role. At least this way there's some transparency. 

20 hours ago, KBRed said:

The hope is that the hiring staff actually hired them, and not Tepper. 

Sorry to bust your bubble but that committee was just to give Tepper candidates. Ain't no way they came back like "You know what? Just promote the guy you have" and then happened to land on a coach who had a close working relationship with that guy. In the end it was your standard hiring process for a GM and HC.

11 hours ago, Panther'sBigD said:

Does anyone else get a Steven Furtick vibe from Canales? I find it unsettling and off putting, but I think maybe it’s a generational thing. He’s a millennial coach, coaching Gen Z players, so he’s on a completely different wavelength than I’m used to. 
 

Youth pastor energy is timeless 

Guy seems like a straight shooter unlike Rhule and still hungry unlike Reich

On 1/27/2024 at 8:01 AM, Khyber53 said:

Especially in light of what followed him here. Just in comparison alone he deserves some credit.

With the best roster in franchise history. We're not too hard on him y'all are too soft because he's a nice guy who fought cancer.

Guy's got more personality than our last four coaches combined at least. Hopefully that resonates with the players.

30 minutes ago, FuFuLamePoo said:

I get we’re all in on shitting on everything we do right now, but do any of us have the first clue what this means?

my sources tell me it means the GM and coach work for the owner of the team

This has me optimistic about him. The team lives or dies by the OL and he seems to get that.

16 minutes ago, Paa Langfart said:

 

You'd have to be a fool to think tepper doesn't have a hand in this.  Probably his wife too.

He’s the employer of course he does. But it was all Ben Johnson until Dan was promoted and suddenly his boy is the guy. What more proof do you need?

On 1/24/2024 at 8:07 AM, X-Clown said:

You must not have been around when Dan was an active poster on this board and left because of guys who did in fact post things like that.

Was that before or after one of our most beloved players retired early because of concussions?

Trolls are inevitable but I worry about a Streisand effect because of this thread

11 minutes ago, Paa Langfart said:

 

Tepper obviously thinks this is the guy to fix Bryce

This is 100% Dan Morgan. He's been tight with Canales for longer than he's known Tepper.

Y'all wanted Tepper to get out the way well Dan is your "football guy" now.

1 hour ago, UNCrules2187 said:

Ben Johnson - no HC experience

Brian Callahan - no HC experience

Jerrod Mayo - no HC experience

Antonio Pierce - interim HC, only other HC experience on HS level

Our most experienced staff was the worst we've ever assembled

Can you blame him? He’s been vocal about wanting to come back here in some capacity and the organization just ignores him.