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It's interesting how QBs hold the blame when they fall off but their surrounding cast gets credit when things turn around. Like did anyone consider that Baker could be the reason Baker has improved?

Ashley had big shoes to fill after Stephanie Ready and exceeded all expectations. She could have gotten by on her looks alone but took the reporting seriously and did her research; that impressed me about her from the get. She'll be a good host wherever but I honestly hope she keeps going with sports. Please sign Eric to a lifetime contract

Literally worst case scenario. Do that and Panthers head coach officially becomes the league's dead end job. It'll take a trillion dollars guaranteed to get a high school coach here.

The Panthers front office is a joke but not enough is said about how badly the national media botched scouting Bryce Young. You can’t be more wrong than “superprocessor” and that was like the universal consensus on the kid. Amazing.

Dan’s comment was obviously about the defense. The Rhule and Snow era tweeners we’ve been complaining about here for years. Y’all doing too much.

He was trying to hit guys in stride and he doesn't have the arm strength to get deep downfield on time like that. There's a higher margin of error on the accuracy when you're intentionally putting air under it. I'm imagining plays where Leggette and the defender get to the spot well beforehand and XL wrestles it down since that was his thing in college.

He doesn’t need to be quick he’s here to bring down 50/50 balls. Have y’all seen Bryce throw deep?

This is why he gets a pass on last year from me. Maybe Frank believes a good quarterback should be able to adapt to whatever system he’s given but when yours is a statistical anomaly to begin with, trying to force him into a prototypical mold is just setting him up for failure. The only knock I have on Bryce is I do expect a #1 QB to be able to overcome a bad situation from time to time, at least glimpses of it. I didn’t see it at all last season but maybe the team was really that bad.

Bama Bryce is back watch out now

Deon's "pull an Eli" statement was practically directed at Carolina. Unless he's bluffing there's no way Sheduer's playing here. Bryce will get the team where they need to be in the draft. No need to tank. If he peels off 6 or 7 wins the pick is probably better spent on a different position anyway.

Injury prevention is the only thing that makes sense. There's no benefit in protecting Bryce's ego/"hiding how bad they are". None of that would matter once week 1 rolls around. I don't mind it one bit. Bryce getting injured before we get a full assement would ruin everything, that's not worth getting an early look. If the team sucks as much as feared a couple of a preseason snaps are not going to make the difference.

you're probably more right than you know

not claiming them I get but this is wack

Teddy had a much better offense than Bryce y'all. Their deep balls look about the same to me

Sure but how many do you think are “fired up” about preseason games? Come on.

It's preseason. I can't believe people even pay to go.

Keep Pounding Mr.Scot. Praying for you, my friend.

The company line is that everyone in the building wanted Young. If there was discontent behind the scenes the whole organization covered it up, Reich included. Sabotaging Young and the team to prove a point is unprofessional BS. If it was his way or the highway he should have taken a hard stance on the pick and walked away from the job before it got to that point. We know that a big problem with Reich's staff was that everything was done by committee. I doubt Tepper just came in and forced the pick on his own. I think it's more likely that Reich wanted CJ but the pro-Bryce camp was larger, and instead of growing a pair and fighting for that he went along with the group and protested in silence. Fuq that.

in fact that's one point I'll concede to the "Reich didn't want Bryce" conspiracy theorists. The scheme certainly looked like it was more built for Stroud

Wilson is notoriously pretty bad at it. It’s why he struggles now. He got around it in his younger days because his athleticism would cause plays to break down and create openings. And he had Lynch for misdirection. I actually disagree on Bryce. Felt like all they had him doing were highly choreographed throws and he was serviceable at it, but they were too predictable and we don't have the receivers or protection to be able to dink and dunk NFL defenses all game. I thought the whole point of drafting the kid was that he’s slippery in the backfield and great at improvisation but they made him a pocket statue. And he’s too short to do that! It’s baffling to me that they didn’t try to scheme to his strengths.

1. Wilson and Mahomes are both scrambling playmakers so I don't know why you corrected homie. 2. Both of those guys won Super Bowls so it does work in the NFL.

have a bad feeling that this is more of an indictment on the offensive line than anything

I'm holding out hope that it was some combination of our OL and coaching because Reich didn't even try to play him that way. He was sold as this Russell Wilson type but they had him just standing in the pocket throwing dinks all season (the thing Wilson's worst at, whaddyaknow...)