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1 hour ago, WUnderhill said:

We actually need more team propagandists in the media, not less. 

You'd love cable news

Don't expect criticism of the team from people who still have working relationships with the organization

Is the LaMelo hate just because's he's injury prone or what? I'm always hearing immaturity but he's not some menace off the court and he's never waivered in his commitment to the franchise when asked.

Feels like Cam Newton all over again and folks just hating on his personality when we aren't winning. 

20 hours ago, CRA said:

Canales is clearly tied to Bryce at this point.  I think that's hard to deny.   I would say Morgan now is as well. 

I don't think Tepper is an anything guy.  He is a get me winning team guy.  And now he is simply stuck where he knows reasonable time is now PR for his future hires. 

and I think Tepper did what every single owner would do with Bryce.  I think the move to #1 was Tepper.    He listened to the people he hired to do the job and they sold him on Bryce.  So Bryce it was.  He listened to the GM office. 

So he's concerned about how it looks to future hires but he's going to fire everyone if the player he picked is no good? Doesn't make sense to me. Would take a king's ransom to get anyone to come here.

Obviously Bryce is a big part of it but say he stinks it up next year. The runway for Morgan and Canales is longer because they've had more success in less time than Young has. 

15 hours ago, CRA said:

Daddy Tepper has clearly setup the game for all these folks to be shown the door together.   It all hinges on Bryce.   They all know it and have accepted it. 

These are difficult, costly roles for Tepper to fill given his reputation and so far Bryce has done the worst job of them all. I'm not buying that Mr. Analytics is hinging the whole front office on some gut feeling about Bryce's potential. Nonsensical narrative from a fanbase still mad he meddled with the pick. 

14 hours ago, outlaw4 said:

It's becoming more clear that this team didn't really know what they were thinking in drafting XL because he's not a good fit with Bryce at all. We've seen it with guys like Thielen and Moore that you give him a receiver that knows the fundamentals of the position well enough, he can at least get production out of them. XL is the complete opposite, a guy that came in super raw and even now, struggles with basics like knowing where the boundary is and running the route correctly. That and he just seems to play slow, almost like he has to think about what to do rather than just playing naturally. Nothing against the man, but I find it hard to see how he's going to work out here.

To be fair these were known issues and his physicality was supposed to make up for all of it, we just haven't seen it since he was drafted. And he still looks the part by NFL standards so it's kinda crazy how the strength hasn't translated at all.

Just now, kungfoodude said:

Bryce freaked out because Nijman was getting obliterated. You have to make that throw.

thats on chuba he had hands on it

2 hours ago, Carolina Cajun said:

Cam in the HOUSE, 4th and 1 live right now AT THE BANK!
 

 

Luke's answer to the question at 1:00:00 is great. Hope to see the guy coach one day.

7 hours ago, TD alt said:

Who in our fan base thinks he's a starter? I was thinking the other way around. 

Everyone saying we should be thankful and move forward with him because we made playoffs, ignoring that we got lucky and stumbled in despite a bottom 10 starting QB.

16 hours ago, uncfan888 said:

Cam gonna suit up and run the qb sneak for us since mighty mouse cant

I know Cam playing again has become meme but this would sell tickets and legitimately improve the team

Can he start

Playoffs are cool but if it means another year of Young it could do more harm than good. I worry about the development of the receivers and this basically gives Canales another free year where Bryce is his scapegoat.

7 minutes ago, CRA said:

When Parcell’s said Bryce better “walk on water”…..the implied concern wasn’t that the tiny QB could survive being hit.  It was acknowledging he would have to be extremely special to overcome the handicaps he would face at this level.  Which he isn’t and can’t 

Or if you're going to bet the farm on a small guy who will get rocked by NFL players on a regular basis he better be special. That's what I heard.

Regardless, him being vague about it is kind of my point. Few in the media raised any concerns about Bryce's game outright. His passing ability was highly praised across the board even after Stroud had the more impressive Pro Day. There was the dumb debate around batted balls that eventually got squashed and I remember some game tape blogger types talking about his poor footwork, but even that was hand-waved away because he was a "dynamic playmaker" and we had a respected coaching staff that could fix him.

So much revisionist history around the pre-draft Bryce hype. The media was practically united in saying that if he were a couple inches taller he'd be the perfect prospect and it was just a question of whether he'd hold up in the NFL being that small. The Panthers did not create the mythos around him they were just the team that bought in. The team was largely praised for the move after and for surrounding him with what was considered an all-star coaching staff at the time. 

Yeah part of the fanbase wanted Stroud but let's be real, we're coming from an oversized franchise QB who injured himself out the league. There was some analysis here on the limitations of Bryce's game but people were mostly just concerned he was going to turn into dust when he got sacked in the NFL.

I’d like to apologize to Frank Reich. Was he washed or did he just see this coming? The world may never know.

On 12/29/2025 at 7:09 PM, Jon Snow said:

If they extend Young Canales will be back. They are tied at the hip.

They will be if they extend Young but I don't think we're there just yet. Morgan and Canales are tied and I don't believe Tepper is going to go look for a new front office for Bryce as things stand.

12 hours ago, frankw said:

I don't honestly think it mattered which QB we drafted at that point in time because Matt Rhule made it abundantly clear he wanted no parts of attempting to develop a rookie QB. He fed Corral to the wolves that preseason.

Absolutely. I think he pans out if he had been drafted to a better place. I can’t name a head coach who handled QBs worse than Rhule did.

As far as I can tell The Canales System is "run the ball or checkdown and pray for YAC." And Bryce has nothing else in his bag so this is pretty much our only path to victory.

Seeing Darnold look better than Young in every facet of the game was pretty sobering. I'm tired, boss.

The TMac connection is real

2 minutes ago, Day1PanthersFan said:

Morons

He is called the Reaper for how many coaches he has got fired 

It's for game winning drives now

Carolina reaper name sticking

Ty Canales finally letting Bryce run 

Looked like a bama TD from Bryce

Throwback logo on the field? That’s cool to see