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When my wife know whether or not we are going to run or pass based on the down and distance that is then confirmed by the formation and can make blitz calls pre-snap the gameday calls are a major problem. And dont get me wrong, she is a smart lady, but she 'aint a NFL coordinator

Yes This is a failure of both scouting and coaching. And by coaching I mean both in preparation and in gameday execution.

He's 6-23 as a starter

Everyone - myself included - who thought that the end of last season was a new trend needs to understand the lie they are telling themselves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy

Optimism belies the fact that coaches have egos BY9 had enough of the "mental" attributes (or at least knew how to convince folks he did) that coaches believed they could overcome his shortcomings -pun intended They thought they could bulk him up They thought they could scheme him up They thought they could encourage him to play taller They thought but Doug Flutie - but Sonny Jurgensen - but Drew Brees This is as much a failure of overconfident coaching as bad scouting

Because that doesnt have any impact on the fact that he was widely expected to succeed in the NFL and he shouldnt even be a back-up. Someone was going to take him in the top 5 it just happens that we made some dumb choices to do it. Maybe MAYBE he has value as a Taysom Hill type gimmick but he is a bust in his own right without regard to what the team did to get him.

dont think the trades matter. If we had traded less or nothing for Bryce would he be a better QB? No Would we still have wasted years on him? Yes Would we have taken a different QB? No Would Bryce still be a bust on a different team? Yes The trade has nothing to do with the fact that he doesnt have the tools to be an NFL QB - the role he was drafted to play. It could be the worst trade in history - although there is some stiff competition on that front too - but it doesnt change how big of a bust Bryce is.

Russell Leaf Bosworth Couch Ki-Jana Carter Manziel Akili Smith Thats some stiff competition when it comes to biggest bust or even top 3 or 5

He is a bust because he cant play and would have been a bust regardless of where he was taken because he doesnt have the tools to be an NFL QB and somehow draft rooms and draft analysts widely speaking thought he had those tools. The trade makes it hurt more from a Panthers perspective, but he is objectively a top 10 bust regardless

After last season I was holding out hope. No more Time to let go

I just wish the man would file his paperwork for retirement so he could get the accolades he so richly deserves form the Panthers and the NFL He is being a damned knucklehead

Bummer. I was rooting for him.

Preseason in general with this new 3 game format seems to be all around less interesting. With the 4 games there were if not expectations, predictable behaviors you got from teams as they went through the 4 games. Now it seems none of the teams are on the same page and you end up with 1s & 2s vs camp bodies too often. Im not suggesting there should be rules regarding how to approach the games, just noting that for me as a fan I dont get much if anything from watching them anymore, for any team.

Sad news. Mastodon wasnt one of my favorite bands but they were always in rotation

Its "gameday..." I get why you dont play the 1s but Ill be damned if Im going to schedule my evening around watching a team not trying to win with dudes just praying to hang on