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Dumbass Fitt spending out 3rd round pick and trading up. Good lord hello mismanagement.

I wish had said 2 weeks.

We have the element of surprise against the Falcons thanks in part to our smokescreen poop preseason. We have an edge and we need to leverage that against the disadvantage of having a rookie QB. Other teams don't really know what's coming, and early reports were that we have installed way more of our offense than you normally would with a rookie QB. Then those reports stopped, and we got quiet about it. We might be getting ready to unload hell on the Falcons. Pundits actually know less than Huddlers when it comes to the Panthers. Many Huddlers know the entire Panthers roster, and have seen way more than any pundit as far as practice and preseason play is concerned. Football pundits typically rely on their name, and try to do the bare minimum in studying a team like the Panthers because most of America doesn't care at all about the Panthers. So a pundit will have Bryce Young comments ready when the Panthers segment comes up, and after that they can just poop on the rest of the team and move on. No one will care. Keep it moving. Get to NY teams, the Cowboys, Steelers, ect. For the longest time we might as well have been the Cam Newtons and not the Panthers. "And now on to Cam Newton, the Newtons played the New York Giants last night..."

When a team is bad for a long time fans tend to take out the magnifying glass to take a closer look at the mistakes being made in the moment, and prior to the collapse. We made massive mistakes in the past that led us here, and we're currently making mistakes. It's no random accident as to how we got here. Our team was and is being mismanaged, but I'm still going to watch every game and try to have a good time. I'll always be a Panthers fan and hope for the best.

Very difficult song to sing.

Good I have both.

And before we’ve signed Burns.

Chinn is a physical freak of nature. He's just a gifted athlete with height, leanness, speed, and good strength for this size. The problem is that he's a tweener. He doesn't fit at OLB because he's too small, and he's not exactly right for ILB in that he's just better suited elsewhere. I think we can play him at ILB, but why not allow him to cover more territory? That puts him out into the secondary, but certainly not CB or even slot CB imo. So we're going to do these weird hybrid formations and we'll utilize Chinn how we should of course. Ultimately I'd play Chinn at the ILB spot because I love how he plays LB. It might be under-utilization of his physical traits, but watching him close out on a RB or WR with a good angle of pursuit coming downhill and just using those long arms to take the guy down like an octopus or something is wonderful to watch. So for my personal entertainment this season I want to see Chinn at ILB. He's like an octopus fired out of a cannon when he leaps horizontally to take a guy down. You can't help but love watching that.

7 wins sounds perfectly reasonable, but I wouldn't be shocked at 5 or 6 wins. So long as Young isn't injured from poor pass blocking I'll consider the season a success. The Bengals and Chiefs will be the fun teams to watch.

I'll start a crazy thread if that happens, and I have not started a thread since my crazy draft madness simulator thread.

Big time. We don't have a roster that can win now, so we're building for the future. Do we really need Burns right now on an expensive contract? No. We have a rookie QB and a weak roster. You trade Burns to the Rams for the picks and plan for the future. Juice up the offense first, then look for a good DE in the future. That's not an "out there" plan, that's the obvious course of action. Instead we're going to do the opposite and sign expensive defensive vets with a Young QB who is still learning. Yikes. But Fitt has never done what I wanted, so it is what it is.

I don't know about others, but I don't want Burns leaving at this point. I wanted us to take the Rams deal, but the moment we rejected their final offer I was on board with keeping Burns. We're locked in now, and Burn's agent knows how highly Fitt values Burns because, if for no other reason, then because we rejected the Rams mega deal, and because of Fitt's statements to the media about Burns being our cornerstone player on defense. No need to use past stats alone to estimate his market value because we already know he's viewed as the key to our defense. I would imagine Burns and his agent feel that they can write their own ticket so to speak. His agent is just waiting for the market price to be set, or for the Panthers to make their own bank busting deal ahead of time. Burns can put his feet up and relax and smoke a stogie at this point. His ship has finally come in. This isn't how I want the team to be run, where we lock in on a player who doesn't really dazzle me, and then pay him elite money while his agent has the edge in negotiations. As a fan who doesn't really care that much about the individual players, this doesn't make me happy. It gives me the same feeling I had when Marty Hurney signed Charles Johnson to a huge deal. The players are not the same of course, but I have the same bad feeling. Is Burns going to become this dominant pass rusher who changes the outcomes of some of our close games? The last game I watched him play he honestly looked worse than our backups, but of course you can't judge him by one game. I'm just saying I'm wary of the upcoming deal, but I do want to keep Burns at this point.

I don't think Burns wasn't trying hard to help set up our draft position, but anything is possible. I wanted the Panthers to win the TB game and make the playoffs. Fans rooting for or against the Panthers in the TB game doesn't have any effect on the outcome of the game of course. Losing to TB was a benefit to the Panthers assuming Young pans out. The better QB he becomes, the better the benefit of losing the TB game of course. But the reverse is true as well, although it's more likely Young will pan out. Your "true fans" opinion falls under the "no true Scotsman" fallacy, or fan gatekeeping without any authority. I find it strange that you wanted us to lose the TB game, but that doesn't diminish your status as a fan in my eyes. If you care about the outcome of the game, then you're a fan in my opinion.

It was my love letter to Burns in the TB gameday thread for loafing off.

Yeah no kidding.

Trying to coach the TB game from my couch before the disaster happened.

I started predicting that TB was going to go deep to Evans again later in the game, but I found my early warning.

Hahaha