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Stats back up he was the best corner on the team easily. Passed Horn by a mile this year. WAY better tackler.

He would be a minor improvement over Evero. Still known for soft ass defense in critical moments.

Bryce played at New England on a beautiful 70 degree September day and CJ played them on a sleety 32 degree day in January. It’s ok to admit the situations are not the same

Statistically, Bryce should NOT be a starting QB, and the consistency shows that. He shows up against favorable secondaries, and disappears against good ones. Hopefully now the team is focused on giving him better receivers and the receivers will win games on their own, ala Steve Smith type receivers, and he won’t be as big of a liability. That’s asking a lot for a #1 overall pick QB to need that of course. Whe we just had a QB before Bryce that took teams to the playoffs with Brenton Bersin and Kaylin Clay as his top receivers

Nah. A road playoff game against a very good New England team in very bad weather without his top two receivers and a banged up offensive line. They couldn’t get the run game going and he was trying to do too much. Houston spent all their resources on defense and it shows. If you put Bryce in that same game without McMillian and Coker, it might have been even worse than CJ’s performance.

It's a catch. Just barely. Great catch

Gah the Bears hearts about to get ripped out. Hell of a game.

Williams is twice the QB Bryce will ever be and it makes me sad. Stroud is also a better QB despite what happened today. The dumbass takes I see about how bad CJ is because he had a couple bad games in the playoffs without his top two receivers, one of them being in very bad weather conditions on the road, it's like everyone forgot Bryce threw for 54 f*cking yards against the Seahawks a few weeks ago. Bryce going up to New England in January without McMillian and Coker would be an epic disaster.

Ryan Clark made a good point that the offense around CJ isn’t helping him at all. There’s no running game, his top receivers are out, the pressure is heavy. But he’s making rookie mistakes. Gotta bench him.

4 INTs in the first half, and a few others in the hands of defenders that were almost picked. If they put him on the field in the second half that’s just asking to lose.

If they can nail a LT pick in the first round, Icky might come back at RT. Might be easier for him after the injury too

Haha I mean all other positions are easier to find than QB. He got better from the atrocious level he was at in 2023 and early 2024 before he was benched, and even early 2025. He actually had a few “good” games in 2025. But he still just doesn’t look the part in every game which really is crazy for a number one overall now fourth year QB. I’d expect consistency from him now or else he isn’t the long term solution.

I wasn’t a believer until I saw how the rookie class contributed this year so give Morgan credit, he did very well with the roster in 2025. He drafted the likely offensive rookie of the year. He also made shrewd moves like trading for Mike Jackson last year too. If Morgan has another draft like 2025, the Panthers will no doubt be in the mix for the playoffs again. From the sound of it they’re targeting pass rushers so that might make the defense better by default if he hits there. Maybe the addition of Tillis helped too, but this was the first draft I wasn’t left thinking a 12 year old playing madden could do a better job.

Biggest thing Bryce needs to do is stop laying these dud games. There’s obviously certain styles of defense and personnel that make it hard for him to survey the field given his lack of height and arm strength. But consistency is the biggest thing we haven’t seen from Bryce. It seemed like every other game was a dud for him in 2025. Just getting him to play decent in every game would be a major improvement

Dan Morgan being a defensive guy can probably scout better defensive players than in years past. Scourton and Princely seem like they’ll develop with the team. The roster was just so destitute after the Fitterer worst GM in the history of the NFL years they it will take awhile for the cupboard to be fully stocked. It’s not empty like it felt a couple years ago at least.

I was shocked Rob Chudzinski got a head coaching job, Evero has been knocking on the door of becoming a head coach for a few seasons

Let’s hire Mike Tomlin as DC then and poo he can replace Canales

I agree here in principal. That’s what made John Harbaugh such a good coach over the years and why he has so many of his assistants that became head coaches. But at the same time if you hired a guy specially to develop the offense and call plays then taking that away from him and adding someone else to do that would be a potentially relationship destroying decision.

Imagine if Mike McDaniels followed Harbaugh to the Giants as OC.

Yea this wasn’t even a critical signing until the icky injury now it’s he’s a must sign player. Make it a 2 year contract, Icky will need a reliable backup coming back from a serious knee injury in 2027

The best thing Horn does is jump and make highlight reel INTs and have a reputation of being a good corner but now that people are starting to respect Mike Jack, Horn is getting exposed

He got markedly better under Harbaugh

There are much bigger needs than Cade Mays right now. He has performed well and I think he'll be an affordable starting center option. He looks wildly better than the previous starting center Bradley Bozeman who got beaten like a ragdoll against the Patriots last Sunday. But in retrospect the Panthers have had so many opportunities to draft a legit second round center in the last 5 years it's ridiculous.

It would be worth it. The entire line plays better when he’s in the game and I don’t see him getting worked game after game. I saw our old center Bozeman getting destroyed against the Patriots which was funny to see.

Scott Fitterer was the worst GM in the history of the NFL and as a grown man if I saw him in an airport or something I would go up to him and tell him what an idiot he is for not trading Brian Burns for TWO FIRST ROUND PICKS AND A SECOND ROUND PICK. So glad that moron isn’t working for the Panthers anymore. Single handedly lead us into the gutter.