Growl

FSU got screwed over by a bad system, and the solution to that problem is to increase the bracket so that games can actually be played to answer the question that right now has to be determined on paper the committee needed to apply the logic they’ve been using consistently over the CFP era, and they did that. if the answer to the problem was “let’s change things because THIS time it feels wrong to omit this team” then Texas and Alabama are getting screwed hard, as would be all of CF without a unifying standard the question is who are the best four teams, the answer should be let’s let them play and figure that out, the second best solution is what they did; a flawed but consistently applied metric. The worst option would be an ever changing standard that conveyed no trust.

an expansion to 12 will probably yield problems but it’s a good next step the four team CFP clearly has issues and deserves to go but at least encourages teams to play and win tough schedules alabama just got in over fsu because their SOS was #5 and FSU was #55 a strictly numbers based system is going to get a bunch of doo doo schools who have spent the season beating up on bad teams in bad conferences a disproportionate amount of credence

this just incentives teams to play lollipop schedules

this is consistent with the committee’s approach for the duration of the four team playoff, if they had pulled a heel turn and made it strictly record based then there would’ve been some rightful criticism (especially given Alabama’s superior resume’) its a crummy system that’s rightfully over but at least they were consistent

Rankings are what I expected but I’m glad they’ll actually be playing games to determine this from now on. those four teams deserve to be there, frankly Georgia probably does too but the argument of not having a conference championship was rightfully too much to overcome

Panthers have cheapest looking turf of any team in football you can just see the plastic

I put the foundation down for the “tepper bad” bandwagon back when was getting oohs and ahhs for not being Jerry richardson and winning people over with inane things like the midfield logo ….and as unfortunate as it is, Frank Reich has been trying to weld players like young and others into a scheme that do not fit their strengths, and someone needed to tell him. Beyond the obvious obsessive fixation on Young, even players like Hayden hurst who have been solid and unremarkable players throughout their careers have all regressed as players here. It’s a long list. it’s an old school mindset to acclimatize players to your system rather than adjust your system to fix your players

Which is what makes the idea that McCown was fired because “he wanted stroud” so ridiculous. because what people are really saying with that assertion is not that McCown wanted stroud, but that he had become insolent or unproductive in regards to doing his job with Young because he “wanted Stroud” if that’s the case he should’ve been fired anyways, position coaches on every team in every draft get outvoted on who they want, they still have the responsibility of going out there and developing the players they did get I suspect however the idea that McCown is tossing chairs and stabbing people in the back to save his own skin in regards to the selection however is probably a dumb theory he was more likely fired because he never should’ve been hired he was brought here because he was a high profile wunderkind that was exciting to bring aboard, not because of a long and tenured resume’ for QB development that you absolutely had to have in that coaches’ room when you’re spending as big as you are to get a QB he may develop into a great coach but to put so much on someone with literally no coaching experience was always dumb it was not the right environment for him or the panthers

Bailey seemed to suggest his personality was not a big hit with the other coaches, perhaps Brown especially everyone carry on with the conspiracy theories though

this is one of the best jobs in the world, it’s an incredibly competitive market with few open positions, Young is still regarded very highly by football people, and tepper has oodles and oodles of money. they won’t get the top candidate but they will be able to get a top candidate unless tepper absolutely makes a buffoon of himself in the process I mean

Dude ain’t coming here if he’s got options. I think the “who would wanna come here?!?!” angle is probably overblown, there’s only 32 of these jobs and Dave tepper has lots of money. but yeah, no, this is the one guy where I’m like “no he definitely isn’t”

I mean i get it. The offense isn’t just bad, it’s rotten. It’s broken. There is something fundamentally broken with it. The entirety of the offense has gotten worse. Theilen makes sense why his production has dipped, but even setting aside Young and Ekwonu, players in this league who have been solid if unremarkable have genuinely regressed over the season. There’s no excuse for Hayden Hurst being invisible. Even if he’s a JAG, he’s a JAG who has been broadly productive as a pass catcher and is playing with a rookie QB. Chark? Sanders? still… i thought Reich was going to finish the season because tepper needed to abate the impulsive hot head stigma, and I also question why fitterer is still here.

I think they were trips, were probably looking for some kind of rub to get the X underneath with a slant or drag it wouldn’t have worked with how quick Tennessee got there, still wouldn’t have run the play they checked to. Would’ve preferred a screen to the back if they were going that route.

Bryce needs to learn to step up into that sack and like look off the safety and stuff!

lol mark schlereth driving low info posters insane with a commentary on the supporting cast

10 second play and we still cannot get someone open down the field

you can’t win in this league if you can’t force a turnover once or twice a game, we’re starting every drive on our own 10

this is probably the worst offensive line I’ve ever seen on a professional field

you’ve got to try it but unless there’s an irrational fixation on the QB (there is) hopefully that will shut people up about this team’s ability to throw the deep ball

literally every time he comes in the drive stalls out

reminder that Corbett was initially injured in a meaningless game so that the panthers could pretend to audition Steve Wilks nobody had the brass on their desk to go down there and say “let’s not risk the starters” massive, massive consequences for Corbett and the offense as a whole worst owner in sports bar none

Sam darnold over Testaverde and DA the Tampa slayer? lol nah

I don’t even know why we’d be comparing Young to Dalton, the two are at completely separate points in their careers. the only people who want that are coming from the angle of “we need to see if it’s Bryce fault so he can be criticized!” what does that accomplish? The team isn’t waging a debate with you. They’re proceeding as if he’s going to be the QB for a while. The goal is to help him develop, not throw meat to people who are out to see him fail. They aren’t evaluating, they’re developing. he’s going to be the QB here next season.

yeah they are absolutely going to spend big in free agency, don’t know why you’d assume otherwise

this has been far and away his biggest issue. the most consistent mistake he makes is coming off reads too early. He works his way through his progressions so fast that he’ll give up on guys right before they come open. Then he starts buying time and holding onto the ball, hoping things break down downfield i mean I get it. The line’s garbage and our receivers are the worst in the league at separation. Even the guys that come open don’t tend to stay that way. All that messes with your internal clock. But he does need to hit that back foot, give it that extra heart beat from time to time, and throw it.