Navy_football

You mean Holy Cross?!

Nope you just missed it. You'll see it in a replay.

Boom muthafugas!!!!!

There you go Cowboys!!!

Bryce gonna have to play better though. This ain't gonna cut it today.

Yall tripping. Looking for the neg. The DB knocked him out of bounds. Great play by Bryce and Legette. Better play by the DB.

Come on bro. He's like 8 for 10. He's making dumb mistakes but he's not playing pitiful. Old Bryce isn't even throwing that pass to Thielen- for the wrong reasons.

Holding!!!

No he isn't. But he's gonna have to stop doing the dumb stuff.

Why is he forcing that to Thielen? Coker had a LB on him. Find the mismatches like Dallas is doing. Geez Bryce!

The first 2 words Plebes learn are Go Navy, the second 2 are Beat Army! I'm sure Cadets are the opposite. Every time we play is huge - basketball, baseball, swim, field hockey, volleyball, track, everything. But this game, the football game, means everything!

Agree. A solid front 4 or 5 will cover a lot of other deficiencies in the back 6 or 7. And isn't Johnson dealing with an injury, or is he back 100% yet? Turf toe is a lingering injury. I just feel snake bitten at this point. If he doesn't have a clean bill of health, then don't touch in the 1st or 2nd.

You mean 6 (actually 7) months deployments? A few times.

Have proved the sailors right to wear.... The navy blue and gold. Beat Army!!!

Game over

It's ok. We love our little sisters!

Fear the Goat!

Go Navy Go! Beat Army!!!!

Agree with all. Particularly the bolded. I do think Burden is more of what the Panthers need.

Is he still alive?

I hated him as a run defending Edge. WRs and TEs took his lunch money way too often with crack blocks and reaches. He wasn't good/consistent at setting the Edge. If that has improved, then he'd be much better. Same could be said for Burns.

Bryce needs to give his WRs a chance on the deep sideline passes. Other than that, I really don't see what else he NEEDs to do better or more consistently. He's making every throw except the aforementioned. He's throwing on time and on spot. He's throwing receivers open most of the time. He's making good decisions. He's stepping up in the pocket with his eyes downfield. He's escaping the pocket and making plays when the protection breaks down. And he's doing it all very consistently. You can't judge a QB in a vacuum with statistics. He can only control what he can control. He can't make the OC call a play that works against the defense. He can't make the Center give a good snap, or the Oline block, or the receiver run a good route, or the receiver catch the ball, or the receiver run with the ball after he catches it. Look around the league. When you watch other games, where would you rank the Panthers receivers on making contested catches that hit them in both hands, and/or run after catch? I know I watch other games (usually split screen for the 1:00pm games and 4:00pm games) and see that every team has a guy or 2 out there that looks like he's ready to take it to the house after every catch. Every team has a guy or 2 out there catching the ball with defenders in tight coverage. Panthers get that occassionally - mostly Thielen. But no one is out there running after the catch. No one. Even running backs are taking screens to the house in other games. That's huge for stats and it's makes a QB's job easier. Bryce's passing yards are basically where the receivers catch the ball. When you complete 20+ passes and nobody breaks one, that's a lot of pressure. Bryce was horrible overall last season and the first 2 games this season. He deserved to be benched. He was playing like a scared puppy out there. It was embarrassing for him and the team. I called him trash after the second game. But he's always been a threat in a close game with 2 minutes on the clock. Even last year. And he's actually taken a step forward in that department this season. But again, he can only control what he can control. Wins and losses are a team stat. Not a QB stat.

Frank, that's the point. So do you really think Bryce has been playing just below "being benched" level? Honestly? That's what you see in the last 4 weeks? There are a LOT of things going on that he can't control and there are not 20 QBs playing better than Bryce in the NFL right now.

QB1 is also just more comfortable and knowledgeable of the offense. He understands where everyone is supposed to be. He sees his escapes and outs because he knows the offense better. Remember when he used to do play action fakes to the wrong side? He would be faking a hand off to the left and the running back would be going to the right. That's why he needed to sit. I think he owns the playcalls now rather than trying to figure it out on the fly. The game is too fast for that.