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RE Dorsey, give it time before evaluating him as an OC, no film on him at all. I’m not sold on him and he’s got an insane amount of talent to work with so he should be having significant success.

Yeah I’ve had that happen too, it’s annoying as hell. Usually when I fall asleep on the couch inadvertently

The RB was right there I believe

I took that into account with my statement…

I can’t imagine playing with constant numbness. I hate being numb, maybe you just get used to it but still. Not sure if you follow tennis at all but one of the all time greats Rafa Nadal played and won a few major tournaments this year with a completely numb foot he couldn’t feel at all. Completely insane what some of these guys play through.

I’d kill to have him in Panthers blue but I think Allen is a bit overrated. Not quite in the top tier that guys like Mahomes and Rodgers are in, just below them.

And lol Stafford. What a sloppy mess of a game

Lol Bills

Not a great throw but that’s the receiver’s fault

This is gonna be a shootout ain’t it

I wouldn’t make that assumption, statistically. I’m not gonna take the time to look at every team’s schedule and compare but just the numbers you provided don’t stand out to me as being particularly easy, statistically. The only way to make sense of and take anything away from it would be to compare across all teams and the full schedule.

Ok but what did other teams play? You'd have to look at our opponent's average rush offense ranking vs. other teams' opponents average rush offense ranking for those stats to mean anything. Picking out 8 out of 17 games without any other context is meaningless.

fug your fantasy team hope we hold Chubb to negative yards and no TDs

Ehh they did make the NFCCG last year and Shanahan has done incredible things with the team pretty much whenever Jimmy G has been healthy and playing decently. Lance is a question mark but at least offers massive upside over Jimmy G. I don't think they win the NFCW either but I don't think it's that outrageous. There are big surprises every year and many teams do suffer SB hangovers, plus Stafford's shoulder is a question mark too.

Strongly disagree on OL and QB. Our starting OL is set and likely to be above average and we have better depth players there than many teams, especially considering Brady's ability to shift to tackle if Moton or Ickey were to go down. Elf and Irving, while not ideal starters, are solid backups as is Jordan. QB, I know we all hate Sam, after last year I never wanted to see him in a Panthers jersey again. His contract is a disaster and he's not a starter in this league. But he is a better backup than most teams have. He has plenty of issues but most backups have significantly worse issues and aren't even capable of playing at the level that Sam is capable of playing, as we saw from him the first month of last season. Reality is for 95% of teams if their starting QB goes down long term they are completely fuged. You'll have some outliers like Foles/Eagles, Cassel/Pats (they missed playoffs but went 11-5), etc. The question is whether your backup can win a game or a small number of games if the starter misses a shorter amount of time. I don't like Sam or his contract one bit but I'll gladly take him over guys like John Wolford, Blaine Gabbert, Brian Hoyer, etc. We disagree, so be it. I hope we never find out who is right and we just stay healthy.

89 should absolutely be retired, along with 51. 1, 58, 59 I don't believe have been worn since their retirements and they have arguments as well to never be worn again but not as set in stone to me as Smitty and Mills.

Defensive front 7 is thin but other than that I think we're pretty deep. Foreman is a solid backup RB, TE we don't have a great starter but have a handful of decent backup guys, WR as you said is deep, QB is deep with Sam healthy (although drastically overpaid), and OL is probably deeper than it's ever been (deep enough that Daley who has started a bunch of games for us and was sought after by another team couldn't even make our roster). DB our deepest it's ever been too.

who calls him Eke...? Most critical outside of Baker and our OL is definitely our run defense. I expect Chubb and Hunt to have success against our run D but we need to mitigate the damage significantly better than our run D from last year if we want to win. I think this offense is going to take a few months to really gel and the defense will need to prove itself early if we're going to be a true playoff contender.

sweet hope that's the case for me, I'll get back from a 4 hour drive and hopefully sit down to watch a nice win with Baker dominating

At the pats joint practices I attended it was quite obvious the biggest leaders on D were Shaq, Burns, Chinn and Donte. I'd be pretty shocked if Chinn doesn't get a captaincy this year.

"pretty quickly" as in, should be up by Sunday night?

Packers lost Adams but gained a lot defensively and Rodgers is likely still able to play at his MVP level, I wouldn't bet against them being in the NFCCG. Don't see them winning it all but they've made the championship game 2 of the last 3 years and were very close last year too. Aints obviously ain't making it, King is drunk

fair but it wasn't an impressive draft at all. despite the pre-draft nonsense, Cam was a no-brainer 1st overall pick and not screwing up a 1st overall pick with a generational QB there isn't impressive, it's just not royally fuging it up...

They are one of the best teams on our schedule, so they are more like the difference between 12 and 14 wins

We play them twice, they don’t have a big impact on our final win-loss record. And with their OL issues they are entirely beatable in BoA