outlaw4

There's a part of me that wished we traded Bryce just to see this place's reaction to him playing like he is now with someone else.

Based on what I've seen from his as a playcaller, I'm leaning towards wanting a dedicated OC. I'm only a fan of pulling double duty if you're Andy Reid levels of good and Canales isn't in that neighborhood.

I just find it utterly hilarious just how badly this place trashed Darnold and Mayfield while they were here and now we keep finding excuses to blame their success somewhere else on everything else except us.

Sounds more knowledgeable than the average football fan. Take that as a compliment.

I'm at the point in which it's really hard to discern whether it's the scheme or our players that's causing the bigger issue. Either way, it's probably best for both parties to go our separate ways and go full reset on our defense.

If there's one valid criticism of Canales, it's him deciding to get overly pass happy which is exactly what he did after that opening drive. I get it. We don't have Chuba or Moton but the Bucs were playing as though we would pass every down and we played right into their hands, not only putting more pressure on a compromised O-line but also forcing our defense to play a lot more minutes that they simply could not afford to do on any day but especially today without Horn. I would hope he learns not to do this next season but every coach in the NFL has a bad tendency and this may be the one we're stuck with going forward.

Really? I mean, I fully expected this defense to be completely eviscerated today without Horn and not having a run game on the other side to minimize their time on the field.

But we already did to start the game. That's pretty much all we have.

Why is BY and Thielen still out there? They are literally the only offense we have today. Zero point getting them hurt.

11 plays but yep.

And everyone is still mad anyways. I just want to leave this game healthy.

Murray has a game winning drive going and then doinks his pass off his receiver's helmet for a game losing INT. Ouch.

The potential bidding war for him and his injury history scares me off of him. We've already dealt with a player like that in CMC and we eventually gave him away. That and I see us needing the spending money to fix the defense. We already did that last offseason with the O-line. How I see things, adding an explosive piece would be ideal but even just finding a guy that's reliable and not overly expensive also works. I mean, Thielen has been one of the few things we did for Bryce initially that has actually worked well. Can we find another guy like him?

Higgins has just earned himself a massive payday with someone else. Probably out of our price range.

Maybe we should trade him for their kicker. Changing teams tends to fix kickers nowadays.

If Bengals lose, I dare say Zac Brown should be fired.

Moton being out a second time this season is the canary telling us we really need to start finding his successor. Maybe one of the other guys will be competent in his place tomorrow, but as the famous saying goes, I don't think the answer is currently on our roster.

May be a blessing in disguise. Let Chuba's last play of the season be a walk-off win. Bryce also showed up on the injury list this week. Probably a precaution, especially when we're also down Moton. Not overly confident about the O-line holding up, especially if our other backs do nothing and our defense gets eviscerated early.

So our O-line may be shaky, Chuba/XL may be gimpy, and Evans may set a new NFL record for most receiving yards in a game. Seems that just getting through the game without any more injuries will be a win.

Looks so much like a lot of 2023 Panthers pass charts. When a franchise fires the last guy for bad time management, yesterday likely sealed Brown's fate. Also the fact this is the second rookie QB he has struggled to work with, that's a big black mark on his resume regardless of how much of the responsibility falls on him. Caleb needs protection more than anything else. Yes, some of that is on him but there were times when he had no chance. Caleb's body language is really worrying, though, because if there's one definite advantage Bryce has over Caleb, it's the mental part. Caleb had some moments during his senior year that had me worried whether he could handle adversity at the highest level. Not to say he can't suddenly play better if/when things improve, but it may be tougher for him.

Most hilarious thing was Bears wasting two timeouts and end up with one in their pocket.

Look at that receiver creating separation. Wish we had him. ...oh, wait.

You'd think a team like Seattle would actually know how to play in the rain and not fumble the ball away.

If my math is correct, as of right now, Caleb has just matched one of Young's rookie stats... 62 sacks. Safe to say he's going to beat that. David Carr's record of 76 sacks may just be out of reach, however.

It's like watching Bears vs Bears.