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I’m excited. It’s a new season, anything can happen. Cherish these moments. Last season it literally only lasted until game 1 so enjoy this while it lasts. Also, look at it this way, one way or another we will have a franchise QB next year. Either Bryce shows he’s that guy this year and it’s a great season, or we crash and burn and have a high draft pick in a strong QB class. No matter what, this season will provide answers and clarity moving forward.

Thought JT really had a chance to take his job but instead it looked like we missed Tremble quite a bit out there. Glad to have him back and sad at the same time somehow lol.

Yeah I wasn’t meaning that they were drafted close together was just comparing who we drafted when we lost the Super Bowl vs who the Eagles got in the same situation because players falling to the Eagles was brought up.

Wdym?

Didn’t even remember that part. Youch.

I wouldn’t hold my breath. We got the great Vernon Butler the year after we lost the Super Bowl. The Eagles got Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith.

So why do you keep saying it lol.

This honestly makes no sense. If you’re gonna have a week where the real play callers are calling plays, why not make it the week when 1st string plays the most?

He says “…like I once did.” I just take it to mean he had to dial back spending and be smarter with his money since he doesn’t have his NFL paychecks coming in anymore. I don’t think there’s anything heartbreaking there, just reality. Sorry kids, we’ve gotta trade in the $20m mansion for a $2m mansion. Sorry, can’t buy 2 lambos for each of you. If he truly can’t provide at all it is just mismanaging his money and it’s hard to feel bad about that. Not everybody is going to be great with money but when you make that much you can hire somebody who is.

Supposed to be fighting tooth and nail for a roster spot, and he’s not practicing over some soreness? Says all you need to know.

I’m surprised the Panthers have nearly the same odds as the Bengals. I don’t see any way the FO gives up a first round pick after losing the #1 overall pick just a year ago. There’s just no way. If any team gives up a first round pick, I imagine it would be one of the perennial playoff teams. Just too much value coming up in the next draft with a potentially high end QB class.

Wonder why the other thread got locked…

The above is the exact argument for why “Just win and we’ll all change” rings so hollow.

I agree if viewing the preseason through that lens of testing and taking risks when the games don’t matter. Are we doing that or treating these like real games to assess decisions that might be made in real games? My guess is somewhere in between. I wish we had a reporter who would ask questions like that instead of stupid stuff. Like asking Legette over and over about whether his off-season boxing training made him fight. Or how about, hey coach, how do you balance having Idzik calling preseason plays vs using these games as dress rehearsals? Does the fact that you call the plays in the joint practice just like you will in the regular season mean that you are relying on the joint practices to evaluate where your team is at for the regular season more than the preseason games? We have such bad reporters and we’re always guessing at everything.

“Covered like a wet blanket” “Subpar QB with subpar throw letting all pro db break up the pass” Some definite unbiased educated opinions from the game thread. Must have been a Texans fan.

I’ve been a Panthers fan long enough to know no matter how obvious it looks, the refs can always find a way to screw us. I’m not losing any sleep over it, but if we’re nitpicking I’d say from my perspective that one might feel better as a throw away. Then again, I also understand swinging for the fences if you think there’s no risk. I’d be curious what conversations the coaches and Bryce have about that one behind closed doors, though I’m sure we’ll never know considering how inconsequential it is.

He didn’t want to come here, unfortunately. I actually like Canales as a head coach. I think his skills as a play caller/designer have always been overblown. I think he could be a great head coach though if he got better coordinators and gave up control of the playbook/playcalling. Idzik ain’t it, but we kind of always knew that. Unfortunately, really good OCs get hired as HCs really quickly in today’s NFL so it is hard to sustain.

We interact with other fans here, not the team. What does assessing the team have anything to do with any of this. It’s just blaming an outside source for people’s attitudes and behaviors. Idk about you but I’m in control of my own.

Would they trade him for Horn straight up? Only half joking.

Fair. Still, unless Bryce somehow knew without a shadow of a doubt what the call was, seems risky.

We need an airing of grievances, like at Festivus. And for all the “just report posts to the mods” I’ll just say my most recent argument was with a mod who was the first one to bring in personal attacks and make it not about football. And I think the last time Igor actually responded to one of these requests to take care of the forum he was pretty apathetic towards the whole idea. So I don’t think upper management cares all that much, which I think is the problem op is having/trying to point out. I will say, I’m not a fan of over modding.

I gotta be honest I don’t love the throwing a really risky ball when the flag comes out during the middle of the play like that. I get it when it is defensive offsides and you get it at the snap and you basically know for sure what the call is. Just seems on this particular play that there was some risk that the flag may not have been for what he thought, or maybe another flag comes in for an offsetting penalty.

Sounds like a lot of cope. Why don’t you just create another thread for everybody who doesn’t like your shtick? There’s certainly nothing in between disagreeing with super smart edumacated football savant linville gorge and “all sunshine and rainbows”. As we all know, the only educated opinions are yours, and you certainly bear no blame for bringing down the discourse by immediately launching into character attacks instead of just talking like a normal human. Reddit mod level.

Lol, YOU brought up the QB. All I said was calling that a “contested” catch was letting the TE off the hook for the obvious drop and you start going on about subpar qb this and all pro db that. Jeez if you’re going to try to take this snooty approach of attacking the person and not the argument you should at least try to avoid such obvious lies. Gee I wonder why this place is such a shitshow with mods like this. “That should have been a catch and the TE dropped it” - “Durr cope cope you not educate me know football”

Placed better than hitting him in stride in the hands…lol. And you talk about the all-pro db thing over and over again like that matters. Does his award last season make the coverage on that play different somehow? We’re looking at a play. Your opinion of the QB, DB, and TE outside of that play does not matter. Did the ball hit the TE in the hands? Yes. Do we expect the TE to make those catches? Yes. Was the coverage good on that play? Maybe average. You’re the only person talking about that coverage like it was something super impressive. Not a hard hit, no restriction of the TEs ability to make the catch. Just a very basic hip tackle after a should be catch. If there’s anything psychological that caused JT to drop that ball because of the db, then that is again on the TE. Why bend over backwards to make that particular play about the QB somehow? Makes no sense. Unless…