Mr. Scot

Nobody's patient enough for that. It's the lottery ticket mentality. This ticket wasn't a winner so let's toss it in the trash and go buy a new one. Shiny new toys are more fun anyway, right?

I don't think it's possible this year. Speculation is s that it might be next year though, if things don't get better.

No argument. Meant to mention that but forgot to...

Seriously. Nobody is playing prevent defense in that situation. That'd be insane

Appreciates, and same. My Christmas involves grandkids, one of whom is a teenager who wants clothes with designer labels, so...

You left out the part about telling the expert how to do his job 🫥

To be fair, a thousand yards isn't the benchmark it used to be. The NFL started recognizing thousand yard rushers back when there were only 12 games. With the number of games we have now, you don't even have to hit a hundred yards a game to be a thousand yarder (fifteen hundred is a much better goal) With that said... Hubbard is definitely having his best season and proving himself valuable to the team. A lot of us had him written off before the season started. He's been able to show everybody that was wrong-headed of us.

Granted, and probably also true of Delhomme, but neither were "mastermind" types To be honest, that particular type of quarterback is very rare. I'm not sure there is one in the NFL right now.

NFL insider Mike Sando writes in The Athletic about what went wrong in the development of Bryce Young and what people are saying about the Panthers and David Tepper. With regard to Tepper, the theme seems to be questioning whether or not he's learned anything from his mistakes. Mike Sando's Pick Six (subscription required) First up, the mistake of the "all star staff" and Tepper: Too many cooks in the kitchen? What the 2023 Panthers did not learn from the 2020 Eagles. The headline from colleague Joe Person’s 2023 Panthers retrospective sounded ominous: “What happened with the Panthers? ‘Hunger Games’ culture, backstabbing and another fired coach.” Only a few months prior, team owner David Tepper had celebrated the Panthers’ ability to assemble what, at best, might have sounded like an all-star staff. Jim Caldwell, Josh McCown and Thomas Brown would be joining coach Frank Reich and Reich’s former Indianapolis assistant Parks Frazier to aid in the development of rookie quarterback Bryce Young. I’ve been struck in retrospect by what an NFL exec from another team said about the situation in mid-October, when Carolina took an 0-6 record into is bye. “I think Frank Reich has too many cooks in the kitchen,” this exec said then. “They are too top-heavy, where there are too many people with opinions, and for a young quarterback, it is a recipe for disaster. You have Thomas Brown, who has head-coaching aspirations. You have Josh McCown, who has head-coaching aspirations. Then you have Jim Caldwell. That is a third voice. Then you add Frank. That is a fourth. Then you add Parks Frazier. That is a fifth. “Even if it is not malicious, you get in a situation where there are too many guys trying to put their signature on a process.” The situation recalls the 2020 Philadelphia Eagles, who finished 4-11-1 in Doug Pederson’s final season with the team, as quarterback Carson Wentz’s career unraveled. That staff featured Pederson, pass game coordinator/quarterbacks coach Press Taylor, senior offensive assistant Rich Scangarello and senior offensive consultant Marty Mornhinweg, among others. Lots of big names. Too many voices? Tepper coveted the idea of an all-star coaching staff. What lessons did he learn? ... Next, speculation regarding the team's next coaching search: Panthers: Carolina seems likely to seek another offensive-minded head coach, which could allow the Panthers to keep defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero. The question here is to what extent Tepper’s reputation for meddling might steer leading candidates toward other opportunities. “I don’t know if Tepper is a quick learner, but we know he is a quick decision-maker,” an exec said. “Does he go, ‘Alright, I need to give this up and give it all to Bill Belichick?'” ... And finally, a note about yesterday's vanquished opponent: Falcons: Losing 9-7 at Carolina shined an even brighter light on coach Arthur Smith, whose offense ranks 25th in EPA per play and is producing 7.1 fewer EPA per game than last season, the seventh-largest drop from 2022, per TruMedia. “Some of it could come down to who picked the quarterback and whether somebody was really, really firm on (Desmond) Ridder, or was it, ‘Hey, we’ll give this a year and see how it plays out, instead of paying Derek Carr,'” an exec said.

That assumes he wants to stay. It's entirely possible that he may have other, better opportunities. But even if he doesn't, no Tepper should not meddle again.

In actual game news, holy sh-t what a play

Kony Early showed up. Arguably would have been the MVP of the game if we'd won. After that, though...

Not entirely. Newton wasn't a super cerebral QB. Neither was Delhomme. They weren't Brady / Manning type quarterbacks. Newton was just a ridiculous combo of size and speed while Jake was a balls out gunslinger. Both had Brett Favreish level accuracy. It's possible to win in different ways.

More effective form of protest than a march...

Fans giving ownership the middle finger by not showing up...

Found this interesting...

As previously seen, the solution to Parsons and the Cowboys defense is to run at them.

Gotcha

Why the gripe with the Niners? (just curious)

Wouldn't matter what else was on

Three guesses which game I'm watching