Mr. Scot

Not really. There are two people in charge of making the team what it is, same as last year. The difference is that last year, only one of the two was trying to rebuild. The other was trying to win now to save his ass.

Have you ever actually watched Sam Darnold? (judging by your posts, I'm gonna guess "no")

Mac Jones...honestly doesn't look bad. It's preseason, of course.

I'm not demanding the playoffs this season. Improvement is enough for me. I've said before I think this is rebuild year one rather than year two. Still stand by that.

Speaking of old friends, Taylor Heinicke is running the second string offense for Washington.

Yeah, they're not "normal people". They're professional athletes. The ones that win championships are the ones that "deal with it".

Only if he's a backup. Part time starters we've already got.

I think if you're a professional football player, you put losses behind you and move on. If you're gonna spend an extended time stewing over a single loss, you probably don't have what it takes to play in the pros.

Rivera was dead set against it. No idea why, but then that's true of a lot of things Rivera did. My concern for this year: The whole "versatility" thing is cool and all, but as I've said before what I really want to see is a set lineup that can work together and gel into a cohesive unit.

I'd much rather just put Moton on the left than try and trade.

Anyone watching Washington vs New England?

Only if you're weak.

Marty made decisions based on how it made him look. If our current guys think that way, I don't want 'em. Football decisions are made for one reason and one reason only, to win games. If you're not making the best decision to help us win games, you don't deserve the job.

If I actually thought they'd make franchise altering football decisions just to not look bad, I'd want them fired right now. It would be like we never got rid of Marty Hurney. That'd be stupid beyond imagining.

You've been arguing that if we'd had the number three pick, we'd have taken Fields. Now you say they think he's "marginally better or worse" than Darnold? How exactly do you equate "marginally better or worse" than Darnold to being worth the number three overall pick? (yet somehow still not with the number eight) Oy...

I think a loss would be one game followed by sixteen additional chances.

Well, this oughtta go over just dandy...

Huddle implosions are hardly ever appropriate. This one would be no exception.

Who are you and what have you done with Igo?

I'd put it this way... If you are unsettled at the quarterback position (and yes, our quarterback position is unsettled until Darnold shows he's up to it) and a player that you consider elite, can't miss, franchise quality, insert your adjective here falls to you, there's no way in hell you pass that guy up. Thus, the very least you can conclude from this is that the Panthers don't think any of those descriptors apply to Justin Fields. They may think he's decent, they may think he's okay, they may think he's not good enough or whatever, but if they believed he was a franchise quarterback, he'd be a Panther right now. Which tells me...they don't.

Sound advice from Daniel Jeremiah... Of course, once you've seen the first series of the first preseason game then you know everything you need to know, right?

And pretty much nothing that anybody who has an actual inside connection to the team has said supports your idea. But yeah, I know. You and your fan theories know better than they do

Week one is never a must win game.

Is Darnold comparable to Watson? Remember the Panthers repeatedly said that having Darnold wouldn't preclude them from taking a quarterback. And frankly, I don't think that was a smokescreen. The smokescreen was the supposed interest in Fields (something that's been confirmed since the draft).

Uhhh, have you forgotten that Stewart was drafted when we already had DeAngelo Williams? And see LG's response above. Using AU's logic, a team that had a player rated as a #1 pick would pass on that same player at a later pick. That's clearly ridiculous.