Khyber53

I hope Rico makes his on Sunday, plus quite a few. I hope Darnold makes it also, but on the following Sunday with a legendary performance after a pedestrian 150 yds passing with 1 TD here.

Not sure if any answer I give will satisfy you.

If we gave Huddlers the same time frame we give young players time to develop, there wouldn't be a one of us here with over 50 posts. He's on the cheap now, keep him and let him keep developing. Maybe make him fight for that starting spot.

This ^. We can't play for next year every year.

He's growing up: trusting his arm, trusting his receivers, ruling out some of the mistakes that can be made. Not sure this is a problem right now. Seems like progress.

Me, watching the play, I didn't hear the whistle calling Latham down and was like "Oh poo! He just set the ball down!" I was really afraid we were going to have one of those "never live it down" moments where a Buc comes by, snags the live ball and takes it in for a TD as if it was a fumble. Didn't even notice DB's absence on that play, but if he's regularly being pulled on third down, there may be some rest periods needed for the big guy. Looks like they still handled business, though, so maybe Evero has a better ear to the team than we do.

Staying under the radar. Hate he missed out on it, but we are all better when they think we're less than we are. It's our job to change their minds, hopefully in February.

Sadly, when it comes to football, I think all hits are cumulative. And Cam took his share and certainly gave more hits than any other QB I've ever seen. The man left it all on the field, for sure. It's a rough, rough way to make a living.

Scourton had his coming out game. This guy might be a solid player next season or might just take off like a rocket. Honestly, this whole team has that feel, that we're on the edge of something good. We're ahead of schedule on the retooling with Canales, we're competitive now. Can't wait to see this keep developing. That rookie class, though, is turning into something truly special.

It feels good to win. Let's get two more to finish out the regular season. This is a freakishly weird team to figure out and one that seems to be at its scrappiest when taking on favored opponents. That in the playoffs could make for some very odd games. I can't wait to see them!

I'm going to say this, because it happens to a lot of young guys that get drafted high each year. If they've never had anything, and suddenly find themselves getting checks for a couple of hundred thousand dollars per week, they don't know what to do with it or don't know how to handle turning this into a career. I think XL might be one of those guys. He desperately needs someone to sit down with him, explain what being a selected star and then having to take the secondary receiver role means and how to turn that into a long, meaningful career. If Muhsin Muhammad could spend some times with him, Xavier might get this straightened out and become a contributor. He's got the skills, he's got the physicals, his brain just isn't into it and I question the maturity.

We had some serious run blocking problems. Tampa's run D was a weakness for them coming into this game and they really sold out on keeping us bottled up. They succeeded at that. They were more prepared for Rico than Chuba, but both guys struggled. Nice to see we were able to adjust.

Panthers 28 Bucs 24

It makes me happy to see one of them take a beating.

Tried to say it back in the day, but nobody would listen. That game against Minnesota where he put the entire team on his back and brought us within a whisker of making a massive comeback showed who he really could be. But we weren't there as a team and certainly didn't have the coaching staff in place. Now, we might well be looking down the same gun barrel with Bryce. But no one wants to hear that either.