Khyber53

This 100 percent. Open up the playbook, get Bryce mad and see if he can put the team on his shoulders again. This was a great, great outing by him. Tough, brave, skilled. Can he replicate it? There's the millions of dollars question.

Canales isn't on any kind of hotseat right now. And Echiro will probably get some HC sniffs depending on how the season rolls out. And Bryce? I can't knock him after that performance yesterday, except to say, do it some more. Here we are 11 games in and we're a half game out of first place in our division, we have a better record than the Chiefs and Ravens. Did not see this season playing out this way. Hardest remaining schedule in the NFL (as of stats yesterday) but that could be a real character building opportunity for this team. If we could squeeze out a 9-8 season, I think we'd call it a miracle.

Maybe Bryce proved something to the fans, his teammates and himself yesterday. That was a helluva gutsy performance out there just to come back on the field after the first time. Then the second and the third. To also set the all-time Panthers single game passing record AND have two comeback game drives in a very hostile stadium. Can't do anything but give the guy his crown for this week. Tough kid, great performance. Maybe he and Canales can open it up a bit more now.

Sure was interesting yesterday. Might have to upgrade to Ritz.

Falcons, second course edition! And here, I'm hoping for a repeat, so I'm repeating the menu and feasting on the foes. Egg Salad Sandwiches and... Bugles. Good luck Panthers! What are 'y'all having?

They might be tougher than expected. Teams sometimes have a rally game after a coach is fired. We've had a few of those over the years. Still, Green Bay's got a lot on the line and a lot of talent. I think we caught you guys looking past us on the schedule. I'm doubting y'all will do that again.

I'd agree, but they're going to want revenge for the ass-whooping they took before. And they are a walking injury report right now. Hoping we win and that there are no injuries worse than a booboo.

I believe there's plenty of blame to spread around: QB, receivers, play calling, injuries on the offensive line, poor talent evaluation and drafting. I mean, really.

Man, I really appreciate that!!! We work really hard on these things.

Yeah, we covered that. But thanks

Was it early 1945 Berlin? That's an injury report that reads like the 3rd Army's!!!

If they couldn't turn him into even a 3rd string stalwart in San Francisco over multiple years, but could turn a broken Mac Jones into a good looking QB in one off season... then there might not be anything there. And if Canales could have rehabbed him, he was there for the taking this summer...

Really, there was a lot of talk about him being over-reported in the height department. The guy could really sling that ball, though.

Maybe coach just wants ownership to know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we have to move on at the QB position. And maybe he will keep running out who we have until the Teppers come in and throw up their hands shouting, "Yes, let's get this over with." If you want change in your workplace, make sure the boss thinks it's their idea.

Don't forget Drew Brees. He was the exception to the rule.

Ding ding ding! I think we have the winner here, folks!

Me, I was pulling for us to draft Mac Jones back in the day. Is he the answer here? I'd have said hell no before this season, but he has me intrigued. Yeah, he's in a great system there, but one riddled with injuries. Color me intrigued by the possibility of Jones, but in no way could I go for Kyler Murray. He's just Bryce Young with 10% more arm and 4x the pay.

I'm gonna be honest here. All I see is a bunch of receivers who can't get open on most plays. Bryce or not, if you can't get open once in a while, this is what's going to happen. But yeah, XL ain't going to outsmart a DB, he ain't gonna outrun one and he sure doesn't seem like he wants to outwork them either. So, hard to not call him a bust at this point. Tet, though... has his moments of ooo look at that. And has a lot of plays where he just disappears. He's not bad, maybe even good, but I'm sure hoping there's a lot of development still to come. Was hoping for a game breaker, not a possession receiver.

I was hoping folks would forget that. I was hoping to forget it. Just trying to polish the turds they gave me man. It's all I've got at the moment.

Honestly, I'm not so bad with that. Let the other bottom feeders clear the chum a bit for us. Might keep us from taking the sucker's bait that seems to await the top of the draft order. Picking around 12-15 might bring things into better and more realistic focuses.

I hope he's just the poster child for sophomore slump. If not, well, we're paying him first round contract for two more seasons. Rationally, most WRs take three years to fully develop in the NFL. Hopefully he smartens up about his game because a big, relatively fast guy like him shouldn't just be completely removed in games by zone or CB3 man coverage.

I will say this, Bryce was a helluva lot braver than Clausen.

Way back in my younger days as a reporter, I had to go and cover a D.A.R.E. graduation event at a local school. They had two NASCAR racing teams there for the kids to meet. Teams sponsored by two different beer companies, one of which had just won the Winston Cup (wow, really back in the day, and a cigarette brand if you didn't know). The kids were having a ball and were in awe of the drivers and crew members, they loved seeing the cars. I leaned over to the DARE officer from the Sheriff's Department and said, "You do realize that you told these kids to swear they'd never drink or smoke or use drugs and look who sponsors all this." The look of realization just washed across his face and he glanced side-eyed back at me and said, "Well, poo." Advertising and marketing are so fuging pervasive in everything we do that the public really doesn't stand a chance anymore. And gambling is doing a full on press for this generation and the next. Sports gambling has always existed and always will, but this industrialized one is more than parasitic, it's viral. I'm not sure if the patient will survive it, but if it does, there will be a mighty shock to the system before it lets go.

And pass production has gone for worse over the last three weeks with our opponents stacking the box versus the run. It's not supposed to work that way. Ever. But I agree with your assessments on reshuffling the pecking order of WRs. XL is just not cutting it. Renfrow might not have been lighting it up but he was at least getting attention. Coker is regressing. Tet cannot seem to get open, at least visibly. Tremayne needs to be getting playing time and Horn, well, maybe the practice squad for him for a bit. And someone call Hendon Hooker or Mike White and ask them nicely to come back for a roster spot. Or start scouring other teams' practice squads for a QB to poach.

Sadly, this.