Khyber53

We run an offense that is best situated for a mid-level QB of 1993. Yanno, like Frank used to be in.

I think the Bill Belichick coaching tree has begun withering in the field for a few years now. There's a common denominator in their big wins, but they all seem to share in the ruin that followed both in Boston and elsewhere. They stepped into a magic puddle and we've been praising them for almost two decades for what may have been just a set of lucky circumstances. And yes, maybe he did develop Brisset, Cassel and Garropolo but really, think of those guys. You know as well as I do that if any of those guys is your starting QB, you're in for a lackluster season at best. Maybe we should look elsewhere... and not chase someone else's past.

That's three mules fighting over the same rotten turnip. Sure, it's a competition, but it sure doesn't matter who wins.

Marc Davis fired McDaniels because he had come to the obvious conclusion that the Raiders had quit being the Raiders. And win or lose, being the Raiders meant something. The Panthers haven't been the Panthers since Tepper took over. The owner can't fire themselves, I guess, but maybe he needs to have the moment of epiphany that Bowl-Cut Billionaire had and realize that teams have an identity and they are at their best when they live up to that. The Panthers are a linebacker driven team that leans heavy on ball control in the offense. We're a beat you down franchise that depends on a steady, punishing run game and long downfield strikes, or hard after the catch efforts. We're not a bubble screen team. We're not a WCO pansy-picking, eight yards and out of bounds kind of people. We don't just take what they give us and bend don't break. We're supposed to Keep Pounding. Not play nice.

Remember how Thielen would provide veteran leadership in the WR room and elevate those around him? Dude has been way too busy carrying the room to do any coaching.

Hell, Chicago traded away the number one pick to us and STILL fielded a more complete rookie QB than we did... and that guy didn't even cost them a draft pick. Yeah, he's not a finished product yet by any means, but Chicago may have someone there who has the mojo.

I am a Christian, that I will not deny. However, my hatred of organized gambling doesn't come from that at all (not sure if it is even mentioned in the Bible, maybe in Proverbs, maybe not)... It comes from the fact that gambling prays on the unsophisticated, the uneducated and the desperate and really doesn't care the harm it does. Those big shiny casinos aren't built on the backs of the winners, but on the backs of the suckers, rubes and misfortunate. Wanna bet $100 bucks with your buddy on the outcome of a game, or whether you'll be closest to the pin? Sure, go ahead, I've been there and done that. Want to sit down with some friends and buy $200 worth of chips and spend an evening playing poker? Heck, I made a fair amount of my college spending money that way. No biggie. Put a corporation with actuaries running the odds, setting the vigorish, advertising like mad and injecting all sorts of money into the league and its coverage and you end up in a situation rife with potential manipulation and predation. And let's not even touch on the lives ruined by people who get stuck chasing a win.

A dislike of gambling doesn't have to do with religion. Gambling is a parasite. But thanks for the blessings.

Don't let that website's sponsorship by BetFred Sportsbook possibly point to a clouded assesment on their part. I mean, hey, four out of five doctors who smoke recommend the cool flavor of Camel cigarettes, right?

That's bullshit and you know it. Go rattle your jewelry somewhere.

When Bryce gets swarmed for a sack, at least you can't hear him scream like a little girl as he tries to run away. Pickles was terrified out there. PeeWee just glumly accepts it.

fug gambling and how it has taken over football and the broadcasts we watch. It's a parasite on society and it will eventually cause a huge scandal for the game.

He seems like a really good young man. And he has won before. Just he's not showing any fire here and we seem to want him to play like Drew Brees when we should be looking at a young Russell Wilson for a model of how he works best. For some weird reason, short Drew could see through his linemen and work from within the pocket. Wilson, on the other hand, did his best work when he was flushed out and had to improvise. You've seen the same games I have out of Bryce this year... having him stand back in the shotgun and then just hold his ground scanning the field hasn't worked and will probably get him killed eventually. When he has moved and been able to change the field of play and the parameters of what the defense has to do, his processing speed comes into play and he can outmatch the individuals on the defense. A good coach could both encourage that and gameplan for it. Maybe they could make something happen. Or a fiery QB could just push to will it into existence. We've got an uninventive coaching cadre and a far to even keeled QB who is just about passive out there on the field. And something I noticed last night... If this QB was able to break down the offensive line assignments and theory for training camp, he sure as hell should be over at the O-line bench after each failed series getting those guys together and on the right page, either by explaining where things went wrong or lighting a fire under their doughy asses. Lead, PeeWee, Lead! And lastly, give Miles Sanders an apple and a bus ticket home.

How about we say no to hiring another old Panthers QB who wasn't very good to be our head coach. So that leaves Jake and Cam in the positive side, but neither one is coaching material. Look, I want to be able to say, have patience with the current coaching regime. I really, really want to. I just can't. It doesn't matter what's happening in the locker room. It doesn't matter how many all-pros you have. It doesn't even matter how you do on draft day. All that matters is what is happening on the field. And what we are seeing there just is wrong. It's so wrong, there are so many deficiencies, that is near impossible to point to individual problems that can be solved. Every problem leads to another and was, in turn, caused by yet something else. It's not "We need better receivers." It's "Our receivers suck because of they don't run routes properly" and they don't run the routes properly because they are still young and have little coaching and that's because we traded away our best receiver to the team that beat us last night. And that's just the tip of that particular ice berg. And it's the frikkin' Arctic Sea of icebergs out there when it comes to reviewing this team's problems. We are literally awash in disastrous problems. Outside of special teams, there's really nothing good to say about any position group or play calling. Nada, zilch. I keep looking for something, anything that could provide some shred of hope for this team, but I just can't find it. This is just a bad team, through and through. I'm not sure it can be fixed, and certainly not by the current GM and Head Coach or their respective staffs. This team needs an enema to flush all this crap out.

He was greatly assisted by the guy having been a recent addition to the active roster and not in on weeks and weeks of "coaching" here. So, there's a bright side... Yay.

This may be the worst Panthers team I've ever seen. Even the lame duck year for Fox and the Weinke season had something besides despair and futility. Chicago had a game plan that tried to give their rookie QB some options. Ours just marched him out there to stand in place and show how unfazed he was by it all I guess. This team has no life, no drive and no reason to take the field but to grab a paycheck. They play with the enthusiasm of a KFC late Friday night crew. It has been poorly put together, poorly coached and from all examples I'm seeing, it has been poorly evaluated for what it could do. We run a WCO that moves with no purpose, no protection and no tempo. We run a hybrid 3-4 but don't have the personnnel to run it (and we've been trying to builld that since Tepper arrived for some stupid reason). Our receiving corps is so bad that it makes me miss the days of Kelvin Benjamin. We keep trotting out the worst starting running back in the league and the only guy smaller than Bryce Young who isn't a kicker. We have what, like 5 tight ends and we have no frikkin idea how to use them because they neither block nor catch. And our offensive line. They're just offensive. They don't work as a group, the scheme doesn't match their abilities and Bryce gets run over by a jailbreak every fifth play... if we even get a fifth play. The most electric play of the entire frikkin year was a punt return last night. And the only reliable offensive weapon we have is Eddie Piniero. I've been saying we need to blow this up and start over. At this rate it is going to collapse on itself and do the trick for us.

Neither team lets their defense off the bus. Chicago 34 Carolina 31

Their pre-game isn't too bad. The talking heads they field are trying their best to stir stuff up before every game so it could be quite funny. They literally fall all over each other trying to pop the best hot take. In this game it should come off like Don Rickles vs. Rodney Dangerfield vs. Gilbert Gottfried. There will be little to no respect. Or Larry, Moe and Curly. Perhaps even Shemp.

It's a column, not a journalistic piece.

If we'd just move to play action from traditional QB at the center placement, we could go into every play run blocking which would play to our strengths and reduce our weaknesses. But we're going to start from the shotgun position for 85% of the snaps so that PeeWee has a better chance of surviving, even if it kills the run game AND doesn't actually provide him with any better protection or field view.

This is very hard to argue against. Still, we've got to wait. And yet, it's going to suck until one day it miraculously doesn't. I do think the coach needs to challenge him to make things happen, to take control of a game rather than play within what is presented to him. Not many football games are won by playing within the other team's imposed boundaries.

Step one: Realize that the fastest and best WR on your team can't be a 32 year old white guy. Step two: Grab Smitty, Moose and Ricky Proehl and hire them on as draft advisors. Pick the guys they want. Step three: Pray.

Before we jump all over the Dan Morgan bandwagon... he's been part of this "rebuild", too. Back in his playing days I called him Mushy-head Morgan, partly because of his concussion history and greatly because he just made bone headed decisions. He's a dinosaur throwback Jock who terrorized some teammates and even ended the career of one of our draft picks by knocking the hell out of him in training camp -- just because he thought he needed to do that. His Panther connection and connection to Scott Fitterer got him this job, but he needs to be cleaned out with the same broom that takes Fitt. I hate to say it, but this thing needs to be blown up from the top down, from GM and HC to the training staff and scouting groups. if not we're looking at continuing for 20 more years of wandering around pointlessly in the desert.

He's not having a problem reading the field, I think he is really struggling to get to the spot where he can read the field. That not being able to see over the line thing is real. I hope he proves me wrong, but whew, he just plays so passively.

Panthers 24 Bears 21 It'll give us just another tantalizing look that makes us think maybe we can make it with Bryce. And win or lose, the Bears have still got great draft picking numbers. Maybe, just maybe, we will be like San Francisco after they traded away everything for Trey Lance.