Khyber53

That's great! My daughter shows our dog and Westminster is the big, big deal. Winning best of breed there means big money for the pups/breeding fees. Her dog has been getting second place awards to one other dog all season so far and that dog just got Best of Breed at Westminster. It was kind of a big boost to her confidence (this is her first year of showing dogs).

Too young, far too young. RIP.

Awww, no. I enjoyed his commentaries. RIP

I want to be surprised this year by the team being incredibly good. I really want to see it. I just look at the coaching and see a team that's just spinning its wheels, stuck in the mud, and completely unable to compete against decent teams. I'd love to see 11 wins, but I'm afraid we might have just three.

Straight up truth.

There a lot of narratives in every bad break-up.

Darnold, since drafted, has taken bad teams and bad coaching and been pretty bad. Mayfield took a historically bad team with shake ups (and questionable) coaching and made them a playoff team in 2020 and made them at least a contender in his other years. Darnold is playing out his fifth year option and hoping to make enough happen to get a back-up gig somewhere. Mayfield is in his last contract year and is looking for a place to get a new contract as a starter. History has to give the nod to Mayfield. Career arc is also to Mayfield. Cost savings is to Darnold. Darnold will definitely get Rhule fired. Mayfield might. As much as I want to see Rhule go, I want to see the Panthers win. I think Mayfield gives us the best chance to make use of the weapons we still have here and gives us the best chance to overcome the coaching.

Might be best for the Panthers to just simply turn off the tube and quit watching the soap opera that has become Watson and the Browns. If things get bad enough they'll come begging. If not, well, we've got a season to prepare for.

Hasn't it already? Here's my one take on it: If we get Baker Mayfield, that's great, he is an upgrade and I think he'll play with a vengeance here as he makes his case for some team to pick him up as a long-term starter. He brought Cleveland relevance and no one had done that in two or more decades. Say what you will, he QBed a bad team into a contender in one of the hardest divisions in the NFL. He could do that here as well... he rose above some bad coaching and bad team management. They'll just have to remake his commercials and turn it into Bank of America stadium --- there's a lot of hay they can make of that.

So, I guess nothing happened yesterday?

Good luck to him.

We'll see. Even with those new QBs, they have better built and led teams than we're fielding. And even if the Browns have to eat crow and put Mayfield back at #1 QB, they've still got a major leg up on us. I hope I'm wrong.

Before Oct. 23, we have only one team that probably won't be a contender (the Giants on Sept. 18). The Browns, Saints, Cardinals, 49ers, Rams and Buccaneers are (barring some kind of collapse by one of the teams) will be a murderers row for our early season. If we come out of that 2-5 it'll be a surprise. If we are involved before the trade deadline, it's because some other team wants one of our guys to fill in for an injured player. I don't think we'll be in contention at that time, and I'm almost certain we'll be operating under a different coach and a damage control unit by then.

This won't age well. Expiration date is going to be about Oct. 7, 2022 give or take a few days depending on refrigeration.

The first time they hand him the ball, the increased versatility he offers will become evident.

I'd take him on a serious prove it deal.

Try not to drop the gold watch when they hand it to you.

I just keep driving my 22 year-old Montero, taking good care of it and putting off replacing it for another year. Still looks great, drives well and rolls on with no payments. I might want one of the new full-sized Broncos, but I'm going to just hold on until sanity in the marketplace comes back around. It might take a while.

I know I cracked on it a lot last season, but we still didn't have a professional coaching staff, we had a mid-majors college level coaching staff. And it just didn't work out. There've been some additions this season, but I'm not holding my breath yet. I want them to surprise me, I really do.

Man, I saw our defense getting crushed time and time again out there last season. After week 3, they were pansies. Everyone marched on us, short marches, long marches, ones with bands, ones with clowns, a couple for equal rights. We were marched over again and again. The stats were greatly inflated by how bad our first three opponents were and that skewed how outsiders saw our defense.

Snow likes to move guys around, make hybrids out of them. The problem is that it just hasn't been working. He's taken both Shaq and Chinn and basically made their impact disappear in many plays and often entire games. Opposing coordinators are quick to see those changes and seize on them, almost always resulting in successful chunk plays that just eat us up.

Rhule looked good at the beginning of the year, but we were looking through an undeveloped lens. At the time, we had no idea how bad those teams were. In hindsight they were terrible (and New Orleans was decimated). Once Dallas was on the field against us, we got to see just how ill-prepared we were. And the prior year was just as bad, with even less talent on the field. It doesn't inspire hope.

I don't believe in him. He's very active in trades, etc. but judging by last season's pick ups and drafts, we have a mediocre performance, probably bad considering how it all imploded. And the Robby(ie)(ee)(ey) Anderson contract extension was a complete fumble. Maybe he did well on this year's draft. Won't know for a while, but we can only give the guy so much of an excuse for "Rhule's picks" and also refer to him as "the only adult in the room." I think Seattle did to us with him what Denver did to us with Paradis -- fobbed off a meh-skills guy that they really wouldn't miss.

They've given him this season, at least to start. I'd love to see him win us all back, but nothing I've seen so far makes me believe this is even slightly possible. I have been wrong, though, and would love to be wrong on this matter.

Wow that was enlightening. I kinda understood what was happening but couldn't get it all straight in my head. Now it makes sense and so does the idea of getting that under control to restore some parity.