Khyber53

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.

You mean white people, right?

That'll appeal to all us rednecks, huh?

And it got us to a Super Bowl. Coaches have to use their resources to the maximum at all times in this league. They don't give you points for having a gently used QB. Kuechly was also used as a tackling battering ram and it shortened his career, but he was the best in the game while he was there. It's a tough sport, it grinds up the athletes and we won't cheer if they aren't trying to run through brick walls for their coaches and their teams. As an excellent example I present the 2020 and 2021 Carolina Panthers.

The franchise had its moments of glory before Tepper took over. Since then it has just been a depressing bag lunch of bologna and mayo on white bread day after day, year after year. There's more hope in Detroit than there is in Carolina.

Wow. Yep, that was a Tepper-regime level announcement. Turds, he's turned the place into a field of turds. He just wants to keep showing us a shiny new one.

Well, so far, it has been very much like everything else with the Panthers since Tepper arrived... a whole lotta whoop followed by a whole lot of nothing. We're waiting.

Well, we can either prove them right or we can prove them wrong. There are some mighty good young men on that team and I hope we don't waste their best playing years more than we already have. This has been shameful.