Khyber53

He's growing up some very young players very quickly. I'm interested to see how much more he can get out of them, or put into them. I've had my doubts, now he's piqued my interest.

There's no better story than a redemption story. But, we're only on chapter 2. Hope he keeps improving, but there's a lot of pages left to go. Still, it's nice to have two wins in a row and seeing some green shoots coming up from the manure pile we've had sitting there for a few years now. Still too early to tell if those are weeds or not.

It's more than I could have hoped for. And I will cheer and admit my errors of judgement along the way.

Maybe Bryce is loading another river stone in his sling. Kid might go down as the coach killer.

Yanno what? He's showing improvement. I'm going to sit back and let him work it out. Maybe it all comes together and all that hard work starts paying off for him or it will tell another story. It's not like we're planning on going on a tear and get into the playoffs or anything, but that last win kind of took some of the desperation edge away from my thoughts on the team. Let the kid play, he'll either grow up before our eyes or make the case that we undoubtably have to move on. Right now, I have no reason to question his work ethic. I just have questions about the results of it.

Hey, I'm glad for this. Chuba is the kind of guy you build a team around. We need those guys, desperately. Will he still be making less than his stablemate Miles Sanders?

We needed the room, be prepared for a lot of deck clearing over the coming weeks. Trade deadline has passed but releases can happen for folks we decide won't be needed for the rebuild.

Coker needs to be the starting slot receiver, just keep him out there, run him into the seams of the defense and just wing it to him.

Daaaang! Bryce killed an opposing coach! Things might be turning around!

It was a win, something rare, let's just enjoy it for a bit, pat some backs and say "good job". We all remember how to do that, right? It has been sooo long. Give it a day or two then we can go back to picking the carcass.

Wish I could say there was going to be a win here, but I'm just not seeing it. Panthers 14 Saints 31

We need a new QB. We shouldn't pick one in this draft before the third or fourth round. It's not about the QB position at all. It's about building a team. We need to concentrate on defense right now, nowhere else. We need the best D-lineman and/or the best MLB in the first round. Players who can impact every single play of the game. DB would be great, but it's a luxury that we can't afford in the first round. We've got to grab the best first or second level defender available to us, perhaps trade back in to the first for a second dip. At QB, we just need to grab a journeyman vet out there and roll into next season with the intention of building a strong defense under a new defensive coordinator. Build the defense well and it will give a young QB more chances.

I'm glad he's performing admirably as a back-up in a number of positions. Hopefully he can remain here and do some good.

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This ^ 100%.

To officially be "tanking" would mean that you could win a couple if you really tried. I'm not sure we can win any of them, no matter how hard we try. There's tankers and there's suckers. One is a temporary thing, the other is a long-term deal. We're on what? Season 7 of "tanking"? Let's face it, we are bottom feeders in this league right now. If there was relegation in the NFL, the Panthers would be making next year's schedule with the Sun Belt Conference and just trying to stay in Division I.

He came to be a part of this and did his part here. Sad that we couldn't be better for him, but he's got a better opportunity now. He was a rental here, anyway. Best of luck to the guy. Now Jalen Coker will have more opportunities to show us the future here.

And yet, Jamarcus was an even bigger flop. And that's why I chose him over Bryce, after much consideration.

After purchasing this team, Tepper had it in mind to make heavy use of analytics and attempt to modernize how this team is built based on installing a 3-4 defense like Pittsburgh (the team he had been a minority owner in before) and pushing for a more pass-heavy offense. In the process, he jettisoned the team identity of being a smash mouth football team on both offense and defense, and created a six year losing stretch (is it seven now? eight?). Our defense has never made the actual transition and he has had his fingers all over the QB choices and trades we've made or tried to be in on. I get it, though. He wanted to modernize the team, put more butts in stadium seats and create a perennial play-off team, rather than an on again, off again team. And he tragically mis-read the room, as well as his choices in management and coaching. So, now here we are, standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin... again (apologies to The Kinks). When it is all said and done, Tepper's draft picks haven't been the worst ones we've had. The worst one in Panthers history was when the owners of the other 31 teams of the league got together, looked over all the ownership options, and "drafted" Tepper to be our franchise savior. Yippee. He had won the Hedge Fund Heisman, after all. Studied under the Rooneys. He's proven to be the Jamarcus Russell of NFL owners.

I tried telling you... No one ever listens.

Trade back for multiple picks. Multiple multiple picks. We have an entire team to build. We aren't one guy away from competing. Let some other QB desperate team way overpay for the right to be cursed by the entire Sanders family.

Geez, I can't get mad at Payton for this one (and I hate the guy). Honestly, he saw the opportunity to try out trick plays and some concepts still in the works against another team besides his own scout team. And why not? At this point, we couldn't beat half the scout team squads in the league. And in a year where we've had 50s and 40s laid on us, it's a bit late to start complaining about someone running up the score.

Are they really good, or just good in comparison to the rest of the team? And I'm really wondering myself about this. The o-line? Seems better than before, but think of how bad we've been over the years... getting better has happened, but we may still be way below the mid-mark of quality for the NFL. Chuba looks good, yeah, but that's it. Sanders is well, miniscule and not very helpful, and our great hope is well, coming off of knee surgery and has yet to play a snap in the NFL. Thielen is a good possession receiver but let's face it, if your best WR is a 33 year old dude, then you don't have a long term plan. And DJ, well, he'll probably be the second DJ WR we trade away for beans. This is a badly built team that is playing at league worst levels. It's badly coached, badly managed and badly motivated. It's time to blow this one up and restart from the beginning. And while I can't put all the blame on PeeWee Young, I can say he's the big glaring sign of how bad we have become.

He's not playing on a pro team either.

I'm willing to take a bit of time with Sanders. Greg Olsen took some time to get it right (and a move South).