Khyber53

Repeat after me... we can't judge the career quality of a rookie QB based on his first two games. Or seasons. Patience. Coaching, though...

I think that somehow in America, we've lost the ability to be around each other in public anymore. Add in alcohol and a competitive atmosphere, one often tinged with heavy doses of disappointment and frustration and you've got a recipe for conflict. It just ain't worth it.

Patience. And maybe being the understudy for a few games is what he needs.

There's no way to tell on Bryce right now. Absolutely no way to tell, in either direction. Right now he looks like a rookie QB thrown into the fire early on. He's had a few interesting moments and a ton of ouch plays. That's really perfectly normal. Me, I'm looking at the rest of the offense and thinking there's just not much there. Sanders is ineffectual and is being outplayed by Chuba Hubbard. Double H is well, meh as a TE. Our receiving corps can be speed clocked by a calendar. We have three decent pro-level offensive linemen and two back-up level guards that have little to no experience and it shows. And our play calling just seems, well, boring, bland and uninspired. On defense, we've got some very good players but we are losing a starter per game right now. We'll be deep into the back ups if this rate continues. Still, Evero seems to be getting the schemes right and that's something. Gosh, I hope it gets better, but I've been saying it for a couple of years now that Fitterer isn't the guy for us and he can't pick talent. I'm afraid that now that he isn't shackled to Rhule, he's going to prove me right and that there's just no excuse.

Sanders needs to be the second string RB. I think we're seeing why the Eagles let him go. There must not have been any tread left on the tires. Chuba should be starting right now while we look for someone else. Trading away CMC sure looks like yet another chump move we've made. He sure would be helping right now.

This is going to be a long, slow season.

Gosh, I hate that for him. I've always been a fan of his. I know they are going to miss his leadership out there. Here's hoping he can make a full recovery. I'd really like to see him be able to come back and see the team rise to better days again. He's put up with enough of the downslope over the years to deserve a shot at better days.

23-20 Panthers

Just give us something to believe in. A win would certainly do that!

I could use a bit of hope. Sadly, I just keep thinking this team has been in a downward spiral since it was sold. Yeah, Richardson was a creepy old dude, but he knew football. Now. Meh.

I hate to say it but the chances of him actually going on IR twice in one season are actually pretty high. Sad for him, he has a lot of talent and potential. Sad for us, because we could use him this year and won't have him. Just like all of the years so far.

It's been a few years... since anything really good. We somehow are good at keeping hope alive, though. Actually, let's put away the negativity for the moment. We have been to the Super Bowl twice, and that's twice as many times as most teams and two more times than quite a few of them. So we've got that. What we are classically good at, though, is a tough running game and a solid defense. When we have those things rolling, we tend to do very well.

Okay, so here's the latest. The channel owner wanted me to take some arrest footage and make it lighthearted. Hope you like it. (Also, they apparently didn't get the reference, so they chose not to entitle it A Tale of Two Karens.)

I don't have a lot of faith in our team's ability to assess FAs.

If DJ and Jaycee were to cover each other in practice...

Rare are the guys who are lightning fast AND have good hands. So very rare.

On the flip side, though, by not running regular deep routes, you aren't gassing the DBs either.

Maybe what we need is a new trainer staff. Since the exodus of trainers that followed Rivera to Washington, we've had one heckuva string of injuries and lingering problems. And you could make a case that the weight room and conditioning staff haven't been up to par either. Injuries happen in football, even in training camp and practices. Bad teams, though, often get bitten by the injury bug again and again, year after year. Cincinnati had one of the worst histories of it in the league until they completely redid their entire staff a few years back. We may be in the same situation. Just a thought.

Good luck to him. He's getting an opportunity here. The same opportunity that any DB that is second string behind Jaycee Horn gets... eventually.

I've kind of felt that for a while, we haven't bothered to take a stop watch with us to the Combine. I mean I don't want us to turn into Al Davis' version of the Raiders picking purely based on WR speed, but c'mon... it does matter.

We were running an offense that really would have swung well with both CMC and DJ Moore on the field. But those days are gone. Let's give it a bit more time. I'm sure the coaches are seeing the same things from the tape that we are. Surely they will adjust.

Local fellow, good guy. Here's hoping he can make the most of the opportunity. He was really on the cusp of a good career before injuries just knocked him out of it.

Sad, but very true. When big names get hurt, things change.

Injuries can and do happen to any and eventually every football player. Horn, though, seems to be really susceptible to injuries. Might be bad luck, might just be that he should have been a receiver instead of a DB. Either way, I feel bad for him. And I feel bad for us.