kungfoodude

That's cool and I'm glad for you but that isn't how the NFL works. I hope it works out for him to win all the championships every year. But I just need the one. I want to see one fuging championship and I can at least have that. You probably haven't been a Panthers fan very long but losing two Super Bowls sucked. A lot. I definitely feel for OG Bills fans from back in the day. I don't know how you don't pull the plug on your fanhood after that kind of heartbreak.

It isn't like we have gotten dominated. It has taken 5 OT's to lose by 2 goals total. Some of this just is what it is. Some is puck luck, some is poor play for the wrong stretches and some is just FL outplaying us when it mattered most.

Svech's knee was post-trade deadline, so I have to disagree there. I don't honestly get the hate for Waddell, way more of his moves have worked than not. It sucks to keep coming up short like this but I do believe we will get one eventually with this core group.

You gotta start with one, homie.

I don't have a problem with Pacioretty. He was sensational for that little period of time he was here.

I don't think this is a blow up everything event. We were missing some extremely key pieces and like it or not, we still don't have an elite goalie. Bobrovsky has been the difference, without a question. Our margins are smaller against FL and he is playing elite, which he has been capable of in his career.

Uh....bruh.....I would kill for that 1 SB after watching two losses. Speak for yourself.

Goddammit. Fug you. This actually made me laugh out loud.

I don't think he makes a lot of sense for us financially.

TBH, I would rather they just nix the kickoff altogether if they are gonna go that route. Which, given are historic struggles at KR and PR, maybe that isn't a bad thing for us.

There aren't too many athletes that could span multiple generations. I believe he is one that likely could have.

It can for sure. If we have an elite QB, a lot of those problems are fixed.

I am a little skeptical of the group overall. High potential but also decent probability that it just doesn't work out for one or more of them. But, I am gonna trust this coaching staff until they show me any reason not to. It's been a long time since we had a WR corps that anyone was threatened by.

I think that waxed and waned. Some periods they definitely dominated us on the 5x5 but I think our peak performance in 5x5 was better than theirs. We just needed them to go in and that didn't happen. And, Freddie played pretty well but one of those goals was just flat out an easy one. He can't make those mistakes. That goes for this series or the next(hopefully). Every round the intensity ramps up and the margin for error gets smaller.

FL might be the toughest remaining opponent. I said that prior.

Next game is a flat out must win. Odd thing to say this early but either team who lost that game was gonna be in a very deep hole.

Thankfully on the West Coast

I will go with our pass rushing group(DE's/Edge's).

Yeah these are not even remotely comparable. A better comparison would be the NHL or NBA and they don't have anything like this.

You saying @TheSpecialJuan is SkyNet???

It's literally his calling card. I don't even understand why the mods get mad at him sometimes. His shtick is so clearly defined at this point.

Then why did you dispute the "luxury" quote if it isn't about money? What about that post didn't make the money aspect extremely clear? Are you having a completely different argument with someone else?

That would be fine but he played under two head coaches here with similar results. This stat pretty much holds up for most elite NFL RB's, BTW. This isn't new information. There are ample articles about spending money on RB's and the overall results. Some going back more than a decade. This story has already been written before CMC ever stepped on an NFL field as a player. It's not a critical position in the modern NFL. It's definitely not a position that most can afford to spend top 5 money on. Hence why the "luxury" post was just plain correct.

Well the difference between him playing and not playing had pretty limited impact on W/L during his entire Panthers career. I have posted that stat multiple times. That's kind of the point about elite RB's, though. They rarely have a remarkable W/L impact on any modern NFL franchise. Denying that is kind of silly.