kungfoodude

Jeffers?

It says it is, "Local revenues divided by metro population, with populations in two-team markets divided in half." So, basically our local revenue divided by the population of the Charlotte Metro area. There are some other interesting tibits on there, like the Market Value($139M) and Brand($91M). Compare that to another small market team with a giant presence, the Green Bay Packers with a Market Value of $210M and Brand value of $264M. Another interesting comparison is a market roughly double the size of CLT metro, the Arizona Cardinals. Market Value of $136M and Brand value of $101M. Interesting to see their valuations. It would be helpful to see behind the curtain a little on how they came up with some of these figures.

Yeah, I am honestly expecting that other shoe to drop. If we waste this elite defense, it will make we sick to my stomach. I never thought this was a top 10 defense(although more than one on the Huddle predicted that). Now we have it and this offense just fugs it up left, right and center. It is so sickening.

It's been hard to talk football normally this season. Too much poo I didn't want to see happen but expected to happen has happened. This is a rough one.

No doubt. I am certainly not trying aggressively to come to Brady's defense. I just think he is the #3 in the list of problems we have offensively.

Next year??

fug me, I hope not. That would mean we are the new Bengals/Browns. I don't want to live through being that level of dumpster fire.

That does happen sometimes but there have been a lot of guys open that Darnold is either not seeing(which could be later in the progressions, so that isn't as big of a deal) but he is also late with the ball. That isn't uncommon. Like I said, I have plenty of criticisms about Brady but I think the OL and QB are bigger reasons why we are struggling on offense.

Yeah but he also is just a bad player. Erving has talent, arguably but he also sucks. Talent can only get you so far in the NFL. Well, the stats don't bear that out. Darnold has performed worse in a clean pocket in his NFL career than when pressured. It defies logic but it is what he has done.

I am not sure we have enough data to skewer him too badly, other than the OL. If we see the same in the 2022 offseason, I think we will know what the score is.

I have said repeatedly that I think he only shares so much of the blame. His guys are just not executing well at this point. He definitely isn't blameless but often the plays are sound and the players are just not making the plays.

Actually, I think it really begins and ends in our front office. We don't really spend significant draft capital trying to build there historically. There is only so much dumpster diving you can do and be successful.

Yeah, I mean perhaps that is true but he just isn't a guy I thought looked like he had much based on the Detroit game. He did okay versus a bad opponent and that was about it. He predominantly looked like an erratic gunslinger, which is what we have right now.

Actually, if you look at OL DVOA and Adjusted Sack Rate, there have been 3-4 years since 2010 that have been worse than this year. That's actually the most upsetting part. Poor OL play isn't rare in Carolina

Well, our OL is also a lot worse, as are the rushing efficiency stats since 2020. People also forget how good Davis was at replacing CMC when he went down. Passes to the RB are a big part of what helps our offense be successful and Hubbard hasn't help much in that regard. His catch percentage is very low for the type of routes he is running. So, while I agree we just have to start running the ball more, I don't think we are gonna see any type of dominant rushing attack. Not with the pieces we are working with. I think more than anything we are just seeing that there aren't a lot of really clear answers on that side of the ball. Brady shares plenty of the blame but the execution by our offensive personnel overall has been pretty poor across the board. We just aren't consistent at all.

It's a plus, as long as they aren't ill advised decisions. Remember this is a guy that has 1 TD and 5 INT's in his career. That doesn't indicate he is going to be a substantial upgrade from Darnold. Quite the opposite. Even though this is Darnold's worst season of his career, his TO/possession rate is 3.6% in 2021. PJ Walker's career rate is 8.9%. That doesn't solve the problem we are having.

We are averaging 57% passing plays this season compared to 57.4% last season. We definitely are a pass heavy offense as a whole. The only reason that is going to change is that our passing offense is responsible for turning the ball over too much. Last year our QB was responsible for 6 TO's(out of 7 total) through 6 games, this is year it is 9 TO's(out of 10 total). Darnold has actually decreased his TO's every season in the NFL until now. He is on pace for a staggering 25.5 TO's in 2021. His previous high was his rookie season with 17 total.

And yet nothing has changed, regardless of the attempt to develop him. You can only blame Gase and the Jets so long. At this point, it does appear the bulk of Darnold's problems were his own.

fug them both. I didn't forget 2015 and 2016. I hope Denver never wins another fuging game.

Oh Darnold is a fuging disaster. Unfortunately, it is sort of the disaster we feared he would be. That's the worst part.

So, we basically need to hire Shurmur to evaluate QB's for us. Any dude he really wants, we immediately avoid. He doesn't like them, that's our guy.

Yeah, he doesn't seem like a guy that is going to tolerate failure very well.

Teddy train in Denver.....