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If Evero isn't in Carolina next year, this tells me that Tepper is still micro managing everyone because he's not getting a head coaching job and it would be silly to leave for another d coordinator job after a good year.  Plus, I suspect Canales and Morgan and easy to work for.  

Rico is going to go to the highest bidder and it won't be Carolina.  He's been brillant, but now that the season is taking its toll on him, he isn't looking so brillant.  Fresh legs is everything and Chuba was the better back last weekend.  

He excels with scripted plays and why the first drive often leads to a score and teams practice the 2 minute offense all the time.  

Horn and Brown are having All Pro years and this has been the difference for sure.  Plus, this team has young talent versus last year they were basically pulling people off the streets to play on defense.  

Let's try to enjoy the fact that the Panthers have meaningful football in December.  

I'm an arm chair QB like the rest of us and I'm starting to think that Canales' play calling is impacting Bryce as well.  The part I don't know is if Canales is calling limited plays because of Bryce's limitations or if he's just calling bad plays.  

We’ll see how the rest of the year goes, but I have a feeling Geno Smith will be Dalton’s replacement next year and this will be the Panthers handcuff if bad Bryce comes out for any stretch. Smith and Canales have history and Russell Wilson wouldn’t surprise me either. 

I just don't see how Panthers fans can complain about the 2025 draft.  I mean, every player drafted (except for one) is either starting or is getting playing time and some significant playing time.  

Seems he is always injured or upset about something.  Certainly not what you expect from someone that you gave a $120 million contract to.  No thanks.  

Tonight is a statement game if they win. 

It is the NFL, there are no easy games and good teams can have off days and we see this every weekend.  

It is going to come down to how they do against the Bucs and Saints and this is how it should be.  The rest of the games are against west coast teams with two of them in Charlotte and west coast teams don't do as well playing 3 hours earlier.  

It is a tough one because there are three versions of Bryce Young and you never know which one you are going to get - Good Bryce, Average Bryce, and Bad Bryce.  Stroud and Williams have really struggled as well.  

I think Bryce balls out again and the Panthers win in a close one.  Panthers will have a defender shadow CMC the whole game so I expect he'll be contained to under 100 yards.  

I forgot he was on the team and I'm pulling for him, but the statistics are not in his favor.  Some guys can recover from injuries and others cannot and let's hope Brooks is the former.  He was a beast in high school and college.  

I wish he and Cam would go away and I loved watching both of them play, but I can't stand to hear them commentate or give interviews.  Both seem like real jerks when the cameras are not around and especially Smitty.  

On 11/11/2025 at 12:22 PM, LinvilleGorge said:

Why not just draft him if we had interest in him? Why would you give the Browns a pick a round up from what they spent to draft a guy their coaches are hellbent on not playing? People gotta realize that dude looked like the hottest trash except for when he was playing against our camp bodies.

I of course have no idea, but I suspect they did not want to give up on Bryce at that time and drafting another QB would have sent the wrong message to Bryce.  Picking NFL QBs is a crapshoot and even sound franchises miss and I'd be willing to throw a 4th rounder to see if Shedeur can make it.  I think he's better than Bryce which I know isn't saying much.  

As a fyi, Carolina played its starters against Cleveland for part of the game and he still lit them up.  

8 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Overpaying for Jones would be a trade and that would be lightspeed stupid.

Also, there isn't a dramatic difference between the New England, Jacksonville and SF versions of Mac Jones. The biggest differences are Kyle Shanahan and the SF roster versus the poo he had with New England and Jax.

 

Everything Tepper does is lightspeed stupid and I agree that this would be yet another, stupid move.   

Why not throw a 4th rounder at Shedeur Sanders and let's see what happens.  Dalton is gone after this year so they are going to have to get a vet anyway and I doubt Bryce is going anywhere although I also doubt that they give him a long term contract.  

The Panthers are going to go after a vet QB in the offseason and I doubt it is Lawrence.  With jobs on the line, the staff and coaches will not want to wait for another rookie QB to develop.  My guess is the Panthers overpay for Mac Jones and they end up with the New England version instead of the San Fran version.  

Given that it didn't impact the game, the pumps and the subsequent holding out two fingers to the ref was absolutely hilarious.   

12 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Horn is extremely easy to gameplan against. Just move your star WR and he doesn't shadow him. 

Massive Evero flaw.

No argument but he still takes away half of the field for most plays.  He's that talented.  And Brown is having a pro bowl year.  

On 11/3/2025 at 11:20 AM, mrcompletely11 said:

Why can't we do that then?

No idea . . . people just like to argue online with strangers these days and I'll never understand it.  

This team is 5-4 with two winnable games ahead and then play San Fran on Monday night football.  I'm just going to enjoy the next three weeks and not analyze how or why this team is 5-4.  

There are no easy games in the NFL and especially divisional opponents.  

I’m not a Bryce fan, but let’s be honest, he has a bunch of rookie and inexperienced WRs and TEs. I don’t want him long term, but he’s not awful.