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I wasn't a fan of the Canales hire, but the Panthers didn't exactly have people lining up to coach this dumpster fire under Tepper.  I think Canales is doing a decent job with a talent depleted roster and not much cap room.  It is pretty crazy how many rookies and 2nd year players that have key roles with this team.  

Bryce should have stayed hurt for another week because Micah Parsons is going to wreak havoc in the backfield.  

I think it is as simple as Bryce feels better than expected and could play if he needed to.  Canales is being coy so the Bills have to prepare for two QBs and I like the gamesmanship.  No way that Bryce plays unless he practices.  

I think Dalton will ball out this weekend with a week of practice as the starter.  

49 minutes ago, Tomcatn said:

maybe they'll beat another crappy team

I wouldn't call Dallas a crappy team and most of us Panthers fans have been on life support for a long time and I'm trying to somewhat enjoy not being the laughing stock of the sports world.  

1 minute ago, Shotgun said:

That's great if you don't care about winning.  If you do, you start the best players every time. If you don't want to lose your job because of injury, don't get injured.

The Panthers won and did the right thing for Chuba.  I suspect this weekend or next, could be a different story.  

1 minute ago, Pantherxtreme said:

Save the dramatics for the soap operas this is professional sports.

When Mile Sanders was the penciled starter I wanted Chuba who was outperforming him to get the bulk of the carries, now the script has been flipped.

On any other team who's sole purpose is to win Rico would have already earned the starting role. But on the teams that flounder more times than not it's front office and business decisions trump what's happening on the field. 

You might not agree with it, but this is the reality. If Chuba doesn't out play Rico this weekend, I suspect that Rico will be starting the following week.  

I don't see how you can say that Dalton is washed from a couple preseason games and a couple series yesterday.  I predict that he plays great this weekend.  

This is a winnable game at home this weekend.  The Bills are injured and not playing well.  I expect the Panthers to run the ball heavy so Dalton or Bryce will not put up big stats but they need to not turn the ball over for the Panthers to have a chance.  

Great game by XL and he's going to have opportunities with TMac getting a lot of attention from defenses.  

Chuba is a key leader on this team and he needs to give Chuba an opportunity to keep the starting job and this is the right way to handle this.  We can all see that Rico is a better back at the moment and he's going to win the starting job, but he needs to win if fair and square with both backs battling it out and not when a guy is injured.  Two backs going 110% to be the starter is a good thing.  

This place wants to get rid of every single player that doesn't have a banner rookie year and XL is no different.  I'm not saying XL is the answer, but I am saying that no one should turn on any player this early in their NFL career unless they have work ethic and/or locker room issues and XL has neither of these.  The guy is barley in his 2nd year in the league.  This place said Derrick Brown was a bust.

I don't think Bryce is a franchise QB, but this fanbase and franchise also said the same thing about Baker Mayfield.  Even Darnold had success elsewhere.  

The Panthers are a better offense with Evans and Tremble on the field compared to Sanders.  Sanders has way more upside, but drops too many passes and can't block nearly as well as Evans and Tremble.  

3 hours ago, CRA said:

The swings this board is wiling to make on a weekly or couple weeks basis is pretty entertaining….such huge 180 degree swings on random folks 

You can pretty much look ahead and spot where the next ones will fall.  Board going to be wild after the GB game.   Wild after the Rams game.  Probably wild after week 18 pending the Bucs got anything to play for.  

This.  

The Huddle is entertainment these days.  A couple weeks ago there were threads to fire Dan and folks were saying Mike Jackson might be the best trade ever by the Panthers.  It is entertaining for sure.  

There are only a handful of shutdown corners in the entire NFL and Horn is one of them and Jackson certainly is not.  The Panthers don't have much of a pass rush and our DBs are getting exposed because of this.  Nothing that can be done about this now other than hoping that our young pass rushers continue to improve.  

I wanted him as well, but the Panthers had bigger needs.  It will be interesting to see if he can continue to play as physical as he is playing given that he isn't as big as Brandon Jacobs, Peyton Hillis, Derrick Henry, etc.  I suspect he'll have a short NFL career but he sure is fun to watch and pull for.  

I just can’t stomach going through another HC search. Can someone just call me when the Panthers are relevant again. This is so depressing. 

He looks tired and stressed out.  I can't imagine a more stressful situation then coaching the Panthers and having to answer to Tepper.  

There is no way to fix this team while Tepper is the owner.  

Canales is not the answer. Bryce also isn't the answer.  I'd throw a 4th or 5th round pick for Shedeur Sanders which also might not be the answer.  Picking a good QB these days is a crap shoot, so we need to get as many as we can until we find one that is good.  

4 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Then you implode the locker room 

It is imploding either way 

At this point, you have to ride it out with Bryce so the team is 100% confident he isn’t the guy. It accomplishes nothing to bring Dalton in so the Panthers can win a couple games and finish 2nd to last versus last place. 

I heard part of his corny speech about “everything is about the ball” and knew we were cooked. 

I can’t believe this many people don’t cut the tv off and go enjoy their day. 
 

On Canales, we’ve seen this play out many times and we all know what is going to happen. Will it change anything, nope, not with Tepper as the owner. 

16 hours ago, frankw said:

Undoubtedly he's a very solid player and was a really good acquisition.

Now the question is how will he Jaycee and the rest of the secondary fare when we go up against a really good QB and our offense has to sustain drives to keep them off the field too long.

Probably will not fare well, but if the Panthers can just beat the bad NFL teams and half of the decent teams, this would be a huge improvement and would show progress in the right direction instead of the constant rebuild.