Rocky Davis

Here's the thing about pushing the ball downfield: do we have the receivers who run good enough routes to allow Young to throw the ball about 2 seconds before he should? Because he isn't getting the time to throw those passes. Maybe roll him out more?? I am not sure.

Yes, that same Texans team with an offensive line. To be honest I was surprised we beat them...I don't know how. They are a better team in every way than the Panthers are. No way you are saying the Panthers have as much talent as the Texans on offense.

They didn't think Bryce could get the ball to him with that noodle arm.

Yes, this is logical. A football team's success is predicated on one person.

We can't prove that, but I would disagree with you. He would look much better with any other team than the Panthers right now, we have to tear it down and have someone who knows the NFL come in and rebuild while Tepper and Fam stay outta the way. (Which I don't know if it's possible, we might be stuck like this until Tepper dies)

It also has "My offensive line can't block and give me more than 3 seconds to throw the ball and it's been like this the whole season, let me try anything to do something here." A forced pass by a rookie, I have never seen one of these before.

Yeah, I mean I totally thought we wouldn't lose another game this season after we beat the Texans 15-13 last week. We went out and really solidified our TERRIBLE offensive line at the trade deadline, brought in legitimate NFL WRs at WR1 and WR2 and that pick up of our new stud TE really sealed the deal. Look, I am not one to think if someone eats a bag of skittles they are going to be farting rainbows out their ass later - but NOTHING changed with this team because of one win. That goes for the + positive crew and a lot of bent outta shape haters who are now piling on even harder than before the Panthers won their first game. The team's makeup isn't what it needs to be, it's devoid of talent and depth. The Panthers defense is banged up, but even a healthy D isn't going to make up for the lack of offense this year. Should people lose their jobs - possibly and probably so - Fitterer I think is gone, but none of the coaches can go out there and make tackles, run the ball, pass/run block. Fundamentally it is a poorly built team that needs a tear down and if the coaches can't adapt to the personnel to put out a better product than this then yeah they need to go to. Everyone calling Young a bust isn't looking at the team around him.

Burns relies solely on his God given talent, if he had any motivation to improve or study tape he would probably be the best Edge in the NFL. Instead he's an above average Edge.

they are terribad putrid

to be fair he had Aho coming in all alone on him.....I probably would have had multiple gaping holes. (That didn't sound right, but yeah....)

As well to you good sir!

0-3 to 4-3 LFG! #CANES

Burns should get into the $114-118M range for 5 years and a hefty guarantee, that puts him in the Top 10 of EDGE rushers. If he isn't happy with that # I don't know how his team can justify more. Only in Carolina.....

Chase Young went from being DROY to underperforming on a pretty talented Washington D-line, can't put my finger on why.... Anyways, if he can be motivated again and put in a position to succeed he would be a steal for a 3rd round pick.

"We like our team." /s

We aren't running the ball as much or effectively and DEs are teeing off on straight rushes to BY as fast as they can a la Brian Burns. Icky looked pretty decent last year because instead of always knowing he was going to be in pass protect like this year, there were times he could just go ahead and maul the DE in front of him in the run game. The offense doesn't fit Icky being at LT.....guard yes, tackle no.

I don't think Wilks is a bad coach, but he isn't a HC. He had the chance here right in front of him, he evoked pre Riverboat Rivera and punted the ball to Tom Brady from midfield in a must win game with a decimated secondary. He made the decision easy for NOT getting the HC job.

I don't like r/canes so I didn't even know someone said something over there. This is home for me! Too many fan girls over there!!

Hmmmm, maybe less invasive surgery so he can play again this season? Good news if so!

I didn't want it to be true, but the info I got was solid. I trust Ice Building Maintenance Man, first correct info on Svech and now confirmed with Pesce. Still feel really bad for Pesce, it has to be frustrating as he heads towards UFA. This really makes me concerned about Aho. Fishy didn't look good last night and that correlates to what they said about his shoulder.

He's so busy being in every deal we don't know where in the world he could be!

Yep, teams are really tight lipped about injuries and rightfully so. If other teams know about a player's injury who is trying to play through it, trust they are going to punish them as much as possible. Maybe I should go to all the NHL message boards and say Koochie's glove hand is broken so teams will quit going 5 hole on him!!

Yeah, I was hoping Pono and Suzuki would get some meaningful playing time this year to see where they are. I was higher on Pono, but Suzuki had a solid training camp. I like Drury and thinks he plays as hard as he can, but he's a career 4th liner who has already expressed frustration about his playing time. He is getting it now and the production isn't there.

Problem is Aho is not 100% and may not be 100% the rest of the season, Jordan is not 100%, Slavin is not 100%. Pesce probably won' be 100% the rest of the way. This is going to be longer than a couple of weeks, especially for Aho unless his shoulder really isn't that bad. Also for Pesce who we haven't heard too much about. Full disclosure on the post I made about the guys being banged up: the person who works inside the building isn't a team doctor or trainer, but handles ice/building/looker room operations. I just wanted to clarify because I don't want anyone saying "well Davis knows the cousin of the brother of the husband's wife of the medical trainer and he has said so and so." These are just observations that have been made or things overheard in the arena/locker room and should be taken as speculation. The team is banged up early on and I think we have to temper our expectations.