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Between Cam, Luke, and CMC, it's hard to believe we squandered an opportunity to win a championship with that many generational talents on the roster at the same time.

Sam's experience is the reason for the phrase, "out of the frying pan, and into the fire."

My usual Warhammer group plays on Sundays. As long as Cam is starting, I'll probably watch it on my phone, but if I'm gonna watch a team get absolutely abused, it might as well be one I spent hour meticulously painting.

He was on the couch 3 weeks ago. He can bulk up. I worry that he's taking too many shots behind this line. And he can't bounce back and shake them off the way he could in his 20s. (speaking from experience on that one)

I knew the O-Line was going to be weak this offseason. I never thought, nor could I have possibly conceived that it would be this bad. And what's worse is the Miami fugging dolphins found the formula to make our garbage line look as bad as it possibly can, and I'm terrified that whatever they did is repeatable. But the real kicker is, we don't have one. single. piece. of a functional O-Line on our roster. It's a from scratch job, and I don't think it's possible to achieve adequacy in a single off-season. To anyone who might be suggesting we go after a QB in the draft, no. That's all I have to say. No. You'd get the exact same results from Tom Brady behind this line. And wasting a pick, or free agency dollars on a QB is less opportunity to fix probably the most glaring issue on not only the Panthers, but possible the most glaring issue on any team in the entire league.

I doubt it's a popular opinion, but I'd like to see Sam spend a year or two on the bench in the backup role while Cam uses up what he's got left in the tank, then start around 2024.

Signed. I'm tired of hating football.

If you thought this was on Cam...you are a dumb person.

Say, "the season is going very badly" without saying it.

At a certain point, when every QB looks horrible, you've got to start thinking the problem isn't the QB. PJ, Sam or anyone will look like garbage behind our line.

This. You honestly cannot evaluate this offense. Every drive starts going backwards with a stupid penalty, and every snap is a prayer that the QB will survive.

Yup. The amount of people I heard complaining that they'd commit seppuku if we drafted another high round LB. They act like stud MLBs grow on trees. I like Horn a lot. Really I do! But Parsons was the right pick for us there. There was so much talent available for CB, as our current roster proves, and giving up what? 6th, 7th rounders? Now, our top 10 pick is just one of our very talented stable of CBs, and we've got a glorified backup as our starting MLB. That was a potentially catastrophic mistake. Keep JCJr as a backup/rotational guy, but he's not a starter.

$75 for a "Red Blend?" There's no indication what percentage of which varietals, or which grapes even came from Napa. I'd take a hard pass. Conversely, $45 for a Napa Chard is a damn good deal. Chalky means the grapes were grown in limestone rich soil, which is a Napa staple. So it will be drier and less buttery, but still a quality bottle. That'd be my choice. And you couldn't pay me to drink a California sparkling.

ITT: I learned a bunch of people weren't paying attention to Terry McLaurin before yesterday. Dude is a monster. I don't know exactly how many, but a sizable chunk of Heinicke's completions this year are because he just throws the ball deep, and McLaurin makes a catch that has you going, "how the hell did he do that?"

I'm really surprised we lost. I wouldn't be saying that if Cam Newton weren't starting. He's the reason I even have hopes and expectations to be dashed. Welcome back! We'll get em next week!

Whatever happens, if we lose this, it's on the offensive line. I don't care if it's Sam, PJ or Cam, starting crucial drives on 1st and 20 is absolutely hobbling, and I've seen it way too many times from this unit.

Great news! She said if I skip her birthday to watch football this week, I don't need to bother worrying about her birthday ever again. Wow! Talk about a win-win! I honestly never thought she'd be so understanding. I'm a lucky guy.

Wife's birthday is on Sunday... Exactly how long in the dog house is seeing Cam's entrance out the tunnel worth?

"Ric Flair's heart is with the 49ers" He's dead to me as far as my football fandom goes.

Clearly Cam and CMC didn't miss a beat in their season and a half apart. I watch that, and I can't imagine how that's not a fumble when you execute it at game speed. Cam and McCaffrey executed if flawlessly with 2 days of practice.

Mood. Big mood.

I won't be instantly dismissive of anything critical of Cam, or tempering our expectations, but I will say that their critiques don't seem to go any further than, "He's not the same QB he was in 2015, and you're an idiot if you're getting your hopes up." What they're utterly failing to take into account is there's more to being a QB than just your stats. You need to be a field general, a leader and a motivator. I don't see how you can't look at the smile on Robby's face in the end zone, the entire team huddling around Cam on the sideline, and the palpable sense of swagger that we had on Sunday, and say he's not gong to be able to make an impact on this team. Yeah, nothing in there you won't find in an average message board poo post.

Agreed. YouTube and Reddit were fine. But this was pretty much the entirety of my sports app comment section:

- quote from an internet rando to an internet rando