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I can't be the only person who thought of this, right?

Almost 20 percent of your drives start out hobbled by penalties. I don't think it can be overstated how important it is to resolve that issue and what a colossal failure in coaching it represents. It's stood out so clearly this season just how devastating those early penalties can be. When you're first and 15 or first and 20 in the shadow of your own end zone, it drastically reduces your playcalling options, which, more often than not leads to the bad situation compounding with a stuffed run, a sniffed out screen, a sack, or worst of all an interception. And it seems to ALWAYS happen in a critical situation, when we're still in position for a game-winning or tying drive, and the clock is winding down, and one of our fugging moron linemen flinches. I don't care who is at the helm. That poo should have been fixed in the first quarter of the season.

I don't know, man. It's gotten so bad, I've been spending time in the Tinderbox again.

Lately my thought process is... "A potentially great player was troubled on a bad, rudderless team? If he comes to a tight ship like the Panthers I bet he'll have the chance to shine!" "Oh, wait."

I'm fine either way. I've not experienced so many demoralizing, fandom-questioning losses as I've endured this year. So I certainly wouldn't shed a tear to see some of the vestiges of this period removed. On the other hand, I'm not thrilled at the prospect of a regime change that will set us back again while a new coaching scheme is rolled out. Say what you will, but a coaching change is a setback that you hope pays dividends later. So I'd almost rather see what Rhule can do with the offensive pieces needed to succeed. But I don't think he'll be around next year. Firing the OC is the first step in the regime change. And I have a hard time imagining it's the only move coming. I just think the decision was made not to can the whole staff, because it's bad optics to clean house while we're still - on paper anyway - in the playoff hunt.

Anybody can come off the bench and look stellar against a team that hasn't been preparing for them, or doesn't have a lot of film on them. Doesn't mean he's the answer. No one but no one would look good on this offense behind this line. QB hasn't been the problem, and frankly we don't have the ability to evaluate QBs given the current situation.

Appropriate because I always think about "Measure of a Man" when I see videos like this. I think making humanoid robots is incredibly creepy. I'm totally okay with the Boston Dynamics approach; making robots that look like machines and are designed to efficiently do a job that replaces human labor. But when you make a robot that looks and acts human, well, there's no way around it; you're making a slave. You're creating a second class person who can do work you don't want to do. A person that is your property who you can command without them having the ability to refuse. The word "Robot" even comes from the Russian word for, "to work." If we're doing this now, I think we should go ahead now and start developing the rights of non-human people. Because every SciFi story know we will have to do it anyway. So we might as well do it from the outset rather than after the robot revolution.

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.