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I just feel like you need to counter a passing offense with a scheme rather than a player. If you count on a shutdown corner, you get the Mike Evans game when he has to miss time. We were still reeling from losing Luke. Drafting his replacement to me seemed like the obvious choice even at the time. I'm really worried about Horn. His first 2 seasons in the league he's ended up on the IR. And historically, players don't get sturdier as they spend more time in the game. CB and RB are just positions that I think you roll the dice on with mid round picks, and keep the ones that hit.

Parsons > Horn that's for damn sure. Huge mistake on our part. Passing up Luke Jr. for Mr. Glass will haunt us for a decade

CMC has an unfair advantage for the award. Given his injury history, any year in which he does well he could be in line for the comeback player of the year.

Yup. He managed a 50% win rate with someone else's garbage, even when that idiot only managed to win 20% of the time with his own system.

Come on, Eddie! Miss!

I've never watched two teams actively trying to lose a game before

Taylor is masterfully forging a long, healthy career as a solid backup in this league. Good rapport, team-player, moxie to spare, and if you have your franchise guy at QB, I can think of few other backups in the league who I have every confidence they could step in and compete, and even win some games if your starter has to miss time.

Methinks that's why Tepper had this call, and not Fitt.

I fully expect him to delete that tweet, so snipped a screen grab just in case:

This. We're treating human bodies like Formula 1 cars now. The way the game is played now is not sustainable.

We lost because Brady put up 400+ yard through the air. We're playing a coffee shop barista at CB. This really can't entirely be hung on Wilks

Someone needs to make a McAdoo's Towel alt account

We will lose. I know we will because I have hope. Any opportunity for us to do something convincing, we have squandered. We had the opportunity to take the lead in the Division outright against the Mariota-led Falcons. We blew it. We had a chance to pull even with TB against the floundering Steelers. We blew it. We have a chance to win this weekend and take command of the South. We will blow it. Brady is a star, this is his swan song, and the league loves to use the Panthers to let a star go out on a high note. I have no confidence that we can win a game that we have no reasonable excuse for losing. There. Now my expectations are on the floor, where they actually belong. And I'm setting myself up to be pleasantly surprised.

Ehhhh, I don't chalk a bad center QB exchange up to the defense. They did fall on it, but I'd say we got bailed out.

91 yard drive. Amazing work by the offense! Good job by the line establishing the run. Now the defense needs to respond and show that they won't let the Lions just grind their way down the field.

Lost in the craziness of the NFCS and the let-down of yesterday is that our replacement kicker, Eddy Pineiro is quietly putting together a really nice season. He hasn't missed a Field Goal since October, and he's only missed 2 on the season. The disaster in Atlanta notwithstanding (or maybe in a display of some much needed moxie) Eddy's rebounded nicely and doesn't seem to have been shaken by that loss. And where early in his Panthers tenure, when we seemed to punt in lieu of long FG attempts, it now seems like the coaching staff is starting to trust him more. Yesterday, rather than go for the Hail Mary and go for the tying FG after the on-side kick, Wilks put Pineiro in there to kick a long FG to keep our faint hopes alive. And he nailed it right down the center and with leg to spare. So, is he just putting good tape out there for someone else to take a chance on him, or do you think we keep him even after Gonzalez gets healthy?

Meanwhile Butker looks like ass.

Okay. Tank is back on. This showed who we are. At team that can't close when given the opportunity. The Steelers third down efficiency is the microcosm of our issue. We're given opportunities to succeed and we just can't take advantage.

Used our own gameplan against up. Win up front. We lost the line on both offense and defense. It's really hard to win when every runbis good for 3 or 4 yards. You'll see, oh, I don't know, a 21 play 10 minute drive.

Make the playoffs AND spoil possibly not just one, but TWO division rivals' chances at winning the division? I'm all in on that.

This. Either LB Coach, or something like Pass Defense Coordinator. I don't have any doubt that he'd thrive in the role. And let him work his way up the chain. A lunch-pail guy like Luke would want to earn the job anyway.

Best? No. But right now it's got to be the most entertaining. It's December and every team has a legitimate shot at the playoffs. I guess you could say the same about the NFC East, but I'd argue it's more fun to watch this race. The NFC South playoff race is like watching four fat guys tumbling down the up escalator. Someone is going to get to the top first.

They're bad teams that are playing poorly. We're the laughingstock because only now after we made our move are we showing in how bad of a state we really were. It's like grandma just died and you go to her house and discover she was a hoarder living in filth, and every room you go in realize how bad the situation was, and now you need a professional, chemical deep cleaning if you have any hope of salvaging the house. The death of the season was only the beginning of the indignity.

Deservedly. On the shortest of weeks, in Primetime, for the world to see in neon lights, we are the biggest joke in the league right now. And Matt Rhule manged to get another job. Dream big because you can do anything, kids.

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