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Never should have let him go. But then again neither should the Vikings. 

I'll never understand the amount of hate and doubt that guy has gotten in his career. Now he's going to a Super Bowl. 

1 hour ago, frankw said:

I get the need with the Icky injury but looking at this defense and the salary cap we already have allocated to the OL man it is a tough pill to swallow to sink another first round pick in the offense. Where does it end?

Never. You should be trying to put starting your offensive linemen out of a job every draft. 

RE: Brooks

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

He ended 2 seasons with ACL injuries and was an injured scratch before this season even started. We're damned fools if he's any part of our offensive plans for next year.

Annoyingly, O-Line has to be the priority again this off-season. All the progress we made comes crumbling down if we're not able to sustain offensive drives. We will absolutely regress if we don't have a GOOD answer at LT by the time training camp starts.

Outside of that, I'd like to see us bring in a defensive backs coach who emphasizes form tackling. This season was a disaster of missed shoulder tackles, runners falling forward for extra yards, and friendly fire injuries. 

And I still really want to see a game-changing MLB again. I know it's like asking for a winning lottery ticket, but after a decade of Beason and Luke, it just seems like such an integral part of the Panthers identity. 

For all intents and purposes he's done. He's at best a "maybe" to ever play a snap of football again for us or anyone else.

LT now has to be our top priority in the offseason.

There go my dreams of a 1st round MLB.

2 minutes ago, south-paw said:

 I got so sick of hearing the crap about MVP Stafford.  His jersey was way to clean tonight.  

Do you get grass stains from plastic?

Honestly, a nail biter loss after putting up 30+ on the board is IMO the best outcome. 

Next week, someone it getting clapped by Seattle. I'd rather we end the season with our chins held high for having over performed than getting embarrassed by a rested Seahawks team that absolutely dominated us once. 

I'm a doubter. I have been a doubter. I was a doubter this game. 

No longer. 

He did what he needed to do. What he could do. 

I mean poo, he was down 14-0 and had us down by a field goal before the half. That's poise!

I still doubt he's a future champion, but grudgingly I must admit, he earned his spot. He earned his 5th year option. He's not the reason we lost. He played well enough to win in the playoffs. That says everything I need to know about him. 

1 minute ago, SHU said:

That Rams TE TD was a great play, gotta give credit to Stafford on that throw.  
regardless, we had 32 seconds and 3 timeouts to at least tie it up with a kick and screwed the pooch with the play calls.  Even if Horn catches the 4th down ball with 7sec left, what do we do for a final play?  Bryce Hail Mary?  Surely the coaches had a better set of plays they should have run.

see ya all next season!

Quick slant across the middle. Time out with 2 seconds left. Long FG attempt to tie. 

Let's be real, neither of these teams was making it past the Seahawks. 

I'm almost grateful it ended here with a shootout rather than getting throttled in Seattle. 

1 minute ago, t96 said:

Main silver lining here, kid is legit. With consistently good QB play and Tet taking defenses attention away, a healthy Coker could put up 12-1300 yards next year. Will be awfully tough to do though if Bryce is back and plays the same as he has up to this point in his career, which sadly seems very likely

I'll be optimistic and say with a legit #1 and #2 Bryce will look better. With XL it could be addition by subtraction. 

I will say, I'm appreciative that after the wet fart of a regular season ended, at least I got a VERY ENTERTAINING last game of the season.  Down to the wire. Young receivers showing out. I had fun instead of watching in misery. I'll take that.

Well, good season chuckleheads. See you all next year!

Throwing to Legette is basically intentional grounding. 

Just now, Cam's New Arm said:

I hope that drop fuged up Puka in the head

My exact thought. If Pica is rattled, that's GREAT for us. 

Welp I can definitely say, we look like an 8-9 team in the playoffs. 

Just now, Second_Solution said:

When Bryce gets pissed off he plays his best football. He looked angry running off after that interception. 

Like a mad Chihuahua 

1 minute ago, LegioX said:

Woot woot. Let’s go. Blow out in playoffs!!!

National spotlight on Bryce. No more hiding it. Let's end this mistake today!

On thing that must happen, whoever is teaching tackling should be out on his ass after this season. 

25 minutes ago, rodeo said:

McDaniel for OC, Wade Philips for DC, John Harbaugh for Special Teams. 

Most realistic scenario in this thread so far, to be fair...

There's currently 7 other open HC slots in the league. There is no way McDaniel will need to take a step back to OC unless he wanted to. 

It has to be A on this poll. If he shows up in the Playoffs? That's where you need your QB to succeed. So yeah, you go into next year with him as your starter.

More realistic and worst case scenario. He looks... fine. He doesn't play well enough to win us the game. He doesn't play bad enough to be acknowledged as the problem. And so we spend another off-season paralyzed. Not feeling like he was bad enough that we need to make a move, but not good enough to be our QB of the future. So we end up loading up for another year of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde Bryce and mediocre ball. 

He better shout 

when he comes out the tunnel.

1 minute ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

That would be so bad for the Ravens lol.  They just ousted the coach to keep Lamar happy.

TBF, I had that thought when I thought Lamar was the one who was looking to get out. 

5 hours ago, Bigdaddy8523 said:

See if Lamar will come here give them Bryce and our next 3 1st since Bryce is only worth a 6th rounder or so!

Honestly that was my thought earlier today. Pull off a Rams/Lions trade. Bryce plus a first for Lamar. Honestly it's a win for both teams. Fresh scenery for Lamar, Baltimore gets a younger QB with arguably a ceiling he hasn't reached yet, and Bryce moves into a situation that's set up perfectly for him to succeed (if that's remotely possible).