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How do you keep 6 while cutting Renfrow. Renfrow is the best PR and best pure slot guy on this team right now. No way a well run team keeps Moore and Horn both over him….then again, we are a poorly run team

I just don't see how we possibly keep 7 WRs giving we are a pretty mild pass O and strive for balance overall. Think WRs max out at 6. Probably give that spot to a defensive special teamer on coverage units.

1. once you get used to whatever lifestyle bar...change is felt by all. 2. not saying this is the case, but never underestimate the ability for pro athletes to go broke. They go broke at a crazy rate. Even the high earners. Feel like Adrian Peterson was just back in the news about being broke. Cam got like 8 kids and 3 baby mommas. So yeah, he can't provide like he used to back in the day. Math going to math and that ain't gonna be good for Cam.

I think if you lined up every starting QB this season and last season and.....BY is going be one of the lightest repped starting QBs entering the season, both seasons. Which sort of weeds out all the quirks and presents the overall gist of things...which just makes him lightly repped vs the field. I mean, I'm betting on the Jags week 1 to win that game. The starters have gone 3 and out 75% of the time and the one time they didn't was vs backups. BY only has legit chemistry with old man AT. Heck, no one else seeing the field can even run reliable routes the best we can tell yet. Especially in a game setting where things get hectic. I just disagree w/ how Carolina views itself and have since year 2 of Matt Rhule going into seasons. Every preseason we seem to make some pretty head scratching management given what we are Don't have to agree w/ me. I said before the preseason started up what I wanted to see out of this team. I've been pretty consistent since red flags went up year 2 of Matt Rhule. The preseason redflag questions each year have really translated into the season each year. So...I'm just siding w/ the way things have been continuing vs going off the this will be different mindset.

Vikings went 14-3 last season. I think there are basically 3 groups I slot things into. Good QBs (Pro Bowl, Playoff caliber who you can sit to protect). But those QBs often fight the coach. Good overall teams (playoff teams -who you can protect your starting lineup because it’s the big picture machine and everyone do g their part that gets you there) then there are bad teams with questionable QBs….I think not repping these teams is dumb. We fall in this tier. Falcons would be a great example of a team not repping their QB. But it’s also an example of a bad team. Questionable everything. And a team probably doing a lot wrong.

That’s largely a list of pro bowl, playoff, etc QBs though…..and them random Penix. I still think our prep of a very young and to date overall a struggling QB is a perplexing approach

Joe Burrow just logged more reps tonight plus some than Bryce Young will see this entire preseason.

Somehow going 3 and out twice and not competing a single pass…..isn’t earning the need for a 3rd series. To me they earned the entire first half….and then laps around the stadium

Morgan wasn’t a random hire. The guy who helped advise Frank Reich on the epic poo show that was the 2023 offense….decided Morgan was the best guy for the job. It’s still pretty comical how we went about things post Frank. Largely just promoted within or kept most folks

100%. And people understandably people got tired and bored of that lifestyle. But I think overall, the fanbase largely thought the only real direction was even better and that it was simple. But it's much easier to do worse than Fox/Ron. And we have found that out.

sounds more like a random Tuesday at Tepper's football organization.

Okay, I have now watched his highlights. He is no PJ Walker. I have reversed course, I have now abandoned Perkins and hang my head in shame as I jump back into my position as CEO of the PJ Walker Bandwagon.

why isn't Perkins good enough to run scout team? He is a better QB right now than Plummer. He is off a MVP campaign in a pro league. Also, Perkins has been on a NFL scout team before. He also has actually played in a NFL game unlike Plummer. Perkins had one start vs what was the AFC Champion Chiefs. What I am saying is Perkins is basically my family now. He is the great QB hope!

I don't think Plummer's PS spot is far fetched at all. Plummer stinks

I'm officially retiring my PJ Walker fandom. No more Lavar Ball memes ever again. It was a good ride. But, it's over. Bryce Perkins? I mean, THIS is it. Because EVERYONE knows what time it is! Just imagine this hitting the air at BOA.

yeah, but Canales is literally listening to the whole thing going down and greenlighting it. I mean, if Canales thought a better approach was needed, that's sort of his job.

and I don't think he got enough credit for really getting a NFL locker room. I mean he came up in a tough one himself. I don't think it was pure luck how his teams became to be in the end. Lot of frankly old school personality types all magically ended up with Ron. Ron probably will always be my favorite coach here even with his warts.

I also feel stoic Ron.....was a lot tougher than credited for. He didn't do the sideline theatrics. But every once in awhile behind closed doors Ron still would show up on the sidelines. For all Ron's flaws, I do think he had a pretty good style and approach overall. Toughest behind the scenes. Believed in creating a player centric locker room and looking for those types.

100%. I'm just saying Dabo while being the posterboy of a rah rah coach.....has really tough side to him that he unleashes on his players as his expectations are super high. we have now hired 2 rah rah coaches. Both lack that other component to date IMO. Everything can't be a clap clap and well get 'em next time.

not that he would work at this level but I still think Dabo is sort of the ideal textbook rah rah coach. Dabo gets an A+ in the whole culture and motivator aspect (Canales ain't on that level yet but he got that positive energy) But Dabo has sort of this darker side that can come out. Will Dabo completely ruins someone's day in a blowout win vs SC State because their is a teaching moment that pops up? Yeah, Dabo will undress someone to the point it almost makes you feel uncomfortable watching him do it on live TV. Doesn't matter they were up 31 and you were a backup in getting your reps. Dabo knows in his system, he is going to need that dude later.

as Morgan would say.....we lack "dawgs". I will say, I do think this team/era lacks a certain energy to it. I don't see the players rostered that provide it. Canales is a rah rah HC. Bryce Young is as a laid back as it gets. I mean, who is the voice on the O side? Who is the voice on the D side? I mean, we have some decent players. But is Derrick Brown going to round up the crew like a Thomas Davis would if things ain't right? Who is that voice on the O? Carolina doesn't have an edge. I think all teams need a couple players at this level that provide that. Not just on the field but in house. That remains a mystery. Roster full of nice dudes, cashing checks. We need a couple w/ a screw slightly loose that probably have an unhealthy relationship w/ winning/losing.

I once had people verbally rip my head of and poo down my neck because I didn't think paying 2 RBs featured money at the same time was a good way to build a football team. But yeah, it was never weird back in the day. heck folks made a friendly Panther just trying to hustle a new business run away because....yeah, the huddle always has been the huddle. It's our GM now. But this place never was what some like to recall it was.

Two thoughts. 1. In terms of talking football online, the archaic huddle is about as least toxic as it can get. The modern social media sites are way more toxic than the vintage message board format here. 2. People always look back and create a version of the huddle that didn't really exist. In fact, I would argue there were windows where people were way harder and angrier about Jake freaking Delhomme than they have ever been about Bryce Young (which is really more apathetic than anger).

I have long liked that Bears backup QB, Bagent. Why we don't have something legit in the works just in case remains malpractice.

Tepper should just move the team then so I can be done with them at that point