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First half summary. its a failure of Dave Canales. Simple as that. -2 yards for your starting O. We once again head into a season with a starting O that flat out isn’t ready for the season. Canales should tear his plans up and play these dudes next week

For sure, that’s why I said it’s just in part on BY. Another part is Canales. Every O he has been part of hasn’t been about setting up YAC. heck that one broken down play where BY ended up scrambling for 2? WTF you running that horrible play in preseason for, for a team that needs to find a grove. That’s the playcalling and staff not helping the team out in preseason. Only 2 dudes running routes and they are both deep action to the same spot of the field. Hate the design of that for this group and this setting

Sanders was 100% a drop. But I still think the fact this team has no YAC is in part ball placement by BY often. BY should be that in front of him not on him. TMac was an off target ball (which BY ran a super high % last year doing)

Nice reminder, I still hate that Jim Caldwell, Dom Capers survived the Frank Reich abomination and still have Influence here

They hung Renfrow out to dry. Horrible throw to get your WR smashed

Canales’ team going to lay an egg opening up this season…..again Panthers starters going to enter the season without a completed pass or first down vs an actual starting D. think he already said they would only play in first 2. 2 seasons in a row Canales had treated preseason like he already had a good O. He doesn’t. They need reps

Texans gonna put their backup D out their so our starting O can finally have their drive

Can we get the Browns backups back on the field so we can complete a pass please

The play design on that first scramble by BY was horrific. Only 2 WRs running to the same area downfield

Fugly .

Nico had us for a super easy TD. Stroud with a really bad ball

BY ain’t got the arm to pull off an Aaron Rodgers and get it over the DB for Leggette. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt he saw the penalty on that INT. INT does highest his arm weakness though.

We were what the 19th ranked rushing team last year? With no real home run ability. Season long was 38 yards. Only 5 teams posted a shorter long. Dallas was one and dead last at 27. I agree it’s not 28th. But it’s probably more middle of the road than there general Panther fan consensus. Just a solid complimentary attack.

PJ Walker. Only QB of the Tepper era that has managed a winning record. Which basically makes him football Jesus! maybe that Jaguars, Jennifer Lopez, weird stat has a chance of coming through after all!! Super Bowl bound!

I don't get people's over fixation on the two 1k runners. There are probably 50 RBs in the NFL that can hit 1k easily if they stay healthy and a team just gives them featured ish reps. It's just 50 yards a game. Carolina and Dallas didn't really have folks that could give the rock too. Most teams aren't looking for that. Hubbard probably isn't a 1k RB if Brooks stayed healthy. We got 2 solid RBs. Both on the backside of 20. As a team, we were bottom half of the league in rushing last year. It's not like the run game was one of those nuts ones where it could carry an offense. It's really just a complimentary level backfield. It's solid. But it's not special.

I mean, WR1 is generally speaking who your pass game is built around. And that was Greg Olsen. Back in the day the X was normally your best player in the pass game and who the pass game went through. So often that was the "WR1" position.

our WR 1 for a nice stretch was Greg Olsen.

I think the biggest plus of the 4-3....is it is more manageable without the ideal players. I think the 3-4 gets really bad when you lack the key players needed for it. I mean, in reality to run a really good 3-4 you need a dominant NT. And great LBs. Running a 3-4 w/ JAGs at those spots is just.....pointless.

Tmac and XL aren't stopping Renfrow from putting up a reception heavy comeback season. Only person stopping him is AT being on the field too much. I guess to an extent Canales too. But Renfrow would get open quick for BY for an absurd amount of easy completions if they wanted to nickel and dime a D. I still contend he is the best route runner and if you call the right plays....no one on this roster will get open easier.

Moore was 151st in yards after catch per reception. Horrific. and despite all the fixation on XL, Canales’ vet had the 2nd highest drop% in the team and 25th highest among WRs

I’m still not buying anything from a joint practice. Rhule, Frank and Cansles all have had good days at joint practices. Seeing that translate elsewhere is still what we are waiting on

I think Renfrow is pretty much a proven commodity at PR. He can do it. He also has a ceiling there pretty well established. He can make a guy miss but he isn’t housing one. They know what he is there IMO more than anyone else on the roster. I’d rather they just let Horn have them. He is the unknown.

we don't really know much about Davein this regards though... but just to argue the other side. Week 1...how do you justify his existence if you are a coach? That's the Horn problem. And it might uniquely apply to him amongst the WRs.

99% of the time I actually go both our Horn's Joe Horn. So I only type Horn.

that is a very generous assessment of David Tepper