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I thought we were talking about Bill Belichick being suddenly a fun college coach? Most of misread your post.

maybe. Texas did have a bad day....but were lucky to have a bad vs another team also having a bad day. A&M didn't muster a single offensive point that game. Not even a FG. To me, I don't think a single team in this playoff can have a bad day vs an opponent having a good day. And the CFP has generally had teams that could navigate those days. maybe I will end up liking the 12 team format. I think the format clearly works against the better teams though. Let's say it runs chalk to the final 4. Odds are you still end up w/ someone getting beat up by the time they get to the final 4.... and that team might of been FSU'd had it been known.

one thing is clear, format screwed the #1 team. I got no confidence to say any team is going all the way. Can't trust any of them. They all can have a bad day and lose. I guess if I had to put a nickel on predicting a team making the Championship game I might go w/ UGA making that game. what hurts Texas is just the math of football. They got to stay healthy enough and play good enough to pull off 4 straight wins to win it all. That's where things get dicey w/ this 12 team format. Health. Making a 4 game run vs different degrees of good to get the natty is tough sledding. who knows, it will be interesting to see the 12 team format play out.

The whole drop back 50 times and sprinkle in 8 random run plays while Sanders holds the ball against Big12 athletes....isn't going to fly against a good SEC front. the comment has nothing to do with Milroe.

my overall wish list still remains and I think the league and our production support it. I've been hammering it since the day we drafted Bryce. The Panthers have zero YAC ability. Bryce Young needs a legit receiving RB and a legit YAC slot WR. Something he should of had day 1 given how he plays the game. He still doesn't have that. Maybe Brooks would have been that but Brooks remains an unknown. We need to replace Sanders will a legit receiving RB. That doesn't require big money. And we need to invest in a quick slot WR to log snaps in the slot with YAC ability. Thielen might be clutch. He might have great hands. But he is a TE that will continue to slow. He should be a roleplayer that doesn't dominate snaps next year in the slot.

I'm going to go ahead and call my upset pick right now. Notre Dame drops to 0-3 all time in the CFP

adding to this, Buffalo, Lions and KC are also all in the top 6 in terms of YAC. that's the difference. We put the ball in people's hands and that's the end of the play. The good teams put the ball in the hands of their guys and the plays extend. We basically play the game w/ TEs everywhere at this stage. We have actual TEs. Old WRs with great hands that really threatens like a TE downfield. And a young WR who plays like a TE. We need more diversity at WR. We need some explosive quick feet.

Completed air yards per pass attempt is a 5.5 yard average for the Panthers. Buffalo, Lions and KC are all below us. KC actually dead last and they are the technical best team in the NFL. what really hurts the Panther offense is we are 31st in YAC. We don't have players that do anything w/ the ball in their hands. Some of that is talent. Some of that is scheme.

I don't know why WhoaCam is upset. It gives Colorado a chance to win a game and then boldly declare they are now the 3rd best team in the Big12

We need a defense. That should take a couple seasons. And we still need an explosive playmaker or 2 on O which I don't think we have. We don't need Tyreek Hill but we need someone that can turn a bubble screen into a TD. I think most good teams have that caliber offensive player on the roster. They can even be a niche roleplayer but we need some explosiveness to the pass game. To me XL, Coker, Saudners, AT, all represent similar type options in the pass game.

Colorado/BYU has a chance to be competitive and give folks what they want to see. Colorado can’t run their offense vs a good SEC front. Pointless bowl games are about trying to make some money.

Brady, Gronk, and Edelman were all together clowning what a horrible idea it would be for Bill to be a college coach on live TV yesterday. I’d probably listen to their collective advice if I was UNC

I wish you well installing the Patriot way in Chapel Hill. That just screams the reverse of what we know wouldn’t work at the pro level they would be well coached. I mean whoever is willing to put up with Bill would be.

Last 6 Stroud 5 TDs, 7 turnovers Bryce 7 TDs, 4 turnovers Maye 6 TDs, 9 turnovers

I’m evaluating him off his return from benching….last 6 games check his last 6 vs the last 6 of Stroud, Richardson, Caleb and everyone young QB

Bryce has played where we realistically could be on a 5 game win streak and that with basically trash D and a weak supporting cast given their youth. That’s exactly what we want to see from him

That’s above their average of allowed yards. And he did with with a bunch of rookies and an old man.

Well, he was drafted in the top 10 which means featured 3 down RB….and he wasn’t built for that life when we drafted him. Good as a rookie but seemed to fit more of niche role than an every down RB. His rookie year he went down with relative ease when people got their hands on him between the tackles. which he realized and came into year 2 significantly bigger and stronger. Which made all the difference.

Exactly. Which might be the biggest difference maker of them all. That was actually something many questioned. He has done a 180 on so many visual things like body language that I feel are tough to fake in the moment. it’s frankly rare for any QB to rebound out of where Bryce found himself

Thanks. My bad for leaving him out of the example list

As someone who has a been an entrenched member this season and advocating for the need to move on….I advised while largely dismissing his recent games for various reasons that I would officially reevaluate my position after the Eagles game. So as of today, I am leaving Bryce Haters Inc. While he does have some physical limitations that aren’t ideal in a created player on Madden….so have other Panthers like 89, CMC, etc. Not suggesting he will be as dominate but outside the box can work. I think Bryce post benching has made a clear cut change in willingness to throw certain balls, his confidence, and how he chocies to see the field of play. I do think the current guy, is largely what we all thought we would be drafting and developing. So I will throw my support behind that going forward and through whatever bumps he might see this year.

I already addressed the how. Canales has Bryce rushing to the line barely able to get a snap off over and over. Against a tough D. Well any D, that’s doing a poor job for your QB. other QBs like Cam have already addressed how unacceptable that is and how it makes life harder on the QB feel free to bash XL on his drops. But why don’t you care Dave makes life harder on Bryce than it should? We will play more games

I just hate we paired a QB trying to grow with a HC/playcaller that needs to grow. Days like today are why. You got Bryce finally in a grove and then he now has to deal with the greenness of the OC. Bryce pointlessly had to go from 4th and short to 4th and long on the final play. That’s Dave. And Dave was putting his young QB in rushed spots all game long of barely getting it off. Even the commentators had to comment on it.

I don’t think you even understand my point. Yall are defending Bryce like I’m criticizing him. Which isn’t being said. Bryce was ready to win a game today. Other people? Plenty not ready on the level of Bryce, Hubbard and AT today. and XL shouldn’t be the only whipping boy. I think Canales is clearly holding Bryce’s growth back now as he ain’t ready for what he is supposed to be doing.