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I can think of a world where Jimmy Horn has more receiving yards this year than Tmac. End of the day, Bryce Young loves the type routes Jimmy Horn in theory would be running. Which isn't taking the top of the defense but those easy short crossing routes and has the YAC ability to go with it.

The lotto is 100% rigged. The reason you know it is....because televising a real Powerball-style lotto pull with celebrities/players/fans and all the bells and whistles would be easy eyeballs and money for the league to put on for show one evening. but they can't do that but they got to be able to rig it up to suit the league's needs each year.

there is a reason the NFL is more successful than the NBA and there is a reason they easily stole holiday games from them. The NFL model works better of making every team relevant essentially all the time. and that lottery is crooked. Can't convince me they don't rig it to aid certain teams/markets where it matters.

https://x.com/joeovies/status/1921976443069743147?s=46&t=f55N0zsNFevD-XGJBWj1-A this is the clip I was referencing

He has reported he has 2 sources at UNC high up….that claim a line basically has been drawn in the sand over the girlfriend at a recent meeting. He is calling it a “ban”. It’s not an official ban but they are done with her per him. From my understanding, that’s where he is getting this….not the buyout that we have all known about.

The real King and Queen of the ACC. Go Tigers! Together since high school. Keepin it classy. Dabo! Pray for this poor and confused old washed up lost soul!

Well, Pablo Torre isn’t really fringe media. That’s a legit dude reporting the smoke/fire at the top of the UNC world. I’d wager his reporting is largely truth based. No one gets it all right in reporting though. Plus, I concede he is more entertainment focused like all reporting now vs when he first started

In fairness, she is ensuring she is talked about. People really aren’t going out there way to bring her up. It’s some weird poo. She would end up getting talked about given her actions if she was 40. Bill realizing some of these high end “companions” got a game of their own. That’s what I don’t think Bill saw coming.

I believe the 2 and 7 guy wasn’t the best of the week. And I don’t need to use Levis. I can use all the players with a top notch completion percentage and scores that week. At some point, reality carries the day over what if and subjective PFF stuff. And keep in mind PFF isn’t one guys subjective take playing out and comparing itself. It’s a bunch of different guys doing each game with different subjective takes and grades. Think of it like boxing. Judges don’t view it all the same. That’s their subjective grading and it’s end result narrative is an outlier

I’m going to start a competitor if anyone wants to partner with me. -UberX to the airport - I welcome you to to the airport and present you with the finest of Panther polos and some custom cargo shorts - we going Spirit Air. Whatever you heard, disregard. - we taking another UberX to dinner near the stadium. A unique experience at a local food truck - guess who is going to meet you for dinner? Panthers legend Haruki Nakamura - Finish up the day at a hotel that has some stars Thinking I’ll just work off tips or possibly trade

Coupled with that, is Young was 32nd in air yards per attempt. So coupled with our lack of YAC…..that’s sort of a bad recipe for modern day passing O/production YAC players should have been a priority for Young from day 1. I still think there remains a degree of round peg/sqaure hole to this whole thing.

Only "change" I have is simply wondering who is wrong....PFF or Next Gen Stats on if he was 2 of 6 or 2 of 7 on the day. but yeah, even meh players like will Levis per your info went 2 of 3 on the day w/ a TD...throwing deeper than Bryce on average. I still don't get the fixation on trying to manifest Bryce as a top 10 player. All the non-PFF info if looked at collectively says he isn't a great deep ball passer nor is was he top 10 caliber post benching. Eye test backs that as well. PFF pretty much is on an island there IMO.

I don't dismiss PFF entirely. I just think if PFF is frankly 99% of an argument made that Bryce Young was top 10 post benching......and it runs counter too all the other metrics we use, eyeball test, etc. That it's not the best argument to make. I see no reason for people to feel the need to argue BY is was top 10 or even project that expectation on him this year. But it's that time of year.....time of year we folks are willing to pretend Ben McAdoo actually is a sneaky great hire or whatever it is we do here.

Yeah, the cherry pick. Last 2 games of the season he played great. But a couple random games isn’t top 10 QB talk. Because we don’t exclude all the bad from the other 32. That’s my problem with cherry picked top 10 talk….one guy in the convo gets cherry picked data and everyone else has their bad included for Bryce to sniff them. but the last 2 games also run wildly counter to the rest of his work post benching. And that XL Philly drop carries wild weight vs Philly. It was a throw he should have been caught for an upset. People revisit that game and act like he played great that day. Or a good statistical game like AZ where he wasn’t doing much.. Hubbard was the O.

It’s all well and good. All I am saying is the entire Bryce Young was a top 10 QB argument doesn’t exist without singularly using PFF as the argument . And you concede it has gray area. I mean we know as good as they can be there way of doing things ends up saying some wild stuff. Everyone has essentially at some point gone at PFF so all the other info that isn’t PFF has to factor too in the convo. And Bryce is nowhere close in the ballpark there

Difference between you and I here on this convo….is you only acknowledge PFF. It’s hyper fixation from folks that get creative and blinders to the rest. Put that one website to the side, and all the other aspects we use to declare what top 10 looks like wouldn’t put Bryce in that type talk.

I’m getting 2 of 7 off his passing chart that day for balls that traveled at least 20 yards in the air. And 20 yards in the air is largely the consensus of a deep ball. that’s why I keep saying people are just running with a headline. Because his best in the week deep declaration is based off a 2 of 7 day. PFF is declaring him best off the day and using plays like a 50/50 jump ball to AT that went incomplete to build it. That week was full of guys that factually were better deep…..everywhere but PFFs website. Lamar, Stafford, Nix and on and on were all better in reality that week. Hell, Mahomes in that same game. PFF basically does a what if alternate reality on those deep throws. So the volume of just throwing up a jump ball aids the PFF stat pending it’s a good 50/50 ball.

yeah, but gets into what I have been saying. The argument doesn’t exist without PFF in a world where 2 of 7 and 0 TDs is better than 3 of 4 with a TD. That’s the PFF world. and if you put PFF to the side and use everything else….there is virtually no argument.

The framing continues to be if you disagree with this top 10 play making….its then somehow spun as denying his improvement or hating. if you take Bryce’s career and exclude his last 2 starts……there really is no objective argument that isn’t a bottom tier starter to date. Is yeah, it’s cherry picking, recency bias and his surprising inability improvement driving it into a bit of silliness. Literally nothing argued here except the top 10 stuff is overkill. But it’s also the same time of year when folks can get bashed for saying Frank is a bad hire, Fitterer sucks and should be fired with Rhule, Ben McAdoo was a joke hire for a staff that forced into rejects, Rhule doesn’t know what he is doing and clearly exposed when reporters got into camp, the Sam/Baker comp and not picking one is dumb, and on and on. Lot of frankly conservative takes are spun as wild hate this time of year.

I don’t think there is a single poster arguing against his clear progress last year. That’s not what is being argued when people dismiss this top 10 play narrative. And you have to cherry pick hard to get there and largely exclusively use PFF most subjective deep dives to get there. And the best example of that is their week 12 best deep passer stat line…..when in reality went 2 for 7 no TDs in a week where folks were factually much better

Sure, but even that is vague and subjective. Because there definition is vague and subjective. So I assume they are counting games where a 50/50 jump ball that falls complete is a big time throw. because that best deep passer week 12 is just sort silly in the grand scheme. He went 2 of 7. So they have to count those passer which create sort of a bull argument

What's the cherry pick you are using though? Because it's not just post benching. and that's where my issue is, if you are using a tiny cherry pick of post benching vs his peers afforded no cherry picking at all on the year......well, then it just a bunch of fun to be had. I mean, I'm not really looking to keep this one going. My point isn't to bash Bryce. But he was just about as average as it gets the overwhelming majority of his post benching play in reality. Which was a HUGE leap for him and worthy for us to be excited about. The final 2 games of the season where a great ending that he hopefully care momentum forward in. But that's not a big enough resume where anyone outside a segment of the Panther fanbase would by top 10 play of.

first rule they would teach any proper GM in GM School is if the Steelers are trying to trade you a WR.....you tell them no thank you and block the number.

Screen starts black. Fades to David Tepper sitting in a chair in an empty room. He reads the 17 opponents in order in 30 seconds. Fades to black. And that will be the best thing David Tepper has ever done here.

I think you need a big arm to make certain throws to the perimeter. Deep is DNA, timing and placement.