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I think that’s just apologist gymnastics in all honesty. The helmet is smooth? Ok. when people show you they are really dumb….i just tend believe them. No matter the uniform. It being a backup scrub defender 5 plays into this season given where he is on this roster…..says a lot more about his head space and composure at this point in time than his “fire” for me. nothing is the end of the world. But anyone watching the Panthers working on things thus far off that game shouldn’t be overly impressed about what Tepper is about to give the world…..again.

That’s the new present day Panthers though. And Bryce Young. It’s not that we don’t get YAC. Even Bryce’s bigger throws are conservative. Which is why that TMac throw annoys me so much. Sitting here watching the Bills uncork one deep for a TD going into half….Bryce throwing everything to a sideline fade and always lowering the ceiling of things. Bryce isn’t making that throw. He is going to steer the WR out of bounds

You can largely track the meaningless preseason warmups…..and our good seasons we largely had respectable warmups which lead to us winning at least half of them.

Not sure how one drive by our starters playing the 2nd and 3rd stringers of a team that won 3 games last year….indicates our starters are on track. And their backups 3 and outed us on 50% of our drives. fans are doing the same thing we do every year of the Tepper era. Manifesting a good team when there is no evidence yet of such IMO

The logic of Bryce looked terrific and then say BUT keep in mind Sanders did what he did vs backups…..is some type of logic

They shouldn’t be capped like that. 3 series could be just 1 quarter. that’s still too light for me given why we are in Carolina. That’s still Dave being too light in the preseason heading in IMO. Much better teams than us work there guys more and I think if you look at our starters last night…..you would have to like overall what the Browns 2s and 3d did slightly more against our starters than what our starters did to them

That’s not fire. Losing your poo on a backup defender basically 5 plays into the intro of the season and risking your entire season by throwing hands all over the place at a helmet……isn’t fire. It’s senseless stupidity that we are trying to pretend is something else. and I was pimping XL harder than almost everyone on this board coming into the game/season

Which is my issue. It’s not much of an identity paired with a league bottom defense.

You can still throw a legit go route vs 2nd or 3rd stringers. TMac should be able to go do that and should be testing that stuff out IMO. Im just saying in test it out world type game which….they didn’t really test much out. Didn’t learn much.

zero YAC from starters. Still waiting for evidence we can be something other than a low ceiling offense (which is what the Dave O was). People tripping out over that TMac catch. It’s was a great catch. But essentially it is classic Panthers play under Bryce. A go route opportunity. Turned out to be fade to the sideline. Threat of nothing after the catch. Incomplete or catch given where the ball was placed.

That sack wasn’t on the OL IMO https://x.com/tjrt9s/status/1953964808703029454?s=46 Browns just played it well. Might could argure he should have anticipated XL crossing toward the sideline but I don’t know. Just seemed like good defense by the Browns and not much there when the ball should have come out. BY stepped up and tried to squirm through and couldn’t. Just a nice rep by the Browns.

Stars Coker I honestly don’t think anyone actually impressed but him. Star for me implies more than just being status quo or meeting reasonable expectations. Coker actually should have made a roster spot jump tonight. I think you got to at least temporarily demote XL. He got to earn it back

we might need to talk about one of the big boys on the Clemson d line pretty soon. Both project in the top 10 AKA our normal spot.

89 never misses a chance to be a jerk. It’s just DNA with him.

I don’t really follow it. Not sure how she would’ve been part of 89 cheating on her with a Ravens employee. I’m assume she has some self respect and leaves a chronic jerk after the year is over.

Short story. He cheated on her and got caught. The other husband caught him and called him on the phone. Recorded it. Then posted it online. NC I think has one of those year long separation laws before you can divorce. So I assume it just a time game before she cleans him out.

It’s our starters…. vs 2nd and 3rd stringers. And it wasn’t like we just ran them off the field. So yeah you gotta keep all that in perceptive. So yeah, decent work. Starters couldn’t even keep their composure on it too. You can’t rate that drive that high. It was fine. That’s not my definition of good. Only real good opportunity would have been some quick big play TD vs dudes who shouldn’t be on the field with you.

This is not shocking. Tepper owns the worst team in all of pro sports since taking ownership. Shocking would be something usual actually occurring.

Dude probably just needs to cash checks. I would assume 89’s pockets about to get a lot lighter when his soon to be ex wife takes half

As far as a grade on the overall work this team got to put in. D+ One decent drive for the starters vs Browns scrubs. That’s literally all the good. And you got to ding that unit for getting smashed their first drive by Browns backups….and then your starting WR being a complete idiot on your one drive. D was horrible ST horrible O horrible minus that one drive horrible and uneven work (zero run game) Hard to have a lot confidence in where Dave has us at this stage. Plus the entire NFL world will be talking about a 5th round QB with no real camp work being the best thing on the field as what happened tonight

Yeah, this game does feel very much like that Bills game. But the good news is this is our first outing. We got more time and that was the lead up into the season.

Some inconsistent logic to claim BY did what he was supposed to vs 2nd and 3rd stringers…..then dismiss what Sanders did out there. And BY gets real work going into this game . Sanders did well, nothing wrong with admitting that. And I have hated on the Sanders crew more than anyone

Heck bring back the wildcat. Jeebus. we aren’t getting good work in at all this game. Entire game has basically been one drive. Hubbard shouldn’t be the leading rusher at this point with 10 freakin measly yards.

Hubbard still leading Carolina in the 3rd with 10 rushing yards. Maybe lets try run the ball and figure out how to move the ball outside of one drive on the day

I’m a Sanders hater. But for a guy that hasn’t gotten a lot of reps in camp….Sanders is doing pretty decent for his first NFL reps/preseason game