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yeah, I'm super hard on Bryce. But he is likeable in the end. He didn't complain at all despite their being tons to complain about if you were him last year. And he dusted his little self off over and over last year. I think if he fine tunes a lot and gets help....he can be a decent player. The Panthers setup the expectations out of reach w/ the trade IMO. #1 overall already comes w/ near unrealistic expectations. Huge trade just added even more. He doesn't have the tools to live up to the spot they essentially put him in. Which isn't really a Bryce thing in the end but a Carolina thing. The assets in the end put up beside what he will be is never going to look good on paper.

I will say this, as a luke warm to cold Bryce guy....I'd much rather pull for Bryce Young vs having to pull for Caleb Williams. Caleb seems mentally weak, idiotic, and unable to lead a team of grown men due to being a mega clown. Bryce just lacks the Madden created tools you want your QB to have and likely is going to resemble Eli's leadership more so than Peyton's. And the brothers got the same rings in the end off both styles.

I think Thielen would be fine in a vertical offense where slot play isn't prioritized and essentially is a later read. In a dink and dunk offense.....the slot is prioritized different. I don't care what they are selling a disgruntled Johnson. The X isn't going to be the main target/look for Bryce. He can only run the slant so many times before defenses sit on it and take that away. Then what's Bryce going to do over there.

I'd be more comfortable overpaying the first vet cut that has real C experience. If Corbett fails or gets hurt.....a rookie C is bad news for Bryce IMO. Not saying you can't draft a kid. But the whole revamping of the OL and having a makeshift C leaves me uneasy. If the C spot is a mess, all that money and investment at G gets minimized.

Yep, past 2 years combined he doesn’t even have 70 rec yards added up. He is a body with a pulse. the offense was so bad and so predictable that a surprise end around run a couple times has some folks thinking this dude is legit. The math ain’t mathing.

No room? We have the league’s worst offense We got zero long term offensive skill position players on the roster. We have a huge investment we are trying to save at QB. Fixing the O should be priority 1, 2 and 3. Mingo and ISM combined for 450 yards and no TDs. And there is no guarantee they are better next year. the highlights to our roster are a WR that can’t run and had really bad per touch production we forced the ball to and a disgruntled WR the rest of the league didn’t want…..whose former team has a track record of getting rid of dudes who fall off a cliff after doing so. we got room

He doesn’t have the speed for the outside. He doesn’t have the speed for small ball slot. I’d like his reps decreased and more situational. He wasn’t deadly IMO. We were the least threatening O on the NFL going through Thielen…..his yards per touch were sad. That’s what I call him a glorified TE at this stage. And he isn’t getting faster. and he is a double edge sword IMO given Bryce is the QB. That’s where he is going to go….I wouldn’t care as much about him with a different QB

They won’t be reaching for a WR at the top of the 2nd (33-39) unless things go completely insane….. I mean, the top of 2nd is where legit WRs should be. Now they could pick the wrong WR. But positionally WR shouldn’t be a reach there pending guys don’t fall and things go crazy ahead of us.

Johnson and Theilen are also both most likely gone after this season vs hanging around. Thielen is basically a TE limiting the O given what Bryce wants and needs to do with the ball. WR is a hole short term and long term….and it’s tied to salvaging our QB. a 2nd rookie corner likely isn’t going to impact much…. especially if the pass game doesn’t drastically improve. I still think a WRs and a rec RB would do more potentially for us than anything else. Cogs in the wheel to fix the offense. We don’t need a super stud. We need improved O talent all over the map. Speed.

we can sprinkle talent everywhere and solve nothing. There is really good offensive skill talent in this draft at WR,. If we draft two, odds improve you actually solve a problem. plus we need to see if we can salvage the massive investment at QB. That should take priority over defending the pass and not being able to move the ball on offense. You can’t move the ball….its not going to matter about your D talent.

I mean it would be a very Panther thing to do….to avoid WR in a WR draft. No arguing that. We are the worst team in all of sports for a reason.

adding a rookie C isnt much of a better plan for 2024. Think they need to pay an old vet that gets cut later at C in case Corbett stinks

I’ve been begging for the WR double dip since before the combine. Since we before we even had two 2nds. we should make this an offensive skill position draft class. Double dip at WR to kick off the draft. Edge in the 3rd. Get a TE and pass catching RB in 4 and 5. rent Gilmore at DB and rent a backup vet C in FA

Colemen doesn't separate either. He basically is a lesser Leggette present day IMO.

we really don't need Theilen living in the slot so heavily. He lowers the ceiling and threat of the offense given how much Bryce likes those throws. We need youth and speed in the slot that can actually do something with the ball. I'd like to see Thielen reduced in the slot.

the Panthers drafted him last year #1 overall and gave up a fortune for him. Now you got folks talking about him like he is PJ Walker who we plugged out of FA.

I mean, the overwhelming bulk of a Bryce Young offense is going to need to be in the gun. He is too small to live much in a traditional pocket and his game just isn't a fit for it. they drafted Bryce Young. It's time they realize it and act accordingly. Which they failed to do as a rookie. I mean, Frank at least liked the shotgun but that was it. Horrific scheme and talent that didn't match where Bryce would go with the ball.

if Canales plan is to insert Bryce into what he did last year in Tampa....I just feel bad for Bryce. That's Carolina killing a career with the Frank and then Canales move. That's not going to be on Bryce. He will end up being another example of a franchise killing any chance a kid had.

video is finally out

we live in a world of too much info and access. Just tell me he gained 20 pounds of muscle and has been working hard on footwork, film, and throwing to WRs. Lie to me, Bryce.

you can pull the news articles that talked about Cam Newton being fixture at BOA and in the film room going into year 2 because he knew life gets a lot harder in year 2. He was fixated on trying to avoid the sophomore slump and correction the league makes after they got a year of film on you. Sadly, it didn't work out but he was at least aware of what was coming in year 2. Cam might of done some things besides football in his offseason....but football was very much apart of it. I mean, most big time QBs aren't taking the offseason off entirely from football and unplugging from it.

like last year, I could care less about the record. I just want to see some entertaining offensive play. You got to start solving that problem.

Cam Newton spent his first NFL offseason basically living at BOA.

Threads like this at their core, at least for me, are really just irritations at the Panthers org for the bullshit they sling each year. I don't need it. I don't like it. I like the world without the bot.

sorry, I can't spin it as a positive that he spent the whole offseason away from football. Watching you tube and netflix all day. You think Cam Newton to Tom Brady took entire off seasons off of football? Especially coming off of the season he did? With all the issues to his game at this level? I don't want him obsessing over last season. Dude has a ton of work however he needs to be doing to get better. Lot of getting better is the work put in on their own time and in the offseason. The work guys do in the offseason is often documented and known. It's normal.