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Agreed, and they tried. It skipped off of one of the Chicago player's hands.

10-12 for 58 yards in an entire half of football. He looked exactly as he always has, overmatched against actual NFL full-speed defense.

Chicago blew it by leaving him entirely uncovered. Hail Mary 101.

Yep, but 10-12 for 58 yards at halftime is way more relevant than garbage-time stats.

A statline of 10/12 for 58 yards? El Oh El

But...

In some cases, sure. In all cases? Not a chance. Bryce in Carolina? Definitely his shortcomings as a large issue alongside the team's suckitude.

Breaking

That appears to be their plan, yes.

Carolina doesn't rebuild, they reload. Unfortunately, these days it's always with blanks.

You were since you referenced Top 5 last year. My point was that sure, some other QB-starved team probably would have taken a shot, but Carolina was the only one willing to spend additional capital to do it and now there is a season of atrocious film backing up whatever reservations other teams had. If they can get him cheap then someone will kick the tires but folks were not impressed enough to move up to secure him. Not much value to be had.

I don't think anyone argues that point, but there is a difference between swinging and missing on a draft pick and swinging and missing like Carolina has and losing all of the other capital/talent in addition to the pick. The issue is that they spent all of that to trade up for such a physically limited player; even if the Texans had Bryce #1, as one example, they weren't willing to pay anything for the privilege of ensuring they could draft him over Stroud.

Every QB that's left also looked better before coming to Carolina too. I'll agree that Carolina's coaching and development has been poor for a good while now, but Bryce never had the tools to come in and light the league on fire. That is not going to magically happen anywhere else either. If he turns into Teddy 2.0 for someone else, well, good for them. Not a level of QB play I care to watch anyway... been there, done that.

After all, that's what stadiums are for, right?

Gotta get my mileage out of this gif while I can.

The Panthers, specifically Tepper's Panthers, and I have been at 'just friends' status for quite some time now.

Bryce is awful. So is the offense. Just like last year, both can be and are true.

Andy Reid owns Kyle Shanahan.

Lot of parallels between Clowney and Bryce, Chief among them being that folks with eyes and a lick of common sense struggled to understand where the hype was coming from. Clowney just rode the wave.