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Canales hasn't had this opportunity yet so time will tell, but that Detroit team was steadily improving and fighting even though they were losing. That's what I will be judging on - is the bar consistently moving higher and are we seeing young players improving on the field week by week?

And if Bryce is healthy he is the starting quarterback. That's almost as scary. I'm mostly kidding. Mostly.

But Canales stays positive, so it's a refreshing, energetic kind of bad.

But what if Jack Plummer shows out?

The Olympics are still going on?

I have zero faith in Canales until he gives me reason to, but that's a function of Teppee's ineptitude moreso than Canales himself.

The assumption here is that he was even interested in coming to Carolina. Can't rule out that the team didn't contact him and it was not a viable possibility for one reason or another.

I'm pretty low on Bryce the player but who's to say that he isn't campaigning behind the scenes to play? There are a lot of things to criticize him about but I'm not sure this is one of them.

Looks like Marshall might have been coming in wide open on the left as well.

Brown is one of the best in the league so Moton gets an occasional pass, but no idea what Corbett was doing there. Maybe a blown assignment by him, maybe the guard, maybe both? Who knows, but it's ugly.

In all seriousness though, what's the over/under for different players reported as being first on the field? 3.5? Given the NFL's embracing of gambling I'm assuming this bet can be placed somewhere.

Don't know that he's looked abjectly bad per se, but rather that he and the team look exactly the same as last year. It's not particularly encouraging at this point in time.

At least two more underthrown balls in those tweets, though I'm taking the Woods breakup per the words since no video. The underthrow to Johnson on the cross was rough and the TMJ ball to the corner looked like he had to slow up at the end as well. Bryce needs to start hitting these with the defense on the field.

Or it's a decision for a guy coming off of two serious injuries, could be to help him clear his head, could be any number of things. No sugarcoating that the OL has not been good thus far and Corbett is a large question mark. Going into this season without some sort of position-experienced center on the roster beyond some preseason snaps is flat-out negligent.

Good ball placement... gonna have to disagree there. More to the outside away from the defense and it's a much better chance of competition. Bryce has yards to work with and keep it away there.

Why tf is there a giant 'ticketmaster' watermark on the official picture from panthers.com? Gross. With respect to the thread topic, we'll see what happens as preseason moves on. Rust needs to be shaken off.

There was no coverage. It was a passing drill where he had all day to set up and heave it with no on one his face, and he still underthrew it in that Diontae jogged the last part of his route.

Perhaps, but they weren't good enough to overcome the Rams and one very bad call, so seems reasonable that the Patriots would likely have had their number as well. Regarding the Panthers, this thread is about the QB and as the QB goes, so goes the team. That's just the reality of the modern NFL. I don't see it in Bryce to elevate the offense enough to win Super Bowls... Brees had the perfect situation on his side in 2009 and couldn't in any other year either.

Where did I dispute that and, if I had, how does it invalidate the point? I didn't, and it doesn't. Regardless, if this is Bryce's trajectory then it's not going to fly.

I'm going to assume this tweet is lighthearted humor.

Yup, it was the ref that threw the inexplicable interception in overtime and who prevented the Saints from having the lead in the first place at the end of regulation when they kicked two red zone field goals. I get the sentiment overall and it was a particularly egregious call, but no game ever really comes down to a single play. The Saints kicked 3 field goals of 37, 31, and 29 yard field goals while scoring 23 points. Not a good enough margin in the playoffs and it bit them.

I'll continue to die on this hill, but Drew Brees in the back half of his career was the ultimate dink and dunk QB (I hesitate to say game manager, but that's the term commonly used for that), and that's not good enough to win a Super Bowl in today's NFL outside of the perfect conditions that I mentioned. Every SB-winning team has injury fortune and good luck of course, but they also have to create some luck on their own, and NO's lack of downfield threat due to Brees' arm was a reason they were never able to get back over the hump. Not the only reason of course, but a notable one. Other people may be fully happy with being an annual also-ran, and if the stars align then that type of QB may win another Super Bowl sometime soon. I don't see the point in that but while only time will tell where Bryce falls, signs aren't overly positive IMO. If I'm wrong though then everyone wins.

Your last paragraph sums it up. It can happen, sure, but the odds are very slim and it will require a load of talent and perfect injury conditions to even be above zero chance.

Yup, the only reason anyone would have concerns about Bryce the player is because they don't like him. It the only logical conclusion. Surely not objective things like his bad footwork, questionable arm strength, outlier physical stature, etc.