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What was that penalty for exactly? Where did we get a championship belt? Lol

Players having confidence and coaches having confidence are two different things though. Felt like the plan was to run it and if something happened, great. We should be playing to make something happen, not just hoping for it.

Yeah, I get it. I just remember the pitchforks coming after him in camp. Not sure if you were part of that group or not. He's got the resume. He's earned his shot. Glad he is proving his worth so far.

I didn't understand the play calling. It's like we were too afraid of making mistakes to try to get some points.

Hey, stay true to the hate. I respect that more than the fairweather Johnson's lol

Everyone talking about we finally have a real kicker when a large group of y'all were trying to fire him before he stepped on the field. Good one Fitz. Still pulling for ya lol

I'm just sick of the negativity around here.

Yeah, but you see how many post things like "We're back" and "that's the Panthers we know and hate". Sigh.

I swear it is like y'all enjoy it more when we make mistakes.

Announcer said it was right where it had to be. Can you not stop hating at least while Bryce is doing well?

Not all of us. You should know how most fans are by now. What have you done for me lately types. When you up, they wanna be up with you, when you down, they wanna step on ya neck. If you really support Cam, be happy when the tides are right. I'd like whatever is going on between him and the organization to be squashed, so he can be celebrated the way he should be.

And here I thought this would be a thread commending him for not missing after all the talk before the season about replacing him already. I should have known better. Negativity only around here lately. Eddy Pineiro missed an extra point.

I drank 4 four lokos before the game thinking that was sufficient. Played myself.

It has sent me back to lurk only mode. I haven't seen this place this toxic in a long while.

He had the prerequisites. At the time of the draft, a lot of people considered him the top choice, and if not, the clear #2 choice. Claiming he wasn't qualified when he has the accolades he has, and has won at every level except the NFL (he wasn't there yet, no one can see the future. People around here like to look back with 20/20) is a ridiculous take in my opinion.

Just because it isn't currently working out doesn't mean you get to retroactively discredit the kid's resume.

Doesn't have the prerequisite talent level. That's funny.

With as many people here that seem to agree with you, in a strange way, I hope you are right. Going to be hard for you guys to root for this team if they do manage to turn it around since you all seem to hate Bryce and think we are all garbage.

Bryce wouldn't have been my choice, but I think this board is being overly harsh as well. I don't think he has been the worst QB over the last three seasons, but that is a hard metric to track. It's not like we as a team have been an easy place to play. We have seen a few QBs leave here and instantly become better. There's a reason for that.

I didn't say he was good. I just said there was a lot of blame to go around and the sky is not falling yet.

People have tanked the alleged victim's business reviews. Classy.

PFF had him rated as like #9 for QBs. I didn't bother posting it for all the flack I was taking for being positive/optimistic after the game.

I think his opinion shifted after seeing us perform in the preseason, but I can only speculate. By a lot of accounts, we got good value for the oldest WR in the league on a 1 year rental. You probably would have complained as well if we got nothing and father time won this season or he walked next year and we got no return. At least we got something. Everyone won a bit here.

We don't know what is going on behind the scenes, so all I can do is speculate. Maybe the raise was to try to keep him happy as he was disgruntled with our success? No way for me to know. He wasn't the answer for the future, but he was good for us while he was here. I don't think we hurt anything by giving him a pay bump and sending a message to the team that he is model behavior and it gets rewarded.

Thielen was speaking highly of Bryce. He said that was one of the reasons he came back here. The fan base is the ones imploding on him. I feel Thielen's opinion probably shifted after seeing how we performed in the preseason, though. These are two completely different situations. People are criticizing without offering their solution. Would you have wanted us to draft a QB high and cast doubt on Bryce before the season opener? It's not as easy as you think to balance all this.