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it really is. I have hope, but unsure how hopeful would translate to the actual final score

A serious mid-week question: If you were forced to pick who'll win straight-up for this week's game, who's your choice? Carolina or Atlanta? Pros for Carolina: finally, a home game. Carrying over some of the excitement from last week's last 5 minutes. Division rival, chip on our shoulder to prove we can win, etc. Cons: some key injuries, XL. And, well.... (waves hands around) all that other stuff Pros for Atlanta: uh, they won last week? (reason for the question: weekly office football pool has the matchup on the sheet and I'm debating which to go with)

Bills: had a bunch of horrible years Packers: were really really bad in the mid 80s Lions: historically bad, like, forever. Look at them now Dolphins: only team to go 16-0. This week? Bottom of the barrel New England: 132 years of wins under Bill+Tom. Since then, horrible Tampa: laughing stock until their uniform/stadium redesign point is that winning can be cyclical. We all wants wins NOW but we may have to wait for all the pieces to fall into place

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6602281/2025/09/11/nfl-backup-qb-inside-mentorship-jimmy-garoppolo/ Life as a backup NFL QB is a mental and emotional whirlwind by our old Panthers friend Jourdan Rodrigue. It doesn't mention Dalton, but it gives a better idea of what Dalton's role has been in working with Bryce and what the QB like is like week-by-week. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6584516/2025/09/02/nfl-first-round-quarterback-busts/ The bust files: How NFL teams break young quarterbacks Peyton Manning goes on to have comments about Bryce:

Apologies if this was posted already But SI has a fairly solid Stud/Dud list They like Bryce and TMac, for example https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/panthers-studs-duds-week-2-loss-cardinals-bryce-young-dave-canales-xavier-legette

Let’s prove them wrong

Read somewhere that Evero was going to be fired, but the reason to keep him was that he did the best he could with bad ingredients. It wasn't justified to fire him if what he had to work with was flawed. That's not the same story this year

The counter to this is there are only 32 Head Coach slots available in general, and a tiny number of those ever becoming available in a given season. Anybody with a career goal of being a HC (or being a HC again) has limited options. Why work for Tepper, even knowing you may get canned if he's unhappy? $5-10m/year guaranteed can ease a lot of pain for some people.

Posted this in 2021. Seems like it's still true today (tl;dr; "it starts with the owner") holding out hope that the appearances of Tepper being hands-off the football operations recently are accurate and that Dan/Dave are doing the best they can - with all the resources they can - to right the ship that they were given

Insane game in Carolina North

Stupid adidas commercial

Not a fan of the redesigned score bug on FOX can see they’re trying to not hide whatever’s behind the graphic, but still

half time was.... nice? (compared to other big national games where we never see the halftime show....)

had zero audio until I turned "surround sound" in the YT settings "off" blech

Making assumptions from your comment as the Twitter link is blocked by corporate overlords, that you're referring to this news? I'm assuming that the sites weren't run only off three laptops and four smartphones, but it'd be funny if that's all it took https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/streameast-shut-down-sports-piracy-site-raided-1236506024/