BrianS

For the TL;DR crowd: Dak is great, Sam is questionable, Cowboys win.

I did see the Texans game, that wasn't adversity. Adversity is starting the game with your best player in street clothes and your shutdown corner at home and (likely) out for the season. In game is being behind and showing the stones to turn it around. We've done none of that.

I'm actually baffled at either set of fans who think this game will not be close. I think we have a better team, but Dallas has a more experienced team. In close games, that can matter. And they are at home. This is likely to be the first time our team will face some adversity this year. Both in terms of injuries and in game. We'll learn a lot.

At their current rate, Burns finishes the season with 17 sacks, Reddick finishes the season with 23.5. The NFL hires a therapist for the QB's on our schedule. Except for Matt Ryan, who retires mid-game week 8.

Pretty sure Moton's first year was him sitting behind Daryl Williams when Daryl was earning himself a phat contract. Oh, and Rivera. There was ALWAYS Rivera in those days.

I talked about this in another thread, can't remember which one. Basically, our front office and staff know we have an OLine problem. They are professionals. They see it. The problem is that there just aren't very many good OL in the league. Let's face it - Mike Remmers and Greg Van Roten *still play in the NFL*. That should really tell you all you need to know about the amount of OL talent available. Honestly, I'd rather pay more for the OL than WR's. That money we gave Robby Anderson? Yea, gimme a LT instead. Please and thank you. But those guys just aren't there.

This is also a great point. There was a Baldy breakdown posted this week of a CMC run where the line blocking wasn't too great, but CMC made something out of it. His focus was on CMC . . . probably as it should be. However, if you watch carefully, you can see Terrace Marshall just crushing some fool on the edge. If you can't get fired up about your rookie receiver killing it in the run game you aren't doing the fan thing right. I have no doubt if you ask TMJ to set an edge for an outside zone run, there WILL be an edge.

A team that is 4-0 will make the playoffs 83% of the time. A team that is 3-1 will make the playoffs 63% of the time. That's what the numbers say.

Looks like what you've got there is a safety who has trouble with acceleration and change of direction. Just looking at the scores, I've never seen the guy play. If he's a FA at this point, there's probably a reason.

OLine isn't getting fixed this year, at least not by an acquisition of talent. Perhaps one of our rookies grows up fast. We no longer have any reasonable capital to spend. We need that first round pick.

This seems obvious to me. With Arnold, sure, he was ok - solid - but not spectacular. His production wasn't irreplaceable. Suspect as a blocker, and just "ok" as a receiver. Seven receptions, 84 yards on the season. With Perryman, he didn't fit. He just wasn't the right guy. On one hand, he was the lone unvaccinated player on the team at one point. On another, he just couldn't get on the field. These are red flags. You might also question if perhaps he didn't fit our scheme as we thought he would. Perhaps he wasn't buying in. Finally, as Panthers fans, we've often questioned in the past why we would hang on to players when it seemed obvious they weren't working out. This staff doesn't have that problem. If it isn't working - for any reason - they move on. I find that refreshing. "We made a mistake, we're moving on" is something we haven't had nearly enough of in the past.

If we, the public can see the OLine problems, rest assured the team can see it. That *doesn't* mean they can do anything about it. I'm reasonably sure that if the Jets offered Becton for Dan Arnold and a third Fitts would bite their arm off taking that deal. That wasn't the offer however.

You don't judge QB's until year three. And even then, it's not certain, witness Sam Darnold. You certainly don't judge rookie QB's after THREE (*&$@ing games. I'm not judging Darnold until the season is done. Let alone any of the rookies.

I am not saying he's wrong, but seriously, at least in the Jets / Panthers game our pressure got there so fast I'm not sure Peyton Manning or Tom Brady could get the ball out fast enough. I'm afraid of what that quote says about their culture more than anything. Reeks of "It's not my fault" way too much. Especially when it's an experienced vet saying that about a rookie. Not a good look at all.

I thought Horn played pretty well in the slot, given he is a rookie. Heck, even for an older player I thought he was pretty good in there. Thing is, man corners tend to be fine playing in the slot. They are accustomed to shadowing their guy. When you take a zone corner inside, you're asking him to chase a guy, not play a zone. Thus, those types of corners tend to be the ones you go "he's an outside corner". Jaycee, CJ . . . they are man corners. They'll be fine. I'm even optimistic that Donte can come around to it. Good man corners can play inside.

Sam Darnold had three years as a starting QB before the Jets wrote him off. Whether that shows itself to be the right or wrong decision, it was three years. We're ready to declare Fields a flop after his first start as a rookie, against the #5 rushing defense and the #5 pass defense? Come on man. That story isn't anywhere near written yet.

Here's the thing - If you told Panthers fans last February that those guys would be our secondary, we likely would have gone "Wow, that's not the worst secondary we've ever fielded. Combine them with our rush and we may be ok this year." To which we then added Reddick, Morgan Fox and DaQuan Jones.

Is that Terrace Marshall crushing his guy? Sure looks like 88 who CMC cuts in behind. Love me a WR who can block.

lol at all the folks laying that at Paradis feet. Even if Paradis and Miller had handled that stunt correctly, Sam was still getting sacked. They brought six guys against our five protection. Someone was getting free, and the first guy to the QB came off the left. Now, as I understand it, the goal is to make the QB account for the guy with the longest path to the QB in those situations. The correct line call here was shift left. It looked like Daley and Erving did that, but Paradis, Miller and maybe Moton were shifting right. The question is what was the line call and who went the wrong way. If shift left was the call (and I think it should have been), then the stunt that beat Daley and Paradis wouldn't have worked. Additionally, Chuba could have chipped the wide defender on the side he went to. If you watch Moton's footwork, he wasn't postured to block a wide rusher. I just can't tell if that was because his guy stunted inside, or because he heard shift left. If shift right was the call, the stunt might have worked anyway, but in that case, it would have been the guy Erving blocked who would have had a free rush at the QB, because Erving would have blocked Daley's guy and Daley would have blocked the guy who ultimately got the sack. Basically, it looked like the line call may have been misheard or something, because the line was executing two different calls there.

That's a bit much. If his ceiling turns into an improved Manhertz as a blocker and a wanna be Olsen as a receiver we've uncovered a 10 year starter. He's got a chance.

Best wishes for JNo. Seemed like a pretty good dude when he was here.

What this means to Donte is completely up to him. The Panthers now hold all the cards, assuming Henderson works out. If Donte wants to be here and make this his home for a reasonable price, we know the Panthers would love to have him. On the other hand, if he ties to take them to the cleaner, we can simply walk away and tell him "Good luck, we'll roll with Jaycee and CJ". You can never have too many good players, but you can pay too much for them. Hopefully this is our way of getting ahead of the game.

Jacksonville just doesn't have a clue man. Think about it. Jalen Ramsey - traded to the Rams AJ Bouye - traded to Denver CJ Henderson - traded to Carolina That franchise is a mess. You don't trade away that kind of talent.

Have you met the Jets? Poor decision making is kinda what they do. Like . . . since . . . Namath. I also watched that game against us. I would be genuinely SHOCKED if Wilson hadn't come out of that game hurt. Frankly, I'm borderline shocked he managed to finish it. Wilson may or may not turn into an NFL QB. But I won't ever question his toughness. That dude took a beating. It's still early, but my best guess for Wilson is trending toward David Carr. Unfortunately.

I'm actually a little surprised we didn't look at one of the hybrid surfaces used in the premier league. Could be that it just wouldn't hold up, but those surfaces are much kinder to the athlete for sure.