45catfan

Yep, while good, we aren't the '84 Bears. If the offense isn't putting points on the board, it makes the defenses job that more difficult.

Ah yes, coach speak to deflect blame from one obviously guilty unit and add a little criticism to another group to trot out the tired old tripe of a "team loss." Classic!

Except leads can and do evaporate, especially when the our offense can't match the scores of the opponent. I'm not expecting our defense to shut out teams in the second half, but I'm also not expecting our offense to lay an egg either.

If we must continue with this dumpster fire, move Moton back to RT, keep Erving at LT, insert BC at LG and try Scott at RG. We are stuck with Paradis because Rhule wanted another Baylor guy on the team.

Panthers staff: If you add more mayo and keep stirring, just maybe...

The fastest path between two points is a straight line. Why would teams even test our tackles when they can just push our IOL into Darnolds' lap?

This confirms what we all saw with our own two eyes yesterday, the IOL was atrocious! The tackles, while unspectacular, were at least able to hold their own.

Almost all of these guys were in camps and have only been at home for a little over a month. Worried about conditioning? Let them sit at home another month or two when the team realizes what we all know, that our guard situation really sucks and then let the panic begin.

So you are in the do nothing/sinking ship camp too? Cool. I will remember this when this camp of folks starts bitching in a few weeks once the season officially spirals out of control.

He may improve with Weight Watchers. No amount of coaching can fix fat, slow and immobile.

As bad as our guard play has been and Brown can't sniff the field???? Yet trying out FAs is laughable option here apparently.

Yes, because Brown is a liability in pass protection. He's a road grader in the run game, but unless he has suddenly found lateral mobility, he will get beat bad. You think Daley and Miller looked bad on the T/E stunts yesterday? Brown won't even get a hand on the looping defender. You did see his Senior Bowl practices, correct? Those were college players that was eating his lunch.

Joey Slye and Ryan Santoso would like a word with you.

Got it, so the best plan is no plan versus being pro-active and at least giving some guys looks/tryouts. Your assumption that every FA right now is garbage is just that, an assumption. Most of them most likely are, but the team has to identify a few and at least give them a try out. I have little faith in that because they made their bed this offseason with this group that even the most casual Huddler saw as a train wreck in the making.

So you are telling me that Miller is better than Ricky Wagner, J.R. Sweezy, David DeCastro, DJ Fluker, A.Q. Shipley...just to name a few. I could care less most of them are over 30, this is strictly a rental plan to survive the season so HOPEFULLY the team can attack the OL issue in the offseason. The plan for treading water for the duration of the season has failed. This OL has been exposed and the sharks are circling. Two lugs nut are already off the tire and it will only take two more before the wheel comes completely off. Blind optimism that this will somehow correct itself, is just that, blind optimism. The answers to our IOL problems are not currently on this roster.

That's assuming they are as bad as our guys (or worse) just because they aren't on a roster currently. Remember, no one was fighting over Miller in FA before scooped him back up. Had we not signed him late in FA, he may still be sitting at home too.

We gave Joey Slye a very short leash after he got the yips, so I don't understand why we are letting these guards have so much margin for error. Even before Elflein got hurt, he wasn't playing that great.

No, I don't think anyone expects really good players to be sitting at home, mediocre...possibly and that would be a major upgrade from what we currently have.

There are several day 3 OL guys from just this past draft that didn't make the final 53 for some teams. Try them out! Just because they weren't the best 3 or 4 in their positional group for one team doesn't mean they are complete garbage. Also, there SEVERAL mediocre FA RTs out there I would replace Miller at RG with in a heartbeat.

Unless he has gotten better, Brown is HORRIBLE in pass protection. I would give Scott a shot at playing RG and put BC at LG.

Yup, noting against Marshall, but I wasn't a fan of the pick at that point in the draft. He may end up being good, but we really could have went another direction other than WR at that pick.

Once Gilmore is off PUP, send out trade feelers for O-Linemen. Fitts says nobody is coming off of them, I would suspect for day 3 draft capital in the future is what he's been offering, so I can understand why. If we dangled an immediate impact CB in front of a team, they may be willing to budge then.

The problem isn't a rebuild, it's an utter lack of understanding of how bad this OL was in the offseason; thereby failing to address it. If our OL was even average, we'd probably won yesterday and we still only have one loss.

Donte doesn't strike me as a hometown discount kind of guy. Maybe not top 5 CB money, but top 10? If Bradberry stuck to his demands and wouldn't budge, I doubt D-Jax would either.

Different week, same story. If their D-line is above average, they will wreck our OL and our offense will fall apart.