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I'm sure showing up in Panthers swag at Bills camp would have gone over well. Dude is visiting and trying fit in. I have no problems with it.

Ding-ding-ding!!!!! Winner-winner, chicken dinner! Slye has the physical tools, but not the MENTAL game. People are still giving Darnold sh!t for the "ghosts" game. Sam literally was psyched out by the Patriots defense; they had gotten into his head. The opponent is not Slye's enemy however, it's himself. Dude can't shake off the funk after a bad kick, he's done. Our best hope for him is he doesn't have a bad kick early in a game, if so, we might as well just go for it on 4th down...we will have a better chance of converting.

Not sure, but if he's injured enough to be placed on IR, they will injury waive him and use his spot for a healthy player. He hasn't shown enough to be stashed on IR. He can be re-signed down the road once healthy if the team chooses to do so. If he's missing several weeks with this injury, that spot needs to be address now rather than him to mending while on the current roster or even the PS in a couple of weeks.

I get the 60+ yard misses, that's not my issue. I'm talking about his utter lack of ball control once he gets rattled. Am I the only that notices this?????

IIRCC, both Zylstra pass attempts from PJ, he was fleeing the pocket. FYI, even the commentators said there was some outside pressure in that clip, PJ did a good job to avoid it.

True, and if Darnold goes down, rinse and repeat...just insert the name Walker instead of Darnold.

Yup, you just restated the same thing I said yesterday after the game regarding our QB situation.

The entire season, only because the staff refuses to address the elephant in the room. PJ on his best day is no better than Darnold and then there's that clipboard guy.

He was basically a rookie last year. The XFL, while not college, was still a bunch of nobodies. Since it was dubbed a "professional league", the outside expectations were a little higher for him than rest of the day 3 picks. Kenny was kinda written off when he did little better than the guys drafted around him. In reality he looked like a day 3 draft pick who needed a ton of work despite playing "professional football" in the XFL.

Cool, but if you hadn't read my previous posts, you might want to check them out. I took nothing away from the kid's effort. However, apparently saying it was a great run, although lucky is not sufficiently homer-ish enough for the Huddle.

Cool, so now after one play Chuba is Steve Smith who routinely broke legit tackles on a regular basis.

Yes, a complete break down of the play and 6 missed tackles is luck. I never said he didn't play hard or quit on the play.

Heck, we could have even took Ehlinger with either of our first two sixth round picks. He looked pretty good yesterday against us.

I count 6 missed tackles. Three in the pile and 3 as he bounced it outside. Great determination, and a ton of luck.

I'm not taking anything away form Chuba, but how often can you count on a RB making it out of a huge scrum like that? I would have the same reaction no matter who the RB was on that play. It was a cluster fug that he somehow managed to avoid. Again, the Zylstra block is what really sprung him. Otherwise it would have been a short gain and we wouldn't be even talking about it.

I bet he looks awesome in practice with that no contact red jersey on!

Pause it at 14 seconds and you will see what I mean.

That play was doomed from the jump. While it was a really good run in the end, a ton of luck was involved. FIFTEEN players were falling around all around him, the 16th (Colt player gave up thinking the play was over) and he somehow managed to get through. The Zylstra block was the other key to the play. Again great play, but extremely lucky.

To me it was crystal clear what the staff was attempting to do with Grier. That was run the ball on early downs to get in 3rd and manageable to keep him out of 3rd and long situations. It worked to some extent, but even the short passes on 3rd down weren't connecting. Granted the OL penalties didn't help, but Grier couldn't even get the underneath stuff completed. My dread is next week he'll play just well enough to keep lingering around, to warrant one more look from the coaching staff. Come final cuts, Grier does not need to be on this roster.

The same reason we always seem to hang on to fringe players. That is....ummm, yeah, I've got nothing.

QB, OL and depth on defense were the question marks heading into camp. Nothing has changed.

Well, the mods/owner also let things slide if they agree with it. Perfect examples today. True moderators are 100% impartial, personal feelings aside. But that's not how it works here.

They survived without looking horrible, penalties aside. I seriously doubt we we sitting on a one score lead by running the ball, that was a function of not letting Grier getting pummeled.

Rhule was talking with a ref, and BOTH he and the ref were giggling about something. Yes, the optics were bad, but I'm 99.9% sure they weren't laughing AT Pride. Now, should Rhule have been sharing a light-hearted moment while he had an injured player on the field? Probably not, but one has to do mental gymnastics to think both he and the ref were making fun of Pride.

Remember we started Gross out on the right side and he was a first round pick. I think people are expecting too much out of a rookie 3rd round pick to come in and win the starting LT spot right away at one of the most difficult spots to play in the NFL.