Proudiddy

Credit where credit is due… that fake dive to pitch was a really good call.

Again, it’s like everyone else has to compensate for the shortcomings of our franchise QB. Crazy.

Carolina Panthers Football Baby!!!!

You dare me?

“But every QB’s YPA is down this year!”

Also have to know the officiating is going to be hell for us vs the Cowboys.

Hey, that’s a cool clip! maybe check out Jake Delhomme, who also is on Panthers payroll (and happened to play the same position as Bryce at a highly competitive level) and see what he had to say about yesterday’s game on the post-game radio show. He literally said “not trying to be a debbie downer” but, said that Bryce and the offense left a ton of plays out there on the field and a lot to be desired. He focused on the same shortcomings that most objective observers (of our QB position) have been stating ad nauseam. He wasn’t overly celebratory or doing any of the glazing that Al and most of the paid endorsers are doing. Most would feel Jake’s tone and message was quite negative, but in reality, it’s just the truth.

5-D Chess

I never thought I’d watch someone who made Teddy Bridgewater look like Brett Favre.

5.3 YPA. Ready for Bryce to catch a bout of Tommy Jone. But you need to be able to create enough torque in your throws to summon Tommy Jone, so we’re out of luck.

That’s what makes me fuging hate Gettleman. Generational talent in Cam, and that’s an understatement, and he had him protected with converted defensive linemen, NAIA standouts, career journeymen who spent most of their time on practice squads, and then traded away his greatest weapon, gave him guys who run slower than most fan’s walk and told him to figure it out. What a fuging waste.

This. For bad teams, every year the draft presents the sexy possibility of finding the next great franchise QB and turning your fortunes around completely. And then ego also gets involved, such as with Bryce. Teams trade up to get in front of other teams to take their guy and show how they outsmarted all the other teams and got THE premiere guy at the premiere position. And every year, bad teams have gotten increasingly desperate to make someone into that guy for them, even if that player isn’t ready.

Not angry at all. Happy we won. Loved how physical and aggressive our defense played.

I honestly wish I had just one person in my life that ever believed in me with such certain delusion as the crowd who has enabled Bryce Young to hornswoggle a starting QB spot in the NFL, and then keep him in that role for 2 more years than he deserved.

Brother, I think it is intentionally obtuse to think this offense isn’t inherently limited in scheme because of Bryce’s limitations. The All 22 isn’t going to show us what plays are off the table before the game even begins, and that’s the problem. To think a team is going to win like this every week in the year of our Lord 2025, is asinine. Look at a team like Philly. They are physical, run heavy, and also control the clock via the LOS and run game, but Hurts is a weapon defenses have to respect. He is capable of consistently making plays on his own and utilizing his supporting cast to the fullest. Bryce is incapable of that. If a team stops our run game, we are losing 9 out of 10 times. To pretend that win is a credit to Bryce is disingenuous. It just further cements that we have to win ugly with Bryce because we can’t win pretty with Bryce. And we can say Tet should’ve had a TD on that deep throw because it hit his hands, but name any of the Top 15 QBs or so in the league, maybe even Top 20, and they throw that same pass, Tet is catching it. We have to dissect ball placement, the definition of a drop vs a bad pass, “hidden yards,” and whose fault was a drop way more than any other time in our history as a franchise, and it’s not coincidence. Prime Cam out there today? Hell, Cam post-2017 out there today… he would’ve gave us an additional 17 points minimum. Saying we didn’t have to pass is also facetious… plenty of teams pass in these type of games. We don’t pass because our coaches want to limit his mistakes, because he is so prone to make them. If he was an efficient passer, it would be used as a weapon and another prong in our attack. Instead, it is obvious through play calls and approach, they don’t trust Bryce and that requires your defense, run game, and special teams to be damn near flawless. Also, imagine being a guy like Renfrow or Tet. We weren’t up 30+ points all game. It was still 10-0 at halftime. There were plenty of passes to be made, and we didn’t want to chance it. A mark of a franchise QB is that they make everyone around them better. They elevate the play around them. Is Tet’s play elevated? Look at what he does with the ball in his hands. Problem is, we have trouble getting the ball in his hands. Same for Renfrow. I’ve maintained Tremble is a playmaker. We can’t get the ball in his hands. Same for JT. XL’s struggles are in large part due to limitations in the scheme. Can’t take the top off a defense if you don’t have opportunities to do so. It’s like buying two or three Ferraris and then stripping the top 6 gears out of them. It all comes down to we don’t win because of Bryce, we win in spite of Bryce. JStew literally just got on the postgame show and said something along the lines of we didn’t win with/because of Bryce. Then the other guy gets on and starts trying to hype the game manager angle for Bryce. This guy is a #1 overall pick. The defenses of his limitations are tiresome and old. Even in a win, it is packed full of reminders of how perfect everyone has to play to win with him at QB. Again, I ask, if the defense is having a bad day or the running game is shut down early, then what? We’ve seen what happens… and so yes, I enjoy the win, but nothing has changed. Bryce hasn’t done anything to disprove the idea that if we have to trust him to win, we will lose. This game was an aberration, not the norm. So again, what happens next week? And the week after?

Ransom just forced the fumble. PLAY THAT KID!!!

Icege, I respect you, brother. But if you feel like Bryce isn’t a limiting factor when we have had 30+ mins of possession and he has <150 pass yards, all of our passing offense still greatly relies on dumping it down and hoping guys break tackles, the offensive stats overall have not been impressive and the points we scored have relied greatly on Falcon turnovers leading to incredible field position or outright points, then I don’t know what to say. a win is a win. It’s satisfying to win. Bryce is hard to watch and almost impossible to enjoy. If we had a QB who was capable of accurate deep passes, they would have blown the lid off this game early. It’s been there. But the offense is reduced down to clock control, dink and dunk bullshit, and a philosophy that would make Vince Lombardi cream his pants.

NGL, feels good as hell to punk their defense with the power runs. I fuging hate the Falcons. Every time we do it, it feels like justice for that dirty hit Kazee took on Cam years back.

Love me some Chuba.

I’m not mad about winning. I’m ecstatic we are. I don’t like this is how we HAVE to win because of Bryce. With a proper NFL QB with requisite physical skills, we likely have 40+ points already.

I like what our young guys on defense are doing, but to believe they’re capable of this every week? That’s a tall fuging order. Don’t get me wrong, I love winning, but it’s why I want a Bryce replacement plan asap, because this isn’t sustainable and offensively is hard to watch.

It’s how we have to play with Bryce at QB. if you like 1950s offenses, I imagine you’re really stoked about this.

Awww, look at Brycey poo.

I’ve never been more disappointed in a TD drive

Prepare for disappointment.