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Newton in his prime was a problem for everyone. Unfortunately it was a very short lived prime. My 7/8 score is based on his entire career with the Panthers - maybe Prescott is a 6/7 and Newton is a 7/8, but there's an overlap for sure imo. Prescott's supporting cast is stellar - I love our WR corps, but theirs is just as good.

Say something positive about a Panther not named Walker. I dare you.

I mean he's always been a cerebral QB. 95% of the time he knows what's coming and where all his guys are meant to be. He almost never has to move from his spot - he's just playing backyard pitch and catch. I'm actually surprised Brees fell off so quickly - I don't know if he had some arm / shoulder surgery? He certainly lost his fastball.

He had a shoulder / lat injury during camp, no? On the back of his ankle break. Maybe he's lost his fastball?

So I have a rating scale for QBs - 1-10. Prescott is similar to Newton - he's a 7 (borderline 8). A guy you can win a lot of games with, but he's never going to consistently push his team to the next level. He's also too good to easily move on from - you're kinda in limbo with the guy if you can't build the rest of the team around him. Tonight Prescott has struggled to get off his first read a lot - it's very limiting.

As I keep on saying, in College you drop the biggest bags for QBs, DTs and CBs. It's a passing league, you have to have multiple CBs that can turn and run with 3/4 WR sets. Rhule / Fitterer get it - you can't hide behind soft zones and a good pass rush in the NFC South.

The Antonio Brown addition for the Bucs was sick, even if he shouldn't be in the league.

I mean Arians is 18-14 with the Bucs. They just got hot at the right time last year.

Brady might kill his RBs at half time.

For all the hype Prescott gets - he's an inaccurate deep ball thrower (at least tonight).

"I didn't realise Stafford was a good player".

Thompson is a guy I'd have let walk when his contract was up. NFL LB body, but he's always played second fiddle (third fiddle when TD was here) to someone. He was outshone early last year by Chinn (playing a Striker role) and late on by Carter (a 6th round pick). He's a really disappointing player for mine - crazy he's a team captain.

I don't feel good about our LB corps at all, but I do love having Chinn at S. He'll be a nightmare to gameplan against there and he's a game breaker.

Yep, very much a 'welcome to the NFL, rook' game for him so far.

Dislocated elbow they reckon - so he's out for half the season.

Tallest midget.

Fingers crossed, he's on my Fantasy team (yes I'm going to be that guy this year )

If you don't move him off his spot he'll murder you. That's always been the case. He's never really had a great fastball so he's not had much to lose off it.

LOL, Brady to Fournette "Right here! (pointing to a spot next to him) Right here!" Dude's a 5 year veteran and still doesn't know where to line up.

It's 1:30am and I have to catch a train to Liverpool at 7:30am for an all-day, all-staff meeting. I may have a problem.

Scooter Magruder?

Two drops for CeeDee Lamb already. Yikes.

I've got him in a deep Dynasty league. He doesn't start for me, but he's nice depth to have. They'll rotate heavily I think - even Bernard would be an interesting pickup as he'll be the primary 3rd down back I reckon.

I used to hate him, now it's nothing but respect.

One thing I've noticed watching Wilson this pre-season - and it was highlighted just now in the two snippets from a press conference (one of Darnold, one of Wilson): he's fuging tiny, isn't he? I don't think he'll last the beating the NFL will put on him.