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No I don’t think so. We will show some signs of life I believe. It wouldn’t help anything, would rather keep a few of the same faces around for the rebuild. Also, it’s Week 1 people.

Look at McCarthy go. Good orgs and good coaching make such a big difference.

Yeah I’ve been an Evero apologist because of the Jimmies and Joes he has had to work with. But my patience is waning with it all.

Maybe they didn't want to pay out his contract but that wouldn't tie with how trigger happy Tepper has been, he doesn't seem to have an issue wasting money on the org. I wish Canales brought in his guy if he had one in mind. I think Head Coaches here have plenty of power or say, my guess is Canales stays out of the defensive side of business running the team (I think he's mentioned this in the past). But I think that rope is reaching it's end and he's going to have to put his big boy HC pants on and tell his DC what to do every once in a while.

This will be a very interesting dynamic to keep an eye on. Canales has been more than generous keeping Evero from the previous regime and also keeping him after a historically bad defense last season. Evero is not really Canales guy, nor GM Dan Morgans. He will certainly be handed a pink slip if things don't change this season and it might be before Thanksgiving.

Bryce gives it a look but Sanders is draped when he see's him and he saw color with that big DL in front of him. Honestly I'd this is an instance where his small size screws him over since he can't stand tall and try to throw a strike into a tight window.

Perfect pass, perfect catch, negated by penalty. Most frustrating thing to watch yesterday and one that should get better as the season goes on. They did an un-freaking-believable job of passing around the who-will-mess-this-play up baton. BY has time and executes a nice pass? Penalty. BY has time and a man open? Underthrown. BY has found a rhythm when we desperately need a TD before halftime? XL can't get two feet inbounds (I am still in disbelief at how horrendous that was). WR's getting open? Nijman can't block anybody. BY nice toss to Sanders aka Hands? Dropped.

Sheesh. Look at Damien Lewis instructing/communicating with Nijman and the ball is snapped mid-thought as he's looking to the right. He even is pointing his man out and I wonder if that's why Nijman doesn't really touch him. He wasn't ready at all and neither was Nijman. That's coaching! If Nijman wasn't supposed to pick that up, then he did admirable to at least push him off his side there. Bryce's eyes suggest XL is the first read in this play..... XL isn't even turning his head... lack of reps? Coaching? Maybe XL is truly not grasping the playbook. Rest of the play is poopoo and doesn't matter. It's almost like these guys didn't get enough reps together preseason or something. I texted my buddies the Panthers are the only NFL org playing their 4th preseason game in Week 1.

I think that's a fair number

Might be an overreaction but keeping Evero might have been a horrendous mistake. I was on the side of keeping him for some reason, but I hate watching his unit play.

Call me crazy, but I'm keeping them another season. There's just no point in starting over, there's way too many holes. It would have to truly go off the rails for me to want to dump them both. I would, however, be very comofortable dumping Evero.

Not really? We just aren't that good which I think we already knew. You can't have a complete DUD of a draft like we did in 2024 and expect to contend in the following 2 seasons. That stuff matters a lot, especially when you're already a bottom dweller organization.

TMac is going to single handedly make the season watchable. Bryce is going to force feed him to save his job after the performance XL and Renfrow put up.

I would just relegate him to gadget player here and promote Moore into his spot. At least that guy gets open and catches on occasion

TMac is going to have to save Bryce and the Panthers this season. They realized this way too late today but it was apparent immediately. We somehow picked the two most unnatural WR’s I’ve ever seen on an NFL field in XL and previously Mingo. That’s bad scouting. Bryce 2nd and 1 INT was unacceptable for a franchise QB in year 3. He had no command of the offense today, he and the Center looked like they’d never played together before.

- David Moore is a better wr than XL - Bryce Young failed us today - Canales struggles to get his teams prepared - TMac is going to be a franchise great if we can keep him - Our LBs (re: Rozeboom) are going to get roasted all year and it’ll be the Achilles heel to hand Evero a pink slip

My biggest critique right now is he looks like he doesn’t have any command of the offense

I love XL, will defend my Gamecocks until I die. But he needs to have a productive season and show some improvement. It helps a lot that they took TMac to get him in a better position this season too.

Wish we had just drafted this dude.

I don't think the Jags were any good in preseason either, but I could be wrong.

I hesitate to call this game a must-win, but we should beat this team even on the road if we want to be serious this season about anything.

Cut Renfrow and then kept the relationship intact to bring him back when needed. Can’t be too mad. Sucks about Coker though.

People writing off Moehrig before a single down of meaningful football is played

He’s going to crush though. I know people hate on it but Cam the enigma just attracts eyeballs. We know all about that.

Just sit him week 1 and he’ll be fine.