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DraftKings certainly thinks so as they currently have him as the -800 favorite I think what plays in his favor is that while there are a few other players that in a blind resume had a better statistical output, particularly some of the RB's when you combine their rushing and receiving stats, none of them played a key role on their team for the entire season like T-Mac did for us with Jeanty being the exception. The problem for him is that he didn't live up to the pre-season hype he came in with, in addition to being on the worst team in the league this year. It very well could come down to how the voters view Bryce, who we all know is quite a polarizing player in the eyes of so many analysts. The worse they think Bryce was this year, the more of a feather in T-Mac's cap that becomes and probably helps him win over votes for being the only rookie to put up 1k yards this year. In a season with no clear cut run away winner, I think it will only help T-Mac that he was the #1 option in our offense for the entire season, the other rookies were role players for big chunks of the year, like Henderson and Harvey, or only started half-ish of the season like Dart and Shough.

It's going to be very interesting to see where Pitts ends up next year, but I'm not sure he's worth the risk. Sure he had a great year, but sports are littered with examples of guys who were complete busts of high picks, only to have a breakout season in their final year of their rookie deal, sign a big contract, and then go right back to being a bust. We still have way too many holes to take a swing on paying big money to a TE who is anything but a sure thing.

It’s tough to give it to a QB who only played half the season and didn’t even have 10 passing TDs. If he lead them to a win today to knock us out of the playoffs with a good passing gam, he might have had more of an argument, but without that, you gotta give it to the only rookie to go over 1k this year

Hoping that pick just locked up the OROY for T-Mac as well

Which means we have a chance at a winning season next year, as we all know if we finished 9-8, we'd have a 0% chance at it next year. This is the Panthers Way.

The ability for a basketball ref to alter a game vs a football ref is ridiculously significant. 2 or 3 cheap calls against the right player and the game is forever altered, not to mention in the NFL, refs have such specific assignments to where they can only alter so much of the game if they even wanted to. Absolute night and day when comparing the ability for a ref to put his finger on the scale with those two sports.

Yes, that non call was really bad, but unless there is a smoking gun someday showing a specific ref having wagerd on a game where they made a particularly bad call, I'll never be convinced that the league or refs are trying to determine who wins or loses games. Hell, I think there is a stronger argument to make that if the league were to try and dictate this game, they'd have wanted us to win so the division wasn't won by a team with a losing record and decided because of an outcome the next day amongst two teams who are both already eliminated from the playoffs.

Nah, being an NFL ref is one of those jobs that they're not risking to make a few bucks on the side. They work 18 weeks a year to make a few hundred grand while hob nobbing it up with NFL players. It's also a really hard job Not that I'm making excuses for them, but you have to remember the speed at which the game is played and sometimes a body is just in the way of their line of sight to make the correct call. Sometimes it's worse than others when they get it wrong, but in no way do I think it's anything remotely close to rigged or scripted. The NBA scandal years ago made way more sense as it's a sport where one ref really can alter a game in a significant way on purpose.

I think you're underestimating how easily a ref can ensure a game ends up one way or the other in the NFL, it's not the NBA where a ref calls a foul and it's always a foul no matter what, in the NFL they can get overruled by other refs. You'd have to be pretty dumb to be an NFL ref and put a substantial amount of money on the outcome of your game and hoping/expecting to be able to dictate the result. Not to mention that most NFL refs are usually lawyers or something else similar to where they already make a really good living on top of their good NFL ref salary as well.

I think the whole discussion about games being rigged or a script or anything like that is just stupid. Refs just suck, it's not that hard to understand, they suck in all sports at all levels and make stupid mistakes.

I think the PI was a bad call, but I can at least somewhat understand where it comes from. The non Facemask call though is just completely egregious, he ripped off Tremble's helmet and threw it all in one motion, that's a penalty 100 out of 100 times

It’s not a high risk pass but it’s a very low percentage completion with these conditions, and by very low, I mean literally like 5%, if that high. That they said even Mike Evans is going no gloves for the first time in his career tells you how bad it is out there today, all passes really should be thrown to a body today, not out in space or it’s going to be an incomplete pass.

Eh, I’m no Bruce defender but I’ll defend him in this particular instance. in this weather you can’t throw those high and away, no WR is making that catch, you hav to throw it to their body. The throw was terrible, but it was the correct placement for the conditions

Been saying it all year long, he can’t drive the ball from the opposite hash to the other sideline, it’s his biggest problem, so why are we throwing that pass in this weather?!?!?

The one yesterday as a picture perfect definition of pass interference, the defender was holding his other arm by the wrist, it seems to happen at least once ever week where a clear cut PI isn't called against him.

wait, what now?!?! Two games to decide division winners, and the league's brilliant idea is to make them play on one less day of rest on short notice? That seems completely crazy to me, I realize TV is where the money comes from, but this is ridiculous for two of the games that mean the most this week.

I think his shin went down before his toe came down out of bounds

The DB was literally grabbing his other arm by the wrist, yet another missed PI call against him

I was curious so just went and looked, I'm not so sure Jeanty should be dismissed, particularly if he can put together a good final two weeks. You note here his 55 yards per game, but he also has 50 rec for 326 yards and 5 TDs in the passing game, that can't just be dismissed and only look at his rushing stats. Jeanty has 1,154 scrimmage yards and 10 TDs this year with 2 games to go and very well could hit 1k rushing as well. I'm not saying he should win it over T-Mac, but the more I look at his numbers, I'm surprised he isn't considered to be more in the running at the moment (granted, 188 yards and 2 TDs were just this week to help boost those numbers, but they're still impressive for any rookie, even if people expected more out of him before the season)

I’m surprised Harvey has that long of odds, he has quietly put up a real nice rookie season that I didn’t even realize until last night. He has 787 yards from scrimmage and 11 TDs so far this year, if he ends up with 1k total yards and 12 or 13 TDs, he might be a real contender for the award.

This team is nowhere near good enough to rest players for a week and have them lose their edge even the slightest.

Why did he not get any credit on that gang sack? I'll be honest, on the replays of it, I was only watching Horn to try and see what happened to him (which btw, have we heard?). But I could have sworn when watching live, he was the main guy to be wrapping Baker up on the play, no?

If Henderson just got a concussion and will possibly/probably now miss next week as well, gotta think missing 2 games of stats at this point of the year might knock him out as he was only just entering the discussion the last few weeks anyways. Same goes for Judkins going down today too, and Dart's god awful game likely removes him from the conversation as well. It will be interesting to see how the voters compare T-Mac and Egbuka if they end up with stats that are nearly identical. Egbuka burst onto the scene and put up the bulk of his stats early in the year when Baker was playing like the MVP front runner. While T-Mac was just more consistent throughout the course of the full season (ex. Egbuka has 8 games of 42 yards or less, T-Mac has 4 of them, while T-Mac still scored 3 TDs in those 4 games, where Egbuka only scored 1 TD in his 8). It would be a shame if they put too much weight on the final game of the season if that ends up being the division decider, as I think T-Mac has had the better SEASON while Egbuka had a better peak output during that first month or so but way cooled off since. Maybe Warren goes off in the last 3 games (they still play tomorrow), but it does seem to be down to T-Mac and Egbuka right now.

After he fell down and got back up to run, that next time going down was him clearly giving himself up, which draws an immediate whistle, no different than a QB sliding in that situation.

What he's done for the locker room culture is incalculable and will have an impact on the franchise for years to come, and I thank him so much and give him full credit for that. But I still think he's beyond terrible as a game planning and play calling coach, and if you suck at both of those, you really shouldn't be an NFL HC. He's not a Dan Campbell, there are very few HC's who can be successful as rah rah guys, I don't think Canales can be one.