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He also generally seems MUCH less engaged in the complexities of the game than advertised. People thought he was some Kuechly on offense, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. He’s just polite and PR wise, a very well-coached guy. He’s not as cerebral as people mentioned. Doesn’t seem like a film nerd, football geek, and is rather laid back, has this "aww shucks, I'm trying my darnest" good-guy type energy that knows how to say the right things. And just because you can say and recognize what to do, doesn’t mean your execution is good. Or your processing is great. Plenty of bad QBs have looked good in that Gruden school for example. The media is really clinging to the organizational failure and how we’ve done him dirty, but there is a large non-physical issue that hasn’t had a focus…and it’s because he’s this good guy. Embedded in the LA sports scene.

I didn’t mind the draft and FA overall, but I do feel we could have navigated the draft a bit better. I just have a different approach to how I would have built the WR room. Cant stand how much we jeep avoiding the multi-positional types with short area quickness - this draft had Ladd, Polk, McMillan, etc. Last year passed on Reed, Rice and Dell to name a few for Mingo. Still an elephant in the room, it’s forever been an elephant in the room.

Bryce’s footwork looks the same as last season. He slowly backs up parallel to the LOS and then goes into a tip toe shuffle. There’s no retooling of footwork, there’s a way you should dropback to maximize leverage, upper body strength and throwing velocity, and he doesn’t do it. And it appears can’t be coached into doing it either. If he simply sticks with what he’s comfortable with then he should be in the CFL because you can’t do that, at his size, in the NFL.

Sucks to suck

Yeah, but realistically, that’s what we’re looking at haha. He’s not-bad in stretches, very Kyle Allen-esque, who could find a rhythm but also lose it like a bad habit. If we need to simply backup Andy with not-Bryce, he’s one of the rostered guys we’d be talking about. Probably just roll with Plummer behind him at this point.

Howell isn’t going anywhere. Same with Stidham (who will probs replace Nix soon) and Lock (Ditto with Jones). And then interesting backups for good QBs aren’t going anywhere either (I.E Browning) Aidan O’Connell is the one I could think of that could be pried for cheap, but unsure if it’s worth it. Probably just roll with Andy and reset at QB again in the offseason.

I know this idea to long for the hard-nosed AC/EP hybrid approach is appealing as we currently sit in the gutter, but you can get what you're wanting in zone heavy WC offenses. The Saints right now are dialed in on all cylinders with a zone-heavy Shanahan scheme with Kubiak's son. I just don't think we've had the right personnel + scheme + coaching aligning here in quite some time to make any sort of offense work. It's all about the marriage of parts. Right now, the big step is seeing how it works with a QB like Dalton. And then understanding how the parts come together around a more known commodity at QB.

It really depends on how these QBs perform through the season. There’s about two to three DLs I can see with top-10 talent, but there’s no clear lineman on either side of the ball that are screaming #1 pick. I think objective number one is to try and win as much as we can, not joking. It’s time to develop the existing talent that’s not going anywhere as much as we can so this is not as in poor of condition as it was going into last season. Let’s see what we can do. Let’s see if this team can get something going with this OL, Brooks, Diontae, XL & Sanders. If Dalton shows there’s a decent baseline situation on offense, then I think QB is in the cards.

Gotta take it one game at a time. Next step is to see what this team looks like with Dalton at the helm.

I don't know what you guys are talking about, the sidebar is Jer's 10 y/o cousin Alfie dressed as a Panther for Halloween.

This thread is at 27 pages for me and I just can't get past the photo in the OP. Young's eyes are below the bottom of Dalton's chin.

Dalton is leading this thing. It's always fun to try and find a young dude and pine after the idea of him doing something, but we've got Dalton unless he's injured. Jake Browning, Hendon Hooker, Kyle Trask, Aidan O'Connell or the slightly older guys like Cooper Rush or Jarrett Stidham...sure, all fun to think about, highly unlikely any happens or any of them amounts to anything.

Daniel was one of the guys who was quick to point out Bryce's issues early last season on the AFS with Mays.

Honestly, there’s no way you can put him back in. I think this is over.

4.73 Air Yards per Attempt in his career, 5.4 YPA. Good freaking lord. I saw this compared somewhere — we’re basically looking at the worst statistical performance in the modern era at the position. Zach Wilson annd Russell are better. The only one that touches close is Kyle Orton in 2005 for the Bears. Ignore the TD/INT ratio, if you really just look at the full picture, there is a strong argument this is the worst QB play in the history of the game.

Even as a mod, I'm getting close. My dad gave up his PSLs he got year 1, finally, this year. They're not in Charlotte anymore, finally were like its not worth trying to give away half of these that they won't travel in for. Everyone in my orbit is out of Charlotte minus a select few. There's not much tying me to the team anymore. My parents are both from Chicago, I live in the north shore, my wife & I just had our first (boy), and I'm seriously thinking he'll grow up a Bears fan (I know, not that much better haha). And I was perusing through some old photos of me as a kid, and realize my dad had me in Bears & Cubs gear all the time. Moved to Charlotte in 92 as a youngin' and when the team came, the fandom just happened to us all. Not a big football merch guy, but all I've got left is one Kuechly jersey that I never wear and a carhart Panthers hat that is for hiking/house work. Times are a changing and honestly, I'm tuning out. I dettached from the Hornets about 3 years ago entirely. This feels eerily similar to when I was just completely dettached emotionally from a fan standpoint. And it's just football at the end of the day. I just want to watch some fun games at this point.

Im a big Cam Ward fan - I’ll have to dig up my stuff the last 2 drafts - was big on both him and Daniels a bit before their blooming. The next guy I got my eye on is also Drew Allar. You just can’t ignore 6’5 235 and that type of arm. He’s shown to be a bit quicker than people thought this year - far less of a statue than assumed. Can make every throw, and make it look effortless.

Texans actually traded up with us to grab Nico haha. And the pick right before Dell was another we traded away.

I'd like to know how this offense of Canales runs and if we got anything in guys like Legette and Sanders. Bryce doesn't allow this to be seen.

I love Nico and Dell. Such a fun team

Alrighty now, let's get ready to watch the 2 QBs who we passed on for Bryce. Go Bears.

After today's game, his career YPA after 18 games is 5.1. That is statistically the worst YPA in NFL history for a QB who started more than 1 season. The worst.

Right? Thing is, benching 1.01 after 18 games is a death knell. So when it happens, he's straight up done. Could be done in the NFL all together. I don't see how any team would even want to pick him up next year coing off what we've seen. I realistically see 1-2 more weeks if this continues. He legit may have about 2 games max left in this league. He is currently 2-17 as a starting QB. This is unbearable.