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Fair to say Idzik won't be getting much regular season chances at it again lol.

That was an entire culture created. Luke, Cam, TD, Kalil, Greg, Stew, Star, Tolbert, KK, Norman, the team just came together and those guys really had a cohesive well-defined locker room. Heck, we had guys feeding off it like Bene, Fozzy, and Addison as part of the culture-definition. I will welcome whoever can step up and start bringing that type of energy to this team. Right now- If I'm looking personalities: Hunt, Moehrig, McMillan, Princely, Wallace seem to fit the potential on energy side of things. Those are who I'd identify that could grow into those type of players. Would love to see it.

Canales' is great driving the positive energy but he's just not going to instill the "we will pummel you into submission" mentality many like to see. I would love to see him with a bit less guardrails at times, let himself really come out-- want to know how he is when he's ticked off/wanting to bleed. For now, we've got Dennis Morton in the house. I guess that's where the assistants and team leaders come in the time being. I'd personally like to see a few guys that bring that no-prisoners mentality within our personnel. Usually want it to be a collection of 3-5 that are these clear team-defining leaders. The other problem is our best players aren't that type of personality so it sets kind of a bland tone across the board under an enthusiastic HC. Hunt & Trevin are the closest thing to tone setters.

Hunt is the dude on offense. Taylor is a bit more of the quiet but respected vet. Brown is also more on the quiest side, same goes with Horn. Don't really have a voice on defense. Wallace wants to be but he needs to keep developing as a player.

That was a 1st unit vs. a 1st unit situation. Will Anderson seems primed to have a fairly monster year. I think he's going to be a problem and Houston's defense is stacked. We didn't fair well but the breakdown does show they just locked us up. It's indicative we may struggle against the top-10 defenses no doubt. But I'll say, league-wide, you've got the vets (Watt/Parsons/Bosa/Hendrickson/Hunter) and the guys in prime like Hutch, Garrett, Crosby that are the elite edge rushers. But of the young guys, it's WAJ, Verse, Chop, and Carter are about to pop. Seems like the next wave of elite talent so I will give a bit of grace here considering the Texans have 2 top dawgs at the edge. Tough matchup. Outside of Bryce hopefully improving, there's three BIG things this year that need to happen that this helps highlight: We really need diversify our run game (our OL can handle Gap, Wide-Zone, P&P, Inside-Zone...I don't see why we need stay so vanilla) McMillan is a given needing to hit the ground running -- but one of Sanders/XL/Coker needs to really come into their own and be a reliable hitter. Cannot rely on Thielen at his age Icky needs to build off last season's developments; he's not out of the woods yet IMO and needs to show he's worth a 2nd contract

Yep. As unpaid mods, we proactively address when the negative turns to spammy. When that line is crossed is where I think the split is here, but I'd rather give more leeway than hide/ban/etc. when we think people are being too negative. Part of the huddle shtick has always been that there's no right banner with a list of rules. Just don't be crazy. The thread that prompted this one to get made was a great post. Derailed rather quickly but is back on track. We addressed it, it's done. If people don't like how negative it can get, they can choose other avenues. You're chatting online, not locked in a room. Converse people! Ciao

Thank you. I mean, it's pretty light/tame right now and has been FAR FAR worse at times. Bwood/TRD days, early Cam years (King T/there was some insane stuff around 2012-2013), it's really not much different. If anything, I'd argue it was the most heated here after Cam was drafted but before we became perennial contenders. Those few years were YIKES (Along with needing to ignore everything posted by Chuck) If anything, traffic is a bit light and there's not a ton of conversation going due to changing times. And it's not like new people are discovering this place in droves. Many of us are young-X to Millenial that have grown up with the board, nowadays have kids and/or sh*t going on. It's the end of summer, people are taking vacations, kids are starting school, just are out and abooout. I'll just encourage anyone wanting it better to drop in the content to get stuff going.

Nice - thanks @Icege

2 ways of an owner getting into good graces with a fan base: 1. Going mostly quiet 2. Win He’s started doing one of these things

Haven’t been watching but the box doesn’t look good. Hope we’re just draining out the suck. One can hope

We used to get no respect. Still don't.

Yeah at LB, I like Wallace's potential (big year for him), but if he still has some growing pains, we absolutely cannot have crap next to him. From what I gather, the Rams didn't hate Rozeboom, but once some talent went down and he didn't have better talent assisting, he was pretty badly exposed. He's an alright LB for depth, but not a starting quality LB. You gotta see what Wallace can do year 2, but on Rozeboom's side, I think we really need to look at cut season or maybe a trade.

From camp reports by the Athletic, Robert Mays said it looks like we're expanding the run calls this year. So it sounds like Canales had a bit of a slow roll with his system. He was doing the same at Tampa but then their OL got depleted midseason in 2023 and he had to stay a bit vanilla in the run game. They know they can't stay vanilla much longer.

You won't get respect if you're forgetful and suck for this long. Time for the team to change the narrative this year.

Yeah agree. I'm looking forward to the season. No real set win expectation but I just want these guys to get their sh*t together and beat some good teams. Joke seasons are over, it's time for them to stop embarrassing themselves and Charlotte. Time to prove we're not cellar dwellers anymore. Who knows, maybe we do end up surprising. We've seen quick turnarounds like WAS and HOU. Maybe we can finally figure it out.

Both safeties need that in the Fangio-disciple system because of how they play off each other and how we disguise roles snap-to-snap. Both safeties need to be able to take in the call and assignment as we're trying to disguise and interchange when someone drops, runs a delayed blitz, etc. Make a QB think we're in cover 2 when it's 3 post-snap. There's a lot that goes to it on a snap-to-snap basis so I think it's understandable with Scott (to a certain point). To me- This staff doesn't seem stubborn, I think they'll recognize when it is worth putting Ransam in.

Good stuff Tetairoa McMillan looks like the real deal. Legette seems faster. Coker is cemented in. With Thielen, Renfrow, Horn, George -- we could easily keep 7WR. (Not the first time someone on the outside of the org has mentioned Jacolby George) The team views Ja'Tavion Sanders as a difference maker Rico & Etienne have looked good in the offense - provide great depth No question marks on OL. Rare to have in the league. Even our first 2 main depth pieces after the starting 5 are returns. Bryce is fully leading IN the system now - refining what he wants, working with Dave/Brad, and has the respect of the team. Pat Jones & Wonnum should be relied on out of the gate, but Scourton could get a big role sooner than later. Princely is likely to start as a DPR and develop over the course of the season. That's our 4 man edge rotation. The team reportedly likes where we are at corner. CB1-Horn, CB2-Jackson, S-W, Corey Thornton* watch him The team is also very high on Lathan Ransom. Still advises Scott may get a role ahead of him to start the season, but could change fairly quickly.

We got time. Will see how this next preseason game looks for them

I will say, if a combo of Dowdle, Etienne & Renfrow can be our KR/PR, it eliminates the roster clogs/STers that are Moore and Blackshear. Opens up spots to pickup late cuts.

That's obviously not going to be the case. He'll be in rotating inside and out dependent on package but Brown is our NT. No questions there.

All of the yahoo articles being linked are simply pasted PanthersWire (USAToday) material. They credit at the bottom through a link (profile: Jared Feinberg - Writer @ThePanthersWire Contributor. NFL Draft analyst. Autistic. Opinions are fluid. #WNCStrong) So linking to a site that pastes articles produced by another site. It's all just content aggregation on wire platforms I hate media these days so much...flames, on the side of my face

Yeah it felt good to grab him but it’s not sounding good. Could be stuck with Wright for a season.

He’s making the 53

It’s because a lot of the yahoo type stuff is just “yahoo” sponsored garbage. And they just have to run it through grammatical AI correction rather than actual fact checking. a fun edit/add: The CatCrave site mentioned is hosted by Fansided, and it basically does what influencer channels now do on Youtube with their titles. It's an article title that is not properly reflecting reality. Using WAY too active of words to describe benign things to get clicks-- From that site: "Troubling injury update on pivotal veteran has Panthers fans on edge" Translation: Damien Lewis is week-to-week, should be good for week 1. - "Panthers’ crucial summer battle ends in sudden conclusion for one big reason" Translation: Corbett wins the center job as expected

I’m starting to get yahoo’d out