Loyalty4Life

I have this crazy idea that it's easier to score against lesser teams.

Anyone expecting playing this Miami team as a get right game needs to change out their football helmet for a padded one. Not only is Miami one of the top teams in the NFL right now, our team has all kinds of problems with coaching, play calling and especially injuries. Next man up is just something stupid coaches say to give backups a pep talk. This game was actually a lot closer than I expected and Bryce continues to improve as does everything else but no where near enough against the Dolphins. If we had played like this on offense we'd have won 1 or 2 against lesser teams.

Need a foul for floppin.

Show me a run game and solid protection and he will. You're making this knee jerk reaction off a very small sample size for a team and does not have the pieces or are playing in a way that allows you to take deep shots. Miami's speed at WR makes them very hard to cover with scheme and since they have that threat and are giving Tua plenty of time that equals easy deep balls. Bryce has thrown maybe 4 or 5 true deep balls that were not just purposefully thrown out of bounds. Three of those throws he either had pressure in his face or his WR/TE slowed up or go held. He may not have a great deep ball in the NFL but we don't really know yet and you certainly can't say that based on the evidence and surrounding situations I've mentioned above. The top are the throws just after the ball is released. The bottom are how each QB is able to finish their throw. When Bryce is able to look like the bottom right picture and still misses over the top then we can talk. Until then we just don't know.

Now, the dolphins have adjusted to our defense and we are missing too many starters to stop them or create big plays on defense.

The first quarter was the result of the entire offense coaches coming up with the scripted plays. Later on we revert to Frank's playcalling which is much, much more spread and seems to quit on the run.

Are we allowed to tackle using our arms?

They were taking a shot to the endzone the whole time. Bryce sees it's covered when he goes to throw so he throws it out of bounds. Pretty standard stuff.

I do not trust Bryce's eyes when he changes the play at the line. Change the protection, yeah but run the play called or have 1 choice to switch too. Allowing him to run the offense like a 4 year QB was a large part of the problem in our previous games. We didn't dumb down the playbook. We cut down on how much Bryce was doing for and responsible for at the line. Growing pains.

Dat boi fas.

Damn, these missed tackles are killing us.

Tua passes batted down. Too short.

I wanna see more 22.

Agree to disagree. Throwing deeper lob type passes over defenders to drop it in is different than throwing darts.

Seems like in the first quarter we did a ton of running with 2 TE from power sets. Then went spread. Wonder how we'll answer now.

Looks like his foot hit out of bounds before he extended the ball for the first down but hard to tell with the shown angles. His foot could have been off the ground.

Bryce overthrew that long pass to Chark because of the pressure in his face. He has not hit on those deep shots but he's only had 2 or 3 chances.

Can't wait to see how the Huddle explains this quarter. Goes against 90% of everything I've been reading for weeks.

I am not Tepper's wife but I do really like the guy. He wants to win. Badly. He's willing to spend his own money and a lot of it. Once there's a plan he allows his people to be very aggressive. Yes, he's very involved and has been the decision maker on many things. He's decided the structure of the team, who answers to whom, how decisions will be made. Like the original poster said, Tepper is a consensus type leader. He wants all the experts in the room to show their view because they are the experts and then whomever is making the decision has all the information and facts to make the best decision. Sometimes, yes, Tepper calls the shot. It's his team. He was pretty much the reason we got Rhule but while this turned out to be one of the worst decisions in Panthers history at the time it wasn't seen as some crazy thing. He actually had to overpay Rhule to keep him from going to the Giants. So, it wasn't like this was some hair brained outlandish decision make by an owner who wanted to be owner, coach and GM. He made the decision that the football people in New York were also going to make. But all that being said, it was a hoooooooooorrrible decision and is 100% on Tepper and only Tepper. All the QBs fails are on the coaches that picked them and Tepper, while probably giving his opinion, picked none of them, including Bryce Young. Tepper picked (kept) Hurney and Rivera. He picked Rhule. He picked Fitt. He picked Reich. He set the power structure. He opens his checkbook. Wide. All this other crap and blame are just fans looking for someone to blame.

All part of the plan. Agent 89 just got the Panthers Jerry Judy for a 7th round pick. Secret Agent 89.

Hey, everything I'm getting ready to say is just rumor and speculation because the team is losing but man, does it make for some great clickbait. I even heard, and I'm not saying this is 100% true....but it's out there. It seems like a lot of people are talking about the earth and just how flat it is. I mean, don't listen do me. Go outside and look for yourself. Seems pretty flat, doesn't it. Then you add in how flat the Panthers have been playing. The dots almost connect themselves.

Bryce, Adam, DJ, Sanders, Hurst, Zavala, the other guard. Those are the new players. That is 7 of 11 players on offense that are new. How exactly are we the same team when 70% of the offensive starter are new and the coaching staff is all new? I don't think you understand the words that are coming out of your mouth.

I said this in another thread. If I paid a king's ransom to assemble the NFL's coaching version of the Avengers and then proceeded to go 0-5, you're damn right we're going to be having some "not fun" conversations.

It's almost as if football is a team sport with vast overlap in every position having an effect on the whole. Weird.

That's why I keep coming back here. The in depth and nuanced football and Panthers discussions.