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Healthy Brown and a dominating, DE will COMPLETELY change the complexion of this defense. If Dan can hit on one in the draft and add a few other key pieces…

I will levy a compliment that I never thought I could ever, ever give the backpack kid. He looked like a football player today. Just typing that gave me chest pain. Run game was shut down, but he still produced against a really tough D. He dropped a few very pretty dimes, led a 4th quarter comeback to tie, and got the piss knocked out of him a few times. Well done, please keep it up.

My man is a dawg out there. Catches everything and gives off the uncoverable vibe. I’m very happy to hear he was discharged. with the mechanism of his injury, if anything weird on the imaging or exam, he stays the night.

A lot of clenched up butt cheeks from all the red jersey fans today.

2 drives 2 scores. No punts. No turnovers. Guys running open. Bryce has time and making good decisions. Dropped a dime to X. 6 for 10. 107 yards. Hard to hate any of that. I really hope he shows out today. I’ve been begging him to prove me wrong.

It would be the quintessential panthers move. Big name, significant injury history washed up has been looking for his retirement team? Check, check, check and check. He’ll be snatched up by an on the ropes GM somewhere looking to do anything to save his job.

His style of play is limited by his physical ability, hence, the field of play is condensed. we need someone who can make all the throws. If this team is content with winning 9 games a season, every other season, relying heavily on premium offensive talent… Bryce’s ceiling is maybe 1-2 games above .500, as long as he is surrounded by playmakers. The whole point of a franchise QB is to make B- talent look like pro-bowlers, and load up the defense with capital you didn’t have to spend on the O. We have that equation exactly ass backwards.

it’s incredible. the 8th wonder of the world. career: 119 receptions for 1062 yards and 4 touchdowns. By the end of the 2024 season, he will have earned about $19m in his 7 year nfl career. If my math is mathing correctly this AM: so that’s $159,663 per catch. if broken down by yards, it’s $17,890 per yard gained. $4.75m per touchdown. It’d be one thing if these were game changing, but not a single yard or catch meant a damn thing. Well done, sir.

When Ian finally takes his last snap I never want to hear his name again.

Easily. To be able to plug in a backup LT without much drop off from your starter? That could mean the difference between playoffs or sitting at home in January. Good/serviceable smart young and healthy LTs that won’t lose you a ball game at reasonable $$ don’t just come along every day. Everyone talks about the most important positions on a football team… backup LT is in the top 10. Picture next year… the team is scrappy and competitive, 4 and 3 record, second place in the South. Morale is good. devastating run game that Let’s our marginal defense get plenty of rest. We play the Bucs and win, going to 5 and 3, but we lose Ickey to a high ankle sprain. Atl loses that week and are now at 5 and 3 as well. There is no Ickey and no BC because we let him go… and we go in to Atl the next week for a battle of first in the south. Week after that is the Jets…. Now they lose both by 10 and 3, respectively, and fall to 5 and 5 going in to their bye week. Atl is at 7 and 3. Out of typical Panthers desperation, they try to rush Ickey back in to the lineup with a saints game coming up… Back to good old Panthers football, always playing catchup. Another season at .500 and the fans sadly rejoice in mediocrity, when playoffs were in reach. This team always overestimates its ability to pick up quality o line depth in the draft or FA and it always blows up in their faces. Like Chuba, I see him as being part of the core that Dan is trying to build. Work on his contract now and see if we can come out with something mutually beneficial. I’d consider 3 yrs at $25m to be very fair.

An old guy who is still playing at a high level is only 1 sorta major injury from retirement. Recovery time is longer for the nagging stuff.

A lineman that can backup both center and LT is worth his weight in gold. Those are 2 of the most crucial positions in the team. Please retain Brady. Hunt’s mentorship of Ickey is, and will continue to pay off in spades. In the next 1-2 years, he’ll be a top 5 LT. Mark it 8, dude.

I have 2 male cats: a 16 lb and an 18 lb. Both good mannered and tolerate each other most of the time, until something makes big guy nervous…. And he makes THAT noise. The low pitched someone’s world is about to get f-ed up. Inevitably, the 2 go at each other in a terrifying fury that you have to witness to appreciate. I idiotically got in the middle a couple weeks ago and in a blur I had 3 5” slashes on my leg and a nasty puncture on my thumb (that mo fo hurt worse than when I smashed my face in the corner of my dresser). When cats fight, you literally don’t even see the shots, you just see balls of fur flying. I don’t want to find out what that x30 would be capable of. Imagine a 500-600 lb mongoose.

anyone who has ever seen the fury and speed of a house cat when things go sideways understands why the cat is the alpha predator on this planet. A male bengal tiger is 10’ long and over 600 lbs. claws and canines can be 4” long. They can flat jump 15’ in the air. The grizzly would be completely shredded and/or bit it the face or throat. It has the power to drag a water buffalo. It’d be over quickly. So lion vs bengal tiger? Tiger is faster, lion in more broad and powerful. Siberian tiger is over 700 lbs, but that’s not an option. I respect the size and ferocity of the grizzly but you’ve got to take the tiger in 8 out of 10 fights. Lion vs tiger… not sure.

The Brown and Luvu combination covered up a lot of the stink that is this defense. The games that Horn played… I guess when 3 borderline all-pro talents are on the field at the same time, you look better than you truly are.

For a first time GM being dealt 2 7 offsuit and having Tepper as an owner? In one offseason he has solved (hopefully) our o line disaster and made games at least watchable. Draft and offseason brought in some very promising young talent. 3 promising rookie pass catchers??! He got something for mingo. Mike Jackson for peanuts. He has avoided an OMG WHY?!! Type of move. He signed our homegrown RB, and actually got him to stay, for reasonable coin. Overall positive moves. He’ll have a chance to hire his own DC in the offseason and hopefully convince Tepp to go back to a 4-3. So positions in most need: QB, D line, LB. That’s not too shabby. If we get a solid DC, go heavy in the draft on drafting DLine and roll with a bridge veteran QB, this team could be surprisingly competitive. It seems so far that he has an eye for talent. T would never of signed off on Harbaugh or Payton, so we got Canales. I can’t put that on him. Being a former player, he understands intimately, locker room culture. Players universally respect him. He knows problem children. Signing Chuba showed that we retain ‘our’ type of guys. I think he has done an admirable job, all things considered. We knew it would be a bad year, but telling me in the offseason that we’d be set on the offense except for QB? I’d still be laughing.

This. This year wasn’t a good look on his (Evero) resume, but he may be a better manager (head coach) than a true play caller.

I am the walrus.

I decided to browse how 4 consistently good teams drafted in 2023: Ravens: 3 of 7 picks on lineman Steelers: 3 of 7 Chiefs: 4 of 7 Packers: 2023 draft was weird but their 2022 draft: 6 of 11. Line. It’s how it’s done.

Maybe he goes to ATL….

The post game interviews with Deion might go longer than with the actual coach because he is such an attention whore. It’s truly a disaster in the making that the media will salivate over. God help the moment anything starts going bad for the team. So much of this is eminently predictable. Tepper, please, do not seek the treasure. It’s bushwacked.

The consistently good franchises restock linemen with every draft. They have depth. They don’t have to pray that this one guy works out and that he doesn’t get injured. It’s a frequently injured position and without depth, a single injury can tank a season. It’ll be easily exposed. Backup DT can’t play the run? Rut roh raggy. Backup LT doesn’t do well with the speed rush? Sounds like 3rd and a mile all day long. Stronger lines make skill position players look better than they really are. Teams with bad lines with bad depth almost never make deep playoff runs and they don’t win SBs. Using valuable capital in rounds 2-5 and taking linemen who aren’t necessarily positions of need… Wins championships.

I’m not convinced he’s as hot a commodity as he is being hyped to be. Every team in the league knows that it’s a package deal with him and his dad. I kind of feel sorry for the kid in that regard. Deion may actually end up costing his kid money by knocking his draft position. Sounds like a murder - suicide for a GM and coach.

The older I get, the more frequently I find my justly applied cynicism… validated. It felt like a blind man was giving me a vasectomy with a pair of bolt cutters.

Yep. Kind of what I felt like it was heading towards.