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I sure have. I wonder why you troll this place so hard too. I wonder about a lot of poo.

I mean, he is primarily a pocket passer type. So you’d want to have a good pocket for him. I don’t really follow them but they seem to suffer the opposite issue we do. They let their offense suffer to bolster the defense. We do the opposite.

Just as long as every year for the last three.

I think the tell on that is how they construct the QB room in a few months. If they don’t change anything they are hypnotized.

I didn’t get any kind of vibe off of Rico that he wanted to come back and play for Idzik and Canales and split time like he did this year.

https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/panthers/2026/01/12/panthers-nfl-jonathon-brooks-jonathan-stewart/88151503007/ There isn’t a lot to it. Basically Stew wants us to buy a Brooks jersey and Brooks trusts in God to bring him through.

That can be a chicken or the egg scenario. Canales knows what the QB is good at and is not good at better than we do. He would have reasons for not calling deep shots, if he is holding back. They could include protection concerns, as well as any Young related motivations. I think there always the chance Bryce doesn’t see the man open down the field and it is just that simple, more than a confidence issue. Probably a mix of the two.

So, he threatens with the extension and we’ll feel better about the 5th year. Kind of like a plea negation.

I am not sure it should be a ‘sell out to go to the SB’ season. And hope they don’t think that. At the same time I was thinking you absolutely must find out if you want to pay for Bryce or not. That means putting it on him. No protecting and trying to hide weaknesses with the run game and super conservative calls. So I wish they would do it and find out, win or lose, 2026. No more developing. Time to do it. Let’s see once and for all.

Why? We have years to wait for the QB. Three most important positions, LT, QB, sack artist. We wait years for one, but not the other two. I guess, for me, sign FA who do the meat and potatoes work. Draft the players who are gonna be cornerstones. Let them develop. Resupply every few seasons and keep filling in the right guard and the nickel back and centers etc. Best to draft them all but practically, you can’t

I generally agree, but Cam Newton may not. There are all kinds of ways if you know your talent.

They have been in three straight years. And advanced today. Remember Jake Delhomme? PS the bizarro world method is to surround a sub marginal QB with weapons, that he can’t fully utilize, and let the defense go to hell.

They thought keeping Burns over Moore was the play. From what I heard, because this QB can turn marginal players into functional weapons. We won’t miss Moore… wait and see. Then it was kind of, oh poo we are have to tear our defense down and use every stick and brick we have left to help our QB not bust out.

They can play defense.

Did not have to change anything for the next level.

That is possibly fortunate and allows us to react more aggressively. I kind of feel like BPA within a subset of positions is good enough unless the value is insane like Luke was. In this situation I feel like reaching a few slots won’t kill us. Plus Dan seems to be pretty good at trading back.

So… do they still work? The thing about that pain meds and like.. that novocaine cocktail, masks real damage being done. Or will mask it

Hey, what can it really hurt to look? If we were willing to look at Bryce in terms of the 1.1, anything anywhere in any round should be fair game.

I mean, I’d be saying yes, give it to me. You have to wonder how many of these major career ending gruesome injuries were suffered after taking the contents of a syringe. They can’t feel it and wham, they just broke it. And I doubt Ronnie Lott let them chop off his fingertip or whatever, without having a liberal dose of whatever (that was RonnIe Lott, right?).

It’s all the good poo too. I feel like Stafford was dosed at halftime. What broken finger?

NFL is such a hypocritical entity. How many guys are they injecting with narcotic like stuff to allow them to suit up but God forbid you flirt with your female employees or write private emails that dis sexual deviation from the mainstream. Private emails. I am no big Gruden fan, but I wonder if he will ever get back in. JR never will.

My ears are up. Listening. Bryce is pretty much the anti proto, and I like the prototypes. if you are gonna fail at least look good doing it.

If you don’t mind them hanging in strip clubs and throwing a dancer girlfriend on a pile of unloaded weapons you can get them in the 6th or 7th round. And I am one of those guys that that can deal with that.

Do it. Do it until you get it right.

You are likely correct. Maybe it will be the replacement that is the gem. Just saying we have found some assets through that resource. And I likely won’t know the replacements any better than this bunch.