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Been rooting for Cohen. Penny has the kind of health history that would smack you in the mouf if you didn’t keep your running back room full. they will still need Chuba and it doesn’t pay to dismiss Sanders

I just watched this guy Penny play a few minutes of football. If he can stay healthy he is a load and can move and catch. Can’t complain. Reminded me a little of Foreman which we missed a lot and is not like anyone else in that room. Good.

Yes you know I will make my negative comments about Bryce Young’s quarterbacking, darn right. As long as he is inflicted on us, serving up smelly highlights. I wasn’t trying to then though. It probably is just hard to see stuff talking about a constricted field, likely a limited passing game, and references to a game manager ceiling, tippy toes, etc, as positive. I was thinking about adapting the pro game to his game. Trying to visualize what that will look like. Trying to imagine how they were going to go about it. Same as I was doing last year, but that arrived totally DOA and just ghosted. So we have yet to see what a custom fit 'play to Young’s strengths' offense would look like. I can see in my mind a way it would work, or function. It really isn’t the kind of ball I care about watching though. Real innovation could make it into something that works in a way that hasn’t been tried, which would be real cool. But the odds say nah, we are not going to witness the birth of a new and revolutionary NFL trend, not here, not with this bunch. It is gonna the small ball point guard express with lots of handoffs. Zzzzz. edit: I guess you are not remembering all the people telling the complainers to go root for the Texans and just being hostile and insulting if you spoke against little brother.

I believe it about the Pats. . But of aLL WRs, number 1? I mean, stranger things..... You don’t have to be a 10 across the board. Legette has a large amount of talent and a great attitude, I hope he translates. And hope this QB can get him the ball.

I couldn’t figure that one out either. I was trying to tippy toe around Young for all the delicate ’that’s my quarterback’ crowd. Well, it isn’t exactly a crowd anymore....

I keep hoping he is still the same impatient dude that had Teddy run off and got Sam in and the next year Baker PJ and Sam. And then that monstrosity of a trade and pick. Please don’t change that just because it was your pick, Dave. It’s okay to be impatient. Or, it is the wrong time to repent and find patience.

If the defense can come together there might be some watchable games this year. The offense is basically that of an expansion team but not without some intriguing potential. New players all over, new coaches all over, it might really be bad early. That is where the running game and especially some above average defense could keep us from stinking it up too bad. I think the last 7 games are going to be a better representation of the team than early on. I don’t know the schedule late (probably division heavy) but the idea is just that things are starting to be comfortable for the OL, the young skill guys, etc.

Things had been so ugly for so long, and Wilks had us on track to beat the teams we should beat. Which weren’t a ton but it was the first watchable Panthers football in years. And didn’t seem ugly to me.

It might be more about matching your scheme to your players and executing better than the opponent. Or in the Panthers’ case executing well enough to keep it a game with a much better team. With this quarterback, the offense is going to have to be hybrid as poo. Number one, it is still best to protect young quarterbacks with a stout running game and offensive line. Number two, our young quarterback needs more help than most top overall picks. So, running game, come one down. I don’t think just having those pieces in place mean the passing game can’t be creative, or that the run can't be more influenced by modern principles.

Dave is probably on the selection committee, I see two brunettes with long straight dark hair.

I was trying to say that maybe after spending on Cousins the Falcons had a commitment downgrade, second thoughts. I mean, they aren’t playing around with making sure they are competitive at QB.

yeah, we don’t get any or probably very little benefit from cutting Sanders we need to ride it out this year. And I agree on expecting better with a better line in front of him. He looked so ’not good' I wondered if he was playing through something. I have a feeling he could mildly surprise people.

Isn’t his Number One Draft Pick contract guaranteed? It would make no sense to pay him to sit home. He can be the backup QB. The holder on ST, whatever.

Jackson 5? Man that poo that was running with 5 children and making big time money.././ they were getting paid in ice cream more or less.

Maybe Cousins coming off an achilles (a speed robbing injury) influenced their decision? Second thoughts about the level of commitment? A hedge? Probably.

It has come down to.. I don’t see what Young does, that virtually every other NFL QB can’t do as well or better. Like, there is nothing I can think of. There must be something but I can’t find it. Who has a weaker arm? Most players, you say okay a weak arm maybe but xxxx makes for it. What is his xxxx? They did allow him to do a QB sneak, I think, but he has to be one of the last guys you'd call a keeper for. A designated Hail Mary thrower was put in the lineup for him. Canales has his work cut out.

I liked most of it. Any chance to see Luke talk football is good to me. And the rest of the guys from yesteryear. The whole thing made me feel like it was supposed to. Waiver wire, you have to take their current contract if you claim someone, so we’ll see how it goes. But hey, we’re 1st in something.

Yeah, I don’t know. It was news to me.

Looked for a Tepper thread to ask this. Did people know that when Ben Navarro was still in play to buy the team, he asked John Lynch to run things for him? Listening to a Lynch interview he makes the claim (really bored, but hey, I never hear that one).

It would be.

I, unpopularly, hold the opinion that Reich was shocked at Young’s lacks. What he could not do. I think that is why we saw the neutered offense. That I never expected. I didn’t expect the lack of gadget plays and stuff schemed to hide Young’s inadequacies. I think Brown being overly involved had something to do with Frank apparently just checking out on the reimagining of the offense after what they saw Jets scrimmage week (the week the pads came out). edit I am not sure exactly when Frank really checked out but he obviously did.

I don’t like it, but they had the refs too.

I am not sure there is a coach that can shine Bryce Young to be what he is not (and I feel will never be), in the NFL. If you can’t hit a deep ball you are just no big threat to an NFL defense, even the bad ones.

All I have to say to this really, is it sounds nice and downgrades Stroud to make Young look better is more like what this take does. Look at the WR numbers the year before and then the year with Stroud. He made them better, not the other way around. That’s my opinion. I appreciate you designating that it was yours. Many state these things as facts.

Underhill, it was being discussed At The Time. The lack of deep balls. One reason Dalton got hit, yes, was standing in and delivering a deep ball. It’s just a lot quicker to say wake the fug up where have you been.