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I caught a youtube short of his podcast this morning, coincidentally. He still wants to play, said he didn't expect to get a call. Panthers weren't mentioned. No team was.

Yeah I 'remembered' that in a different post up there somewhere.

Hey bot get Tepper in here. He needs to hear some stuff.

I think he deserves a workout if he wants to play. If his arm has healed or something to the point he can throw it deep? Turning to him this year? Nah not so fair to him or us. But for real if he could somehow be a viable player you really should check him out.

Are we sure he was laughing? And some people deal with stress by cracking a joke or laugh to keep from crying etc etc If he truly didn't give a poo ha ha ha, yeah. Damn right say that to him.

Wilks got the team to play to their ability better than the last few clowns. They were not going to beat the top teams, no. But the whole thing was so much better feeling than anything else since when we used to be good.

You had to stop one play. You are a defensive guy, a secondary guy. You fail not once, but at least twice on the same play. After being burned on it like, 10 minutes ago. Tom Brady Tom Schmady the world is cruel sometimes

I was a Steve Wilks guy too. But I had to admit that he did blow the TB game. Anybody looking for a reason to say no, had it. The other thing I felt was valid is who were his coordinators going to be. I don’t care for the HC calling the plays. I think it is a little too much for most of them. I love the guy though and wish he’d have got another HC shot.

Probably arguing over who best to coach Stroud. A lot of bitching that we didn’t get an offensive play caller HC with the new QB. If I am remembering correctly. More fun to think about that than what we did.

I get that he is his own boss and advisor. I don’t know if he has experienced the vibes of thousands of loud pissed off fans all being aimed at him, personally. No crystal ball here, just anecdotal projections.

Ehh, it is in his control. If he doesn’t play any better it will be out of his hands and Tepper will have insane pressure to act. Send him to a hypnotist. Get him some roids. Do something

It seems like the choice is, keep Bryce and hate watching ball but we get a high end replacement. Or get Bryce out and get more watchable ball but short ourselves on the replacement? I suppose he could find himself a roid doctor or something.

I felt all along they were rejecting real competition, intentionally. Yeah. And I don't know what you do if you are a coach in this situation. You get into head games and not on field results when you reject any threats to the incumbent.

Yes. That is a very tough place to play and Dalton had the same guards blocking that Young did; I didn't think he would last but so many weeks before needing medical attention. [the bar being set low, definitely. Any time I watched another team last season they looked better. Didn't take much to do that, you lose perspective if all you watched was the Panthers last year.] It was none of the yardage or anything, it was about throwing downfield. Because we saw piss poor downfield for the first two games. It dominated the list of issues - in my head anyway. That early, we were seeing the offense for the first time or brand new and it was dysfunctional looking. Unbalanced. Missing that necessary component. Where was it? We saw it added back in with Dalton at the wheel. The 58 passes? No we don't want that kind of game. That goes to the different flavor of suck. But just seeing a deep throw that had a chance, felt much better.

They definitely were a silver lining. If that OL is fixed up good, everything gets easier.

I don't know. Week one has the track record of not being bankable across the board. I think what I would say is this is an example of the oddsmakers moving the line to get action on Carolina. Because people won't bite without it.

Might be? We knew what was going on though. The stepchildren of the team.

That is fair. But how many worse ones do you see? And we had a bad one last year that carried over. Could be more of the same, good odds of it. So, optimistic, pessimistic, realistic? What it is...

Chuba was off for some reason. He has been better than that more than once. And supposedly had worked very hard to up his capabilities and take advantage of his opportunity. He just wasn't as good as he needed to be. He needs to find whatever he lost.

Illogic abounds

That is a long standing rule of mine. I would defend that hill. But I 'over' reacted last year because I had never seen such... and I wasn't wrong at all. It was ugglee from day 1-365. They say the exception proves the rule. I couldn't say, but that poo was an exception alright. Because first week was absolutely a barometer. Sunday just felt a lot like that, but more focused on the one guy who fell way short of meeting expectations. Who knows. Just like the saying that it is never as bad as it looks nor as good as it look... maybe yes maybe no.

Can't ignore the entire gaslight media and NFL insider type people that said it was literally everything else. All he needed was ... everything just right. But they have almost all changed their tunes in a week. Obedient weathervanes that they are. The Buffalo preseason script was only just over two weeks ago. Which was pretty good but people just ran with it. Like we are running with what we are running with now, to be fair. Here it is though: as soon as stuff gets real he shows you that meandering drop stuff. And you know the re-training hasn't taken. (or, you should know). Not that it is an easy thing, but right now he ain't doing it. I don't expect that to work, really. You have to deal with what he is and get the most out of it somehow.

That is worst case. Or close enough. I think I am going to go find a replay of a good team playing. I sort of watched Colts/Texans it was entertaining and 'super' depressing at the same time. Hmmm. where are the most ex Panthers playing?

You might be right, and that is a 5 year setback at the minimum. 6 maybe. Worst case. And predictable.

Not old enough...