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Obviously. Shudder to think of what they (rules committee) will do in reaction to low passing stats early this season.
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We paid the Bryce price. They were given that game.
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What's a shootout these days? Mid 30s? 40s? Saints gave up 50. Asses kicked with a legit 27 points on the board. I don't know what to think anymore. I am an old school football fan that doesn't need those kinds of offensive displays to enjoy a game, but that seems to have passed me by. I fuging loved Foxball to be honest. Ball control and bad ass defense. It wouldn't hurt me if the league's pendulum took us back there.
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I would temper that with our defense isn't good enough for shootouts either, more than our offense even. They are shoot downs, in cold blood. If we score 30 we aren't winning. That's about horrible. Dalton, the WR lineup he came into, the OL that was together, we could score points. We had no WR depth really, that really fuged us.
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Best and worst PFF grades from Panthers' Week 6 loss to Falcons
strato replied to TheSpecialJuan's topic in Carolina Panthers
I didn't scout Clausen as I recall. It was an out of the blue thing to me also. That E Brown crap might have been the final straw for Hurney with me. It came from panic over Peppers, I thought, and I didn't know who was doing the panicking whether it was JR (who I pretty much blamed for the whole Peppers tagging and the resulting cap crisis) or Hurney or Fox panicking for that matter. Someone was too desperate to replace JP. (I know JP was still there, but that was his replacement). That trading next year's 1st stuff, again. The cardinal sin for me. You do that and I hate you. I was very much against the trade for a QB last year. Totally opposed. And I do agree that with Stroud we would have still been handicapped by the cost, no doubt. But also no doubt that he would not have been the disaster that gave Chicago the 1st overall in 2024. -
Thing is though, when your D can stop no one nor barely slow them down, you are going to get decent TOP numbers aren't you? I mean, avoid the 3 and outs and you will be right there. Stats... are a murky pool to swim in sometimes. Like rushing defense, when they pass all over you then your rushing numbers might fool someone. "Oh, look, we are 10th against the run!". Okay... actually that works really good for passing defense, when you really suck on offense they don't need to pass.
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Well, you are Panthers focused. Start watching a 1 win college team go out there outmatched every week and see how much fun it is. The purity of the amateur game is no more, totally gone. Not even a facade exists any more. Greed has ruined that for me. I'll watch the state teams here and there. For me that is pretty much S Carolina, Clemson, and Coastal Carolina (local). I have seen parts of a couple of S Carolina games, and they are for sure more fun to watch than Panthers games on average, even post Young.
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kungfoo is just .. right. There is no good outcome. It is pick your poison because either will kill you. We can die the way you want or the other way. There is no solution for this with the lineup we are able to run out out on defense. If we can avoid more season ending injuries and keep the starters that are out there now together then maybe in a few weeks they will have gotten things a little tighter. Maybe. But right now, it is a no win. Again, 35 second drives, followed by a sub 60 second drive. Maybe I reversed the order it was two games ago... but wtf are you supposed to do with that?
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Best and worst PFF grades from Panthers' Week 6 loss to Falcons
strato replied to TheSpecialJuan's topic in Carolina Panthers
Armanti. Yeah. Thanks. I'm not sure we knew Clausen was that bad until we knew. More of that trading up poo though, wasn't it? Enough to sour me on regardless of the player. The only trade up that didn't really piss me off lately is the Brooks trade because we had accumulated so much in the initial trade back that we were kind of playing with house money trading back up for him. That 2025 second was keeping me happy. edit: and also, I had zero expectations other than prove or disprove Bryce Young, and looked at the season as just basically a practice year for Canales and the new draft picks. So I didn't place a super high value on whether or not they were all immediate contributors. -
Panthers Draft Pick Status (Week 7)
strato replied to Leeroy Jenkins Ph.D.'s topic in Carolina Panthers
Wilks went 6-6 with a lesser team than Rhule went 1-4 with. I'd figure that as 8 or 9 wins. It was nice to think we had a chance in most games. Not all but we could at least compete with the teams ranked like 10-32. I know besides the recent Dalton starts it is the only fun I have had watching Panthers football since 2018 probably. -
Best and worst PFF grades from Panthers' Week 6 loss to Falcons
strato replied to TheSpecialJuan's topic in Carolina Panthers
That would be Bryce for my money. By a mile. I haven't watched much with the focus on defense and the little I have was focused on Wallace. But things are so weak that maybe it is possible he is a player they devote resources to keeping down. I think A'Shawn is probably that guy for me but again, I haven't watched Johnson with that type of focus. I guess I should. But there is no way he beats Bryce out for that title. Maybe ... the App state guy Hurney took for a WR. Forget his name, but he was pretty obviously a mistake. -
I just posted a very similar opinion, I very much agree with you.
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I really think that college fandom led to the massive Bryce support. People were not looking at it clinically because the formed a fanhood rooted picture in their heads. Then they get that confirmation bias thing happening. I believe the best thing to do is wait for their seasons to be over and then look at everything then. Clinically as possible.
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Best and worst PFF grades from Panthers' Week 6 loss to Falcons
strato replied to TheSpecialJuan's topic in Carolina Panthers
He was a 3rd rounder but yeah he doesn't need to be doing that and it wasn't by design. I am totally bought in that they looked for every edge and every chink in the armor to defend against, to salvage that sunk cost. I knew we needed a C and wanted one, but never thought they would do it for the reason I stated. And they didn't. I spent a lot of time trying to understand the why of some of this poo, and caught arguments over it. But it wasn't me being an advocate for it, it was just trying to get what they were likely thinking. -
Okay I get it, the cynical humor is something I should get right away. I'm slipping.
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Interesting take on Evero and why no change in scheme
strato replied to raleigh-panther's topic in Carolina Panthers
It seems to me it was based on getting the compensation for promoting minorities. That rule. You lose a guy to a HC job, with him at your place for two years, you get a pick. And they expected that to happen so they wanted him to pull his two years before letting him go. -
Interesting take on Evero and why no change in scheme
strato replied to raleigh-panther's topic in Carolina Panthers
Symbiotic relationship. I am about to give them something to chew on, for some clicks. A nice divisive take for them to pound. Edit: I retract that... I made a mistake watching Trevin Wallace locker room interviews. He was all smiling and not pissed off, and I was like wtf why are you all happy right after getting your ass kicked? So I went back to gather a couple of these videos and they are not immediately after the game, but the next day or even a Wednesday locker room thing. That's good to see that - I was trying to misjudge him, it fuging bothered me seeing a player smile after a loss. But that isn't what it was. So good. But I won't be making that thread. -
Best and worst PFF grades from Panthers' Week 6 loss to Falcons
strato replied to TheSpecialJuan's topic in Carolina Panthers
Oh yeah. Especially now that they don't have to protect the QB in any and all ways possible. (meaning, my take was that they would not stick Bryce behind a rooking C making the protection calls) -
That's a nice thought. Show me how with this bunch. All you can do is try and slow them down. I think a couple of weeks back we gave up a 35 second drive and an under a minute drive, back to back. I don't think there is anything to win with here. We have one or two players on defense that you could win with.
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No, we skipped last year. It is time to start throwing some later round spaghetti against the wall to see if it sticks. I wanted Rattler, for example. He went in the 5th. He looked better than a 5th round pick for the most part in his first game. They solved him pretty well but the idea is not to take a 5th round flier and throw him out there like a 1st rounder. He needs to be slow cooked. A season or two in the league sitting and adapting might yield better results.
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Yeah I always go to Kamara vs CMC in their draft. Was CMC like, 8th overall? Kamara was 3rd round (67th overall). He is no CMC but outperformed him the first season and I don't want to look up the rest of it but he is still playing. Kamara, seems like a thug type to me or maybe just not that bright and I prefer to avoid that, but he can play.
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I am enjoying this debate. I am just going to say, the offense needs to be as balanced as you can make it. When you are good at the passing game and good at the running game, you can do what is necessary. Falcons seem to be there. What will generally not work is running with no passing. It is done to set up the pass. So you have it set up, and won't pass? That's not ideal either. Or, you do pass but fug it up. It is generally execution anyway. Whatever the play call, no execution = failed play. The whole thing with Bryce was run, pass, no difference. Stack the box bring everybody up like it is a run every time.
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Interesting take on Evero and why no change in scheme
strato replied to raleigh-panther's topic in Carolina Panthers
I noticed something from watching these 'pundits'. Which is how many of the topics I see here are inspired by the beat writers and these radio people. I don't follow them a lot so often don't notice and when I do look, I see it... "oh that is where that came from". -
Everybody is talking about resigning Chuba Hubbard or Diontae Johnson
strato replied to Basbear's topic in Carolina Panthers
We need to get Brooks into the mix so we can see how badly we need Chuba. He has two ACLs and has only torn one... just saying. We don't know until we know, and all kinds of bad stuff has played out before. So let's get some trust established with him, or not, and then maybe the Chuba situation becomes clearer. -
Best and worst PFF grades from Panthers' Week 6 loss to Falcons
strato replied to TheSpecialJuan's topic in Carolina Panthers
Worst case he becomes a very versatile super sub. Yeah, Nijman... next. I thought he was THE OL liability on that day.