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Gotta start shopping in the right aisle. You're highly unlikely to find the QB in the bargain bin where we've been shopping the last two years. Paying them too much or trading too much for those bargain bin QBs aren't gonna make them any better.

This is what Tepper and company replaced the "Keep Pounding" chant with. No bullshit. They play this exact clip and expect people to pound their chest. It's super awkward and people just look around like WTF?

Bingo

Beware the one year wonders. Joe Burrow is an anomaly largely created by a dramatic shift in offensive scheme his final season.

Figure out which QB Rhule and company like then bet the farm against that poor guy. These guys can't evaluate QBs. That's how you end up with Teddy and Darnold.

I pegged Darnold as a bust that year, but then again I also thought Josh Allen was gonna bust too. The strides that guy has made as a pure passer is just amazing.

Yep. All those pending FAs who are actually good will end up being re-signed or at worst franchised. Good QBs simply don't hit FAs unless they're old or have significant injury concerns.

Apple? Bro, this is Radio Shack.

OL is really important and this staff hasn't gotten the message. We spent a ton of money bringing Joe Brady here but we haven't given him much to work with at QB and in the trenches. We have great weapons, but trash at QB and trash at OL. It's like spending a ton of money on a race car driver then putting him in a clapped out F150 with nice tires and wheels and wondering why you're not winning races. Well, no poo you're not winning races. Same thing with Brady and the offense. If you suck at OL and you suck at QB, you're gonna suck on offense. Just no way around it. I'm not absolving Brady of any and all blame, I'd just like to see what the guy we thought was a wunderkind could do if we gave him something to work with.

He's better than Darnold for sure. This staff was just done with him when he threw them under the bus blaming them for getting the play call in late so that he couldn't audible to a running play when he sailed it over the head of a wide open DJ Moore in the endzone. And honestly? I can't blame them. I would've been done with him too.

I just think he flat out doesn't know what he's doing running an NFL team. Moving money around to make wealthy people even wealthier is a lot different than running a football organization.

I'm not opposed to just flat out firing him because despite posters calling me negative and not a Panthers fan, both Teddy and Darnold turned out exactly how I said they would. It wasn't hard to predict. They are what they are. I really thought having Teddy fail would've shown them that you can't rely on reclamation projects, but no. They just doubled down and went with the polar opposite type of reclamation project. From smart but physically limited to physically talented but not mentally cut out for the NFL.

They quit in the second half.

You gotta try something. You can't trot Darnold out there again after today. The team will completely quit on him.

IMO, NOT pulling him is throwing in the towel. We are running the most bland, vanilla offense imaginable just to try to avoid the QB turning the ball over and yet Darnold is still turning it over in droves.

Howell ain't gonna be there in the 2nd. NFL talent evaluators watch games. They don't see a preseason top 10 struggling and just assume the QB is having a "down year".

This. People think I hate Darnold. I don't. He seems like a good dude. I really think he's giving it all he's got. He's just not the answer. I hate the fact that the decision makers got duped into convincing themselves that he might be.

Seriously though about Howell... My heart says I want him here. Bad. My head says I want him to go to the Steelers where he'd be supported by a far better organization that has it's poo together.

This thread is spot on. Being at the game today, none of the offense was communicating on the sidelines in the second half. Several defensive players (Shaq notably) talking to PJ while we had the ball. The team was anticipating the change that never came. They know Darnold ain't it.

The trade deadline is past. If we have any desire to compete, we need to swallow our pride and call Cam.

Walking away from the stadium the "Let's go Pats?" chants are the loudest thing I've heard all day.

@Happy Panther, you had Panthers fans in your seats until the bitter end. Thank you bro!

So... Sam Howell? Y'all onboard yet? @kungfoodude

Darnold is ready to come back out. You gotta be kidding me.

Same ankle. Fug you Mac Jones. Dirty little bitch