LinvilleGorge

We looked like poo on Saturday. The folks ready to write us off and start looking at the '24 draft class are way overreacting. But the folks acting like it's definitely no reason for concern might be in denial too. We'll have to see where we go from here. We just don't know. Maybe Saturday was a sign of things to come or maybe the Jets just took that game a lot more seriously than we did. Time will tell.

Knock it off with the petty personal bickering.

Better play in the trenches on both sides. I feel like we didn't really get to fairly judge most of the roster or either unit as a whole because we were just getting mollywhopped up front.

https://commanderswire.usatoday.com/2023/08/16/baltimore-ravens-marlon-humphrey-washington-commanders-sam-howell/ Rivera’s quarterback is Sam Howell. Howell, coming off an impressive performance in the preseason-opening win over the Cleveland Browns, had another good day against the Ravens on Tuesday. Howell, known for his deep ball, instead used a quick passing game to keep Baltimore’s defense on its heels. That got the attention of Baltimore Pro Bowl cornerback Marlon Humphrey. “He looked pretty comfortable,” Humphrey said when asked about Howell. “I didn’t know if it was going to be him or [Jacoby] Brissett throwing with the ones, but I know they have some speed out there at receiver, for sure. But he looked really comfortable. He’s a second-year guy, but he looked really comfortable back there at quarterback.”

Woof. I don't know about that. I don't doubt his talent a bit but he looked like he needs some more development this past weekend while Minshew looked pretty sharp. Seems like they have a pretty ideal situation to not have to force him onto the field before he's truly ready.

Sucks but at least it's another year of NFL paychecks.

I don't care about the "wrong side of 30" thing. Not every player on your roster is gonna be a long-term fixture in the locker room. In fact most aren't, regardless of age.

I'd rather bring in line help. I don't care if Sanders plays in the preseason. He's a vet. He doesn't need it.

I'm okay with Chuba as the #2 RB. We just have bigger roster needs than a RB if we're out there looking to make moves. We looked awful in the trenches on Saturday. If we're going to make moves let's get linemen.

I mean, to be completely fair we could have our best roster in several years and still pretty much suck.

I'd be more hopeful about this news had Moton not looked like a human turnstile on Saturday.

I interpreted that as "we're waiting on someone to get healthy because our healthy guys suck".

I definitely don't think it's playoffs or bust. Too many variables in that. Quality of the division, quality of the conference, injury bug breaking the right way, etc. I just want to see competency and hope that the organization is heading the right direction. Basically the opposite of what we saw on Saturday.

I didn't realize Hardy went there too. The shadiness of these HS "academies" is real. They basically exist to keep athletes academically eligible while they focus on sports. The grift is that the kids actually going somewhere are on scholarship. The rest of the school is rich kids whose parents bought the sales pitch. Maybe they'll end up playing D3 ball but they never had the talent to go anywhere anyway, it's just that someone has to pay the tuition to keeping the thing afloat.

Yes. He was first team All-State before he ever moved in with them. He was a five star recruit and the #5 OL recruit in the nation. Yeah, everyone knew this kid was ELITE. His HS coach who lobbied the school to get him in just so happen to get a job on the Ole Miss coaching staff. There were a lot of folks riding on this kid's coattails.

A speed bump would've been better out there on Saturday.

Yeah, it just looks really bad in hindsight how the movie basically vilified and made a mockery of the efforts made to investigate the situation when if these allegations are true then what they were attempting to investigate was exactly what was going on. Basically just exploiting a kid in an awful situation who just so happened to have elite athletic talent. Again, if true then they almost certainly wouldn't have given the kid a second glance if there wasn't something there for them to exploit. That's just sad. Not to mention that here it was supposed to be about the story of Michael Oher when in reality the movie was about a white knight lady and Michael Oher was just a supporting character.

Sucks to hear but I'd be lying if I said that I was surprised. I don't think I've ever defended the NCAA and likely never will again, but in this case they were right. They knew there was fugery afoot in this case they just couldn't prove it.

I hope so. But ever camp and preseason I watch Panthers fans convince themselves everything will be fine like we have an organizational history rivaling the Steelers or Patriots. Those fanbases I get the sentiment. They have valid reason to believe it. Ours? It has a bit of a delusional feel IMO.

The score doesn't matter. Your starting OL and starting defense parting like the Red Sea on every snap is concerning though. That's all.

All I look for in preseason is some sense of competency. I don't care about the score. But our first preseason game didn't show much if any competency. Is it no big deal or a sign of things to come? No clue. We'll find out soon enough I suppose.

We were 2-14 in 2010 and the worst team in the league.

Not really concerned about our strength of schedule, strength of division, or NFC, or anything else. Just want to see improvement from the Panthers. Because that team we saw yesterday isn't beating anyone. It's easy to say "Oh, it's the preseason. It doesn't matter." But it's another thing when you watched a good chunk of the games in week one and we were the worst team I saw by a significant margin.