LinvilleGorge

There were posters here who didn't want Zach Wilson because his appearance reminded them of Jimmy Clausen. I'm serious.

The thing you don't understand is I am too. I like to talk football. If you want to just be in an echo chamber of nothing but positivity, there's an ignore feature.

Yep. Darnold has far exceeded my expectations so far and he's been very good under pressure. But God forbid I mention that he has two glaring opportunities for improvement and suggest that I think he can fix them. LOL!

If you read this thread and only see me complaining about Darnold then you have some severe selective reading habits.

Yeah, we should stop discussing how we could improve. Let's just be happy with being the mediocre franchise we've always been and hang out hats on those handful of years when we fielded a good team that didn't quite make it all the way to the checkered flag. Some of y'all really can't understand that I'm happy to be wrong when it benefits the Panthers. I'm just a guy who loves talking football, doesn't mind formulating and sharing an opinion, and isn't afraid to be wrong. Sorry I'm not sorry that it makes you mad.

This feels like it's headed toward an Al Davis/Lane Kiffen style "fired with cause" type situation.

Nah, you just wanted to act like I was being entirely negative toward Darnold when this thread is anything but that. It's okay. No player is perfect. No team is perfect. Critique is okay. Praise is okay. There just has to be some balance of the two or this place becomes an echo chamber.

If you took my comments in this thread as "backhanded compliments" then you're just beyond hardheaded. Sam has far exceeded my expectations but there are two IMO obvious areas for improvement. I guess being a "believer" means only glowing praise all the time, nothing else can be accepted. We already dealt with a very annoying group of posters who did that with Cam. I really hope it doesn't happen with Darnold and honestly, the fans that followed Darnold here aren't among that very small group. It's long-term posters. It's just weird. We're all desperate for a new legit entrenched franchise QB, but don't go over the cliff with it.

LOL! That's exactly what I'm doing with this thread. You just refuse to accept it.

LOL! You gotta check your own confirmation bias sometimes.

Darnold is tied for 5th in the NFL in combined TDs. I have no issue with that. I fully expect his rushing TDs to come back to Earth as defenses account for the threat, but that should also open up opportunities. Our redzone offense isn't as bad as some of y'all are making it out to be and it's trending upward. We're 15th in redzone TD% on the year and 9th over the last three games. We were 100% yesterday.

Did you actually read or just knee jerk react to a thread title? Because I don't think you actually read.

Well, I did NOT see this game being a defensive slugfest. I still feel like an offensive explosion is imminent.

Better go tell guys like Smitty and the Honey Badger they're just too small to play NFL football.

Let's trade for Hunter Renfrow and play him at FS. I'm only partially joking.

He gave up the only TD so far. He's decent against the run. You just have to force him onto an island in coverage. If you do, you can feast.

LOL @ the NFL being so desperate to get back into the L.A. market. The Chargers are a very promising team with one of the league's beat young QBs and here they are experiencing a road game environment at home. L.A. doesn't give a fug about the NFL.

I don't know how their grading system works but they're so high on it that they refuse to adapt it for when it gives them a clearly flawed result. Hell, they might be crediting him for a plus play on the plays where he's in good position but gets forklifted into Darnold's lap because from a technical perspective he did do his job. He was just physically incapable of carrying out the task. Which is one helluva flawed grading system if that's how they're rationalizing his grade.

If you want to use a minor injury as the public excuse to avoid outright benching a vet for sucking, fine. I don't care. Actually seems like a decent thing to do. Just get our best five OL on the field, please.

Halftime adjustments were the main thing. They just straight up kicked out teeth down our throat in the 3rd quarter.

He seems to have a fast release but that matters more for DB reaction time than it does for the pass rush. 2.9 seconds for the pass rush to get there is still 2.9 seconds regardless of how much of that time is spent in the actual throwing motion.

That's kinda my main point. Darnold actually seems to play better when the OL performs like ass. The more time he has, the worse the results trend. It's odd. It's the opposite of what you'd normally expect.

Says the guy who evidently missed at least half of the initial post you were responding to. What are you talking about in terms of "release time"? Time to throw is the time from receiving the snap to releasing the ball. All rankings I posted were vs all other QBs not just rookies.

He has but I'm honestly not sure how much is on him and how much is due to absolute suckage beside him.

When there's this many I'm not gonna wade through and figure out which ones deserve banning and which ones don't. If you just don't engage they'll leave on their own. The thing about this job is that the pay isn't great. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time ciphering through reports. I'm only picking the low hanging fruit.