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He looked REALLY good as a runner. I hope those brick hands were just first game jitters.

Yep, the contest between Haynes and Miller yesterday was no contest and I think they may be fighting for one roster spot between them.

Agreed. I think Snow did a helluva job last year working with what he had, but we've invested heavily in the D now. We spent our 1st eight draft picks of the Rhule era including two top 10 overall picks on defense. We're still inexperienced, but the talent is no longer lacking.

Many virologists and epidemiologists predicted that this thing would become endemic as soon as it became obvious that this was going to become a global pandemic. Sure looks like that will be the case. It'll take years to get the world anywhere close to herd immunity via vaccination and while COVID doesn't mutate anywhere near as rapidly as the flu, it probably still mutates quickly enough to stay a step ahead of the vaccinations to avoid being completely eradicated.

Hoping to see Darnold. I don't need to see much, I'd just like to see smart decisions and an ability to stretch the field. Hoping that Erving is healthy enough to go. If he struggles at LT or continues to be hampered by nagging injury, Moton to LT has to start becoming a serious consideration. Would love to see Christensen get some time with the ones against their ones. Would like to see Chuba catch a pass. Hopefully those dropsies yesterday were just welcome to the NFL jitters.

At the end of the day though, their backup QBs who they are reportedly quite concerned about combined to go 25/36 for 310 yards albeit with 0 TDs and 1 INT. Letting bad QBs complete nearly 70% of their passes for 300+ yards doesn't provide me much confidence in our depth back there.

I think yesterday confirmed a lot of what we already knew. OL depth is bad. DL depth is strong. The WR corps has the potential to be great. Secondary depth is still a huge question mark.

That's what I saw too.

https://www.panthers.com/news/snap-counts-panthers-at-colts-in-preseason-opener?fbclid=IwAR1yjAvzMgplElVwugNB7PnCzJ4bPUCWFp5aS3Sx9_azNh8wH5gmiqK2gpk Trent Scott only played 14 snaps and yet still found a way to stick out like a sore thumb in the worst ways possible. Greg Little may actually have a shot at the 53 after that. Tecklenburg played every offensive snap. Christensen played all but three. Not sure what to make of this. I'd guess that Tecklenburg was largely out of necessity with the current injuries at center. Current injuries at OT probably also heavily contributed to Christensen's snap count but I also like to think that we might be trying to fast track him and get him as many reps as possible. Christian Miller played 68% of defensive snaps and was largely invisible. That's not good for his roster chances.

There's way too much of taking any difference in opinion as personal attack on the board right now leading to actual personal attacks. If you don't want to encounter differing opinions, then a forum that encourages open discussion might not be the best place for you. We're not going to be the football thought police around here and moderate a "Panthers positive messages" only forum. If you want to stick around but want to create your own personal echo chamber, there's an ignore function. Use it. Obviously not intended for you @Zod, just expounding on what you said.

Yep, seemed like a really solid dude. You can tell he's not much of one for interviews, which is fine. OL are rarely the look at me types.

Slye is always going to be a (considerably) worse version of Gano. All the leg in the world, but you're left holding your breath and honestly expecting a miss every time he takes the field.

Maybe so. Seemed like he was getting virtually no chance to start but he was by far the best OT we had on the field yesterday.

I hope the kiddos kick it's butt and get back to normal quickly @Zod

Oh for sure.

I thought he looked promising, though I also think on some of those penetrations he wasn't being disciplined with his gap assignment. The runner ended up hitting the hole he'd vacated. That's coachable though.

Sounds like Rivera and Fox. Take the air out of the ball and hope your D can hang on. That's a tough row to hoe in today's offense driven league.

I like Rhule for the most part. I really hope he works out. But I'm not gonna pretend like the jury isn't still way out.

All the tea leaves keep reading that Moton is gonna end up at LT IMO.

Robby Anderson is fast as hell. He ran 4.36. that's blazing. DJ ran 4.42. That's still very fast. We have more of a need for a physical possession type WR.

So far so good.

Until that question is answered it's by FAR the biggest question we have. Squabbling over the backup QB seems trivial. Like worrying about your countertops and flooring while you're roof is leaking like a sieve. I'm honestly just not concerned at all about our depth until we find out if our starters can even compete. Not gonna worry too much about today's game when most of the guys we saw today won't be on the final roster. I was happy to see the rookies play well. That was the main reason for tuning in today.

That's the issue with Erving. He's average when healthy and recently he's rarely been healthy.

I'd take Will Grier over Josh Rosen. Not even joking.

I just think it's highly doubtful we're going to find an upgrade in August and I certainly don't want to spend anymore future draft capital trying to slap a bandaid in the current QB roster.