LinvilleGorge

I mean, certainly seems this way. We all keep hoping for a turnaround but y'all I'm just not seeing it. Maybe this year will be the year where the preseason doesn't matter and we flip a switch and magically look competent come the regular season but I wouldn't bet a dime on it.

You do this for Panthers games in the Tepper era? I think I'd rather do this for fun

https://x.com/NFL/status/1956808798846259555?t=CWGHrrfRhB5Ergraf5yj6Q&s=19 interesting comment there

On the positive side, he'll have access to actual good games to watch unlike the folks relying on local programming.

I'm not surprised it ended up being something more severe than just simple overheating. When I am saw that he'd been taken to the hospital I was like... that's weird. I would assume they'd have everything they need there at team facilities to handle simple overheating. I mean, the treatment is basically to sit there and chill out, maybe get a hydration IV. That's about it.

Yikes. Poor guy. That had to be scary as hell. Everyone trying to convince him he's just overheated and here he is like "nah man, I'm telling y'all I'm from Texas, Texas heat ain't new to me. I can't fuging breathe."

Depth hell. Our starters look like trash too. LOL

Yeah, we can't just keep churning and burning through coaches. If we want any hope of not becoming an absolute last resort destination we basically have to ride it out with Canales until the entire sports world is asking why this guy hasn't been fired yet.

I hadn't flown through CLT in awhile but I landed yesterday to a message from the mayor bragging about the vibrant culture and "great sports teams" and I was like WTF??!! They really bragging about Charlotte's sports teams??? C'mon...

At least with players in the draft they don't have much choice. But I think we found ourselves in a situation where were left scraping the bottom of the barrel for HC and GM talent. I don't think anyone out there really had Canales and Morgan as legit HC and GM candidates but our lists have to start where everyone else's end.

Rookie pass rushers usually aren't impact players. That's all I'm saying. Good grief man...

I mean, given how we've utterly failed at building a competent football organization and how terrible Mayfield looked here before rebounding in Tampa... yeah, not sure if I'd call that a "real chance". If Bryce bombs again this season I almost hope he goes somewhere else and proves to be legit. Like damn, yeah it's really time to just move on. Tepper killed it.

Not looking promising. I'll wait to see if we magically flip the switch in the regular season but we've been hoping for that for years now. My hope is gone.

I said the final score of the preseason. Dude, I get it. You didn't want to draft T-Mac and you really wanted a pass rusher. I'm just saying that your odds of finding a true impact pass rusher at #9 in this year's draft was slim to none. Hell, I wanted Jalon Walker too. But I'm not gonna crash out over and over about it. I said before the draft that I wasn't I wasn't in love with any particular prospect but if it was my call I'd draft Walker, but I understand it if T-Mac is the pick.

I agree, I'm just saying I wouldn't be shocked if that was basically the reason.

So new HC time? Because Canales is the OC. He's an Andy Reid style HC. It's his offense and he's the play caller and some good buddy of his gets a nice pay check and a title on his door to be a clipboard holder.

What if the answer is that Tepper doesn't want to hurt Bryce's fee fees?

Yeah, if Bryce sucks or gets injured we're gonna suck OUT LOUD. At that point it's full on draft talk season anyway.

The scoreboard doesn't matter. But how your starters look and the overall level of preparedness does. You don't have to get mad and just start switching up arguments to try to find something that will land. My point from the beginning here was that you're not likely to find immediate help for your pass rush in the draft unless you're lucky enough to be drafting VERY high and have a potential generational type talent in the draft. That's it, that's all. Immediate impact pass rusher help in the draft is a long shot.

I'm fine with it. I'm done with trying to be the best bad team we can be. If Bryce regresses and looks like trash again then let's get as high in the draft order as we can get and hope for a strong crop of QBs to pick from. I don't want some decent backup that might be able to get us an extra win or two that accomplished nothing but pushing us down the draft board.

I'm fine with drafting T-Mac. We weren't fixing all of our glaring holes in one off-season. If it eases your pain, the talk about Jalon Walker has been pretty muted so far. It's not like he's been out there looking like the next Von Miller.

For this year? Nothing. Onto the 2026 draft if it plays out like this.

We are HEAVILY relying on two 2nd round rookie pass rushers when pass rushers notoriously usually take 2-3 years to emerge at the NFL level outside of the very elite prospects. Your typical "good pass rusher" drafted outside of the top 10-15 picks is usually 2-3 years away from being a major contributor.

The bar to clear is a crack in the sidewalk.