JawnyBlaze

44 minutes ago, strato said:

I was mostly anti Bill and Kraft. Those guys were the real villains to me. Brady was a 5th round cool story. I did hate the Pats and I did enjoy him getting messed with over deflated footballs.

But the guys doing the real cheating were the ones in charge. 

They have dry run test announcing, people who analyze the demographics, production staff that helps them, prepare. I don’t think they’s have made such a big play if he really had no aptitude.

But maybe he will totally suck. 

Brady is an incredibly unlikeable guy who dumped his pregnant girlfriend, pushed crypto scams and was often seen whining to refs and screaming at teammates. I think most sports fans not from Boston or Tampa don’t like him.  He’s not as hated as Rodgers, but not far behind.  

The “human element” in refereeing is the worst part of the game. Getting it out with absolutely not make the game less fun. It’ll make it more accurate and more a contest of skill rather than luck or popularity.  Bum ass refs and/or corrupt refs have been by far the most joy sapping part of being a football fan. 

Wins: Chicago, Washington, Saints x1, Giants, Denver, Arizona. Maybe Falcons x1.  Probably optimistic, I reserve the right to adjust after preseason heh. 

5 hours ago, PanthersGTI said:

I mean what team doesn't surround their QB with talent?

Mahomes has had very good WRs his whole career as well as RBs and a HOF TE. Only last year was he without a true #1 and it was evident. They even went out and got a WR in round 1 this year. Is that not getting him talent? They also have had an amazing defense which doesn't hurt a QB. Baltimore has done everything they can to get Lamar Jackson WRs.  He already has a great TE in Andrews and they got studs at the RB position like 4 deep. The Bengals didn't draft Joe Burrow and leave him WRless, the followed up with Ja'marr Chase. If the only example anyone can pull is Mahomes, who is already in the argument of being an all time QB, I don't really think that reflects negatively on Young. I guess you could look at the Rams as an exception. Being able to get guys who are producing like they were drafted in the first round shows they have something special between scouting and scheme. 

 

Now do you think Bryce will succeed by surrounding him with talent? That is up to you. But don't take anything away from him because the team gives him weapons and protection? The two things any QB in the NFL needs to operate? 

Well, the panthers from around ‘14-‘19 for one. ‘11-‘14 there was at least Smitty to go with Olsen but after Smitty left….a TE ain’t enough. 

Sanders looks like a helluva player to me too, how many drops did he have?

Once upon a time we basically had to choose between Kawaan Short or Star Lotulelei. We chose the guy that got the flashy stat. I’m glad this time we chose right. 
 

(not hating on KK, but Star was far more important to the defense)

D) not like I’m saying we have a good roster. Hell, might be second worst. But this guy is just talking out of his ass. 

44 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Bleacher Report’s Gary Davenport

 

Carolina is better at the skill positions this season. But despite giving guards Damien Lewis and Robert Hunt big contracts, the offensive line still ranks in the bottom 10.

And the problems get that much bigger on defense after Carolina lost multiple key players from last year’s fourth-ranked defense in terms of yards allowed.

Edge-rusher Brian Burns, who led the team in sacks last year, was traded to New York. Linebacker Frankie Luvu, who led the team in tackles, left in free agency.

Replacements were procured in DJ Wonnum and Josey Jewell, but both are downgrades. A defense that was somehow top-five in yards allowed and bottom-five in points allowed didn’t improve.

Neither did the team as a whole, at least not demonstrably.

A) it’s bleacherreport 

B) jewell and wonnum are burns and luvus replacements? Not clowney and jewell or whoever? This guy doesn’t seem to have all the information

C) OL rankings? Gtfo, can’t rank something like that before the season even starts. OL is tough enough to judge after the fact, much less before. 

53 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

If we end up with a top pick then we have no choice but to draft another QB

As for Bryce, my concern is his arm strength. Always has been. Figured he’d put on some muscle but clearly that isn’t going to happen 

My concern is his horrible accuracy and slow decision making. These can be improved I guess. Arm strength can be schemed around but it’s definitely a handicap. 

1 hour ago, Panthero said:

He belongs ahead of Mccarthy as well. Let's get real folks. 

Yea won’t argue that

Good video. More realistic take than all the people making every excuse under the sun for Bryce. Sometimes the WRs failed him, sometimes the OL failed him. But for every WR or OL fail, there was a play that someone was open and he had plenty of time but he either just failed to pull the trigger or threw a terrible ball. Good QBs on bad teams take advantage of the opportunities to make plays when others do their jobs. Bryce didn’t. 

I dunno, I’d put Bryce over Bo Nix. #30 sounds right. 

Wow, I half expected tubby on the right to break down in tears at some point. Obviously they’re just Cowboys fans without any knowledge about any other teams. “OL is atrocious” there’s no evidence to qualify that statement. This OL is 3/5 different from last year with different coaching and schemes, we have no idea how they’ll be, but at the very least it was highly invested in. Pinning fantasy hopes for Brooks on Bryce is a fool’s errand. 

58 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

The poll is different than the question.  The poll is what we expect him to do, and the question is what would it take for me to have faith in him.

I think he will look better but not great.  For me to have faith in him moving forward he would have to look like a number 1 overall pick.  Basically we would have to win games because of him and not in spite of him.

Glad I wasn’t the only one that noticed heh. For the title, he’d need to show great improvement, specifically and decision making, throwing guys open and in stride, and being able to hit the broad side of a barn from more than 10 yards away. 

1 hour ago, jfra78 said:

I think he can do screens well, the blocking was horrible and it would get blown up before it got started.  The clips that had good blocking he did well on 

If he can get the corner he has the jets for it, but he doesn’t have quick change of direction for getting around people if they get to the backfield

XL has great hands, that’s what I learned. Almost all the deep passes that were in his vicinity were caught. Screen passes aren’t his forte though. He needs to be fed crossing routes and deep shots. He’s deadly on those crossing routes if he’s hit in stride…hope Young learns to do that. 

Cool video. Would watch one for each of our trades heh. With that said, I kinda wish we hadn’t made that trade. I forget who it was but someone went between 65 and 72 I had wanted. Frazier or Colson, someone like that. 
 

Edit: it was Colson, went 69

Obviously drafts can’t be evaluated for a few years before you know what you got, but just going off what we know right now anyone hating on this draft is either ignorant or willfully miserable. The big complaints defending Bryce (a lot of it in the media, the same people shitting on our draft) were that our OL sucked and Bryce didn’t have any weapons. We heavily invested in the OL in FA, brought in a separation machine via trade, and spent this draft plugging every conceivable hole in the weapons for Bryce. I get if you wanted McConkey or someone other than XL, but we already have McConkey’s role on the team. We didn’t have a XL role and he’s inarguably the highest potential of anyone in the draft at his role. Whining about one year of production ignoring the factors that lead to it is the definition of ignorance.  Even if you preferred a different WR, the worst you could give that pick is a B.  Surrounding a young QB with weapons is how everyone agrees it should be done, so doing that rather than backfilling depth spots at CB or edge is not a poor strategy. We got at least three guys that should be starting before the end of the year, maybe four depending on the LB we took in the 3rd. Our LB position was weaker than CB or edge rusher. 

2 hours ago, jfra78 said:

How do you know this?

He doesn’t. Just doing that social media thing where you throw out wild claims that others will repeat because they share your agenda until it becomes accepted as true. 

His poor run game last year is being used against him but look at the Bucs’ RBs. They’re dookie. Maybe getting a stud (even if he needs to be eased back into a full load at first) will be what makes it work. Bryce doesn’t have the accuracy for DEEP shots, but will some coaching and lots of work ge might be able to get 25-30 yarders in the vicinity of XL. Should be good enough.
 

Let’s wait and see how Canales works with an offense he had a hand in loading before getting too critical.  I don’t give too much credit for “turning Baker around” (he was never as bad as the media would want you to believe, they decided they weren’t going to like him from the jump like with Cam) and I’m not going to lambast him for having a bad run game or whatever. What’s important is that he’s a good HC, and how he did as a coordinator doesn’t have a 1:1 correlation with that. 

1 hour ago, CPF4LIFE said:

A lot of people didn't want Cam either. 

I’m not one of those people. 

- Mitchell or Legette, I’m still not sure who I like better.  Originally I liked McConkey here as much as the other two, but we gotta get someone to stretch defenses and make them respect the possibility of a floating duck getting snatched.

- Frazier, but I’m plenty pleased with Brooks.

- Originally I would have said P. Wilson, but after hearing he has no ACL and a botched shoulder surgery nah hard pass on that mess.  Wouldn’t have traded back from 65 and would have taken Colson. 

- Sanders definitely

- dunno about the rest 

It’s not unlikely we’ll take a QB but as of right now I don’t want sanders. 

18 minutes ago, Bear Hands said:

I've always appreciated this guys takes.  He's a big fan of Legette and is starting to convince me otherwise of our direction at receiver (linked to Panthers timestamp):

 

I’m very curious to see his reactions to our first picks on the next two days. 

1 hour ago, Panthro said:

I’ve seen other places that had him as a top 75 player and the potential to be an elite nfl lb

That guy’s ranking must have been old. Everything I found after we made the pick says day two guy or specifically third round. We took him where his value was.