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3pts brought to you by Jake Luton- a practice squad journeyman. Imagine an average back up. We might crack 17.

At this point, if he comes out playing like he did last year, I think you have to pull him by week 6 or 7 to see what you really have on the roster because his impairment skews the data for everyone else. So we will probably wait until week 15 and win the last 2 games to kill our draft position and have an unclear picture about what talent we actually have on the team.

I'm really pessimistic after seeing some of the throws from either rookie or very below average QBs this week. Quite a few guys threw passes down field this week with more air yards than we seen from Bryce all year last year. I'm not confident the deep ball will be there this year either.

All of them.

Good: -Leota, Jamison, TJ Smith, and Matthews. Cook wasn’t bad either. -Defense was very sound and disciplined. - Offensive concepts were vague because of preseason but better than Franks. The execution just wasn’t there. Bad -Everyone on the OL except sometimes Christensen. -The WRs dropping balls, falling down, just awful. -Penalties on offense. I don’t know if Plummer was that bad or if all the drops and running for his life amplified it. Had a few of those drops been caught it may have offered better perception.

Hello Sterns Goodbye Sterns

Predictions? -Final score doesn’t break 20 points. -Plummer does better than expected (Which isn’t much at all) -Multiple bad snaps during the game. -Panthers D gets a minimum 2 turnovers. -Somebody will make a play you’ve never heard of and you’ll have to look them up during the game.

I was happier with the Kyle Allen Panthers.

Probably, unless they get a Vet guy that can pick the basics up quick. Knowing us, they will just move Felipe Franks over from TE.

tbh Dalton is likely better than anything available right now. I hope Tannehill swallows his pride and comes in. Would like to see our offense with an average NFL QB during the pre-season to compare with Bryce.

Lol. I'm talking about the average of our draft history. The Fitterer era was more like: 1 depth guy, 4 second year cuts, and 3 don't make it past training camp. IF we have any draft picks to use.

Same, he was really bad last year. I got mocked by a Falcons fan I know when Zavala got carted off the field in an ambulance in detroit and it turned out to be a stinger or pulled muscle. Give me: Ekwonu, Lewis, Corbett, Hunt, and Moton as the starters and Nijman, Mays, Christensen, and some random FA center. Quite frankly, I don't like the idea of moving Corbett (who has been injured a lot recently) to center with no other real options. It looked like every other snap came off low or high yesterday.

The fact is XL is still a rookie and our fanbase has to be the worst out there at hyping up unproven players. Every year we draft 4 HOFs and 3 long term starters and then reality hits and it turns into 1 starter, 1-2 depth guys, and the rest are disappointments.

I think the jersey schedule gets released in the next few days. Ready to see what colors I can't anticipate getting disappointed in each week.

Had to go back and see so I wasn't crazy. Dalton only played a few snaps in 1 pre-season game last year and the rest was Corral, Young, and Luton. I'm almost certain he didn't throw at FanFest either.

Didn't Dalton sit out last FanFest/Pre-Season too? Starting to think this is intentional to not damage Bryce's confidence or something. Read somewhere that Dalton might be injured a few weeks. If that's the case, I'd be interested to see if they bring in another Plummer type or somebody like Tannehill/Gabbert.

The expectation that he is going to be Mushin Muhammad was crazy. He will be above average-But he won't even be what DJ Moore was. I forget it's that time of the year where the huddle thinks all of our draft picks will be in running for Rookie of the Year. I remember when ya'll thought Chinn was the second coming of Mike Minter and Matt Corral was going to be All-Pro by year 3.

I don't know if you think I'm sticking up for Rhule or something, I'm just pointing out the fact that the team got significantly worse during the GM change. I think our recent draft and trade history solidifies that statement. Rhule obviously had a hand in things; that was made very apparent. However, if you ask me who was most responsible for the last 3 seasons of poor football, I'm going to point my finger at the GM.

6. Everyone always says 20-22 games you know what you got. So after the ATL home game, my mind will be made up.

Yeah I think Matt was trying to build it like a college program and had way too much influence and everyone realized it wasn’t going to work. Then they shifted gears and got a weak GM who was just trying to please both sides. I think eventually Tepper realized the Frankenstein he created and then tried to salvage it by firing Matt and thinking somebody like Frank could fix it. I also think Frank really thought he could fix it and then got here and was like “Yeah I’m fuged.” People can blame Tepper and Rhule but I still believe the biggest problem was the GM. I mean hell, Matt’s 1st season wasn’t that bad for a first time NFL coach. They lost like 7 games by a score or less. It wasn’t until the personnel department got shaken up after that year that things got out of control.

I loved them when they came out. Now I just associate them with losing since we wear them more now. It makes me miss the silver pants.

So are we still sitting around 60% on the chance he gets benched before the end of the season? I think thats where we left off in January. Classic Panthers luck would be that he balls out for about 5 weeks and tears an ACL or something.

Is it Ngakoue who always has the rumors of locker room troubles?

Only ones I really disagree with: No way Jets are going 12-5. 10-7 MAYBE. That division will be a game or two difference between Miami, NYJ, and Buffalo. Chiefs will have a down year; despite down year they still probably win the division but not 13-4. Saints will implode this year and will be worse than us. The division will go to Tampa again because Atlanta is way to hyped up. Colts aren't winning their division, probably going to finish 3rd or 4th. I think they actually got worse this offseason. I think Green Bay and LAR will be the last two standing in the NFC. Green Bay was one of the hottest teams at the end last year and I think LAR is going to make one last all-in run with Stafford. AFC is anybody's guess.