raleigh-panther

49 minutes ago, strato said:

I watched his postgame comments. Mumble mumble I suck and can’t keep hiding it is what it sounded like to me. He wanted to be elsewhere and I don’t blame him. 

Gonna be a tough one next week if it is the same type of showing. 
 

If only Gettleman were here to draft some really tall WRs….

I particularly liked his smiling after that first interception. 

If I were his coach he would not see the field for a very long time.  He has been coddled far too long   

2 hours ago, Hogan said:

I felt the need to start a post with this. I have read it several times here today. ANYONE who writes that and means it immediately loses credibility. One guy wrote this and then four paragraphs of his opinion. Pal, you immediately lose credibility when you write "these guys just don't care."

Seriously?!?!?! These guys are working to put food on the table and a roof over the heads of their families and they "don't care." Working their butts off to have a job in the NFL and they "don't care?" I can 100% assure you they care way more than you ever will. 

Anyone who writes that cannot be be taken seriously.

Caring doesn’t matter to me at the pro level,   this isn’t high school

Performance does.  Execution does

Unfortunately the panthers have  none  of those things 

helping that situation along immensely is the fact they do not have a NFL Level QB.  It was true draft day.  It was true in 2023.  It is true in 2024.  He could not even be backup in this league.  

in the nfl, if a team doesn’t have a competent qb, it has absolutely nothing 

…and just a note as I said in another post, these players will start checking out pretty damned quick when Bryce starts impacting their incentives 

Who isn’t caring, rightfully so, are the fans of this putrid 7 year production of Tepper’s.

6 minutes ago, LegioX said:

In other news…water is wet 

The point is many  in the media gave him a pass for last year, not any longer

They  were trying to be fair 

You and i knew, and know, better

For Canales, lipstick on a pig

lead story on online version of Observer

He also pointed our defense too and Canales’ play calls 

this story wad the lead  on the online versin
 

Panthers get humiliated in season opener. And I’m not sure Bryce Young will ever work out.

BY SCOTT FOWLER

[email protected]

‘On Bryce Young’s very first pass of the 2024 season, he threw an interception.

In the second half, Young improved. 

It took him until his second pass to throw an interception.

After a full offseason, with a vibrant young play caller installed as his head coach and several additional offensive weapons to work with, Young looked exactly the same in the beginning of his second season as he did at the end of his first.

Overwhelmed. Undersized. Out of his element.’

But at the forefront of all this pain inflicted on another black-and-blue Sunday for Carolina was Young, the former Heisman Trophy winner at Alabama who plays the game’s most important position. And although I’m trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, I just don’t know if it’s ever going to work out for him in Charlotte. 

The Panthers will give it every chance, of course, because they’ve invested the No. 1 selection of the 2023 NFL Draft and so much else in Young. They have earmarked him as the guy from the very first game of his NFL career, making him the starter and a team captain and entrusting much of their future to him. And he’s only 23. There’s that. And he looked good in training camp and in his one drive of the preseason. There’s that, too.
 

But wishing Young was the guy and him actually turning into the guy are two very different things.

I’d love to be proven wrong, because it’s not a lot of fun to cover a losing team every single year. But all we saw Sunday was the Panthers threatening numerous team records for futility with this 37-point opening-day loss, which not only took the bloom off the rose, but also took the rose itself and threw it into a wood chipper.

The quarterback numbers: Young was 13 for 30 for 161 yards, with no touchdown passes and two interceptions. He was sacked four times. His QB rating was 32.8.

The entire game was comical. It was infuriating. It was both believable and unbelievable — believable that the Panthers would lose again, because they went an NFL-worst 2-15 a year ago and haven’t made the playoffs since 2017. This was the 100th game of David Tepper’s tenure as the owner of the Panthers, and the team is 32-68 and has never had a winning record since the billionaire bought it. 

But it was also unbelievable that the Panthers would be down 30-0 in the second quarter to a Saints team that is, most likely, mediocre.

HE ENDS WITH THIS 

And it was Young who owned it afterward. 

“Any time that the ball is in peril, and obviously it’s a turnover, that’s on me,” Young said. The quarterback took full responsibility for both his interceptions, which is what Young always does, because he’s a very nice young man and I’ve never heard anyone say a bad word about his conduct off the field.

But on the field? 

Man, he just doesn’t make enough plays. 

Young hesitated when guys were open Sunday or threw it to them when they weren’t. He got aggressive when he should have been careful and got careful when he should have been aggressive. Even his one touchdown — his first NFL rushing touchdown in his career — almost got negated, as Young crossed the goal line and fumbled almost simultaneously on a fourth-down scramble. Fortunately, Young broke the plane just before getting the ball knocked out.

55 minutes ago, t96 said:

Yes, we all know Bryce isn't an NFL QB. Not only not a starter but not even a 3rd or 4th string practice squad caliber QB in the NFL. I truly believe he will be 100% out of the league by 2027, maybe sooner. That said, I completely get how some here deluded themselves into believe maybe a "guru" like Canales could help him turn it around. He was 1st overall pick so he must have something he can show, right? I get it. Now we're all in agreement with the reality that he's not an NFL QB.

Well, as bad as Bryce was, he is merely a symptom and not the root cause. We could've had Mahomes and we still lose this game to the mediocre Aints. ST was a mess, defense was even worse than Bryce was and our OL was demolished yet again, the list goes on. Wholly unprepared, nobody seemed to give a poo about it either. Bryce smiling after a pick on his first throw.

 

What has been extremely clear to me since January 22 was that the rest of the team around Bryce would be complete ass, and none of our offseason moves would turn out to be successes. You know why? We had Fitterer for 3 years, in what is arguably the worst run from a GM in NFL history (influenced by Tepper meddling, certainly, but still). The worst trade in league history for probably the biggest 1st overall QB bust ever (at least Jarmacus had some talent that in theory could've been put to good use with a better attitude, Bryce just has nothing), terrible contracts left and right, trading away elite players while passing up 2 1sts for Burns only to turn around and trade him anyways for less than a 1st, this list goes on too.

How in the fuging world could anyone in their right mind think that the Assistant GM for that entire tenure, Fitterer's right hand man, be deserving of being promoted to GM? Seriously. Dan Morgan was a great player here before concussions and seems like an ok dude, but what the actual fug. How do you keep anyone around from that absolute disaster of a front office? I just do not understand it, knew it was a mistake at the time and my blind homer fan optimism/hopium led me to try to ignore that reality for much of the offseason, but it was 100% clear to me from the moment Tepper hired him. This will not work with Morgan, will not work with the HC he/Tepper picked, and nothing will work until Tepper is gone because he fuging makes decisions like this.

 

Yeah, add to the list of rants here, but it needs to be said as Bryce is getting most of the blame when in reality it's all Tepper and his terrible decisions like hiring Morgan as GM. Canales gets a bit of a pass as he's in way over his head and it's not his fault our dumb asses gave him a HC job well before he was ready.

I have no more fugs to give

In the  NFL, if you ain’t got a QB, you ain’t got nothing

28 minutes ago, mrBdawg said:

There is no point in chasing shaheed he had a better chance of tearing his hamstring than catching that mf 

Business decisions ok now ?  He isn’t exactly slow himself 

even in Pop Warner, plays are finished 

1 minute ago, electro's horse said:

Said that’s not on Jaycee and, based on his technique, he was clearly expecting help over the top. 
 

said this is the kind of stuff you sort out by actually playing players in preseason. 
 

did not say it explicitly but it was pretty clear what he thought about it. 

My issue is he quit pursuit 

whether it was, or was not, his assignment isn’t the issue to me. Everyone gets beat. Everyone endures assignment screw ups

You don’t quit pursuit. Things can happeN in pursuit. Nothing is going to happen if you don’t other than a score

11 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

he is not going to get better. 

I don’t know what else to say. 

Well. They are going to start him

that is the  bottom line

until the locker room of grown ass men realize the $$s he is costing them in contractual incentives, it won’t change 

it is the final  destruction of the fanbase 

Where is Chuba

Just now, Waldo said:

His play quality to playing time to draft capital spent makes him the worst as far as I can tell. 

In history

26 minutes ago, TheBigKat said:

He’s tied with him

And he is deceased.  Did he even start a game. Seifert’s great idea. Think that was the start of Weinke but could be wrong 

Just now, VintagePanther said:

Why not is the question.  another year under a d coordinator . Outside of burns who did we lose that was game changing . They added to safety position . Added to linebacker i felt we got better lbs this year than last . We had Deion jones starting for us. And 3string cbs and still was solid so again why would i feel like they’ll be/look this bad 

You win

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Good lord, Anthony Richardson just made another highlight reel TD throw.

My pick for qb

but Tepper didn’t want cam 2.0

what he has can’t be taught 

Just now, VintagePanther said:

Easy i just said it . Our defense looked way better last year than our offense so why wouldn’t i come into game thinking they’ll look better than our offense this season ?

Why would you

…is the roster the same 

come on man

1 minute ago, VintagePanther said:

But to keep it real tho . I’m way more upset with the defense than i am offense . Offense we knew was iffy but we thought we had a solid d everybody did even other fans idk just don’t look prepared or it’s chemistry . 

How can you say that ?  Losing those players ?  Can’t go in season with no edge rushers   Dicey linebackers and injuries and new players in the secondary 

evervo isn’t Jesus making wine out of water 

2 minutes ago, HPPantherzfan said:

I don’t understand the play calling.  You are on the 3 yard line with the worst QB in the league and you want him to throw it 4 times?  I need a job

Honestly. It almost feels like Canales is saying ‘snap out of it and start moving the ball’. Let me see what you are ‘

not running the ball is ridiculous with young at qb 

Just now, CRA said:

He should be benched after this week.  He is a developmental project 

He isn’t even that 

as you know better than anyone 

no physical tools to threaten nfl defenses at all…none…nada..zip

6 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Bryce completely handicaps the offense, it's unfair to the rest of the team. 

Absolutely 

Put Dalton   out there 

1 minute ago, RJK said:

Tepper deserves all those empty seats in BOA. Fanbase should boycott home games until he moves the team

PSL owner have already paid for those seats, then add in his market share and he won’t feel it financially 

he wanted, and got, the wrong qb.  It won’t change until he changes it

Just now, Toolbox said:

even if we had stroud this team would be complete ass

No. We would not. He has an arm legs and thrives on pressure 

the defense knows Bryce cannot play in the nfl. In fact, they all know it

Announcer ‘young did not see the blitz, didnt see the overload’

mea while…our head coach should’ve run the ball to get to halftime. Buuuttt nnooo let’s get the ball back to NO to score again

This is the worst fuging team I have seen in my 50 years of watching the NFL 

Ok. Seen enough

Announcer ‘you gotta step up in the pocket and make that through in the NFL 100% of the time.  You are going to get hit in the nfl but you have to make that throw’