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Yeah I saw that but thanks.

WHAT? They gave up 2 passing TD's and 3 rushing TD's on only 300 yards. They were 14/18 passing and were 4/4 in the red zone. They only had 300 yards because they didn't need. I don't see how you can be happy with that.

Bryce doesn't run ST's or the Defense. Special teams gave up a TD as well as long punt returns and the defense gave way too many big plays AGAIN. I'm not defending Bryce here. He didn't look good today and that's on him but the HC is responsible for the failings of the ST's and defense - not BY. Today was a total sh*t show and it all falls in Canales lap alone.

It sure is nice to see the defense playing competently. Hopefully they can continue the trend.

5 of them occured against the Steelers. They only have 1 in the other two games

Time will tell but it does look encouraging

First, I know it's a small sample size but as any long time Panther's fan knows, it's been hard to find anything positive to talk about so I figure it's worth pointing out. He may just be "the" guy

The Jags are 2-1, the Cardinals are 2-1 only losing to the 49's at the last second and the Falcons scored 22 and 20 against the Vikings and Bucs the two weeks prior to the Panthers. Not sure I would consider any of them trash.

I've never been an Evero fan but ignoring all the BY noise, I can't help but notice that they have been fairly solid so far this year. Not perfect, but definetly heading in the right direction. Hopefully they will keep it up and I can post a big apology to him at the end if the season.

I wouldn't say the Patriots are easy. They are playing very good football right now. They easily outplayed the Steelers but could'nt stop turning the ball over. That should be the most difficult of the 4

I think we start at 7 and go up from there depending, again, on how the defense plays.

Man your hate knows no bounds.

If the defense really has improved, then yes. If Sunday was just a fluke, then no.

I'm looking for the video but I found this from SI (from 3 days ago) in the meantime. "If you remove the turnovers, which is a pointless exercise since they happened, Bryce Young has been quietly very good. Sometimes, you can live with the turnovers, but the explosive plays to offset them haven't been there, and the turnovers have directly led to points and losses. But Jake Delhomme thinks that's the one area that needs to be cleaned up. Otherwise, Young has been strong. "We saw Bryce end the year well. I saw him play decent the first few weeks (this season). It’s just the turnovers, that’s something that’s killed him," he said via The Athletic's Joe Person."

There was a defender right on him - Bryce threw it the only place he could and it NOT be an int or pass defended

Any of the next 4 (Patriots, Dolphins, Cowboys, Jets) are winnable

No, the Renfrow throw is on Bryce. The ball hitting Tet in his hands in stride on a screen and him dropping it is a drop.

I wouldn't call getting 6 sacks against the Vikings the previous week garbage and I wouldn't call outplaying the Bucs and barely losing garbage either.

There is a difference between incompletions because of a bad throw and an incompletion because of a drop. The bad throw is on Bryce, the drop isn't

64% against the blitz is not inaccurate

Thanks for posting this. It really proves how well Bryce played. Here's why: Bryce Young negated the Falcons’ blitz-heavy scheme (63% blitz rate) by getting rid of the ball in less than 2.5 seconds against extra pass rushers (2.46 seconds). Young finished 9 of 14 for 72 yards against the blitz. That's a 64% completion rate. That's big. So the chart shows he did exactly what he needed to do. Also, see that green dot at the left 20yd line. That was on a 4th and 7 at the Panther's 39. That's a clutch play. See that other white dot next to it, that was a perfect throw where the defender was called for pass interference resulting in a first down. See that long 40 yrd incompletion. That was in the end zone and hit Tet in the hands but the defender was draped all over him (should have been PI) and finally see that lone incompletion behind the LOS, that was a drop by Tet that would have gone for a big gain. So while you haters use it to prove how badly he played, I look at it as proof of how well he did. So again, thanks for posting it.

Uhhh, first he's not a cat and second, he's not dead

I'm not in the habit of throwing dead cats around but I am pretty sure they don't