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This was a play I saw in preseason and I was like wow, that is a preseason play. I will be glad when the season starts so that we won't be running terrible plays like that. I believe the quote from Reich was "we are putting our players in the worst position possible to see how they react". Seems to me like that is still the gameplan five games into the season. If nobody was on the field Ian Thomas would only get a 12 yard gain max after catch!

This is the kind of crap Steve Wilks had to deal with in Arizona and subsequently that record was and experience is why many here acted like he was a pariah!

What is with this offense? Our line went from being one of the biggest strengths to giving up all the pressure. We switched to a zone blocking scheme apparently which nobody told Miles Sanders because he never cuts back to open lanes and it has ruined Ickey on giving up pressures. He was a damn stalwart tackle last year who had begun to manhandle DEs by the end of the season. I mean it was downright brutal the way we were running the ball and smashing defenses at the end of the year. Now we're having twenty something runs for 80yds! I understand the kid is similar to Brees in stature, but he is not ready to run that offense! And everybody wanted a damn offensive guy and Wilks was a joke of a candidate. Now the offense they have curated for Bryce is the most pathetic, basic strategy I think I have ever witnessed.

Sure enough did! CJ is making flick of the wrist throws in coverage!

I believe Hurney had some great qualities as you can see in his protege in Buffalo. The thing is Beane took the best and eliminated the other stuff like loyalty to declining players and negotiating against yourself in free agency. Also, Brandon will go and get a difference making player if his team is in need mid season. Lastly, there isn't a parade of players to IR every year and no kicking the can down the road extensions!

Put the franchise up for sale next week.

DJ Moore had four 1,000yd seasons with some of the most garbage QBs and OCs in Panther history. So I will 2nd crazy talk!

And coming from a guy who was sitting in Matt Rhule's driveway when he returned from vacation to offer him a record breaking contract.

To me though that seems what Tepper has always wanted. He doesn't want a big larger than life character at QB. When they said they were really close on pulling the trigger on Richardson or Bryce and had excluded CJ, I was like we're taking Bryce. Since Tepper got rid of Ron and Cam, have we had a QB over 6'2" who wasn't plain, non seasoned, mushy rice to give to fans?

I just hate that Tepper went ultra safe and tried to sell it with the package of first QB to throw a TD in franchise history and pulled at the nostalgic heart strings. Wilks was a native son who legit was dealing with being put on the spot, injuries, and a laughable roster. My only reason I am not crazy down even though we are terrible is the fact that the roster is so bad. I read an article after we started losing at the first of last year on how far the Panthers were behind with roster talent due to Rhule backloading with bum Penn St, Baylor, and Temple players. And that angers me about the trades, because we needed those picks to rebuild the roster. @onmyown always talks about how we should have allowed the losses and truly rebuilt with what would be our high draft and high trade acquired picks. Instead we were led to believe that we could win now and traded all those acquired assets away. So there is little optimism with an owner who lets his trophy wife make way too many decisions, a retread coach, a roster devoid of talent, and what looks like a team that has one of the three phases(O,D,ST) finding a way to lose every game in this young season.

Here's to hoping the injury bug is behind him and he is dicing defenses up by year three like Tua.

I wonder what went through his and his wife's head when it was dead silence and everybody reacted like that! I mean thought he was a minority owner of the Steelers. Where did he get this crap from? I could see if he had been groomed as an owner under Daniel Snyder.

He definitely did. From people I know that work directly with organization(security), he thought it was campy and played out. A few weeks after I heard that, they tried that weird crap from Wolf of Wall Street with the chest pounding. He definitely feels more connected to that stupid bull as an aggressive hedge fund manager than to Keep Pounding.

I have heard this so much the past two weeks from local Panthers' fans in my area. The line being what really sucks is now the Bears are going to have two top five or top ten picks in next year's draft. I mean they could draft Drake Maye and Marvin Harrison Jr, giving them Maye, Harrison JR, and DJ Moore to go with a new coaching regime. Talk about getting fleeced! We could've done the same simply by having like @onmyown that tank season and amassing picks. The actual effects of losing and rebuilding are easier to swallow as a fan than this head barely above water facade we've been witnessing the last five years!

That is exactly the reasoning they use when they want to steer things a certain way. Tepper's connection to the Steelers organization gave him too large of a bump in their eval process. Anybody that rich is a shark one way or another though. Also, I yield. You were right. We should've traded Burns.

Yeah, when they had Dan Morgan and Fitterer get up so that she could take a call during the draft and made the call to trade for DJ Johnson, I was like man what is this! During the evaluation period CJ Stroud was talking about his interview with Ms. Tepper and I thought why is this trophy wife/former restaurant worker having any input in the draft process.

Raiders fan called him Carrbage for a reason. If we can get the pressure like we did on Ridder, he'll toss the D a couple.

Boom goes the dynamite! This thread is noodles!

I seen a graphic yesterday that laid out the superlatives of most of the playrs/team that Fields walked into at Ohio State after they got to the league and it was staggering! That's what I said about Bryce Sunday. He didn't have to worry about safeties playing the robber position at Alabama because if they did it was immediate over the top TDs due to the created players he had at WR. There were small windows for that Sunday, but he had to think he was making the easy play for the crossing route. He definitely would've been more apt to look deep on those coverages at Alabama. I seen him do it in the Tennessee game last year.

But that can be looked at two ways. Which do you think it is with him or both? 1. He needs those carries to get going. 2. The defense is worn and then he can inflict punishment from being a big back.

And people will jump on here talking about how lazy they were or how bad they played and have no clue what was happening to that player during the game.

I don't believe he has Ginn type world class speed, but Smith-Marsette is supposed to be a burner. Maybe he'll get a shot down the line.

It literally looked like the timing from old Saints teams. I was like if this is the level they want to operate at, then its going to take time. The comeback route misses at end of first half were an indication that these guys have to get more reps together. The downfield misses seemed like they just haven't been on the field together enough.

The whole Bates super day was because he was guessing right and our personnel. You can see up top that the WR didn't have any real separation. If that is say Tyreek Hill, Bates is out of position and that is an easy touchdown over the top. He knew he could sit on routes in the middle of the field all day, talent wise we had no answer, and Bryce has never not played with talent before that couldn't run off safety help. The guys he played with in college, no safety dare come off over the top help to jump middle of the field routes.

Lingering injury issues were/are definitely a problem, but our problem yesterday was the turnovers. 17pts off three turnovers. Two of those turnovers and the turnover on downs in first quarter came during or at the end of well orchestrated drives. They just have to clean some of that crap up!