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And, yes, I've been a slow boil, but watching continually watching shitty displays of football for weeks has me frustrated.

Bryce just didn't maximize Hunter Renfrow's skills. ***rant incoming*** But this isn't just about Bryce Young mistiming passes to Renfrow so bad that he's going to get Renfrow killed or hurt, this is also about incompetentence by Dave Canales. Renfrow can still play. He's putting DBs in a blender out there---making them play twister at the top of routes to keep up with him, and dumb Dave has the nerve to cut him. How about putting Hunter in the best position to help the damned offense by appreciating his skill set, DC? You're letting Bryce's apparent inability to make an accurate throw, or at least his timidity to push the ball down the damned field cloud your judgment and miscalculate talent---or maybe just miss on talent just as much as Bryce misses passes due to playing pussified football. It's fúcking unacceptable. Speaking of misjudgment, I don't know if it's Dan Morgan or Canales, but Eijiro Evero is not the business at DC. I have said a few times that his scheme is not conducive to run-stopping efficiency. Hell, and after watching some clips of plays, now I absolutely know why. The gaps are at least half open before the play even fúcking starts. You are setting the opposition's RBs up for success with too much damned space at the line and in the second level. If our guys are taken out in these areas---at the line and in the second level---then the defense is screwed because it must rely on the safeties to cover too much ground to make the tackle. At least put Ransom in who is motivated to seek and destroy if you're going to effectively leave the safeties on an island. And speaking of rookies, get our two new defensive ends more snaps to see if we can't generate more of a pass rush. For all the good the continued sorry display of defense that you're putting out for fan's to see (Ejiro, Dave and Dan), you may as well get the rookies generously involved. Fúck that money we gave second-rate (maybe second-rate) vets, we need a damned spark getting after the QB. Watch it, it's just another breakdown of the sh¡t we were subjected to last week. I say this with all respect: Fúck you, Dave! Fúck you, Dan! Learn how to run a fúcking franchise. Maximize the players, regardless of what you think you're supposed to do by the book. Cut the dead weight before another season is lost and fans lose interest in September. EE is "Ew!" Or for emphasis "EEw!" /end rant

Look, I've still not completely given up on X (even if I did X him from my fantasy team), but he's not trending in the right direction...pretty much at all. That being said, I am loathe to overreact after one game. But, that being said, Ja'Tavion Sanders needs to step up. The thing is, will Dave Canales put JT into a position to actually step up and maximize Sanders' talent? I am skeptical sbout DC's willingness to even use a TE in the flow of the game, much less dial up a TE's number when it's absolutely warranted. I'm tired of DC treating the TE as an afterthought. Of course all of this may be moot due to QB play, but I think that JT has it in him to really help open up the offense for everyone, including X, if Canales would call up some plays for him. Basically, the X-factor on offense may not be an X at all, but a JT.

The 2026 QB class is expected to be deep.

Not exactly true. I read in several places how Sanders looked like he may be the best out of the bunch during the Browns training camp. Minimally, many Browns fans and analysts were saying that he deserved more reps.

That was just ugly. Bryce is too short and Carred to start in the NFL.

Sorry, dude, but that's just stupid. Just because a person talks with a southern drawl doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. I'd also add that standard English isn't a barometer of a person's cognitive ability. Actually, being able to adapt to different settings speaks toward a certain amount and/or aspect of intelligence. I bristle when someone begins to go down the road that you're suggesting.

I agree with you for the most part. I'd also consider Jaycee, and, yes I know that he has his injury history, but he still plays hard. He really impacts the game more than Brown if people are being honest. I can't speak to the rookies yet, but T-Mac looks like a gamer.

I mean, I haven't read the thread yet, but I'd say that Dan Morgan and company should have flaming hot seats right about now. All that money to second-rate players in order to fool people into thinking we were actually better. Wharton, Brown III, and Moehrig were overpaid. And all of you talking like DB is untouchable, think again. He's about as untouchable as Burns. We fuging suck against the run. Evero's scheme doesn't maximize efficiency against the run. The Evero experiment has produced nothing but bad results.

Obviously a family member...

Every fuging year, it's the same thing.

Why in the fug would you run a screen on third?

The Panthers need to be moving faster. It's near the fuging end of the third quarter, and we're taking our time

NO PASS RUSH!

He should've let Chuba run there as opposed to Dowdle

WTF?

Before the 2024 draft, Smitty was the only one of his national stature that gave Coker such high praise. He called him the best route runner in the class. So how is that squared?

I disagree wholeheartedly. In numerous fantasy leagues, you have one or two guys that always seem to be there at the end. FF takes a certain amount of luck for sure---maybe even a generous amount, but it also takes skill which is based upon research, calculation and a certain amount of fortitude and fearlessness. On an off note, my grandad used to say, "Luck is the residue of hard work."

Ha ha. Are you saying that in response to the whole team, or just the Panthers? LOL I was ninth, so I was stuck between C-Mac and someone lesser, and I really should've picked a receiver when I picked Chuba. But, YOLO. If CMC gets hurt, I hope that this San Fran writer was correct in his assertion that Guerendo is simply the better, more explosive backup. I know they signed Brian Robinson, but I think he's JAG more than anything else. Guerendo has a bit of an injury history himself, but he is 220 with legit 4.3 speed. I must admit that I took my chances with the receivers. I actually traded Chubb and Mixon for T-Mac. I'm hoping that Ollie Gordon learns the top spot in Miami and that Dont'e Thornton becomes the top dawg in Vegas. If that happens, I'll be great. Between Pearsall, Thornton, Golden, Coleman and X, someone has to break out. I also have Christian Watson in an IR slot (though I want to put something together to acquire Rashee Rice).

Yeah, I agree with that to an extent, but after Rhule, no way Tepper was going to cede that much control to any coach, much less Harbaugh.

And for those curious to see a more complete picture: If CMC can't go (which he probably will, as I heard they're just being overly cautious), then I will move Chuba into the dedicated RB slot and will indeed begin my season with T-Mac and X playing. Keep pounding all the way.

My fantasy league is named Any Given Sunday. It's a Yahoo friends and family league that's existed since 2008. There's no money involved, just bragging rights. The participants love it, and we love mixing it up and talking sh¡t to one another. I've won the trophy five times (and almost a close sixth), so they love beating me (and seeing me win, oddly). I'm on a four year drought though. So this year I kinda said, "fug it, I'm going all-in on my guys." Amid that, I did something that I never do and went RBs one, two and three, with the critical---some would say the "crazy" move being Chuba at three. So now I'm light on receivers. But, I was ultimately able to get my guys. Dave Canales is already talking crazy talk, suggesting that he's not going to let Chuba run wild in so many words (so I learned in the other thread). I bristle at that. I'm giving Bryce a lotta faith by extension. He's on the wire (but I may as well have played him for all Dakota did the other night). I obviously believe in Tetairoa. He could be my WR1 (other than Scary Terry). I picked up X late, and I'm hoping that he will make the league hate that I did because it was kinda disrespectful for him to be drafted in the 12th round if you ask me. As for JT Sanders, I picked him up as an aside because as we all know, the pickings at TE are slim (especially when you have to try and build a complete team after taking three RBs so early). I hope that Sanders comes through, then I might be looking good. So, yeah, I kinda went all-in. If there was ever a time for our offense to come alive, I need them to do it this season. Bryce needs to continue on his ascension from the end of last season, and Canales needs to let Chuba run the damned rock. We have insurance in Rico (as do I), so let Chuba do his thing. If our offense doesn't work this season, then we're just fùcked, and so am I most likely. But I have faith. Now let me go move Golden back to W/T spot. I have faith in X, but no so much that I'm playing him over Golden tomorrow.

I am loathe to make any predictions before I see the team in action. Within that vein, on the eve before the beginning of the NFL season in earnest, I will say that four wins is the floor and 11 wins is the ceiling. Call my sizable spread a "copout" if you like, but I will tell you, "Nobody knows sh¡t at least until the end of the month." That's the way I see it, and, for now, that's what I'm sticking to.

If you can run all over a team, you do it. That's a football truth as old as time immemorial.

Jim Harbaugh gives a team instant toughness and legitimacy. David Tepper didn't want to cede any control, and that's why he skipped over Harbaugh like he was a fire ant mound.