rayzor

i've got a burgundy 2007 town and country that my kids call the kidney bean. i had to staple the celling back up. it's just a reliable and comfortable ride for me. i keep thinking that i need to upgrade to a newer minivan, but i've just always been a 'drive it till it dies' guy. even when i get a newer minivan, i doubt i get one that is newer than 10 years old. minivans for life.

i don't mean lower expectations of bryce, i mean lower expectation of what the QB SHOULD have to be doing. Are there QBs who carry the team? yes. How many of the starting QBs in the league can do that? Is that the standard? If it is, is that a realistic one?

misconception of what the QB should be. no QB, especially a young/rookie QB, should be tasked with having to carry the team. you build the team so that the QB can just be a manager. that's the ideal and should be the standard. you build a team right and the QB should only ever be just one of 11. cam fuggin spoiled us. he was a unicorn. we're not going to be getting a QB like that again. we need to all lower our expectations.

it's those little moments that matter.

too easy to jump on the whole "panthers just fug everything up" because it doesn't require any thinking. never take time to take a step back and think critically. just jump on the "panthers suck" wagon and enjoy the ride.

why the hell would we do that around here? much easier to just jump on the "we just do dumb poo and everything we do and every decision we make is born out of suck." limited brain power involved, which kind of suits a lot of people in here.

minivan 100%. much more usable space and a much more practical utilitarian vehicle. you get stow and go seats and you're set. great for hauling things that aren't nasty, dirty, and smelly (but you lay down a tarp and you can do that if you have to). SUV is rarely used as a SUV, it's just a status thing and you pay dearly for it. minivan is cheaper price, but much more bang for your buck. plus, easier to get in and out of for everyone. height is typically just right for drive thru windows and ATMs (which is good if you're using a surgically repaired shoulder and will never again get the same range of motion you once had). for myself, i won't ever not have one as my main driving vehicle.

I hope your SiL has made a good recovery and sorry for the loss in life there. Pretty traumatic experience. The punishment was appropriate. She should never have been allowed to get that many DUIs.

seriously, i can't wait until training camp so we've got some actual news for people to freak out over.

Why are you apologizing for it? You doing it? Won't end it, but it will slow it down dramatically and it will bring a bit of much needed justice. Can't bring them back, but you can sure as hell make the drunk drivers pay for it. And I know it's not realistic, because too much of culture is wrapped up in getting drunk and wants to make sure they don't get in too much trouble if they wind up being the cause of serious injury or death. If you choose to do something that you know will limit your ability to control what you do, you should be held as guilty for everything you do in that situation you willfully put yourself in.

You choose to drink and get in a car. You can't know that this is a bad idea that could end up tragic. You willfully put yourself in a situation that could result in someone getting killed. You drink and drive, you should be thrown in jail....first time. You injure someone in a crash while you chose to drive drunk....attempted murder. Go straight to jail. You kill someone while driving drunk...that's murder. Go to jail. No second chances because the people you hurt/killed got no second chance. I know laws like that will never pass because too many people in power do the same thing or have family members who do it and don't want it to come back and bite them in the ass. But that's the only way it's going to stop...you throw drunk drivers in jail and treat them like the legit threats to public safety they are.

Y'all sure are prone to overreacting. I guess that's a coping mechanism.

Let your imagination run wild, folks.

8 or 9 wins. 6 is the floor.

truth

if there's any possible angle you can take to say the panthers suck and will continue to suck from the top down, people are going to find it...because that's the only angle they are looking from. it's old and it's tiring.

Kurb is rarely here,maybe enough to post two days a year and I think even he doesn't have admin powers any more.

Mods can't do it. I wish we or at least someone in here had admin powers to do something like this, but it's just Zod.

looks like people have already written the season off. they (think they) know there's nothing left but to fail. it's the easy option.

at some point, though, you just have to suck it up and accept it and deal with the bad deal you got. you go through funks where you keep making mistakes and hope that you get it figured out sometime soon, but in the learning process you realize you could have done some things better but you're stuck with decisions you make. you have two choices...whine about it or just brush it off and hope can make the situation you put yourself work. i know a lot of people in here have probably never experienced or dealt with failure much in their lives, but i have and i learned to just suck it up and try to make the best of the situation you've got yourself in because you realize that you're stuck with it for a while. doesn't do any good to keep harping over what you wish you had done better. you already know that. now it's just about moving forward from here and making the best of it and hoping you can make something of it. it's the easiest thing in the world to look at where Bryce falls short...and yes, that was intentional. everyone knows that and all that is done is beating that horse laying on the ground. what takes some work is trying to see how it can work and if they have done and are doing things to help the situation get better.

And because of this you're going to hold onto highly unrealistic expectations of him. You'll never be satisfied. At this point it doesn't matter where he was drafted. We got him. We aren't getting another Cam. We lucked out. How often do QBs drafted in the top 3 or even at #1 turn into absolute studs? It doesn't matter that they "should".

but it's ok to more pressure on the QB when the whole situation around him is a flaming pile of poo? this whole idea that a QB can/should turn a pile of chicken poo into a chicken salad is pretty lame, because in the end it's still just chicken poo and shouldn't be eaten.