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Mr. Scot

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2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

My own unprofessional opinion, I don't really think Bridgewater is that good.

He looked worse then anybody with his experience should look in that season ender last year.

The Saints and Norv Turner probably disagree with me, of course.

It's a low bar. QB depth is yuck

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6 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I like Norv, but there are some things about him that concern me.

One thing in particular is I think some of his input regarding assistant hires has been a little bit self-serving, i.e. keeping anybody that might be serious competition for his son Scott to be his successor out of the game.

That falls under tinfoil hat territory mind you, but it's something I keep in the back of my mind.

 

Yeah. Given Ron's loyalty and tendency to promote from within, gotta wonder if Norv's plan when taking this job was to ultimately set the table for Scott to takeover.

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7 minutes ago, ChrisSimmsspleen said:

Why is everyone so desperate to watch someone else other than who we have play terrible at QB?

I don't think anyone actually is. It's just a discussion of conceivable possibilities.

The most obvious point of course is that nobody but nobody wants to see anybody other than Cam Newton playing quarterback for the Panthers this season.

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5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah. Given Ron's loyalty and tendency to promote from within, gotta wonder if Norv's plan when taking this job was to ultimately set the table for Scott to takeover.

It's reasonable for a dad to want that for his son, but it has to be what's best for the team.

If it's necessary to choose, I don't really expect a dad to value team success over his son's future. But if you're the team, you shouldn't let that happen.

Regarding Scott, at this point I can't make any definitive statement about how good he is... or isn't. I don't feel like there's enough data to go on.

 

7 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Honestly, rightfully so. He's looked as bad or worse than any of our backups.

Kind of like the Yankee effect. People tend to think that players on the Patriots roster are better than they may actually be.

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1 minute ago, bLACKpANTHER said:

if Cam gets reinjured - throw in the towel on the season.. idc about our backup QB

wearing my rose colored sunglasses today :shades:

You're free to have that viewpoint without consequence.

Ron Rivera and Marty Hurney? Not so much.

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37 minutes ago, ellis said:

The lack of innovative playcalling here in the preseason hasn’t done Allen any favors. And I understand why Norv doesn’t want to show his hand right now. 

Defenses, on the other hand, have been scheming and blitzing across the league all preseason. 

I’m willing to let these guys continue, but the rookie is going to need a lot of time. Allen will be fine. 

I think.

I hope. 

Serious question: do you think that Norv’s vanilla playcalling has held back Allen and kept him from succeeding more, but Grier sucks and the same somehow doesn’t apply to him? From reading some of what you’ve written it really appears to be your line of thinking. Just seems like a pro-Allen, anti-Grier bias more than anything else. Am I missing something?

I’m just going based off of tweets and message board posts you’ve made that are insanely critical of Grier and vehemently in defense of Allen despite their similar performances — even going so far as to say Allen is better because he breaks the huddle with more assertiveness.

Which is fine, I mean he’s got a real game under his belt and he looked good in it and Grier is the local guy who’s somehow second to Rae Carruth in terms of most hated Panthers by many because he hasn’t had a 158.3 passer rating in every game. 

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29 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Funny thing in SF is it sounds like people are panicking over Garoppolo too.

Yeah he has looked very very rusty. 

definite slow start for SF on the horizon.

unless there is a surprising cut, I think we bite the bullet and roll with what we have and hope it doesn't come to "THAT" 

 

 

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