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Our Best QB Performance is Ahead of Us


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Our Death Valley days are behind us.  Once the ink is dry on the contracts for either Kafka or Steichen, whatever QB’s are on the roster in training camp will be better.   New playbooks and offensive schemes, coaching and player development, game day and half time adjustments, all of it will create the conditions for better QB performance.

Rookie draft pick - Richardson, Hooker, McKee, Corral

Bridge FA - Carr, Minshew, Darnold, Walker

All of them will play and look better under the new coach and system, because coach and system are more important than raw athletic ability.  Athletic ability is the floor.  Coaching, system and player development determine the ceiling.

It can’t get worse.  It can only get better.  With Kafka or Steichen, and with any three of the players listed above, playoffs in year 1 of the new regime.

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6 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

That's a lot of assumptions you have there. Different doesn't guarantee better. You might want to wait to see how the season plays out before deciding its automatically going to be better. 

True enough, no guarantees.  Anyone who is offering predictions of the upcoming season must make assumptions; just looking at it probabilistically.  You can play with the percentages of each potential outcome but, I have a hard time seeing how the Panthers QB play in the upcoming season will be no better or worse than the just concluded 2022 season. 

     All other things equal under Kafka or Steichen, Panther QB's by end of 2023 season will...

  • Do better than 2022 - 60%
  • No better, no worse - 30%
  • Do worse than 2022 - 10%

 

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Yea I'll have to wait in season and see. Our offensive and defensive adjustments(or lack thereof) left alot to be desired. Which says a lot off coming off a Rhule led team. 

To be fair, I do think if Sam played the entire year with PJ as his primary backup we aren't even having this discussion. 

Hell, if Wilks would have kept Snow we'd be in the playoffs. 

Keeping that in mind, if he was to named as HC and i I'm Tepper, Id have a few conditions if he wants that position. No micromanaging and hire him the best position coaches, DC and OC avialable.

I'm not so sure he'd sign off on that after his Arizona stint. 

Whatever way it goes I honestly hope Holcomb and McAdoo have called their last plays as coordinators here. 

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I think you’re right regarding QB play because, like you said, it can’t get much worse. However, I think the rest of our roster is a bit overrated. Look how badly the Bucs got stomped in the playoffs, and we couldn’t take the division from them. We were probably a 3 or 4 win team in any other year.

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9 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

That's a lot of assumptions you have there. Different doesn't guarantee better. You might want to wait to see how the season plays out before deciding its automatically going to be better. 

I don't know man. It's hard to imagine heading into another season with the same level of incompetence that we had with Rhay-Z. 

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16 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

I don't know man. It's hard to imagine heading into another season with the same level of incompetence that we had with Rhay-Z. 

On that I agree. But the football god's have not been kind to us for many years my friend.  I never say never.  My hopes hinge on who is makings those decisions going forward.  So I'm in neutral until other dominoes fall.

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