Official "I heard there was a game today" thread (game day thread...whoopie)

[tukafan21]

2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

He definitely has a better arm than Mac Jones. Obviously almost all the backup QB's starting you aren't including he has a better arm than. Gardner Minshew for instance. Ridder is debatable. He isn't a cannon armed guy for sure. 

 

They're still backup QBs, it's like saying any of our guards right now are "starting NFL guards"

No, they're not, they're backups who are needing to start because the starers are injured.

I also don't think he has a better arm than Jones, sure, maybe there is a debate about Ridder, but if that's the hill you're going to die on, that he MAYBE has the 30th or 31st strongest arm in the league, then I think you're missing the plot.

You don't trade everything we did and draft a QB at #1 who MIGHT have a stronger arm than a couple of QB's in the league, it's a joke.

There's nothing wrong with flat out saying, "we screwed up the pick, I hope he proves that wrong and finds a way to turn his career around, but he's just not the guy"

[Mage]

I live maybe 3-5 minutes away from the stadium and it isn't even raining here

[kungfoodude]

Horrible call by the refs on overturning that PI.

But, they owed us one.

[TN05]

4 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Arm strength is maybe his biggest overall problem because it's the root cause of a lot of his issues.

When you don't have the arm you need to make the throws you make, it changes everything else.

It changes the plays you can call, it changes the throws he can even attempt to make and thus causes him to make poor decisions because he flat out doesn't have the ability to make a throw if he doesn't have a perfect base underneath him.

Because of that he always feels the need to pull the ball down and move in the pocket, which he also isn't fast or strong enough to do and it leads to sacks and throwaways.  Where in the same situation, 90% of the other QB's in this league can still attempt the throw because they have the arm strength to throw off base.

No, maybe they don't complete the passes every time (although they do at times), but they at least can attempt them, he flat out can't and it has a cascading affect on the rest of his play/decisions.

A lot of this is genuinely footwork. He has to take an extra step and that means he gets balls out slower, combine that with a bad line and poor separation and it's just not gonna work.

Even if he fixes the footwork I think his arm strength is still bottom-half leaguewide, though.

[kungfoodude]

Just now, Mage said:

I live maybe 3-5 minutes away from the stadium and it isn't even raining here

That's just FL in general. 

[Pantha-kun]

We really need to get back to running from under center. No idea why Thomas Brown went back to shotgun bs like we are down 21 or something. 

[Greatman77]

The absolute state of the Panthers

[Frank9999]

Suprised they got that call right Mike ran right into Djax 

[Davidson Deac II]

So far, Tampa sucks slightly less than we do.  

[Jmac]

1 minute ago, Mage said:

I live maybe 3-5 minutes away from the stadium and it isn't even raining here

That's florida 4 ya

[pantherj]

We've been granted another chance to score before this gets out of hand. More pistol on 3rd and 1 or no? I vote NOOOOOO.

Edited December 3, 2023 by pantherj

[Mage]

Just now, kungfoodude said:

That's just FL in general. 

Holy crap, I am so out of tune with the Panthers.  I thought the game was in Charlotte.  I was like how the hell is it raining so hard

[kungfoodude]

2 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

His footwork is problem number 1, 2 and 3.    We ain’t winning poo until he fixes that stupid hop poo.  

Hopping and the general happy feet(which a lot of that is the OL issues at work).

It has to get fixed, though.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Just now, Mage said:

Holy crap, I am so out of tune with the Panthers.  I thought the game was in Charlotte.  I was like how the hell is it raining so hard

lol the natural grass field didn't give it away?