2025 season

[spydaman27]

I just rewatched all the highlights from after Bryce being benched. The Bryce hate needs to calm down a little bit. He showed a ton of potential the back half of the year. Same with Legette. They both made great plays when it mattered and a few mistakes when it counted. If we didn’t have a historically awful defense last year we could have ended even a bit better. Going into a brand new season we should be optimistic at least before game one. 2015 no one expected to go anywhere and the team steam rolled the league. I’m not saying that will happen, but hopefully we made strides to improve on the end of last year. Bryce put both Super Bowl teams in a battle last year and if we had a better D we could have taken them both. So at least look forward to the season and not past the season until it at least begins. 

[BlazeCarolina]

I don't know that anyone is hating on Bryce.  I would think we all want him to put it together.

I just have to ask though...did you watch our preseason games?  We have plenty of reasons to be concerned.

[Navy_football]

2 hours ago, BlazeCarolina said:

I don't know that anyone is hating on Bryce.  I would think we all want him to put it together.

I just have to ask though...did you watch our preseason games?  We have plenty of reasons to be concerned.

To the OP's point, my preseason concerns aren't from BY. Run defense without D. Brown, pass rush, receivers playing like they're young, and play calling. Still hopeful because Dave and Evero weren't calling plays. We'll see in a week.

[Khyber53]

I've got hopes for this season. And I want to see Bryce hit his potential this year. He's in a better position than before to do it, but it's also a training wheels off situation now that AT has gone back to the land of Skol!

I'm still worried about our defense, but that's scheme as much as players. 

Still, I've been wrong before. Maybe there will be a certain magic that happens this year. Sure would be great.

Either way, it's my team, whether it's cheers or tears.

[LinvilleGorge]

I hope he and we will be far better than expected. I expect a that he and we will be straight trash. We'll see. I'll either be pleasantly surprised or get what I expect, either way I won't be disappointed. I'm done being letdown by Tepper's Panthers.

[rmoneyg35]

To be fair that 2015 team had a lot of guys from a roster that had went 12-4 in 2013 and made the playoffs and one playoff game in 2014 and we had a lot of talent.

 

still I do think we are heading up and should be better than last year. The only question is how much better?

 

I do think Bryce will be better. More experience and a better WR group should help.

XL is the one I’m not as confident about. He played poorly last season but I do think that if he can just fix the drops then he can be a solid wr. He seems to know what his problem was and worked on it. Hopefully he will improve. He admitted that he didn’t work as hard as he should have last year and I think that could mean he has focused hard this year. We will soon see.