I Feel Bad For All of You - Thank God for Tetairoa McMillan

[TD alt]

3 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Well that's the one good thing about 1st round rookie contracts.  Team controls the player for 5 years and you can extend them after the 3rd.

We offer him a fair market extension after his 3rd year and he's going to sign it, it's too much money to turn down because you're unhappy with the team.  

It's a couple years after that where if he's still performing on a crappy team that you run the risk of them asking to be traded.

Hey, I was trying to tell people too. Not nearly as early as you, but I was ecstatic when his name was called. When I saw his clips and looked at his collegiate production, I was sold. When I saw him put up those 40+ yards during the during the Cleveland preseason game in little to no time, I knew that he was a beast in the making. 

[Panthering]

He makes me yell at my tv in a positive manner every game. He’s been a monster out there. 

[Gapanthersfan]

He keeps this up and will be in contention for O ROTY. 

[Martin]

T-Mac is what people thought Harrison would be last year. A fantastic pick for us.

[tukafan21]

1 minute ago, Panthering said:

He makes me yell at my tv in a positive manner every game. He’s been a monster out there. 

THIS

I kept yelling at how many red zone plays we ran without throwing it his way, just mind boggling to have a weapon like that constantly getting single coverage near the end zone and not throwing it up to him.

[TD alt]

I still am pretty nonplussed though, and despite McMillan's nice start to his career, I'm not a happy camper. 

[tukafan21]

6 minutes ago, TD alt said:

Hey, I was trying to tell people too. Not nearly as early as you, but I was ecstatic when his name was called. When I saw his clips and looked at his collegiate production, I was sold. When I saw him put up those 40+ yards during the during the Cleveland preseason game in little to no time, I knew that he was a beast in the making. 

Yea, I started a thread about us needing to draft him on here in November of 2023, or 18 months before he'd even have been draft eligible, lol, and I'm sure I probably brought him up in other threads at some point before then too.

3 minutes ago, TD alt said:

I still am pretty nonplussed though, and despite McMillan's nice start to his career, I'm not a happy camper. 

Yea, and that's my point, I know I should feel like an unhappy camper right now, but damned if I just can't find those feelings because of how well he's playing.  It's more than holding me over right now, I'm still just so fuging happy that he's a Panther that the rest is just white noise.

Edited yesterday at 02:32 AM by tukafan21

[tukafan21]

Also.... 

Biakabutuka is the reason I'm a Panthers fan to begin with and have had this name for 15+ years on here, but part of me feels like I really need to change my name now to TMacFan4 or something, LOL

Edited 11 hours ago by tukafan21

[tukafan21]

Some interesting tidbits in this one... https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/news/panthers-rookie-wr-tetairoa-mcmillan-historic-start

He has 129 yards on "downfield passes" through two games, the next most any rookie has this year is 55 yards.

Fastest a Panther has reached 100 receiving yards in a game, doing it in his 2nd game, KB and CMC previously were tied having done it in their 3rd games.

Most catches by a Panther in their first two games with 11, previously it was Moose and CMC with 9.

Most yards by a Panther in their first two games with 168, previously it was KB with 138.

[CRA]

yeah, looks like we finally hit on a classic Marty Hurney type first round pick.  It's been awhile since we have had that. 

 

[LoneSpaceDrone]

It seems that Arizona started focusing on him after he started making some of those catches and Bryce didn't target him again since.  How's he going to handle when defenses game plan for him going forward making it incredibly dangerous for Bryce to throw his way?  We need some of the other WRs to step up and is a reason why XL being so crap is disappointing. 

[tukafan21]

4 minutes ago, LoneSpaceDrone said:

It seems that Arizona started focusing on him after he started making some of those catches and Bryce didn't target him again since.  How's he going to handle when defenses game plan for him going forward making it incredibly dangerous for Bryce to throw his way?  We need some of the other WRs to step up and is a reason why XL being so crap is disappointing. 

Not sure how accurate this is, will be curious to see the breakdowns from the people who go through the All 22 video.

On my Arizona board, a bunch of people who were at the game have been saying even though they're Cardinals fans, they were rooting for T-Mac and were getting frustrated at how often he was running wide open and Bryce was throwing a check down to someone else instead of even looking T-Mac's way.

I also saw an article talking about two plays where T-Mac broke loose behind the defense and if Bryce held onto it for another half second he'd have had an open deep ball look, but instead checked it down a hair too early.  

So sure, maybe they were giving him more attention, but from the sound of it, he was still getting open but Bryce was the one making the decision to look elsewhere.

Edited 10 hours ago by tukafan21

[carpanfan96]

10 minutes ago, LoneSpaceDrone said:

It seems that Arizona started focusing on him after he started making some of those catches and Bryce didn't target him again since.  How's he going to handle when defenses game plan for him going forward making it incredibly dangerous for Bryce to throw his way?  We need some of the other WRs to step up and is a reason why XL being so crap is disappointing. 

His comments after the game said it looked like regular defense. 

[carpanfan96]

7 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Not sure how accurate this is, will be curious to see the breakdowns from the people who go through the All 22 video.

On my Arizona board, a bunch of people who were at the game have been saying even though they're Cardinals fans, they were rooting for T-Mac and were getting frustrated at how often he was running wide open and Bryce was throwing a check down to someone else instead of even looking T-Mac's way.

I also saw an article talking about two plays where T-Mac broke loose behind the defense and if Bryce held onto it for another half second he'd have had an open deep ball look, but instead checked it down a hair too early.  

So sure, maybe they were giving him more attention, but from the sound of it, he was still getting open but Bryce was the one making the decision to look elsewhere.

He was probably too far down field and out of range for BY.