The season is over, and we're going to get clowned on by Mayfield and Darnold before it's over.

[frankw]

Man I get being up and down because the team is a rollercoaster and when the pressure is on they fold like a lawn chair but fưck this hit dog mentality. We better put up a fight against the Bucs.

[Little Goody Two Shoes]

11 hours ago, Castavar said:

I still can't believe Old Man Rivers after not playing for 5 years at 44 years on a week's notice came in and put up similar numbers to Bryce and almost beat the Seahawks in their house. 

I can 

[MickMixon'sMetaphors]

I don't disagree, but honestly, this season has been better than I thought it would be.  At the onset, I think I voted that we'd win 3-4 games (or whatever the stratification was on that poll), and here we are with 7 wins and potential for more.  We're a sack hair from being able to sneak into the playoffs - yes, yes nfc south nonsense but still this season has exceeded my expectations.  If we can somehow move on from Bryce and find some consistency, I believe the Panthers are trending upwards (overall).

[TheBigKat]

13 hours ago, Jackson113.2 said:

Fun times indeed. 

Cooker is better than XL by a mile.

Someone could be better than the Qb, but  oh yeah we didn't bring in competition. 

Last 3 weeks are going to be depressing.  I am once again ashamed to be a Panthers fan.

 

We’re beating Tampa next week

were beating seattle

miami beats TB

we win division week 17 and you can return to your scheduled posting of me

[NorthTryon]

3 hours ago, Waldo said:

The only mystery to me is why other teams don't watch the Saints film more. The hope wagon is scheduled to show up this week just to burn down the week after. 

Ego, they are garbage and most coaches feel like they field a better team with better scheming. Also, personnel differences. Plus, coaches can't count on 11 flags and numerous horrible spots to keep their teams in the game against us. 

[Waldo]

6 minutes ago, NorthTryon said:

Ego, they are garbage and most coaches feel like they field a better team with better scheming. Also, personnel differences. Plus, coaches can't count on 11 flags and numerous horrible spots to keep their teams in the game against us. 

All true but if the blueprint exist and they ignore it then that's pretty stupid. Unless personnel makes it a non-option seems like an easy call. Also the Saints are a bottom team and some winning teams avoided that strategy with better rosters even if they don't have the divisional knowledge that the Saints have. 

[Jackson113.2]

2 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

We’re beating Tampa next week

were beating seattle

miami beats TB

we win division week 17 and you can return to your scheduled posting of me

Your sucking off Tepper at every chance is pretty alarming to say the least. 

[Basbear]

19 hours ago, rodeo said:

The Huddle has such cuck energy these days

 

I hate how right this statement is.

[Barney]

Funny how a lot of people here did not want either of those guys when they were here, but the same people are upset that we let them leave.  Easy to look back and criticize.  Honestly Darnold is reminding me of Cousins.  Great in the regular season, but when the pressure is on he reverts back to happy feet and int's.  We will see how he does if they make the playoffs.  Baker seems to have more dog in him.  

Edited 1 hour ago by Barney

[Waldo]

12 minutes ago, Barney said:

Funny how a lot of people here did not want either of those guys when they were here, but the same people are upset that we let them leave.  Easy to look back and criticize.  Honestly Darnold is reminding me of Cousins.  Great in the regular season, but when the pressure is on he reverts back to happy feet and int's.  We will see how he does if they make the playoffs.  Baker seems to have more dog in him.  

Darnold folds when it's put on him. He is fine when the team carries him. Here they put it on the QBs 3 times in 3 years while no one could carry Rhule's mess of a nonexistent NFL level program. I would personally take Cousins because he was a better version of Darnold in every way except pay levels. 

Baker was a playoff QB his rookie year and another/final desperation move for a crew failing out of the NFL. He was the best of the 3 and it was never close. 

The context matters. Wilks had the truely good QB running scout team DE spouting crap like 'it's not my call' as an interim HC. I don't remember one person that didn't have Tepper and Rhule issues way ahead of the QBs problems by that time. Teddy got it worse but when Sam showed up the pattern became clear to most. No way to un-fug what those people did in those 3 years. Teddy was never going to be a savior they needed, they didn't use Sam as a bridge QB like they should have and they brought the best one into the worst situation steeped in desperation and incompetence in a year 3 that should never have happened. None were ever going to workout here given how the team was run, it was all built to fail. 

The people that didn't want them were right, maybe not for the correct reasons but that depends on the who, and the team proceeded to prove it.

[Sir Purr]

On 12/15/2025 at 8:02 PM, Jackson113.2 said:

Fun times indeed. 

Cooker is better than XL by a mile.

Someone could be better than the Qb, but  oh yeah we didn't bring in competition. 

Last 3 weeks are going to be depressing.  I am once again ashamed to be a Panthers fan.

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Sir Purr

[kungfoodude]

50 minutes ago, Barney said:

Funny how a lot of people here did not want either of those guys when they were here, but the same people are upset that we let them leave.  Easy to look back and criticize.  Honestly Darnold is reminding me of Cousins.  Great in the regular season, but when the pressure is on he reverts back to happy feet and int's.  We will see how he does if they make the playoffs.  Baker seems to have more dog in him.  

I mean....Darnold has many, many years of producing left to be Cousins.

[mrcompletely11]

59 minutes ago, Barney said:

Funny how a lot of people here did not want either of those guys when they were here, but the same people are upset that we let them leave.  Easy to look back and criticize.  Honestly Darnold is reminding me of Cousins.  Great in the regular season, but when the pressure is on he reverts back to happy feet and int's.  We will see how he does if they make the playoffs.  Baker seems to have more dog in him.  

Darnold was pretty bad until last year.  He implodes mentally, its just what he does.  To this day I dont have a problem with letting him walk.

 

Baker is a bit different.  He was an ass in Cleveland and they couldnt deal with his poo, but he at least had talent and went to the playoffs.  So you know he could play at least.  There were different stories coming out from the time he got here, competing with Sam and then the practice team release fiasco.  Both good and bad.  Some say he was a good teammate others say he bitched behind the scenes.   From what it appears his wife has worked with him and he calmed down and his play has reflected that.  Tampa loves him.  So if we were going to keep one it probably should have been him but man he was really bad for us.  But to his defense he didnt get the first team reps until late into camp.  

 

In obvious hindsight we should have signed Baker cheap, drafted a dude and let the cards play out, but you know the rest of the story and now we are going to have to watch bryce for 2 more years