Today's Gameplan - Final Straw & Huge Indictment on Canales & Young

[Wanderlai]

2 minutes ago, Gladniator1 said:

If he "knows" that, then why is he playing him at all!?! That's the flaw in your logic. 

Who do you play over him? Dalton stunk it up his one start. There isn’t anyone on the team better than our flawed QB. 

[Gladniator1]

8 minutes ago, WarPanthers89 said:

I know Bryce sucks but as an “offensive head coach”, to have 54 passing yards in a game, you need to seriously evaluate yourself and your ability to come up with a game plan in the modern NFL. 

^^^^this.

[Sup]

I'm just going to be blunt because I'm getting tired of this discussion. Bryce f****** sucks and if you can't or won't see it, the problem is you.

[WarPanthers89]

3 minutes ago, TLGPanthersFan said:

Or 54 yards is because Bryce is a bad QB.

I agree. Both can be true….its not like our game plan is lighting the league on fire. We still have no offensive identity. We try to be a running team but never fully commit. The only thing we excel at is the check down and 4 yard pass

[Bear Hands]

12 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

I don't even know that he's calling a dink-and-dunk O. Young checks down immediately (that or he really is a super processor and has determined everyone is covered by the time he's taken 2 steps back). 

That's true.  He often bails after a 1st or 2nd read and commits to a scramble when he should still be navigating the pocket and surveying.  He has an extra half to near full second to advance in the air.  He either throws away, in the dirt, or gains a few yards (sometimes has a good scramble).

Still, our offense is not designed to have many quick hits outside of a few designed screens to the outside.  

[Gladniator1]

1 minute ago, Wanderlai said:

Who do you play over him? Dalton stunk it up his one start. There isn’t anyone on the team better than our flawed QB. 

You grab Philip Rivers off a HS coaching job! LOL. Anything, but you don't keep starting a guy you don't think can do it...right?  RIGHT??

[Silent Majority]

The cuppers attempting to say there was only 54 yards of open recievers on the field today is peak poverty franchise babble.

Edited 6 hours ago by Silent Majority

[Gladniator1]

How many hook routes did we see today? That's not a play call that Bryce can sit back and check down. It's a "you will throw the ball *here* and I will be *here*" play. It's a fail-safe for 3rd downs from most other teams, but did we call one, even one? No. 

[Gladniator1]

To be clear, I'm not saying Bryce is an all-pro or anything, I'm saying his support team is poo.

[Wanderlai]

1 minute ago, Gladniator1 said:

You grab Philip Rivers off a HS coaching job! LOL. Anything, but you don't keep starting a guy you don't think can do it...right?  RIGHT??

At best Rivers was a 1 year Hail Mary attempt by Indy and not a long term option. Im not sure Tepper would let him dump Bryce but if Canajes doesn’t it will cost him his job at some point going all in with Bryce. 

[45catfan]

24 minutes ago, Bear Hands said:

With how this season is going, we're gonna squeak by next week and get absolutely embarrassed in the playoffs.  Extend Young, go into mediocre purgatory for the foreseeable future.  

That's what I've been screaming from the rooftops.  Once you extend a franchise QB, you have a very tight window for success before the front office has to start making tough choices at other spots. 

Here's my play: give the 5th year option Young and bring in legit competition (not babysitting Andy Dalton).  Let next year play out and my best guess is it will look a lot like this year--very middling. Stock the defense and a couple offensive players in the '26 draft and we get our QB in '27, which is slated to be loaded.

[WUnderhill]

Pretty sure we just ended our season when we started taking knees at 2 minutes. You can’t preach to your team “it’s about how you finish” etc. and then do that. You can’t say Keep Pounding and have players bang the drum and then do that. The message is gone now. There’s nothing behind it. And where one crack forms more follow. You could have recovered from dumb penalties, poor play, etc. You can’t recover from giving up when there’s still a chance.

[Jmac]

18 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

Panthers defense continues to outplay the offense across the board. 

Which is amazing since most of the draft the last couple years has been on offense.

[PNW_PantherMan]

6 minutes ago, Gladniator1 said:

To be clear, I'm not saying Bryce is an all-pro or anything, I'm saying his support team is poo.

The support is the only reason the team is in contention for the playoffs.