Carolina Still Not Respected

[jfra78]

2 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

You really think they dump bryce after 8 wins?

I doubt we win 8 this year

[45catfan]

4 hours ago, chknwing said:

There are a variety of way to early 2027 mock drafts out but the consensus is Carolina will pick in the top 10 in 2027.  I may just be a homer but Carolina got better, much better this offseason especially on defense.  NFCS Champs and gave the Rams all they could handle in that playoff game.  Not seeing how they go backwards.

Yeah, and they don't have us drafting a QB.  If Bryce lands us in the top 10 of the next draft, that pick need to be his replacement.

[45catfan]

This is way too loaded to run it back in '27 with Bryce if we are a top 10 pick next April.

Edited 11 hours ago by 45catfan

[csx]

4 hours ago, DaveThePanther2008 said:

We have a brutal schedule and as they say Any Given Sunday.  I do believe everything hangs on BY. He will have plenty of weapons and needs to continue to improve.  If he falters than I would hope for a top 5 pick and move on with one of the good QBs coming out in 2027. 

I am an optimistic person, so I am looking forward to a good season. 

Our strength of schedule is actually lower than than last year when comparing win pct of opponents in 2025

[CPF4LIFE]

I'm am in no way gonna act like this team can't go backwards next year. Fans of this team should be smarter than that by now. I'm also not gonna act like last year was some breakout season, we caught a lot of lucky breaks and still didnt even finish the season with a winning record and we also needed help just to make the playoffs. Thats not huge steps to me but still improvement from the last 7 seasons. I'm not gonna brag about being the best of the worst because thats what our division was. The team does have the tools to be significantly better than last year they just have to put in the work and desire. And of course a lot of that is gonna come down to bryce as we all know. Thats it.

 

Edited 10 hours ago by CPF4LIFE

[tukafan21]

4 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

You really think they dump bryce after 8 wins?

I'll say the same thing this year that I said last year, wins and losses aren't important.

The only important thing is coming to a decision on Bryce one way or the other.  If he looks amazing but we find ways to lose, who cares we lost, we have our QB of the future.  If he looks terrible but we find ways to win, who cares that we won, we have to replace him.

And that's not me saying I don't want to see us win next year, just saying that wins/losses are secondary and far less important this season than coming to a 100% conclusion on what Bryce is for us.

Having said that, the only way I'll be okay with giving him an extension instead of replacing him is if he is a borderline MVP candidate and at minimum, an unquestioned Top 10 QB in the league next year.

Even just a season of slight improvement won't be enough for me, that's still not good enough to warrant a big extension, he has the team around him, he needs to show why he was the #1 overall pick, if not, good bye.

Edited 9 hours ago by tukafan21

[h0llywood]

6 hours ago, chknwing said:

Suck for Manning?

If we do another season where we revert to sucking, I wouldn't be surprised where we get a scenario where we get an Andrew Luck situation where Archie Manning decides to stay one more season. But hey it landed us Cam Newton.

[PootieNunu]

We have a weak QB and RBs, there is no Dowdle to win us a couple of games.

Chuba is always banged up and has never been a game changer anyway. 

We are probably in for a long season with another terrible offensive showing.

Edited 4 hours ago by PootieNunu

[OldhamA]

9 hours ago, ForJimmy said:

I liked him at Tulane then won the ACC (yeah it was a down year) at Duke. Now he has that Miami talent around him. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is in the heisman race at all. 

It wasn't a down year, the unbalanced scheduling meant that the best teams didn't get to play in the Championship game.

[DeAngelo Beason]

The QB isn't a QB, and the lineup of opponents doesn't look good.  I think it will be another bad season.  The league is not built in a way to mask bad QB play anymore.  I'm figuring 11 losses this season assuming we split the division games... and the sad part is if we had the most average of average performance from the QB position I can genuinely see this roster delivering 11 wins or more.

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

The QB isn't a QB, and the lineup of opponents doesn't look good.  I think it will be another bad season.  The league is not built in a way to mask bad QB play anymore.  I'm figuring 11 losses this season assuming we split the division games... and the sad part is if we had the most average of average performance from the QB position I can genuinely see this roster delivering 11 wins or more.

6-11 with a bad offense and I see heads rolling

[fanpanther]

1 hour ago, PootieNunu said:

We have a weak QB and RBs, there is no Dowdle to win us a couple of games.

Chuba is always banged up and has never been a game changer anyway. 

We are probably in for a long season with another terrible offensive showing.

i dont think people realize without dowdle panthers would have been picking top ten this years draft. byoung still rarely eclipses the 200 yard mark top 10 draft spot really seems like where the panthers will be this year replacing the qb

[Davidson Deac II]

9 hours ago, jfra78 said:

I doubt we win 8 this year

I agree, we will win at least 10.

[Khyber53]

Let them disrespect us. They never thought we'd be any good going into the 2003 or 2015 seasons. It's time to run it back on them again.