NotKyle

Well, I made it a week. And most of that was spent posting on reddit, so we'll call that plan a failure. Disability is disability for a reason I guess. So yeah, the Panthers suck. I wish they hadn't Rosen'd Bryce Young so quickly, obviously. WIth Dalton, their offense looks OK. Dalton won't miss open receivers if you give him time, and he gets a lot of time because their offensive line is very very good. He doesn't scare me as much as Stafford did, but they can move the football and we probably won't shut them down completely. Their defense is so bad. I know we keep saying "wow we're playing a bad defense" but this one is legit the worst. They're trying to play 3-4 with a below-average 4-3 DT playing NT and a set of ILBs that was nothing specal even before they were down to their 3rd string, which they now are. And the rest of the defense isn't any better, it's a collection of washed guys on their last contract and a bunch of never-will-be's. I didn't love the Rams matchup because their defense is bad overall but pretty good at getting pressure on the QB and that can be an issue for us, and it was an issue for us as Verse made Jones look as bad in pass pro as just about anyone has. The Panthers don't have any of that, they're 32nd in the league in pressure rate. No one has put up fewer than 330 yards on them in a game this season. The only thing standing in the way of our offense this week is the possibility of rookie QB turnovers and our persistent case of steponowndickitis. If I had faith that the Bears were a good team, I'd say there's no way they could lose this. But since I'm not convinced they are, they're perfectly capable of losing it. If they do, we can probably start watching draft order standings.