Panthers vs Saints Running Commentary

One of my main points was getting someone hurt that late in the season for a meaningless game. D Brown, or Chuba or TMac, would not be ready for the start of next season if a bad injury. No worries, i never agree on everything with everyone anyway

 

I'll stop being a dick about it. I just strongly disagree.

 

I'm all for tweaking the snap counts if the team is eliminated week 18. That's perfectly fine. I'd rather see Princely get more snaps, since Wonnum is a pending FA. Same with Etienne over Rico. I'm not sure exactly what you'll get from one game of tape against what would likely be Tampa's backups, but we can do that. I'm just not willing to carry that into the Seattle game with playoffs still on the table. Why would you just surrender like France after all the crazy shit we've seen this year? You can't assume anything in this league anymore.

 

Definitely.
If we win this weekend, then obviously we are all in for Seattle.
If we lose this weekend, then our odds are very small in making playoffs, and after must win after must win that we could not pull off, I am just doubting our guys can beat Seattle, but still guess you would play hard (again)
Last game, I would do exactly as you said. Put Princely out there, save Chuba, Dowdle is going anyway. What about our 3rd string QB? Ransom start entire game, etc.

No year ending injuries for our core guys. Icky on bench, lets see the FL DT play and see if he is worth keeping on roster

 

Seattle will have late-season Darnold, and will be ripe for an upset. As far as a division opponent, I want to beat them even if we're 0-16. There's no way the team will accept a "playing to not get hurt" approach to Tampa Bay, for either game.

 

Seattle won last night, but they needed some freak plays to pull it off. Darnold is already seeing ghosts. They barely beat Old Man Rivers. They'll be tough, and they handle the west to east thing pretty well under MacDonald, but there's some wobble.



I'm hoping the Tua benching is a one week thing after Ewers implodes this week. The Dolphins have actually played well in the second half of this season. It would be a shame if they already flipped into tank mode.