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Effective offense. During the Cam era we just used him as a battering ram and that made up for offensive incompetence. Once Cam's body starting wearing down we relied on a potential HoF RB in CMC for offense, and then he started wearing down. The problem was that we never had the staff in place to create an offensive system that could be effective without a generational talent dragging the team down the field. Then Fitt traded CMC... dear god. We found out how idiotic a lot of coaches and coordinators are at the NFL level. Frank and Beans embarrassed himself to the point where I don't think he can show his face in Charlotte without feeling some kind of shame. His play calls were moronic. Period. So thanks to Fitt we really don't have a special player who can elevate mediocre play calling. Fitt flopped in the draft, and his free agents were TERRIBLE, and he stripped the offense of DJ and CMC. DJ I could forgive, but CMC was propping up the offense. We didn't need to trade CMC to draft Young (who looks terrible). We have no offense. That's what we're missing. We're bad at every position on offense except slot receiver, RT, and RB. Think about that. That's how bad Fitt was at roster building. All our positions on offense are bad except slot receiver, RT, and RB. We need to fill so many positions that being decent in 2024 is out of the question. Where to start? LT - Icky will need to move inside. His pass blocking is HORRENDOUS. That means we need to draft a LT, or move Christensen to LT. G - I hate all of our guards. All of them except Corbett whose knee is beyond ruined. C - Bozeman is a slow lurching fatso who yells at our weird, blank, emotionless QB. This is follwed by Young crying in the locker room. Great. We need a more athletic C who can actually pass block. TE - We don't have any. The only way our poop TEs can look good is when we play GB's legendarily bad secondary. Draft at will, or find a free agent. WR - We need a #1 and #2. What a nightmare. It doesn't get any worse than that. RB - If we're sticking with noodle arm, then someone else has to make explosive plays. We need an elite RB so long as Young is our QB. RB is the least of our concerns on offense, but if a potential superstar RB falls in our lap, then pull the trigger. If for no other reason than to give me someone fun to watch on Sundays. I honestly don't know of our 2023 team could beat our 2010 Pickles team. It would be a close game, maybe the 2023 team wins 2 to 3. I'm running draft simulations here and there to show everyone what I'd like to do to fix this team, but 2024 is not going to go well no matter what we do. 2025 maybe.

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It's a shame Fitt blew the Rams deal, but he's finally gone. The goal now is to negotiate a more reasonable deal with Burns, while still keeping him happy. You really don't want to trade him at this point. Teams will not offer anywhere near the Rams wonderful deal, and that's terrible considering Burns talent level at his position. This problem would never have happened if were not for Fitt being incompetent. We've got to fight tooth and nail with Burns butthole agent to do a reasonable deal. Even if it's not a great deal for us, I don't want Burns traded for one first. No. Sign him. Fight that agent for something reasonable. If no deal, then tag his ass, and we'll replace him later.

Yeah I've liked Van Pran for a while because he's so steady and balanced and wide, but on the other hand he's not that powerful. Franklin runs a 4.35 40 and he flies on the field. I think we need to get steady on the o-line, and more explosive at WR.

OMFG not this again. I had almost forgotten about this idiotic speech! Might as well just refer to it as the "point guard" speech. I still can't believe he said all of that crap. Please let him just sell the team.

Young was difficult to watch. The most alarming problem that cropped up was his horrendous deep ball. Then I started to notice that there was low velocity on his passes, another worrying problem. The ball would hang out there to dry and I'd lean forward, my eyes widening, expecting a pick 6. It then accrued to me that Young reminded me of Drew Brees after his arm weakened from old age, but minus the fast processing mind. The QB I was told was some sort of wunderkind savant was actually not anything close to that. I don't know what the future holds for Young, but at this point things are looking grim.

Good man. Would take him back here as DC in a heartbeat.

Fitt is gone Burns! You're not getting a mega deal! GTFO!

It fells great knowing Fitt is finally gone. He always did the opposite of what I wanted and it drove me crazy, and drove the Panthers into the NFL basement. We're lucky to have even had 2 wins, and look that those lost seasons under Darnold. Sad. Aimless. Hopeless. Pointless. Unfortunately Fitt was allowed to trade CMC and DJ, and unload future draft picks before getting the boot. He was probably just flailing desperately to save his job and mortgaging our future in the process. It's going to hurt not having the #1 overall pick, but getting rid of Fitt is a nice consolation. The next GM has to prove he can hit on draft picks, and make good deals in free agency. With no 1st round pick, low levels of talent on the roster, a rookie contract QB, and CMC's money coming off the books, we should be able to make some big moves. And by big moves I don't mean a Burns mega deal, but rather fixing the offense. A smart GM will know to do that.

He has to be in shock. Imagine you're thinking you're on a playoff team, but in fact you're on the worst team that franchise has ever put on the field. Brutal.

We could have CMC and DJ Moore on this team right now and still have traded for Young. That is the sickening part. We lost a HoF type RB and that didn't have to happen to move up for Young. Don't trade CMC to SF, but do trade Burns to the Rams. Don't trade DJ to the Bears, offer other players. They would have taken a different deal. We were already offering a fantastic deal, and if the Bears don't want a player, then offer another future pick. Fitt DOES NOT know what he's doing.

If Burns walks then Fitt follows.

I don't want Burns traded for peanuts now. Now we're f-ing keeping him. He's staying, and Fitt you had better make a good deal. You must have had a plan when you refused the Rams, so execute your plan and make a good deal for the team. That or I don't ever want to hear anything Fitt has to say about anything. Ban his comments from the huddle.

I was screaming at the time for Fitt to trade him for 2 firsts and a second. Deal of a lifetime. Now we have an OLB who wants more money than he's worth, and he has that idea because of FItt. It was Fitt who refused the trade and made the statement that he was a cornerstone of our defense. Well he sure is sh!t is NOT that important to our defense AND he wants a mega deal. Fitt you idiot.

The offense we had before Frank was fired was the worst I've ever seen play calling wise. I couldn't believe me eyes, and not only were the calls terrible but they didn't suit our players, and I'm not just talking about the o-line, I mean the whole team. What we were trying to do would have been considered dated and ineffective in the early 2000s, and we would run the same awful plays over and over, so there was no mystery what was about to happen. After Frank was fired we still did horrendous ill suited plays, but we started to eliminate some of what wasn't ever going to work, and things got slightly better. We were adding stuff that had a chance to work and didn't look outright idiotic. The Frank firing was 100% justified and desperately needed. I don't know what to make of Thomas Brown. It's hard to judge him because he was saddled with Frank and Beans and that is just plain crippling. Even so, Thomas is going to get thrown out of BoA with cold blooded corporate efficiency. That dude is done and he might as well just move his personal affects out of his office now.

But bully Bozeman will be waiting for him......

I'm expecting a lot of records to fall this season because we're playing an extra game. Having said that, Brown has been on of the few bright spots in this otherwise abysmal season.

I follow the team news year round. I was never out. I'd like to get rid of Fitt because he's made too many critical mistakes in his tenure here. That would be a good start, but we can't fix this mess in one off season. We're going to be horrendous next season, but you'll still see me around here.

We experience coverage sacks/throw always, and actual sacks at too high of a rate. This points to the receivers, o-line, and QB not being good enough. Young is given a pass because he's a rookie throwing to losers like DJ Chark, and he has an o-line that features a LT who is incompetent, and second string guards. This makes it impossible to even properly evaluate Young, but I do think he looks terrible. That's not fair though because I'm just a fan and I don't have all the information. What do we do to start to fix the offense? Consider the last game where you saw Young holding his back in a lot of pain on the ground. Those types of hits are more likely to come from poor o-line play, so you try to fix the o-line first, and do what you can to improve the receiving corps with what you have left. That way you lessen the odds that Young, a player you gave up DJ, CMC, and the #1 overall pick for, doesn't become permanently damaged. There is no quick and easy fix. We're looking at a multi-year rebuild with a lot riding on Young improving from year to year. He looks terrible now, but the jury is still out.