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Hire Steve Smith for WR coach maybe he can coach DJ to have a killer instinct and get Robby to stop dropping balls by putting the fear of god into him

A franchise QB can make even a bad coaching staff look good. Matt Rhule needs a generational #1 overall type QB to be anywhere close to successful in the NFL. That is probably why David Tepper seemed so willing to dump an insane amount of resources into trading for Deshaun Watson. Otherwise he will have wasted tens of millions of dollars hiring a wildly unqualified head coach. Talk about egg on your face, no wonder Tepper has hid from the public eye since the season ended. But the truth is, the Panthers aren't the only team in this boat. There aren't many head coaches in the NFL who can win without a premiere QB. The Bengals are a prime example. What a difference a healthy Joe Burrow made for a coaching staff that won 6 games the previous two seasons. And look at the Cowboys. Dak Prescott is clearly the only reason the Cowboys have any promise at all. The Cowboys sucked without Prescott in 2020. McCarthy's shortcomings are well documented. And look at the NFL playoffs this season. Except for QBs that Bill Belichick found (Brady and Garropolo), all the QBs who won a playoff game were drafted in the top 10. The Panthers were one pick away from picking Justin Herbert. If Rhule had been able to draft Justin Herbert we'd all be singing a very different tune right now. This might have been a playoff team as recently as even 2020, or close to it. Not sure if Rhule would have signed off on the pick because he obviously has no idea how to scout an NFL QB, but the fact remains that a franchise QB cures all ails. So all that said, the reason Panthers fans all have our pitchforks out is Rhule placed a pretty sizable bet on a known failure in Sam Darnold thinking he'd be able to coach him up. 3 draft picks and a $19m option. That's not peanuts. Rhule has one more swing at finding a franchise QB, in one of the weakest QB draft classes since 2013. I think we all know how this is going to play out.

Posturing for a contract extension

Anyone else watch this doc on Netflix? Thought it was pretty funny. Basically a guy is scamming women on Tinder by pretending to be the son of a billionaire diamond mogul then tricking them into giving him money.

I'd rather the NFL do a 3rd place game between the two losers of the conference championship games and the winner gets an extra 3rd round pick.

Tepper is arrogant and has a lot of pride. The team sucks and he made a big mistake hiring Rhule so he's probably too embarrassed to admit he f*cked up yet.

They didn't trade down last year when they had better chances. Don't see them doing it this time. Look at what the Giants got for trading down with the Bears when they took Fields

Given this team passed on Fields and Jones, I'm pretty confident they will pick a worse QB like Kenny Pickett. These guys seem to love bad QBs.

Could have had a 2nd year QB with a bunch of money to sign veteran lineman this offseason. Instead we have a CB with a bum foot and a terrible QB making $19m.

need details before I pass judgement but given that it's Vegas and they arrested him I'm sure dude did some sh*t

That’s some extreme time warping logic

It’s crazy they didn’t take Fields. Even if he doesn’t pan out it was worth the dice roll over a CB and a QB who sucked on the Jets.

You gotta go get a solid veteran QB or this team will be bad again

Kenny Pickett would be a 3rd round pick last year

Jokes on them everyone ran all over this team and no one needed to beat them with the passing game

Not everyone. I posted a thread that nepotism would torpedo the Matt Rhule era before it began the week he was hired. I didn’t understand the hype around Rhule given his lack of experience and the fact he didn’t beat a single ranked team at Baylor. Then reports that he was just going to bring over his Baylor coaching staff made me realize he had a very high chance to be a failure. Two years later we all know Rhule sucks and should have been fired after the 2021 season. Fitterer and Morgan should have been given the chance to hire the next head coach. The Panthers are a mess and I don’t even think the worst of it has happened yet. Pending a miracle the 2022 season will be an unmitigated disaster.

Sounds like another Deonte Brown

Bit of a cherry picked metric excluding the 1st quarter and 2 games no?

Yea so the Panthers interviewed him when they technically weren't required to interview minority candidates. Not sure this holds a ton of water or if he's just piggy backing on Flores's story right now.

Nice job for him honestly. Good place to build back up his brand.

f*ck it hire Flores if Rhule goes to Michigan. Tepper says he's progressive and wants to be on the right side of things after big daddy Richardson put a sh*t stain on this franchise. Right the ship by hiring a good coach put in crummy situations.

just shows you how much a franchise QB matters

Who cooks the books in a mom and pop tho

Tepper’s wife lol oooh wee mayne nepotism ftw