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Worst team of all time? They won a game so that’s impossible considering there are teams that did not win a single game. One of the worst of all time? Still too early to say but they’ll be in the conversation if they go 1-16. So I think they’re not there yet but it’s possible.

I could see him retiring too. I wonder if he ends up being a QB coach.

After the Raiders game I wondered how many games Dalton could play before he had a noticeable dropoff in play quality. We've seen him get worse every subsequent game.

Canales needs a chance to select the QB to run his offense. If Tepper fire Canales after only 1 season after forcing a trash QB room on him, he might as well just drop his unexpectedly cheap pants and take a sh*t on the Panthers logo at the 50 yard line.

I mean but let's be honest the defense was gutted and the players have given up. It's not fully on Evero.

I think it's evidence the team is actively trying to lose because there is no other explanation.

It helps having Justin Jefferson and a head coach who understands situational offensive playcalling.

For real man, I don't get it. He knew he might only get that one drive and they're getting blown out. Why the f*ck aren't they trying to throw a bomb? There are so many problems with this franchise right now it might be better if they just delete the team and start over with an entirely new organization, name, and owner.

Yea I watched about 5 minutes of this game because I put $500 down on the Commanders at -10, that was very easy money. There genuinely isn’t a single positive to take from the entire roster

Question in the title. My answer is no

Ewers biggest problem is being injury prone.

Only guy who could make a tackle in the secondary from what I saw some games. They are tanking

Because everything after Wilks was the interim coach has been fantastic right?

I really hope the Panthers give Dave Canales a real chance to be “the guy” for the Panthers which means giving him 3 seasons to build the team to his scheme and pick his own QB. But I’m not hopeful because he’s already a year behind in development because of the failure of Bryce Young. My prediction is the Panthers finish with a top 3 draft pick in the 2025 draft. They will draft another QB, along with signing a veteran. Bryce Young is traded for a late round pick. The team spends heavily in free agency on defense. The team continues to struggle in 2025, and the defense does not get much better. Evero is not retained after the 2025 season. Canales is given one more season to right the ship and develop the drafted QB. The Panthers draft heavily on the defensive side of the ball, show some mild improvement in 2026 with a new defensive coordinator and investment into the defense. But it won’t be enough, and Canales will be fired. In early 2027, David Tepper, after seeing his 9th straight losing season as owner, is desperate to find any shred of success. Tepper decides it’s time to go back to the Panthers roots and hire a defensive head coach and focus on the running game. He hires a retread veteran defensive specialist as head coach (such as a Dan Quinn, not necessarily him), and installs a new GM to pair with the new head coach. We see the Panthers begin to resemble the team they were before Tepper bought the team, a hard nosed defensive squad that plays ball control offense. The thing Tepper hated most about the style of football the Panthers played has come back to be his savior and his ownership comes full circle. He could have done this in 2023 by hiring Steve Wilks, the only coach to show any semblance of success under his ownership. But Tepper was too stubborn to go against his “vision” for the team. I guarantee the Panthers hire a defensive head coach after Canales. Tepper will have tried all other avenues at that point - college head coach, veteran retread offensive head coach, up and coming offensive coordinator, next in the cycle will be veteran retread defensive head coach, followed by the up and coming defensive head coach. Who might actually finally be the success we’ve been waiting for in the 2030s. Either way, I think some of you reading this will be dead before the Panthers have another winning season. The football team is as big of a mess as it has ever been. And Tepper is going to be forced to look into the past for how to fix it.

I’m not rooting for him to fail, he’s already doing that without any wishes from me into the cosmos. I hope he figures out how to build an NFL team because his ideas for how to win in the NFL were clearly wrong.

I’m being a little hyperbolic with the 15 yards but I think it was the Jamarr Chase TD which was like a 3rd and 2 from what I recall and the corners are playing 10 yards off the receivers and dropping back after the snap. It is brain dead defensive playcalling

It was the bengals game I saw it most egregiously, can’t remember when in the game though

So playing the corners 15 yards off the receivers on 3rd and 4 is because the players don’t fit his scheme

did the draft one in 2024? nope. so 2025 and then 2027 and so on. Gotta at least give the rookie a couple years to MAYBE figure it out

They have to draft a QB every other year until they find the franchise QB.

Coker looking like a keeper. At least a good backup or slot option. Mingo is probably getting cut in the offseason or in training camp next year. Side note Legette making an impact is a good sign. Best rookie WR since DJ Moore.

I mean I’m optimistic that Canales might actually figure it out and the playcalling on offense isn’t retarded. But to say “I won’t be pissed until X date” is some hard level copium. We’re working on the back half of a decade of what’s likely to be losing seasons at this point.

I mean there’s a parallel universe about .5mm away from our current universe where that happened

I’ve been to so many great games, I’ve probably seen them lose more than they’ve won in person and my favorite time seeing the panthers was an away game but, pre Tepper it was a blast to go to the games.

Anyone here going to home games anymore? Are they even fun? I have a friend who went to the Chargers game and he said it was fun for like the first 5 minutes and the opposing fans made it pretty unbearable. I haven’t been to a game since 2019 so I really wouldn’t know but it seems very miserable at the games. I have had tickets to games since then that I’ve sold (all of them losses) and don’t intend to go to a game ever again at this rate.