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Frank Reich’s offensive scheme makes Mike Shula look like a god damned genius in comparison

I mean the offense is bad but they might legitimately not get a first down without Thielen. Man he has to regret signing with this trash franchise. Bet he's spending most of his time using the golf simulator in the locker room.

Only gripe I had with Wilks was his inability to adjust coverages during the 2nd Tampa game and punting inside the 50 on 4th and shorts. Other than that he assembled the most competent stretch of Panthers football since early 2018

Fitterer was making bonehead moves from the get-go. But with Tepper meddling in every decision, who knows how much of the decision was Fitterer or Tepper. Picking up Sam Darnold's $19m 5th year option before he played a snap for the team was just f*cking dumb. He should have been on a 1 year prove-it deal. Not trading Burns for two 1sts and a 2nd round pick was a MASSIVE missed opportunity. Drafting Jaycee Horn, a CB and a luxury position for a team needing an answer at QB, OL, and many other more important positions, goes down as another whiff. If Horn was healthy and performing consistently it would sting less, but it was still a stacked draft to get a player at a higher value position. I can't fault him for picking Ekwonu. He was the right pick at the time, he's from Charlotte, it was a home run pick at the time. Icky looked better when he had Christensen playing next to him. I think poor LG play is hurting him in some situations. He's still young and it can take a few years for a good tackle to develop. Moton had the benefit of sitting on the bench for a few seasons. As great of a player CMC is, I can't fault Fitterer for trading him. CMC probably privately didn't want to play for the Panthers anymore and he ended up in a truly perfect situation for him. The compensation wasn't horrible but getting a 1st would have been nice. And the coup de grace, the Bryce Young trade. Don't really need to explain this to Panthers fans but the value given up for this pick vs. the return will go down as one of the worst trades in NFL history. Everyone associated with the franchise should be fired for this trade.

After watching the Chiefs/Eagles game last night it was so obvious the Panthers offensive scheme and playbook is f*cking terrible. No misdirection, very little pre-snap movement and motion that actually matters. Have they run a reverse all season?? It's hard to believe how much better the offense looked under Ben McAdoo but here we are.

Man go spend that money doing literally anything else with your kids. Panthers are dead. RIP. Truth is David Tepper doesn’t belong in Charlotte. It seems forced and unnatural for the Carolina Panthers to have this Pennsylvania guy as the owner. He had no prior connections to the region and doesn’t understand literally anything that made the team successful in the past. He doesn’t embody any of the values the team was founded on and he has destroyed the culture the team had built. It’s no surprise the two head coaches he has hired both have strong connections to Pennsylvania. The team would have been way more successful than it has been if Ben Navarro was allowed to buy the team.

I could do pretty much whatever I wanted whenever I wanted because I didn’t have kids

There isn’t a single player, coach, or front office executive who should be a part of the team next season. This is one of the worst assemblies of a team in the history of the NFL

Maybe he just sucks

David Tepper playing 4D chess with the fanbase pumping out cash to have some favorable spin on Bryce at the expense of the offensive scheme lol

Last season, the Panthers were 10th in the league in rushing yards, 12th in YPC, and tied for 12th in rushing TDs. They brought back the same offensive line and two of the same running backs. This season they are 30th in rushing yards, 27th in YPC, and 31st in the NFL with a whopping 2 rushing TDs. Frank Reich and his staff are garbage and should be fired immediately. They didn’t adjust the scheme to the players, they adopted a pass first attack with a rookie QB who can’t throw over defenders and struggles with decision making.

We truly don’t know the extent David Tepper is meddling with the coaching staff. Whose decision was it to give playcalling to Thomas Brown? I really really hope he isn’t making X’s and O’s Decisions but he’s choosing QBs apparently so who knows

tl;dr - the panthers are dumb

When the ignorant fans ask “how do you know Tepper is meddling” this is what I show them

I can’t believe it’s even being suggested. You think we’re at rock bottom now? Wait until the trail of disaster McDaniels would leave

Gotta get Nicole down on the line showing some hole to get those boys back on track

I'd be so nervous if I did that because while yes the Panthers suck balls, you never know when a team will randomly play their best game of the season. The Cowboys lost to the Cardinals who were actively trying to lose at the time. Granted that was when they had Josh Dobbs who is a bit of a revelation at QB, but still. I think the Panthers lose but it's a way closer game than everyone expects just because of the parity of the NFL.

Lots of former panthers coaches to critique here. Dorsey ran the offense as well as Daboll. Sometimes the ball just doesn’t bounce your way and Josh Allen is an inefficient QB. Probably won’t end well in Buffalo

The game just passed him by. Being a good dude means you’re more likely to attract good people around you which is what Frank has clearly done throughout his coaching career. Problem is the Panthers built a staff of guys who don’t mesh together. The results have been….well we all already know

Frank is harder to hate than Matt Rhule which frustrates me. I didn’t get the impression Matt Rhule gave a sh*t and he was so wildly unqualified for the job and ridiculously overpaid that he was a target of vitriol. Frank seems like a decent man, same as Ron Rivera, so it’s harder to just outright hate them. He sucks as a coach though that much is clear and the offense which was supposed to be his specialty is the worst in the NFL. Another massive swing and a miss for David “I know better than you because I’m a billionaire” Tepper

They could hand over playcalling to a 6th grader using Ask Madden and it would probably work better.

At least Bill O'Brien was a successful head coach to a degree. And he's holding that turd Mac Jones accountable for sucking ass. But as a dude he seems like a butthole so I'm not really into hiring him in any capacity.

You can't fire Reich during his first season unless some scandal came out. The Jags got lucky with Urban Meyer being a scumbag. Reich is squeaky clean as a person unfortunately for the fans so he'll be lasting until at least the end of the season. And honestly he deserves at least the rest of the season to right the ship. There are still 8 games left to play and a lot can change. I'm not expecting a single thing to change, but the possibility exists and there's no way to make any real lasting changes until the season is over anyway. So what's the point? To me, if the Panthers are the worst team in the NFL at the end of the season, you have to clean house. Who cares if they're in year 1 or year 10, or two years removed from a Superbowl win. I've always been a firm believer that the worst team in the NFL should always fire their entire staff. You were the worst team, how can you keep your job? It's the literal definition of being a failure. But again a lot can change. If the Panthers show some progress, I think Reich might be able to keep his job. Not looking good though.

I mean if the Panthers are hoping to have the interim head coach have better results than the regular head coach for a second straight season I think it might be time to just burn the stadium down because nothing good is going on there

I was about to come here and say this. Football is a funny sport. As bad as you can look one week, the next a team can look radically different. I’ve been waiting for this Panthers team to wake up and have a blowout win where everything clicks but the more I see from the offense it’s clear that day is not coming. Best I could see is a defensive battle where the Panthers keep it close on some flukey plays where the ball bounces their way. No way in hell the Cowboys lose an extra home game though.