hepcat

Some people probably bought tickets during the off-season and would have to sell at a loss for every other game than the cowboys game left on the schedule. So they might just go and get the nfl game day experience than losing money on their tickets. Anyone buying non last minute tickets for panthers games these days under Tepper is just making a horrible financial decision.

The “no salary cap on coaches” comment lends me to believe he certainly believes that he can buy NFL assets as if they were stocks. It’s a fundamental flaw in his ability to build a successful NFL franchise. Sometimes the “best” assets won’t be the ones the numbers tell you they are, or the best that money can buy. The best asset is the one that is right for your team. The Panthers as a whole need to start by figuring out who they want to be as people, what identity the team will have, and finding those players. It went from Matt Rhule’s “brand”, whatever that meant, to god only knows under Frank Reich. One thing is clear is the only coach I saw with an identity the players responded to was Steve Wilks. For all his flaws he got more out of the players he had than anyone else Tepper has brought through the door. Soft skills are not in his wheelhouse and it’s painfully obvious every game day.

Tepper underestimated the fact that building a football isn’t the same as building a hedge fund. There’s a massive intangible human element to football that he clearly did not understand. If we play his game and look at players and coaches as if they were individual stock holdings, we would assign a “price” each player is worth at any given moment like a stock, an intrinsic value. The problem with that model is, how do you quantify those values? Each one is so massively volatile because of the human element involved that you can’t use data or algorithms to predict their value or performance on any given day. It is truly impossible to build a winning football team this way. These are real human beings, not money moving around on a speculative market. The soft skills build better football teams, and to his credit, Jerry Richardson did understand that. It’s a damn shame it’s taking Tepper this long to realize that, if he ever does.

The scene at the stadium on Sunday will be one of the ugliest in Panthers history. You want to see rock bottom? The stadium will be 80-90% Cowboys fans, beating the living f*ck out of the Panthers who are on David Tepper’s railroad line I aptly call the Retardville Express

The offensive scheme is so bad that I’m surprised Frank was able to even get this job. It shows how unqualified Tepper is to be involved in the decisions. Pair that awful outdated scheme with drafting an undersized QB with limited physical abilities and you have the worst team in football and maybe franchise history. Man, it’s bleak right now.

The issue is that Tepper fancies himself some kind of savant which is why he thought he could come in and create a winning football team. He tore down the entire culture and infrastructure the Panthers had built under Richardson and replaced it with…..a miserable losing culture. So despite your point that Tepper will never have “it” when it comes to football, he continues to believe he can learn.

I don’t think the team would be 1-8 if he hired Kellen Moore I’ll say that

Too late

I’m sure many of you have watched a lot more videos of David Tepper than I have. Has he ever divulged who (if anyone) his mentors or influences are when he became a new NFL owner? Who does he lean on or confide in for advice and guidance? Tepper was sold to the fans as a “new breed” of owner who was going to do things differently and shake up the NFL world. And he has, to his credit, been true to his word. The contract he gave to Matt Rhule completely reshaped the salary structure for new head coaches given the ridiculous contract Tepper gave Rhule. The problem has been that nothing he has done has made the team better. Nothing. So my question is, if Mr. Tepper insists on continuing to involve himself in the decisions of the team on the field, how is he getting better? What are his resources to improve his own performance? The owner has no one to answer to aside from the fanbase not showing up or paying to see the games. But he’s fortunate that visiting fans are so abundant in Charlotte that the stadium will almost always be full either way. So unfortunately the fans can’t really hold him accountable that way either. If he’s mentioned anyone, literally anyone, who he has a relationship with as a mentor to improve his NFL ownership, I’d be curious to know who it was. Because to me as a fan, if the owner is going to be going out to interview the coaches, and be involved in the decisions of the potential draft picks, and it keeps failing, he’d better show the fanbase how he’s going to get better at his job or get out of the way. Otherwise it’s just insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the results to change.

I agree. If this was year 4 of Matt Rhule or something and Tepper was stubbornly refusing to fire him, I get it. But the team has tried to make changes, all of them have just failed. The biggest failure is David Tepper’s clear inability to translate his success in the stock market to the NFL. It’s just a shame he is too arrogant and proud to step aside.

CJ Stroud is so much better than Bryce it’s not even close. Everyone associated with this franchise should be fired for picking Bryce over him. Massive whiff.

The 2010 team had a good defense. Offense was at least passable with Matt Moore. If the 2023 team played the 2010 team with Dalton vs Moore it might actually be a decent game. 2001 team lost a ton of close games, wasn’t as bad as the record. I think both teams would probably beat the 2023 team.

This will go down as the worst panthers team of all time

I mean you can’t keep Frank Reich around after that series of events to end the game. I have not seen such low IQ, dumb football in my life.

Frank Reich is a hard R word retard

I think both of these teams should fire their coaches

This team is hopeless. Wow

The scheme is just hilariously so bad. Bryce struggles to throw down field accurately but my god the play designs are pure butt

I have bad news for you

Over/Under how long do we hear this same story verbatim about David Tepper regretting he didn’t hire Steve Wilks? I give it until the offseason. https://www.raidersbeat.com/insider-says-raiders-owner-mark-davis-regrets-his-decision-not-to-hire-rich-bisaccia-i-know-for-a-fact

Tepper's biggest fault is his entire career in finance is working against him as a football team owner. The smartest people with the best data aren't always the best football players. Sometimes you win football games just by being bigger and faster than the other team.

Bears defense has allowed the most passing TDs, 2nd most passing yards, 2nd most passing 1st downs, the 3rd highest completion percentage, and the fewest sacks in the NFL. If Bryce stinks it up tonight....yikes.

That video just underscores the lack of direction and identity for the offense. It's like they haven't scouted the opponent at all and are calling the same dozen bad plays at random. It's not a good sign when Ben McAdoo was out scheming this "All Star" coaching staff. Some of the guys on the staff have f*cking Superbowl rings! I agree the scheme has been horrible but I can't pinpoint if the reason is because of Bryce's physical limitations, lack of talent at receiver, or the coaches are just braindead. I'm thinking it's a combo of all of the above. The main problem to me though is that they refuse to commit to the running game and that also relates to the scheme. I heard a stat from the announcer in the Colts game that the Panthers have passed the 4th most times in the NFL. Why are they passing so much? The WRs aren't getting separation, the routes are "static" as O'Sullivan says, but those things open up with the running game. All of these problems compound on each other. I'd like to see a statistic that shows how many play-action passes the Panthers have run in a game and how successful it has been. Have they run the read-option once with Young holding onto the ball? Try some sh*t out until something sticks because when you're the worst team in the NFL, what you're doing isn't working. Too many cooks in the kitchen could be the problem. Tepper obviously heavily involves himself in the day to day operations of the team and we don't really know how involved he is with the actual on-field decisions, but I have a feeling he is. Then you have Reich who is a former OC, Thomas Brown is the OC calling the plays now, they've got Jim Caldwell who was a longtime offensive head coach (god knows what he's doing, haven't heard a peep about him since he was hired). Passing Game Coordinator Parks Frazier called the plays for the Colts after Frank was fired last year. I thought he could be a possible scapegoat for this trainwreck but Reich officiated his wedding so he'd have to be forced to fire him. So there's obviously a lot of opinions in the offensive staff meetings. Bottom line is, it isn't working. They're not changing enough to make it work so it's not going to get better. And the Panthers are going to continue to be very very bad unless big (and successful) changes are made.

Bryce isn't a bust, yet, but he also isn't a good QB. Anyone with eyes could see he was going to struggle to adapt to the NFL given his small stature.