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Id be way more optimistic if they had their first round pick next year

How about Marshall Jr for Jeudy straight up?

Here we are heading into a Week 5 road matchup with a hot Detroit Lions team. It’s a foregone conclusion the Panthers are going to lose, the question is, how bad is it going to be? My take, the Lions are sure to rip off the Panthers collective genitalia, put it in a blender, then feed it to their pet goat. Anyway, let’s go back in time to 2011 - Week 5 of Cam Newton’s rookie season at home against the prime-era Drew Brees lead Saints. This was an extremely exciting game. Great offense on both sides, big plays, it was just a polar opposite type of game we’ve seen from the David Tepper era Panthers squads. Some key moments stand out. 1st quarter, 3 min left in the quarter, Panthers are down 10 facing 3rd and 11 from their own 46 yard line. This is the legendary Newton to Smith catch and run touchdown with a sweet fight at the end. WHERE IS THIS KIND OF FIRE??? Bryce Young got hit late in the game last week, not ONE player did a god damned thing. The 2023 Panthers are soft and their head coach is old and sucks. 2nd Quarter, 4 min left in the half, Panthers down 17 to 6 on 1st and 10 from their own 31 yard line. Great play design to trick the defense. Double option reverse pitch to Deangelo Williams who gat DANG I forgot was this fast. Takes it to the house. Wow. Haven’t seen the offense do ANYTHING like this probably since the Mike Shula days. Down moment, right before halftime, Saints are rushing to line up to kick a field goal before the clock runs out. Someone calls timeout, but the Saints don’t have any. Ron Rivera called a timeout! WTF! After the game, Ron said it was because they didn’t have the right formation or something and was afraid they’d get flagged. Dumb move either way. I never forgot this moment and thought Ron was bad at clock management for awhile after this happened. 4th quarter, 12:30 left in the game. Panthers down 23-20 facing 3rd and goal from their own 5 yard line. Newton guns it to Olsen in the end zone. Touchdown. I barely saw the ball zip through the air it went so fast. Bryce will never throw the ball this hard in his entire life. The Panthers defense was really bad back then but give credit where credit is due. Drew Brees was a marksman and this was when the Saints offense could kill you by death from a thousand cuts. This is the offense the Panthers should be running with Bryce Young. Quick hitter throws with misdirection, pre snap motion, read option, play action, it’s a real modern NFL offense. The Frank Reich offense looks like the offense a bad team was running in 1982. Run up the middle, run up the middle, try to throw on third down but everyone sucks, punt. Re-watching the highlights of this game made me very sad. This was not a good Panthers team but it was clear that they were going to figure it out. They were in almost every game and Cam was so exciting to watch. He had a huge arm, made huge plays. Aside from Steve Smith his wide receivers were trash. Best thing that offense had going was a multifaceted rushing attack with the read option. Not really sure why the current Panthers aren’t trying that with Bryce but probably because he’s smaller than me which is a super sad thing to say because I’m not that big of a guy. Anyway, fun to rewatch this one even though it’s a loss. Takes you back to happier times as a Panthers fan and makes you forget how truly bleak and embarrassing things are these days.

Scott Fitterer drafted him and he plays for the Panthers, his career is over

That was one of the best moments in Panthers history. Absolutely demolishing the Cowboys on Thanksgiving and ending Tony Room’s career is a fantastic memory. What happened to this team….

Who cares, that doesn't mean we wouldn't have gotten Drake Maye or Quinn Ewers.

Do we really miss Fat Fool and Teddy Asswater right now ?

If the Rams still want Burns, I’d ask for Kupp and a 1st and a 3rd.

Wow I can’t believe this has never been discussed here before I really thought this board would have gone into excruciating detail into this topic before but wow good on you for bringing this topic to our attention thank you truly from the bottom of my heart

I can’t think of much he’s done right. Guy genuinely has no idea how to build a roster

That WR screen didn’t work, let’s try something different. WR screen to a different guy to the other side. That’ll trick them.

Frank needs to sit down with this trash offense and let Thomas Brown have a legit shot at running the show. If Frank doesn’t want to relinquish play calling duties you have to fire him. Then you promote Evero who is HC material and let Brown do what he can with the offense.

Him ripping on Baker actually jives with steve being a team mouthpiece because they traded baker right after this

Panthers fans are hotter than fish grease apparently

Cooper Kupp and some solid draft capital for Brian Burns.

Step 1: Fire Scott Fitterer. He has a long list of terrible decisions that have crippled the team. Step 2: Force Reich to hand over playcalling to Thomas Brown. If he won't do it, fire him and promote Evero to head coach. Step 3: Bench Miles Sanders. Start Chuba Hubbard and Raheem Blacksheer. Step 4: See if the Rams will part with Cooper Kupp and some draft capital for Brian Burns

They have been terrible in the red zone with Young under center.

And the Panthers still managed not to score a TD.

How bad is Zavala really playing and why is the run game so bad

It's too early to say if Frank should be fired although I'm certainly leaning that direction. I'm of the opinion that if you're the coach of the team with the worst record in the NFL, you should always be fired. Doesn't matter if it's your 1st year or if you won the Superbowl the year before. If you are the coach of the worst team in the NFL, you should be fired.

He should be cut for this sh*t

Y’all got the years mixed up on this one. Herbert was drafted in the 2020 draft. Panthers won that meaningless Washington game in 2020 that dropped them from 3 to 8 in the 2021 draft, and they got Jaycee Horn as a prize. Would have likely ended up with Trey Lance in the alternative universe where they lost that game.

My dude, be careful what you wish for, because I am 100% certain that after the failure of the Rock Hill project, the continued poor performance of the team and subsequent poor attendance from fans, David Tepper is certainly beginning to consider moving the team. He has run out of goodwill with the community and with the fans. Their Linkedin page is their only social media devoid of constantly being berated for being an awful franchise.

He wants to get traded. Probably wishes he was on the Rams right now. All he's done is lose as a Carolina Panther.

Panthers have fell down the NFL pecking order to Browns/Jets/Lions(historically) levels.