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Is anyone surprised? This team is embarrassing on offense

Game over

Quite possibly the dumbest defensive gameplan to play 10 yards off receivers during a 2 min drill. Lamar just nickel and diming them down the field.

Ravens 31 Panthers 21

I literally wrote “If Wilks pulls some upsets and the team finishes with a winning record (under his leadership, not Rhule’s 1-4 start) I will understand why they’d keep him.” but thanks for making it obvious you read 5% of my post appreciate your contribution to this forum

Wilks is a good person and leader. He is as qualified to be the HC as many others that the Panthers would be interviewing. My biggest concern if they retain him as HC is turnover at the OC position. I’d rather hire an offensive minded HC when they draft a rookie QB. The head coach’s primary responsibility would be developing the rookie QB and that guarantees the HC will be around long enough to see it though. But the season still has a good chunk of games left. If Wilks pulls some upsets and the team finishes with a winning record (under his leadership, not Rhule’s 1-4 start) I will understand why they’d keep him.

Head coach is the most important followed closely by franchise QB. The coach needs to be able to identify the QB and staff that he can build around to win, not the other way around.

That % would be like 25% if they’d managed to beat the Falcons the first time

You guys think the Bengals beat this team? They did it without their best player! The Ravens are an even better ground team. I’m starting Kenyan Drake in fantasy with BELLS ON. We’d need Steve Smith to turn around and go blood and guts on the Ravens for us to win this game. Lamar is gonna scramble all over the place.

I honestly think Rhule is made to be a college coach and he could be very successful at the right school if he stayed long enough. His skills are more tailored to managing college age players.

If Wilks has a winning record (not counting the games under Rhule) by the end of the season with the garbage he has at QB, I think he should get the job.

He’s like a bazooka with no scope

The Tim Donaghey situation made me believe all refs in all sports are inherently crooks

the Texans play the Commanders, Browns, Jaguars, and Colts. They could beat any one of those teams. Any given Sunday. The Raiders still play the Broncos, Rams, Steelers…who knows. Panthers have shot at the top spot still IMO.

PJ literally threw it into the hands of the defenders like 3 or 4 times last night on his already limited amount of throws, and you want him to throw it MORE?

(Probably not real but who knows)

He needs to take over for Henderson.

What?

Can we please NOT re-sign a RB midseason just because he had a couple good games against some bad rushing defenses? Look, I like Foreman a lot, I watched him at Texas and he was a total monster in 2016, wanted the Panthers to draft him in 2017 as a replacement for Stewart, but he's had a lot of issues in the NFL. He made some dumbass mistakes, got in trouble, and he's had injury issues. Decisions like that are why the Panthers always struggle. Let him play out the rest of the year, see how he does, and maybe he gets another 1 or at most 2 year deal.

I'm not sure his value will ever be this high. Still on his rookie deal and only 24, he's the same age as some rookies coming out of the draft. The Rams were probably going to immediately throw a huge contract extension at him like the Dolphins did with Chubb. If the Panthers wait another season, he's another year older, contract extension prices for LB/DE's goes up again, and now he's worth less because he will be a higher cap hit sooner, and a year older. I think the Panthers have made their decision, he's not getting traded at any point. Once he signs his extension with the Panthers, he's untradable and that could be as soon as this offseason. And aside from the draft assets, I thought trading him made sense because who knows if he fits with what the new coaching staff will want next season. And if you want to entice an established coach like Sean Payton to coach the Panthers (not saying that I do), having those draft picks were a nice thing to offer.

Those are only the paradox when the team is losing. No one was saying those things in 2017 when the team was good.

I can’t blame coaching staffs for wanting to get the ball into his hands, he’s a special caliber player. But aside from Mike Shula in 2017, they never seemed to know how to balance his workload.

I agree. When the Panthers traded for him I watched some videos of him on the Jaguars. He literally cannot get open on the outside. His agility is trash. But coming out of the backfield, returning punts and kicks, he has power and good vision. He has a place to be a good contributor.

100% agree. And it’s not that I don’t think Burns is a good player or potentially even a great player. He’s not worth what the Rams offered. The Panthers badly need a franchise QB and they’re going to play themselves out of the top 3 picks in the 1st round like they always do. They needed ammo to trade up to get a franchise QB. Scott might have considered that but thought Burns wasn’t worth that much, maybe he’s vital to the team camaraderie (which I could care less about since the team is ASS) but either way I wish they had gotten those picks. Burns is a player who would do well on a complete team. He’s a non factor on a garbage team.