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The team spent the entire off-season selling the fanbase on the “all star” coaching staff and how pro-ready and cerebral Bryce Young is, meanwhile CJ Stroud, Anthony Richardson, and even Sam Howell all look better than the guy they traded up big assets to get. Bryce has played one game, I get it. Lots of time for him to prove himself so I’m not panicking. But at first glance we have a wildly undersized QB and a wildly overpaid coaching staff that needs to deliver results or else all that smoke the team sold the fans on will lead to more and more empty seats and visiting fans at the stadium for yet another season under David Tepper.

Right now I’ve got Frankie Luvu as his best FA signing and I’ll agree production wise vs his pay, that’s a win. Contact wise the DJ Moore contract extension was very reasonable but also one of the reasons they were able to trade him in the Bryce Young so that’s a wash at best. Draft wise are we saying his best pick is Icky? I can’t say it’s a long list of good decisions.

The New York Giants having a private jet in Waco ready to take Rhule to the interview is why that whole thing happened to me. Tepper likes to “win” the deal and he thinks he beat the Giants by not letting him leave for the interview. In the end Tepper was the one who looked like a fool and all the other owners hate him for throwing off the coaching pay scale by overpaying a wildly unqualified college coach who didn’t even beat a ranked team.

Didn’t say she interviewed Rhule and that whole situation about her not completing the DE&I requirement was weird. And let’s be real, Tepper went to Rhule’s house and agreed to cut the checks for the $60m guaranteed contract and you think it wasn’t Tepper’s call to hire him? Damn y’all

3rd and 4th for Corral while Sam Howell looks legit is the nail in the coffin. Could have just stayed where they were, drafted Howell and called it a day. It’s like he can’t help himself on draft day and has no patience to let the draft come to him. Bad trait in a GM.

Tepper and his wife (who didn’t complete some kind of diversity training before interviewing the candidates from what I remember) interviewed the head coaching candidates. Tepper personally went to Matt Rhule’s house to interview him. Tepper was heavily involved with the GM search as well. He’s as hands on as an owner can get to a fault. Anyone saying otherwise is straight up wrong.

True we don’t know what decisions were truly Rhule or Fitterer, but I know for damn sure it wasn’t Rhule’s idea to inexplicably pick up Sam Darnold’s $19m 5th year option before he played a down for the team. And as I said earlier in the thread, at least Hurney could identify a star player. He sucked in many other ways but I cannot deny his ability to draft absolute studs in the first round.

I just can’t even believe you of all the posters here would post something so wrong

For real it’s like this fanbase will make any excuse to defend what, the highest paid assistant coaches in the NFL? A GM that has repeatedly made shortsighted and downright stupid decisions? This team is still a clown show with the appearance of legitimacy.

Wilks + a good QB would have meant more. It was Ron Rivera level competency which was a huge improvement over the Matt Rhule clown show running college schemes

Good for Ron smacking two former nemesis who had his number in one game (Payton and Wilson)

That might be the winner

You play the teams on your schedule, isn’t that what everyone always says? We make excuses for when a coach wins but it doesn’t matter when we lose?

You said the Steve Wilks coached Panthers only beat “sh-t” teams which just wasn’t the case.

Beat Seattle in Seattle and the Bucs with Brady, both playoff teams. Matt Rhule didn’t do anything like that

You’re 100% right. They traded up and specifically picked Bryce Young because they felt he was the most pro ready and the team was good enough to complete with the right QB. We’ve been sold on this “all star coaching staff” but yet it’s a “rebuild”. Excuse after excuse after excuse when the best this team has looked since the first half of 2018 was under Steve Wilks coaching Matt Rhule’s rejects.

If they trade Burns this season for less than what the Rams offered last season, Fitterer should be fired immediately.

Hurney could at least identify a star player which I’ve yet to see Fitterer figure out.

I’m angry because Sam Howell looks legit and meanwhile Matt Corral isn’t on a roster.

It’s the anti Al Davis #justlosebaby

I could write a long list of Fitterer’s failures as Panthers GM. What has he done right? I am really having trouble figuring it out. Picking Icky? Is that the best thing he’s done? Zavala if he pans out as a legit starter? Maybe Chuba Hubbard? Wait never mind it was who Matt Rhule’s WIFE who picked him.

I have been blaming Tepper since he hired a wildly unqualified college coach who didn’t even beat a ranked team to a fully guaranteed $60m contact.

Scott Fitterer should be fired for many reasons but his main f*ck up is trading up for Matt Corral instead of picking Sam Howell.

A close loss would just be the same old Panthers we all know and kinda hate

I hope so! It’s bleak otherwise.