*FreeFua*

What Reich was able to get out of Wentz was impressive. If you look at the seasons Wentz had the year prior and after 2021… it’s hard to imagine that dude ever throwing for 27 touchdowns with only 7 interceptions in 2021

Yeah… I know it was reported that he lobbied for Wentz but we also don’t know what the alternative would have been. So Reich may have wanted the guy he knew versus an unknown. Was it reported somewhere that Ballard wanted Ryan? Because it was beyond obvious Ryan was toast At the end of the day this hire makes sense for where this franchise is at. Ideally Reich finds himself a young innovative OC to team up with. Both the Panthers and Reich have been spinning their wheels in mud at the QB position the last several seasons. I truly believe that comes to an end this year and they do whatever they can to go get their guy

Frank’s success is going to depend heavily on who he hires as his OC imo In Philly he played second fiddle to Pederson and in Indy he had Sirianni

The Panthers aren’t trading Burns. If they were going to they would have at the deadline. As for a package to get to 1… I’m thinking #9, 2024 1st rounder and instead of our 2025 1st they accept all those picks we got from the CMC deal that Fitterer thinks equals a 1st rounder I really don’t care tbh. We need a damn QB. If they think Stroud is that guy then do it

They better trade up and get their guy this draft I’d like to think both the Panthers and Reich are tired of throwing darts at the QB board

The Panthers can take their sweet time making any hire official. No one else wants Reich or Wilks

That should tell you a lot I’m taking Detroit’s OL and Jamal Williams over Zeke as well

Welp that’s what I was afraid of. If he had said sure I can try and make it work because there’s no other options then fine but if he was the one lobbying for Wentz… good lord

just looking at his numbers alone it would appear Reich played a decent role given what he was able to get out of him in Indy But yeah, who knows

People heard Fitterer say that we have a ton of cap space and got excited In reality we have no cap space this offseason and the space he was alluding to was future cap space. Which we can assume will be gone after this offseason which then puts us right back into those Hurney days

Would explain why they back tracked on that tweet about 2nd interviews

Rhule wanted Henderson. Also what happened to this… ?

Bingo Annnnnnd this is what I’m trying to brace myself for and totally expect to have happen

This is mine too If Wilks were to bring Reich on as OC it would help soften the massive blow of hiring Wilks as HC but that is still my worst case scenario

That would’ve been with Luck, Brissett, Rivers and Wentz

Probably just wanted to know wtf he was thinking on that last play call. Had a laugh and hung up

I believe Johnson would be Wilks’ OC

Haha true. I guess the bar wasn’t set very high

I actually went and looked at Indy’s ‘points for’ the other day and in 3 of Reich’s 5 seasons he had more points scored than any season we have had in our history minus 2015

And when the team “buys in” we still got showings like we did in Cincy and home against Pittsburgh If that’s the team buying into what’s going on then it’s time for a change already

Ben Johnson dropping out opened the door back open for Wilks So either Steichen nails this interview/wants the job or it’ll be Wilks job

It’s between Steichen and Wilks

At this point I think it’s Denver or back to Fox. If he was wanting Carolina it would’ve been done by now It’s really going to come down to Steichen or Wilks for us.

The Pittsburgh game was the worst They hyped it up all week long, “protect the bank” etc., playoff talk and then they came out and proceeded to allow Pittsburgh walk the ball down their throats. Pittsburgh had some ridiculously long drives that game. It was truly painful to watch. Pickett had got hurt the week prior and they had to stick Trubisky back in there and Wilks had no answer for what seemed like an obvious game plan