Madwolf

I hope we don't buy into the tire fire that is Will Levis. He's the next QB that "can throw 90 yards on his knees."

He holds onto the ball far too long and makes poor decisions. He didn't have great WRs to bail him out in 2022, and the NFL is a different animal. He's not playing 4 YMCA schools any longer to make his hay, and then nose diving against better defenses.

As a Louisville fan I love Malik the person, but I don't think he holds up in the NFL. He's just not durable, and he was never a great thrower. That being said, our offense may have held him back.

I have a bigger problem with the Panthers here. We knew Robbie wasn't exactly thrilled to be here last season and extended him anyways. 

You already brought in a guy to replace him in the draft, so why extend him? Especially with the other holes on the team and given his general qwerkiness and how he fits in this locker room.

Take a tackle for the love of god.

I don't know if I would stop being a fan, but I'd find it really hard to continue following the team while Watson was here.

The Rooney rule exists so all qualified candidates get an interview, regardless of their skin color, which wasn't happening before.

It's obviously incredibly imperfect since now teams will just interview people for the rule and not actually consider them.

The biggest problem with these issues is perspective and trying to change it to see different sides of the coin, which is admittedly harder to do than state. 

Initially I felt it wasn't right to be forced to interview anyone for any reason, but after hearing Charlie Strong talk about his struggles trying to get a head coach job it really shifted my perspective on why the rule was actually in place. Say what you want about his time at Texas and USF, but the man clearly should have gotten an opportunity before Louisville came knocking. 

No good QB is going to want to come here with this offensive line and coaching staff. So we're going to spend money on a bad QB, then we'll probably draft a bad QB for good measure, and do nothing to fix the offensive line, and then wonder why we're here again in 2023.

Is anyone really surprised? Coaches and players talk. 

Let's flush more draft capital and draft picks away for an old QB that can't win big games, for a team that's not nearly ready to compete for the Playoffs let alone a Super Bowl. We certainly can't go back to the well there enough.

I'll be waiting to be exposed.

This will happen with any coach, fans want hope, and they're going to overlook a lot of issues for it.

Hindsight is 20/20, and I think the biggest take away here is that the NFL isn't college. Just look at Urban Meyer and Nick Saban. Regardless of how you feel about them as people, they couldn't translate college success to the NFL. And I think that very much applies to Rhule, and his assembly of all college coaches should have been a huge red flag.

Rhule clearly doesn't understand the difference between coaching kids, and professionals. It's a different ball game when you're no longer the father figure, or "head honcho" of the team, and have to treat people as equals. 

The long and short of it is, the Saints are in games they shouldn't be, and win games they shouldn't because they not only play very good fundamental football, but also have a clear game plan that they're built and coached to execute properly.

Now, when you have issues like they do, you're going to take a butt whipping occasionally, but they're also going to be in a lot of games.

The Panthers could probably be close to that same level right now, but we're not practiced in any of the aforementioned areas.  

He's out of the hospital today and in concussion protocol. Was moving my brother out of his old house and into his new one when it happened. Lots of concerned people here locally, and just been listening to people that know anything. So far everyone thinks he's going to fully recover and be okay, but so scary to see something happen like that. 

Tear it down? I don't think you have to try very hard to do that with what we have. There's talent, but man we don't have that much of it.

Bad officiating is just more apparent the longer you're bad. You just start waiting for the "other shoe to drop" and so every little thing becomes another frustration.

We're going to have to replace the underside of the bus soon, lots of frame damage from all the people tossed under it.

LT. Stop the damn bleeding for when we have the next QB. Good lord, enough is enough.

I think Rhule is done, and I'm usually the patient guy. Giving a guy only 2 years seems crazy to me, but this train is off the rails, and Rhule keeps hammering nails into his own coffin.

From day 1 Rhule's staff was a risk, with so little NFL experience, and it was only going to prove differently if it worked, which it clearly hasn't.

They shipped Cam away.

Brought in Bridgewater for too much money, then shipped him away.

Brought in Sam Darnold for valuable draft capital, extended him, and he was already done before the halfway mark of the season.

Brought back Cam, and are now tossing him under the bus with Teddy, Brady, and Darnold.

The Panthers are now objectively worse than when Rhule joined the team, and they've done appreciably little to fix any of the core areas that they've struggled in besides move deck chairs around the Titanic.

QB? Still a problem

Offensive line? Somehow worse

Defense? Lack a true NFL front 7, and depth

1 hour ago, mrcompletely11 said:

The LT literally doesnt hit anyone all play.  He kindof reaches out a couple of times but thats it.  Maybe that is common in a pass play but I kindof doubt it.

You're right now that I watch it again. 

The whole line shift on the play is weird.

Actually, if you think about it, is it more likely the whole line screwed up with that shift left, or that Sam screwed up and rolled right thinking it was a different play?

2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Rhule will probably trade our 2021 and 2022 1sts, 2022 and 2023 seconds to get to #1.

Then we will draft Spencer Rattler.

Who will then decide to go back to college, and we'll just lose the pick.

We scored 0 TDs in 3 games.

We have a lot of flaws, but we're not 0 TDs in 3 games flawed. That is 100% inexcusable and on the coaching.

I'm on the Leftwich train.

It always felt like Teddy was the guy you bring in to mentor and play in front of your rookie. Teddy had a nice deep ball yesterday, reminded me of him playing in college. Part of me thinks that he's just never fully recovered mentally from his leg injury. Either way, he should be the guy teaching a Fields or someone like that right now.

14 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Wtf in holy hell is going on with the blocking in that clip?  Not a single person effectively blocked anyone there.  Sam sucks and not making excuses for him but what the hell is he supposed to do there?

The LT, C, and RG actually do something there. The RT completely whiffs everything. The LG just... disappears. Does nothing, and all of the protection is to the left, for a play that's a roll out to the right. Something just doesn't add up there.

Part of the blocking my be on the center, as they manage a lot of the blocking, but that's on Sam too. One good thing that Teddy did was pre-snap blocking and adjusting it.

Here's my warning signs:

The Panthers brought in Sam Darnold, in hopes to give him a second shot after coming from a Jets team that consistently failed to surround him with protection, and talent.

The Panthers responded by giving him no protection, and putting him in an offense that did little to take the pressure off of his shoulders by having an unimaginative run game, and a poor run pass balance. 

Darnold may have been able to be saved, but not in our situation, and not doing what we do.