Mr. Scot

Slow starts to a season are generally on coaching. Slow starts to individual games can be on a quarterback. One of the common characteristics of gunslinger types is that they tend to start slow but heat up as the game goes on. Mind you, Sunday was worse than just a "slow start" for me.

That's because I was talking about the first half. And I'm not being revisionist at all. Nor am I being hyperbolic. As mentioned before, I've probably seen about fifty week ones in my lifetime. I'm used to teams looking bad. "Bad" would have been just been simple mistakes, miscommunications and such. We had those for sure, but also much worse. We looked absolutely unprepared and damn near incompetent. Luke DeCock's description of the team looking like "53 guys who just met" was dead on target.

Been there

That's...one possibility, yeah

Last year's game just plain hurt It was one of several losses to terrible teams that really shouldn't have happened.

The NFL has a lot of "corrections". The first drive of a game, for example, doesn't always tell the whole story (that's been a pretty common one for us). Likewise, Week 1 of the season is often a bit illusory. A lot of conclusions that people draw based on what they observed in the first game of the year will turn out to be false by the next week, or the next. And others... won't. That's why this Sunday's performance is something to which we should pay very close attention. If the team comes out looking at least half decent on both offense and defense (especially run defense) then the upcoming weeks might not be so bad. But also sad to say that if we start out looking flat again and the defense is still giving up chunks of yards from the get go, we could be looking at a disaster of a season. So what will it be? Don't know, but I'm ready to find out. See ya Sunday

Nice work. Wish I still had the time to do stuff like this

Pretty much... If you can coach a team to consistently win, you can come out in your pressers and say the dumbest sh-t imaginable and nobody will care. People will probably just laugh it off as "coachspeak". If the team isn't winning, but you at least sound like you have half a clue what you're talking about when you speak to the media, people will give you the benefit of a doubt (for a little while, at least). If you're not winning, and you sound like either a clueless dumbass or a double-talking con man at your pressers, you're gonna get buried...and deserve it.

First half? Hell yes! That first half performance was as bad as anything I've seen in a decade.

Unless they start by looking slow and unprepared all over again...

...or just run over

Between the ditches?

Carroll and his OC got universally ripped for that decision. Pretty sure the OC lost his job the following year or so. And yeah, this is what pisses people off about Wilson. He portrays himself as the nicest guy in the world but in reality he comes off as a self-important dick.

Seriously though, Rhule is doing exactly what some fans on here do. He's talking about meaningless stats and rankings in a game that we lost as if that was something to celebrate. Nobody gives a sh-t. Frankly, it pisses people off

Sooo... something tells me this might get some discussion around the league

Word was Fitterer had basi been given carte blanche by Tepper to remake the personnel department as he saw...fit It does sound like he's gained Tepper's trust on some level.

Copied from his Bills bio... Immediately prior to joining the Bills, Dorsey served at the Assistant Athletic Director at Florida International in 2018 and as an offensive assistant at Appalachian State for two months in 2019.

Could be IMG but I'll check

Possibly also worth remembering thay Ken Dorsey would come with a huge endorsement from Greg Olsen. Don't know how much contact Olsen has with the Panthers anymore (obviously he still talks to Luke Kuechly) but he's very bullish on Dorsey.

His first two years with the Panthers, he worked as a scout (as opposed to a coach).

Still kinda early but it's headed in that rather unfortunate direction...

I blame Rivera more than Newton, honestly. Rivera didn't coach him properly, use him properly or do much else properly.

He first started coaching in 2013, so he's close. I'm a little skittish about that time he spent with the Panthers though because reports were Rivera didn't have him doing a whole lot of "coaching" per se. (mind you, seeing the job hr did with Josh Allen really highlights just how stupid that was) I'll also confessed that while he wasn't a head coach, the Joe Brady experience has made me a little gun shy.

I expect him to get a look, and maybe even a job, but I'm leary because I don't think he's got enough experience under his belt yet. Mind you, that won't matter to some.