Khyber53

I'm still wondering why the title of the thread has the phrasing "BY A WOMAN!" What kind of sexist bullshit is this? There's no reason in the world that a woman can't be an effective NFL team owner, steady-handed executive and lead the turn around of a struggling organization. And she has certainly been that. SMH at what came across as someone trumpeting their 1947 values in an attempt to belittle our current ownership. Yeah, our team owner sucks, and the Lions have gotten a great one. It's not gender. It's competence, something that is never gender-based. This is some bullshit stuff. And it's probably part of the atmosphere that ran off pretty every long-time female contributor on this site. Some of our best, smartest, most knowledgeable and funniest posters on the site were women. And they are missed greatly. Frikkin' sausagefest.

I have no idea but I'm really hoping for this being the day when the blind squirrel finally finds an acorn.

In my 20s, in a time between the closing of the newspaper I was part owner of and the next job as an editor, I had to take a job carrying cinder blocks and mortar (mud) for a mason. I worked my ass off every danged day, got up at 5 am to be at the jobsite by 6, sweated myself silly and tore my hands, knees and back up for $7 an hour in the hot sun. I needed the job. I had bills to pay. If my desk sitting ass went out and got that job because I had to, some dude with a coaching history will take this one out of desperation or blind optimism. Someone will take this job for a helluva lot more than I took then, make now or will probably ever make in my life, for just a year of their time.

Can anyone say this is just going to be a caretaker gig at best? We're going to be back here next year at this time in the same situation. This coming season is just a season to get past the lack of a draft pick and bare cupboards here. Most likely whoever is hired as HC and front office (sorry Dan the man), they are just carrying the water until we can give a better candidate a full package to work with. Morgan and a coach to be named later are probably just Stalking Horses to cover up for the long term poo we got ourselves into. The other option is that we're looking for some miracle worker that can turn nothing into something.

Buddy, I know, I know. It hurts still. But we've got to let it go. It's only hurting us, and maybe Cotchery now.

Never let someone cut the mold off of a piece of cheese and tell you it's okay to eat now. Roots run deep in rot. I'm hoping we see something miraculous of a John Lynch nature here. I just hope he's easier on the Panthers rookies than he was as a player.

Oh yeah, that I know. Been here through it all. We've given into the hate many times. And we've hit magic twice. Man, it's about time we had some magic again.

We're eventually going to have to let this go. We need to let a lot of stuff go. Jon Kasay and one particular kick. Jake Delhomme's really bad playoff game on his birthday. Julius Peppers heading to Chicago. Steve Smith, Sr. whooping a teammate's ass. Steve Smith, Sr. whooping another teammate's ass. Maybe a third time. Steve Smith, Sr. in Baltimore telling us to take our asses back to NC and mow his danged lawn. The whole Dave Gettleman thing. We need to let Cam coming back go and remember him for the ascendent talent he was while he was. We need to let our bad feelings about Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield go... maybe it wasn't them after all. We need to let go of carrying hate for Matt Rhule and let him spiral off into the cornfields of Nebraska. We need to let the trades of CMC and DJ go, We can't hold onto these things. It just hurts ourselves, the fans. We might, however, have a right to be mad that a know it all Yankee hedge fund guru bought this club and has made a hash of it all so quickly and so decisively. (Can't just throw all the bitterness away at once I guess.)

What has been done is done. So... here's hoping he proves to be our John Lynch. Good luck to the man, he knows the mess he has walked into, maybe that gives him a leg up on fixing it.

Well said and illustrated. Sometimes I feel like that, a dinosaur just watching the proto-possums scamper about. I'm an old print journalist now working to write scripts for a YouTube channel. My audience has changed soooo much I started working in 1992 at it. Sometimes I hit, sometimes I miss. And I'm paid by a 21-year old guy from India who is remarkably even keeled and supportive. This newest generation taking the stage... they may well be onto something. I like them, I wish I fully understood them, but there's a lot of good stuff there. Maybe newer, younger coaches in Carolina can reach them and set them to soar. I sure hope so.

You may have hit on exactly the problem we had this season, and it is a generational one that stems from communication of coaching. Hadn't really thought of that before, and it explains a lot, especially if you look at the product on the field. Just as some teams seem to age out of their best years, so too do coaches. Look at New England... Bill may have simply been the coach who went from esteemed guru with the players hanging on every word to the "Okay boomer (eye roll)" level very quickly without Brady to translate for him. It's a crazy thing, but it's a real thing, too.

He seems to have forgotten that football at the pro level (and college, too nowadays) is a billions of dollars business in its own right. It can be just as, and possibly more, complicated than running a hedge fund. He's been finding that out the hard way.

This is just a tragic fail of a trade. So much went into the pick that there was almost no way it could pay off in the long run. Not only did we give up DJ Moore, but with the loss of the draft pick we got for trading away CMC, then we pretty much gave him up as well. That's the teams top two receivers and starting RB. We gave up our two best scoring weapons. And then the draft picks, too. And could have done as well, or better, with the QBs that were left to us at #9 had we just stayed. We were suckered many, many times before draft day.

Here's the winner. And draft some linemen with our few picks. We need depth and we need the possibility of grabbing a diamond in the rough to push these other prize hog mollies. And scheme appropriately. Sheesh.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, behind that line, with those receivers, poor play concepts, constant tee-ing off by defenders, and no real running game... even peak Joe Montana and Tom Brady dropped into that situation would have collapsed. I'm not sold on Bryce, and haven't been since the pick was made, but dang man, got to give the kid a fair shot at it. And woof, he got screwed about as bad as the fans did this year.

The print industry was killed by consolidation and private equity groups who knew nothing about their products and the communities they thrived in. Then Rupert Murdock came along and made it a point to destroy journalism to make room for his tabloid bullshit, and that basically was him putting his cigarette out on the forehead of writers and editors around the country. Then AI came along and the powers that be-having-checkbooks thought that would save them from everything, including having to pay and listen to actual human beings. Luckily, there are newer outlets out there where there's room to create and do. And they can be pretty rewarding, with a lot more freedom, but fewer safety nets. Still sucks to watch the old battleships sink one by one beneath the waves.

Latest script I did. Possibly the dumbest murderer so far.

Good for Derrick. Dude gave his all for us this year, no matter how things were going for the rest of the team. He's one of about 10 guys that did so.

No rookie QB would have looked good on our team this year. And I don't just mean the 2023 rookie class. No rookie QB who ever suited up in the NFL's history could have looked good behind that line, with those receivers, that listless run game, poor play calling, ineffectual coaching and the weight of an entire franchise sitting on their shoulders. Honestly, I don't think peak Tom Brady or Joe Montana could have made anything out of our team had you set them down into what we managed to "create" here. Will Bryce ever be able to do the job here? Hell if I know. No one can know and no one can even have an educated guess after what we've seen. All we can hope for is that the next coach and GM can sort through this mess, pick out something to build on and roll with it. It's not like we can go in the first round and have our picks of QBs again...

Just kinda glad to not hear that we're rushing into anything.

This^ 100%.

Tomlin, hands down.

Sheesh, Peacock is like $6 for a month, carries a crap ton of great shows (and many new ones) on demand, has a ton of sports, carries all of the WWE pay per views (at no extra cost) and grabs some of the new in-theater movies very quickly after release or at the time of release. Grab a Roku, pick five pay channels you like and cut the Cable. You'll save nearly $75 a month doing so. Or whine about $6 when a beer at an NFL football game can cost you $20. poo, a ticket to a dang movie itself is $12 and they sure won't hit the pause button when you need to go take a whiz or grab a beer.

This is a massive deal right now. Investment groups buying up real estate left and right have been a major factor in our country's inflation and housing crisis. And they are making money hand over fist by then renting the properties out to people who no longer have a choice but to rent. They really found a barrel and just put everyone else over it. And the insurance rate hike, in great part, is to cover the asses of those invested in this. And we must also remember that of any group in the US, the insurance industry has traditionally owned more real estate than any other group... including more than actual real estate developers. It's not that the fix is in, it's that there's always another fix being found to do us in with. I believe in capitalism but I believe it requires a cop on the beat to work properly. They bought the cops around here a long time ago.

It was frikkin' epic!