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Khyber53

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  1. Sell the team for $6 billion, buy the best box in the stadium and just enjoy the games worry free. The more we have, the less we need to ask of life.
  2. No reason whatsoever to hold onto anything from this past season. Being the shiniest turd in the pile is no resume` builder.
  3. Really and truly, Delhomme would have run us to the Super Bowl again. He was stellar that season and had one great team around him. Then Jonathan Vilma's helmet...
  4. I sat through each of them and it's a progression of bad to worse to worst in chronological order. 2001 was competitive and we were still trying to get to parity with other NFL teams and shaking off our expansion tag. 2010 was a lameduck season with a coach being made to finish out his contract. This year, this year was a special kind of suck. A combination of poor coaching, years of bad team building, over-reach in drafting, poor drafting for three years and a spate of injuries. Woof. That was a dog of a season. 2023 has been the worst so far of the bunch. We can only hope that 2024 doesn't set a new mark for futility and frustration. Remember, this has been Tepper trying to fix the team for three tries so far...
  5. I wouldn't choose him, but at this point, can it get worse? Or could it just keep going like it has been until we are the new version of the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns and Arizona/St.Lous/Chicago/Boston Cardinals. Sad days, indeed. Looks like the rain won't let up for a while.
  6. Best of luck to him, but honestly I'm glad we're moving on. These three years with him have been soul-crushingly bad for this franchise. Maybe we will get lucky and find a new wunderkind out there. What we have in house in management and evaluation has proven to be terrible. The whole thing needs to be jettisoned, the ground burned, soil turned and new seed planted.
  7. I really like Ron Rivera. I think he's a good man to build team spirit and instill a toughness to a team. I hope he takes some time off, enjoys his life and family. I really think his calling would be in a senior defensive advisor role on a team with a young head coach. I wish him the best. And it was great seeing John Fox out there on the sidelines in Detroit yesterday. Another good guy who had some good runs as HC and has moved on successfully to that advisory type position.
  8. I know. He assisted us into this mess of a roster. Let's clean the whole house, not just the crusties left beside the wastebin.
  9. Bring him into the office and lay this on the table: One year contract at $11 million. Sign it and we try to trade you. You get a prove it year with a good paycheck somewhere with a chance to extend that contract there if you play up to their wants. If not, just let him go and accept the third round compensatory pick and wish him the best.
  10. Besides the Carolina connection from his playing days, why? Remember to include his successes as an executive here in your answer.
  11. 20-odd years without a shutout loss. Second longest streak in the NFL. We finish this turd of a season off with two back to back shut-outs.
  12. If Bryce had been playing this way in a vacuum then sure, it'd be smart to give up on him. But he wasn't. There was no running game for the first 12 games. There were no real receivers out there except for Thielen that had any idea of how to get open or to find creases/seams in a defense. Our O-line was legendarily bad. Our Tight Ends room was forced to use Ian Thomas as its featured player... Ian frikkin' Thomas. Our coach was rightly fired, our OC was so epically unprepared that he would have been the 12th worst OC in the Canadian Football League (and they only have 9 teams!). We aren't going to be in the running to draft one of the big name QBs coming out, but we might be able to get a decent guard or tackle at 33. So why ditch the guy now, when he isn't going to cost us much money AND if he sucks then we will get a high draft pick again before we rightfully jettison him. Or we can drop $9 million on a retread like Garropolo or Keenum once we're left with the floor sweepings of free agency. And then pick 8th or 9th while sitting through another useless season. Give Bryce the reins for 2024 and tell him he can keep them for as long as he can hold them and move the team forward. Maybe the next coach can find in him something. He certainly didn't get what he needed, no matter his own short comings.
  13. He may be the only person on this team to have earned the right to that paycheck. Let him go and well, you've got nothing to build on. If Fitt stays, it's almost guaranteed he'll be traded away for a handful of magic beans or pocket lint. One day, he will all of a sudden get old and be unable to compete out there. This year, he was surrounded in the receivers room by a bunch of 21-25 year olds who suddenly got old and were unable to compete out there. There's more firewood to cut before we think about even imagining letting him go.
  14. This has been a burn the tapes and bury the balls type of year. Clear the table, start afresh next season. Activate goldfish mode.
  15. Billionaires were inevitable. Protecting them like sacred cows is the real travesty.
  16. The most positive thing about the game is that is the last one of this season. And for those of us who have been walking the green mile with the 2023 Panthers, it's finally time to let them go. And maybe we can hope for better the next time around.
  17. You act like we can really do anything about it. This team has been in the "do what you want to to the girl, just leave me alone" mode since late September. We're at the bring two bag lunches so one can be taken away from us stage. We just want to go home. Gosh, I really hate writing those things, but it's true. What a lousy season and what a lousy team this has been.
  18. What a life journey Ryan Leaf has been on, one heck of a redemption story. He has pulled himself back from disaster and become a sports pundit with a unique and extremely valid voice. Glad to see him doing so much better. And I think he's right about Bryce Young and the Panthers.
  19. The approval of David Tepper to become an owner of a Carolina-based franchise has to be one of the biggest misreadings of the room in the history of the NFL. He did not fit the culture here, he didn't want to fit the team's culture and he sure as hell didn't know what he was doing. I've disliked him since Rivera's last season and departure. Not for firing the man, because that writing was already on the wall, but for both how it was done and what was to follow. He has proven himself to be a bullshit artist since arriving here. And like all bullshit artists, they can't really tell other bullshit artists from those who are actually skilled, hence the bad hires in the front office and coaching. He's a well-financed poser.
  20. Would you have pushed hard to recover from injury when Rhule was your coach? And that it would all be for nothing? Can't blame the guy for making business decisions.
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