kungfoodude

I don't think he lost any steps from last year even a little bit. The steps you are talking about he lost several years ago.

I think it's even simpler. We have the wrong people making decisions for us in the FO.

Lots of people keep getting this story about as wrong as can be, IMO. This smelled of "happy wife, happy life." Took a pay cut to take a lesser role in a place he and his wife would rather be. I would imagine he wanted to retire a Viking, so it just is what it is. It's also why I said he was much more valuable to us than them, which is still 100% true.

I am making at joke at his expense.

Seifert is a good comp. Billed as "The Guy" and then it turns out he's an over the hill product of a greater machine that was successful. Which, not to say BB doesn't deserve a chunk of his NFL accolades. The face saving measure is pulling the rip cord as soon as feasible. Make the media story how bad he was as a coach and not how bad the hiring decision overall was.

He isn't wrong. His offense was fast asleep on Sunday.....

Yeah, it's very clear his time here is over. Not good for us or him to keep him around.

He would probably be soaking up a lot of TMac's targets. Bryce had a definitive connection with him, for better or worse.

We will see. I disagree on XL. More likely he would actually look worse because others would elevate their play and its unlikely he is capable of doing that.

The people saying strength weren't showing their work. It was based on a lot of hoping and wishing, not actual previous NFL production.

Prepare yourselves for the chance Luke gets screwed and Brees is 1st ballot.

https://thelandondemand.com/news/2025/feb/07/inside-the-hall-of-fame-voting-process/

No. They have cracked down on the first ballot stuff recently because of complaints from the old guys.

I think that just depends on how "ready" he looks in the offseason, how Dowdle works out this year and if we have the opportunity to draft another guy above him in the offseason before he recovers. The fact we took Etienne at all shows some movement towards looking beyond him.

I honestly am not sure we really ever see him in a Panthers uniform on the field. I suspect he will be gone from the roster as soon as next offseason.

If you go to Canton and see the NFL HOF, you would think that the NFL has the revenue of women's professional soccer. Not joking.

IMO, UNC fans will be lusting after the Mack Brown 2.0 era after what BB likely does to them. The results are already in that vein. UNC has spent wildly on basketball and recruits for decades. More money is just "inflation" to an extent but I don't think a massive amount of cash is going to cure their ails. They have to get over this "UNC Family" sickness with basketball coaching hires and just simply hire the best candidates available. IMO, that really fixes the "problems" with the basketball side of things. Another sad truth that UNC fans I don't think have accepted is that it would take tremendously more money than they currently invest to become a relevant football school(something they have literally never been for any period of time). Not just money but the proper architecture. Ask Texass how that worked in the post Mack Brown era. Given the reported internal schism that led to the BB hiring(and current/future fiasco) this sounds very much like that fraught era of Texass football.

100% agree. The eye test alone shows how great he was. And his prime years were with average to well below average QB play.

Luke, SS and Greg should be in. Strong case for TD, IMO.

Rewatch it and see how bad his ball placement was. It was wild. That was easily worse than any Bryce performance I have seen in terms of ball placement alone.

100%. A chunk of our victories over the past few years have been opponents having "those games." Hey, take em where you can get them, especially in the division. Definitely glad to see that ATL also suffers from poor coaching issues, as well. While we have been a dumpster fire, it has been nice to see most of the division also experience this fate, as well.

I am a little perplexed Scott is still starting over him, TBH. Curious to see how long that lasts this season(minus any injuries).

Eh.....I tend to disagree on the run defense but that's whatever. The thing that struck me immediately was that they DID have ample opportunities to get yards on our pass defense but Penix was so frequently off target with the ball that it was nuts. Late, behind, too high, too short, etc. He was spraying throws everywhere but where they were intended to go. I am a little reticent to give TOO much credit to our defense for that reason. They did generate a lot more pressure on the QB so that was great. It's a one game sample so I don't want to reset the expectations just yet. Hopefully it's a trend and not a statistical outlier.

The David Moore hate is, quite frankly, absurd. He is good for what he is, a 4th/5th WR that is an excellent special teams player. It's hilarious we have so many Moore detractors but then guys like XL get infinite passes.

If you give BB 3 years, he may put UNC in a 5 year hole, TBH. Also, I don't think he sticks around for 3 years. Furthermore, he had this entire charade set up as an excuse to install his son as HC. How do you imagine that will go? If UNC is smart, they will pivot as soon as that buyout is low and before there is permanent damage.