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Despite what reports say, I still think Tepper is influencing football decisions. We certainly heard about this during the Reich short era...ie - the Monday morning meetings. There are too many consistent inconsistencies still going on to not think he is still too much involved. New coaches, new GMs....same results. The offense looks the same under Canales as it did under Rhule, Brown and Reich. The only time the offense has looked different was when Wilkes moved to a power run game for 6-7 games. But it was clear Wilkes would not have wanted BY....probably a big reason why he was not retained. The defense was actually better under Snow but he had better players and it was not a great defense. But the defense has gotten much worse as they lost key players (Luvu, Chinn, Burns & etc) but did not replace them with even average talent. The defense was never really strong since the 3-4 defense was pushed on Rivera by Tepper. I think Tepper pushed for BY too. Now Canales is stuck with a QB that does not fit his system. The last 7-years of Panthers football can be traced back to when Tepper bought the team.

I was just thinking back to the 2nd season of the Rhule disaster. The Panthers went 3-0 to start the season, and Fitterererer, and Rhule starting trading for players 'to make a playoff run'. LOL. They ended up winning 2 more games the rest of the year and finished with a 5-11 record. I don't know why that just popped in my head. Maybe because that was the last time the Panthers had a winning record.

Call up DeAngelo Williams and tell him to run the wildcat.

This team has no fire on either side of the ball

It’s too bad Canales was not here when Baker had his short stint. Things could have been a lot different. I don’t think BY can run what Canales wants to run anymore than BY was able to run what Frank Reich wanted to run. The offense has looked terrible through multiple coaches and coordinators since BY was drafted to be the guy. BY is a good guy and hoped it would work out but I don’t think it will.

Pretty sure he will have to get approval from Tepper before benching BY again. this basically would mean….officially they are done with him after paying so much in draft capital and DJ. And the Panther would have to admit they were wrong. You know how many draft picks it took to finally replace DJ Moore? TMJ, Mingo, XL….and TMAC.

Trgovac.- didn’t realize she was still around though.

This is a very undisciplined team.

Seriously if that’s all he was gonna do they should’ve just kicked a field goal

Start Weinke…

BY did not look good in preseason either. Really, this is not a surprise to see him start like this.

Matt Corrall….

As bad as AR has been, the Panthers would’ve been better off right now, if they had stayed at #9 in 2023 and picked him instead of doing what they did. At least this way, they would’ve only wasted one draft pick vs what they gave up to pick BY. And they would have kept the #1 pick in the 2024 draft.

With so much of the focus the past couple years being on offense, the defense has definitely taken a backseat to the talent available in the draft. I get it, they want to surround their number one draft pick QB with offensive playmakers but unfortunately that has come with a price that so far has not worked Let’s hope the offense and Bryce Young put it together this year or it’s going to be another rebuild next year with another new QB.

Watch them overpay for a 30 year old DE. They trade Burns and only get a 2nd because they did not want to pay him $30m per year…:and now only 12-months later , they are exploring the possibility of paying a 30+ year old DE this much plus give away draft picks. Sounds like a Tepper Panthers move.