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Robby had a 53% catch rate his two years in NY with Sam. Better than this season, but the connection was always poor with a random deep mixed in that we saw on sportscenter

Tepper has a lot of folks in the Charlotte area he needs to keep happy and excited about sports. Especially with soccer coming too.

We don't know that. Sam was prepped to start all camp and is a 4 year vet. Chicago prepped Dalton all camp and then threw Fields into a Dalton offense as rookie. Gotta give Fields a little time. We have seen lots of rookies be disaters out of the gate and get settled in. Fields might end up sucking. Way too early to chalk passing on him or Mac as good moves though.

we've also lost some pretty good beat writers the last several years too. Jones, Jordan, etc. Panthers have acquired some like Gantt, Voth, etc.

I'm not a fan of the college route, but I would have more faith rolling the dice on a Dabo type. And by that, it's just about looking at how he has seen his success. Dabo at least understands one thing, his success has always been tied to and has been QB centric. QB play is the puzzle solver for problems. A lot of college football, especially lower conference play...isn't about that. Rhule might can build an overall decent football team. But he never put the type team together in college that is almost required to win in the pros.

Tepper isn't stuck with Rhule. He can still eat his contract. Especially if this shitshow starts to drag down revenues in a big way. and while these contracts are all guaranteed, they also have offset clauses. So if you fire him and he goes to coach at Penn St for example. You aren't paying him the full amount. Just the difference.

Hey, at least Clemson/USC will be entertaining this year. I mean, it will be an ugly trainwreck but will finally be a game. 6-3 in OT, Tigers.

I think it's largely having the talent to execute things properly and whose has the better talent when doing such. I mean, the entire time Luke was here he knew the majority of the plays coming at him and positioned our D favorably for it. NFL is more about talent lining up beating people and executing....than fooling them IMO. Opponents are largely going to know what the other is doing.

I think you get less emotionally attached as you get older. I do enjoy a good exciting football game though. I'd rather watch a legit random exciting game (whether that is big plays or some storyline/narrative that makes it cool)....than just watch the Panthers squeak out a random win that doesn't really mean anything.

Carolina football has been pretty boring for some time now. The entire Rhule era has been a snooze fest and so was the end of Ron's. That is what happens when your team is built around a RB in today's NFL.

1 INT, 1 fumble. 2 turnovers. Sam has been so busy showing his struggles as a passer of late some have forgetton how much he fumbles. I think he is due to remind folks of that.

reality is, that largely is the NFL. Coaches that don't have good QBs generally look bad. Comes down to finding a QB how far they can take you. Pete Carroll was talking this week about what his career would have looked like if he didn't have Russell Wilson. His answer? He probably wouldn't of lasted in the NFL long. Which is why if you don't have a QB. That should be priority one. We should of been adding bodies and buying lottery tickets the moment Rhule walked in the door. Draft a kid. Add guys like Menshew. Start having potential possiblities. Adding one vet that never was good enough.....isn't playing the QB lottery the right way IMO.

good news is Matt Rhule was an OC at Temple. He can do the job. bad news is his offenses as OC generally completed about 50% of their passes and averaged about 150 pass yards.

Rivera and Fox were both in the postseason by year 3. Both found their QB by year 2.

So you care at 1 million, 100 million, 1 billion, 5 billion, 10 billion? But 15 is the magic number where you no longer care? If Tepper just cares about winning football games at this point…why did he change the turf again? Equally passionate about multi use stadiums?

Couldn’t disagree more. And that’s okay. But you don’t become a billionaire by not caring about money/business

I do want our next HC to be offensive. Modern day NFL offensive. That’s was never Rhule.

I doubt Sam is burning too hard over that. I mean, turnovers are what he is known for dating back to college. It’s not like this is something unusual.

Thanks to covid I think Tepper’s year 2 saw almost 100 million less come in. That’s the stuff he is most focused on. The big dollars. People thinking Rhule is safe for 7 years no matter what because Tepper wouldn’t eat 3 mill a year or whatever on his contract is silly. If the current trajectory is going to start costing him tens and tens of millions each year….eating some money on a HC is just business.

Chip Kelly. Signed a nice 4 year deal with SF. And then fired. It happens. if it becomes a real poo show the numbers Tepper will care most about is the revenue Carolina brings in and what he projects it out as going forward. That’s hundreds of millions of dollars he is focused on. That’s more important than eating 3 or 4 million a year on a fired HC. Whatever the offset works out to be. I’m sure Rhule could get a college HC gig pretty quick.

Is he a rah rah guy? That’s what I can’t figure out. Dabo is my definition of rah rah college guy. Dabo is like half preacher, half parent, half hype man.

Kelly, Harbaugh. Doubt Urban last long at all. some guys are just suited for college. Some for the pros.

Probably because it’s the NFL. And that type stuff happens when things go south.

Well, offset language is pretty standard though. How screwed Tepper would be if he fired him…would likely depend on what Rhule’s next job looked like. But yeah I am sure Tepper is learning lots of lessons. Even if you loved Rhule, that contract was always stupid. At least on face value and there isn’t something not standard in it.