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We have the worst QB room in the NFL and people are still holding a grudge against Fields bc he was a discussed as an option? Strange place.

Ofc the first reply is from Daddy_Uncle complaining about "negativity". Look at us now. Oh the life of a Panthers fan

You put in time and effort and care about the team while being honest. Let them be bitter fools. We appreciate you all the same.

Meh. We made our decision and it was for the best. It was time to part ways and Ron seems different after moving on. We just as usual went about the after part all wrong. All you can do is hope Tepper is learning something through all this but who knows.

We're going to have to overpay to get any coordinators with head coaching experience here and that's if they want to deal with fixing this mess which isn't very likely.

It's irrelevant what anyone responds to him with he will just deflect and do his ask questions bit and slink away. At one point he was halfway coherent now he's back to late night trolling for giggles. Sad existence.

They wouldn't even take a look at it lol. Fug em let's get this dub.

Hope for the best prepare for the worst.

Doesn't matter. All that needs to be said or seen has been on the field. When other struggling teams are out there motivated and lighting us up while we are going through the motions something is off. You can say the locker room is fine but when teams like the Giants and Dolphins are flat out dragging us up and down the field that is the only thing people remember. Hey even the lowly Jets took a lead on the Bucs into the fourth quarter while they took us to the woodshed. How are we lower than the Jets?

You just have to look around the NFL and you'll see the same with other teams. Many of the league's best backs have been banged up. Derrick Henry Dalvin Cook Alvin Kamara Nick Chubb the list goes on and on. You just don't pay an RB that kind of money you build your line and draft another or sign one on the cheaper end.

We had no starting quarterback when we signed him to the biggest running back contract in history and people still won't accept. They are indeed living in a fantasy world.

We all wanted it to work out but reality is slapping us right in the face with no regard for our feelings my friend. It is what it is regardless of how many folks still wear Christian McCaffrey undies. We had to face it for Cam twice now thanks to this staff so now is no different just because it's CMC.

Seemed fairly obvious for awhile now but it's actually official this time. I still have doubts this actually happens unless we just absorb a huge cap loss.

Slimy is the best word for it. From here it looks like Dave Gettleman got his final revenge on us. We got played.

We would be so much better off if we had just let him walk. There were so many fanboys rejoicing and shouting down any skepticism after that signing now look at this place. We always have to learn the hard way I swear.

Mel Kiper is an analyst who does this for a living. Do you hold his opinion in high regard? Scouts I'll give you a little more on that but there is a reason front offices across the league are purged fairly consistently. Yes they know more than fans but they get it wrong plenty too.

Thank goodness more former Panthers are sounding off about this mess.

The offense has been putrid no doubt but our vaunted defense hasn't looked the same since Dallas ran all over us and it's been downhill ever since.

Tepper definitely had his hand in the cookie jar at times like with the Rhule hiring process but Darnold was Matt and so was Teddy. Tepper wanted Fields and he would be here rn if he had actually been in on that decision. Waiting another year sounds okay until you get to the part where we have absolutely no idea where we will land in the draft order or other teams and their needs. Nothing is guaranteed and we cannot plan for something like that this far out. That's all most folks have been saying

You shouldn't have to tell your head coach how to assemble his staff. It's Ron Rivera all over again.

I would accept oline this year as I said previously but I doubt we are going to wait on the QB after the mess we have made the last two seasons. I mean imagine trying to sell another year of Sam Darnold and the hope of (maybe) getting a quarterback next year to this fanbase. We can make that sound not as bad in January but it's going to be a ghost town in September.

Hey now. We got Darnold bc our mgmt bid against themselves for a QB no one else wanted and virtually every fan saw as a disaster from a mile away. You won't allow your own ego to discuss this rationally. That's your problem bub.

Scouts and analysts are proven wrong one way or another every single year without fail. The rub for us is very simple. No team is going to release or trade a quarterback that can help this franchise get back to relevancy and playoff contention. We are going to at minimum end up throwing one or two darts at the board for quarterback within the next few years. We sealed our fate with the Teddy and Sam attempts. It doesn't matter if we don't like or agree with it. It's happening.