Gapanthersfan

That was the hey day of wrestling.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Football is a people business first. If players don’t like, RESPECT and believe in their coach, don’t expect them to run through a wall for them. These are young, millionaires alphas. You bring in a high pedigree winning resume and/or former player who understands NFL culture if you want the locker room’s attention. There is a good reason for the monumental decline from last year to this one with the roster being mostly the same, minus Foreman and Moore. This year’s team couldn’t win with Moss, Megatron and Faulk.

Gotta be pretty cool having Wirfs, knowing that you not .05 seconds from getting the piss knocked out of you from your blind side. That’ll settle any qb down. Wirfs+Evans+Godwin+White. That’s a hard combination to beat.

Can anyone photoshop Tepper to Ted Dibiase ‘The Million Dollar Man?’ Everybody’s got a price! It has to feel like selling your soul to work for the man.

It is a truly awful position. Keeping Bryce is like trying to sell a house that’s still on fire, while telling prospective buyers that ‘it’s got good bones.’ No good coaching prospect that we get will be any better than Evero. Promote him, let him continue to run the defense and get a new OC.

How about letting a prospective coach know he won’t be fired after a year in trying to work through this abject cluster. How about not repeating the same mistake again. How about a year of leaving everything the hell alone. Listen y’all, next season is a wrap. Stop with trying to buy another car polish. This hooptie ain’t winning anything any time soon. Tepper isn’t letting Bryce go without at least 1 more season. Why put a new coach on the hot seat in a sure lose situation the moment he signs his contract. We are either going to lose with our current bad coaching staff, or we are going to lose with a new coach we had to buy, simply because the roster sucks, Bryce sucks and Tepper sucks. Stick with the current staff, wait out our draft purgatory, Bryce gets 1 more losing year then retires, sign Brown and Luvu, show some continued improvement on defense. With Bryce out, promising defense and a full draft to work with, the job becomes immensely more attractive and may lure a better head coach.

Sigh.

To this day not hiring Wilkes hurts me. Everything was right with giving him a chance. Give him a 2 year contract to prove himself. Keep last year’s roster intact, add Thielen, add Chark. That team at least knew what a first down looked like. Our culture was back. With our brand of football. Our kind of players. Literally everybody but Dave and Nicole were joyful. But it was Jerry ball. Traditional beat your a$$ Panthers football. We may not win, but there’s going to be something wrong with you when you leave our stadium. We’ve had losing seasons, but we’ve never been the get right game for other teams. Rarely have we had a guaranteed L. We had stars. Dave needed Dave ball. Wilks was a man’s man. Not allowed. Weekly meetings would not be pretty.

See this is the thing for me too. We know we need better, but on offense we have a lot of question marks. To answer the original question, I miss a coach that players respected and responded to. An offense that moved the ball at will and set team rushing records, and a defense where 11 players gave it their all from beginning to end and were back to knocking heads once again. A team that legit looked like they were a few pieces away from being at least competitive. I miss my draft picks. I miss the time when we weren’t a complete laughing stock. I miss the not so long ago when we had fans back. We were learning how to win again. We had a Land Cruiser but he wanted a G63. He chose what was behind door #3… a ford Escspe. And this was all brought on with an owner’s fragile ego and his Don Quixote like quest to show the league that he was going to win his way.

The got dang Germans got nothing to do with it!!

The defense is visibly better with him playing. Qb holds the ball much longer when the first read is always blanketed.

Burns and Icky having anything else than a single digit score completely invalidates the entire list.

2023 Panthers were SHUT OUT the last 2 games of the season. We have a clueless overbearing egomaniac owner who gave us a new reason to hate something else every week. 2023 had maybe 6 or 7 players that look like they’re trying. Of those, only Hubbard, Thielen, Brown and Luvu have seemed impervious to the malaise. Maybe something changes, but this current squad is a special breed of awful.

Burns is the anti Thomas Davis. He is the anti keep pounding. Keep pounding means at its core, never quit Quitter. Worse off, he quit his teammates over $$. Once a quitter, always a quitter. It’s a cancer to be around. Bye.

Benching the guy you just doled out huge $$$$ to is a nonstarter. After his payday comes, He is exactly the type to check out. New GM doesn’t need that kind of heat.

Here’s something cool I’ve seen other teams do that I think could work for us. survey the college landscape and find a QB who has all the physical characteristics necessary in the NFL. Tall, big arm, accurate, natural leadership, etc… Additionally, find a guy who makes average talent look great. A guy that always finds a way to make it work. The formula in the NFL for a consistently winning franchise is to find a stud qb, that doesn’t need top talent all around him to make it work. A stud qb means that the offense will consistently be able to put up 24 points with good caliber players, and then you can afford to splurge on an all pro free agent to get you over the hump. Resources can be shifted towards an attacking defense that creates turnovers. Bryce will never be able to make it work week in and week out unless he is surrounded by top talent at every position.

Our next QB better be able to throw a nerf ball through a brick wall. Enough of this depressing jump pass noodle arm BS. He fooled me with the GB game. It was one of those everything went right so he looked good games. My dad used to say that ‘even turkey can fly in a stiff breeze.’ Its even funnier in a thick Jamaican accent.

If we’re trying to build a new locker room culture, I don’t want him within 1000 feet if BoA. Cut bait before he can see another training camp. It is what it is. Brown and Luvu elevate teammate. Burns has made others work harder to try to cover for his deficiencies. I wonder how many first down were given up due to a tackle he should have made. GM’s have taken notice. His disappearing act is well known.

So let me get this straight, 1st round Burns can’t shed a TE block and we’ve heard nothing but contract all year… meanwhile undrafted Frankie Luvu is a humble playmaking machine that throws linemen around like they play for the jv team. He impacts every game. He is the top rated LB about to hit… and barely a contract wisper.

Tepper is in a weird spot. The losing can not continue, but he may be starting to see that Bryce wasn’t the right pick, and may not be an NFL caliber QB… So what direction does he go because he can’t have it both ways? Does he risk yet another embarrassing season just to save face? What if none of the top prospects are willing to work with Bryce? Does Tepper have to tell them to give Bryce 1 year and if it doesn’t work then they can bring in their guy? All of the gm and coaching prospects know what kind of person Tepper is by now. This is going to be very interesting.

I’m rightfully jaded on this FO. Yawn until I can see something that resembles winning football. The root of the doo doo that we have to endure is the owner’s ego, and his refusal to hire anyone who doesn’t acquiesce to him.

Dollar bet with someone: Tepper will repeat the same mistake from last year. another coaching overhaul firing popular coaches who haven’t been given a fair shot, install yet another confusing scheme, and have another god awful record. When he could have just left this in place, build continuity, see what we really have with coaches that know the players, and go from there. This constant rush to get the awesomest coaching staff hasn’t really worked out so well. After the latest show, does he really believe he’s going to hire better then we currently have?

Bryce is a Scion xa. It starts every time, but regardless of the hype, it is exactly what it looks like. I have a 2013 Lexus GX 460 with 172,000. 5,500 lb V8 AWD premium gas drinking dinosaur, and I love every bit of it. It’s the best Toyota I’ve ever owned, and I’ve owned a lot. Easily 350-400k miles capable. This is Calias Campbell.

You do give Jake rightful props, but I can’t buy that take… yet…, but anything is possible. 2003 Jake started by coming off the bench at halftime, throwing 3 TDs to beat the Jags, had an insane playoff run, then came back after being down at half to prime GOAT/Belicheck… and almost won on the biggest stage there is. Jake… with a little help from 89 and the most talented roster we’ve ever had… led a comeback and almost beat the greatest nfl dynasty of all time, in the SB. My God that’s depressing to know where we once stood to where we are now.

I’ve heard nothing but lip service for 5 years and keep getting kicked in the nuts. Nothing can be said or done in the off-season that will make me believe we will win a game next season. I’m still going to get nfl ticket, but I’ll probably spend most Sundays fishing