Gapanthersfan

Jameis would win enough that our pick would be no better than 7th. We would get a few games of good Jameis… and be screwed again.

You have to find a way to minimize his cap hit when you know he is not the long term option. Even if his level of play picks up, there will be a day when a very large grown ass man hurts him very badly. How well would he be able to come back from a major injury? Roll with him this season (for now) and trade him in the offseason. I’d rather take a 7th rounder than the potential cap hit from releasing him. Servicable vets are let go every season. Pick one up and draft someone who at least has measurables for the position. Don’t expect anything success wise until the 2027 season.

The thing with cleaning house… who the hell wants to actually work for Tepper?! What good coach with options would take that gig? There are literally 31 better teams to work for…. This is the WORST place for a coach to work… and it’s not even close. Auto-firing staff after 1-2 years will only make things worse. If candidates know they are going to be auto-fired when being dumped in to an impossible situation, then why even apply? Tepp has to show candidates that he’s calmed the f down. The best thing is for him to not make any major franchise decisions for a while. Just imagine where we would be right now with Wilks, Darnold, Foreman, Luvu, Moore, the king’s ransom they were offered for Burns and the picks they traded away for Young… tell me with a straight face that blowing all of that up was the right move compared to where we are today. Wilks and Darnold were bridges to a better place. My point being, EVERY major franchise decision from Tepp has been a disaster. He blows everything up, even if it shows signs of potential. He has refused to hire a ‘my way or no way’ type coach with proven NFL success. I promise you he doesn’t have a friend in the entire building. besides changing out Evero who has been given years to make it work, this is the best case scenario for the foreseeable future until the next draft. I don’t think Canales is the right coach for the job, but tying him to Young isn’t fair. He deserves at least another season with his own guy that he chooses.

John Fox he is not I called Coker being wr#2 by game 4…. Just I didn’t see it coming off of IR

Tmac passed the eye test in that he has the ‘it’ factor. The ‘you know it when you see it’. I also see a garbage time point MACHINE that is going to carry my WR roster in fantasy. He’ll be a must play every week.

Not everybody. After Wilks was given the thanks but no thanks treatment…. I knew. He was the perfect ‘Bridge’ coach to Rebuild an identity and culture…. And it was well on its way. Why burn that down? Why? Because Wilks had no solution for the Brady to Evans connection with the playoffs on the line? What a joke. Tepp knew he had no chance at manipulating Steve.

Unprepared and out of position. It’s the hallmark of the Tepp coaching existence. I know im in the minority, I’m not all that down on the players from a talent perspective. I do believe that there is some good talent there, but the coaching from top to bottom is abysmal. I mentioned it already but it bears repeating: what good positional coach with aspirations of climbing the ladder would EVER sign up here? … and seeing how lost, confused and disjointed every player looks… it makes complete sense. This team: poor fit HC paired with a terrible DC who is being forced to run a scheme that only a select few teams are successful with. Pair this with closed practices free from media and fan criticism and bottom of the barrel position coaches. This is 1000% on Tepp because nobody worth anything would voluntarily work for the dude. I don’t think he’s as handsy as he had been in daily operations, but this whole disaster is on him. He refuses to hire the type of people that would fast track success. He will never hire a ‘my way or no way’ type coach, which is the ONLY thing that would turn this disaster around.

The talent isn’t great, but this has to be the worst top to bottom coaching staff I’ve ever seen. There are players here and there making plays out of shear heart, but it is only due to their individual effort. Horn and Chuba. That’s it. Not a single position group is even a little prepared to play. WHERE IS THE COACHING? It’s an amateur hour clown show. NOBODY knows wtf to do or how to do it. This is the basic stuff that is supposed to get ironed out in TC. I now 100% believe this is why Thielen wanted out. He saw the unprepared and unmotivated s-show all through camp and wanted no part of it. XL not even trying to block or come down in bounds??? That’s as basic as it gets! GTFO. Sadly, under Tepp, this team is THE no fly zone in all of pro sports for competent coaches. NOBODY wants to work for that dude. It’s the coach graveyard and Tepp is the undertaker. Position coaches by and large want to climb the coaching ladder so why in the hell would anyone worth anything come here? This team needed and still needs a GM/HC combo that Tepp would never feel comfortable hiring. Just imagine if we could have landed Harbuagh, Johnson or Payton. Our 2 SB coaches, Fox or Rivera, would have never been hired under current ownership. It starts at the top. My way or no way coaches need not apply here, sadly.

What really gets me, the one thing that I’ve been waiting to see, but haven’t… dude has no heart. He’s the slowest supposed to be fast guy I’ve ever seen in my life. He doesn’t run away from anyone. He’s a slower Ted Ginn, with worse hands, and no heart… ok, so he’s nothing like Ted. I really liked Ted. You never questioned Ted’s effort. I don’t think I like XL much anymore.

All. Day. Long. I’ll say it again. Wilks was the PERFECT ‘bridge’ prove it 1 year deal, coach. It jell’ed so well. Let him bring back dignity…. but we can’t have nice things.

Truth. Even in losing, it was a respectable effort. The defense always set the tone. Fox and Rivera were very similar that way. Nobody ran on this defense like EVERYBODY does now. Those teams, if nothing else, would stop the run. This new ish is just demoralizing.

Agreed. I liked what I saw out of him today.

We hired Canales because he doesn’t intimidate Tepp. Wilks had this team playing harder with 1 week on the job while doing it HIS way than every other coach we’ve had since Tepp bought the team. At least the team played like they had dignity. I don’t know what the hell I just watched. It just takes a different kind of captain to steer this garbage barge through the ish storm it currently finds itself in.

Another opener where they’ve looked completely lost and unprepared. There is not a single thing that looks improved from last season.

3 bad snaps, 3 bad drops and pressure in his face as soon as he corrals the bad snap. Hard to really get a good read on BY with this one.

Why do I think absurd thoughts like David Moore in for 6. Twice. Anyway, here’s my totally insane prediction. Panthers 31 jags 24 BY 180 passing with a TD, 30 rushing with a TD. Defense gives up 75 yards on the ground. 3 sacks and a FF. Difference makers: Horn, Brown, Travis (rips off a few big runs) and D Moore.

Mahomes is clowning Jackson

Play book espionage signing… not that it really matters.

Good start for Eagles defense on my fantasy team. Thanks, Carter.

I may have staggered by it a time or 2 in the 90s. I miss those days.

That’s UNCG

XL better turn in to a straight up DUDE. If Tet can do Tet things and XL surprises… then maybe we’ll be ok. Sanders going to get a ton of targets. Tet better channel his best megaton impersonation.

I don’t see how a general surgeon would clear him for football type contact in anything less than 3 weeks. Even 3 is being aggressive. My thinking is 4. 1. Dude is going to get smashed in his abdomen every play the moment he gets on the field. Believe that. Defenders are not going to feel the least bit sorry for him. 2. Trying to handle the speed rushers after getting shanked in the abdomen a few times by something the size of a screwdriver… that’s going to take a while. Any jarring motion is typically very painful. Now this all applies to mere mortals and NFL gladiators are on another level so we’ll see. This is the most cursed franchise I’ve ever seen.

Complete speculation, but what if it was “daddy I want to go back home.” “I really miss my friends and cousins.” Or “hey hun, I really miss it back home.” Do they have any family in Charlotte? Where do the grandparents live? Were they putting heat out. What sort of health are their folks in? What man that has a conscience could fade heat like that and stay put in a foreign land when he don’t gotta? They have plenty of money. He doesn’t play because he’s broke and has to. Just saying that there could have been non-football motivation at play.

Agreed, it’s just that Mr. supercomputer knows every tendency of every defender on the team and all 3 pages of Evero’s playbook.