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Please don't let Sam end up in Detroit... or here unless we're firing Rhule and Brady, for that matter.

Rome wasn't built in a day? Bruh, Nero is playing the fiddle like Charlie fuging Daniels right now.

Upset? Hell, I'd be thrilled. With that said, LSU fans were also convinced that Lincoln Riley was a done deal right up until it broke that he had accepted the USC job.

Rhule needs to follow him out the door. He's also out of his depth. The staff is who we feared they were. A mid-level P5 college coaching staff that never actually beat anyone worth a poo in college. Rhule has always been smart enough to jump ship right when there were starting to be some actual expectations. He's just not gonna make it to that point here.

Smitty can be a brutal truthful asshole. Let's get him on the mic.

Yeah, looks about right.

Just burn it all down. The Rhule experiment has been an abysmal failure and it took it being an abysmal failure for Cam to be brought back. It was the first sign of true desperation and pride swallowing from Rhule but it likely won't be the last. He's a dead man walking. I just hope Tepper sees it and moves on. If he's brought back for a third year I anticipate it looking about like Jon Fox's final season.

Just fire him now.

Keep believing, man. This ship is taking on water faster than the Titanic.

The topic of assistants probably got brought up and when the Jets heard Rhule was planning to bring all his college buddies they were like...

If you have to force your head coach's hand on his staff selections, you have the wrong head coach.

I loved the Brown pick but this isn't what you signed up for with a top 10 pick DT. You want a game wrecker. Brown was never going to be an Aaron Donald type but you're expecting prime Kris Jenkins. He showed promise as a rookie but he's looked like a JAG this year. Just another sign of a poor coaching staff IMO.

Every turn we make gets us closer to the iceberg though.

And yet we still made Tua and Heinicke look like Joe Montana and Tom Brady. Oh wee mayne. This was Rhule's call though. He wanted to focus on building the D first (in an offensive driven league) while he slow played the offense. Well, all those recourses spent on D have fielded a bad defense in two straight games now. If the D continues to play like this, THAT is what is gonna get Rhule fired.

Sensationalism aside, we all expected to see signs of progress being made in the rebuild process. This ain't that.

The team isn't going to move. I honestly don't see any NFL-less city out there being a more lucrative opportunity than Charlotte and the Carolinas. But Tepper also knows this is gonna be a wild ride and he has to build a winner and get some fan excitement going for this team before he can start stumping to fleece the city out of hundreds of millions for his own shiny new Tepperworld.

The only thing that'll excited me will be if 2022 is the first year of the new rebuild. Not even drafting Howell would excite me much at this point. Any rookie QB we could bring in would basically he in Justin Fields' position forced to take a beating as a rookie with little chance while waiting for this moronic coaching staff to get fired and look for a fresh start in year two.

This feels like something an Arkansas or Tennessee fan would say to feel better about their shitty program because there happen to be some really good teams in their conference.

Yep, were truly back to the Panthers good old days now. This post could very easily be circa 2013.

Look at the progression from year one to year two. Now look at the current Panthers.

If things continue like this and Rhule is retained next year, that means that either Tepper values the money he saves by not firing Rhule over winning (yikes!) or he truly believes that Matt Rhule is going to build a winning organization (YIKES!).

Ironically enough, we saw the end of @Hayden Panettiere's Huddle career.

Sam Darnold and Matt Rhule back next year and this fanbase is gutted. Best of luck to Tepper lobbying for money for a new stadium with that trash.

Yeah, I'll use that one to justify it. Bye.