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Rhule's teams have always been built around dominant D and decent offense. He thought he could replicate that in the NFL. Put all the resources into the D, find a JAG vet QB to hold the fort down and let boy wonder Brady go to work. Well, it doesn't work like that in the NFL and it's alarming Rhule couldn't see that coming in.

We said all the right things. But everything we DID screamed that these guys thought they could be heroes and slap quick fixes on everything. They started out 3-0 and thought they'd accomplished it. Started talking playoffs (insert Jim Mora gif). Started trading future picks for more players. Then the wheels fell off. Now we're careening down the cliff completely out of control.

If I was an LSU fan I'd want him too. I don't think Brady wants to deal with the recruiting mess in college, but he's not ready to be an NFL OC. I'd take that contract LSU would throw at him though. He'll be a wealthy man, even if he flops.

Firing an NFL coach after one season usually ends up working out https://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/12/nfl-one-and-done-chudzinski-carroll-mora-schottenheimer You didn't expect that one coming. Walked right into it.

No, no, no. He moved on from that excuse. Now it's that we're such a young team with a college coaching staff. Guess who made those decisions?

You're just machine gun blasting excuses. Most of which were decisions made by Rhule himself. There were five new head coaches for the 2020 season. The only one with a worse record than Rhule blew us out today. He only has one less win than Rhule now. You want to make excuses and accept a loser. That's fine. Based on your ability to argue a point and formulate a coherent thought, you've become quite accustomed to embracing the L.

You're editing almost every post and now you're arguing with yourself? LOL! Completely off the rails.

Yep. He obviously figured out how to catch that NFL ball. LOL! Remember in the preseason some Panthers fans thinking we may have gotten the better LSU WR in Marshall? LOLOLOL!!! Dude's on the back of a milk carton these days.

One that showed signs of having this team headed in the right direction. If you haven't noticed, we're currently spiraling downward rapidly. The same thing happened last year after a decent start. The pandemic isn't a new situation this year. If you want to make excuses for Rhule, fine. The Panthers' history has conditioned a lot of fans to accept a loser.

We saw PJ. He was awful too. We already knew that from last year. As soon as we went into the season with OJ as our backup I already knew we were all in on Darnold. If we don't panic trade for Watson, we're top 5 pick bound.

You forgot that Ron's first season featured a lockout shortened offseason, didn't you? If you want to sit around and make excuses, you can do that. But Matt Rhule wasn't given a 7 year $60M contract to sit around and make excuses. All of those excuses you listed have nothing to do with the pandemic and were created by Rhule himself. He made his own bed and we're looking at the results.

Who made those mistakes? Point me to the signs that we're improving as an organization because I'm missing them.

Everyone else is in a pandemic too. It's not a situation unique to the Panthers.

Oh hell no.

What? 6-10 to 7-9 to 12-4. Rhule went 5-11 last year and is 3-4 this year with the trend arrow pointing straight down.

There was a better QB who signed with Buffalo as a FA. There was a better QB who was traded to Philly for a 6th. There was a good rookie OG available when we drafted a long snapper. Christensen actually literally sacked Darnold himself today. He literally tacked Sam Darnold himself. Tremble looks mediocre. He may or may not pan out. Thomas looked better as a rookie and he didn't. Keep drinking that Kool-Aid I guess.

I don't disagree. He looks as bad as he did in his worst games. He hasn't quite yet hit that Pats game low water mark for us yet, but he's trending to have one of those games if we keep trotting him out there.

I'd expect something along the lines of '22 1st, '23 1st, Brian Burns, Dante Jackson. Maybe a '23 2nd as well. I don't think we're gonna get them to eat Darnold's 5th year option.

I still had a sliver of hope when I made this thread, but I was concerned. The problems I saw in NY were starting to show up in a major way. That trend has continued and he's in full blown Jets mode now. Darnold is broken. Honestly, he's probably going to have to earn a backup role in the NFL after this. He'll be brought in somewhere to compete, but I don't think anyone will gift wrap a roster spot for him.

What's confusing? He's playing pretty disastrously.

Yep. When Stafford was like, "LOL! No thanks." it seems like we panicked. Had we stayed patient we would've landed Darnold for considerably less. Having no fallback plan with no legit backup was a huge mistake. End up getting Darnold for say a 3rd, then toss the Jags that 6th to get Minshew to have a legit fallback plan. Honestly, if we had a legit backup, I think Sam would've gotten the hook last week and the backup would've gone into today's game as the starter with a full week's preparation. We've see enough from Sam to know he's not the answer and now we have to stomach eating that 5th year option that we picked up for some reason I'd like to see someone ask Rhule and Fitts about just to watch them squirm.

I ain't even mad at Darnold. He is who I thought he was. I just can't figure out how or why our brain trust convinced themselves he was the answer.

If you don't have a QB you don't stand a chance to consistently compete in this league.

Where's the evidence they can build a program? We keep making idiotic decisions at QB. We continue to neglect the OL. Our veteran acquisitions this offseason look awful. Our rookie class looks not great. This team is worse than last year's.

Looked around the NFL lately? Throwing the ball 35+ times a game is becoming commonplace.