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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.

This.

Nah. He signed a set for life contract and if we fire him he'll have a decent college job pretty quickly. It's not like he left a powerhouse college job to take this gig. He'd likely land an upgrade from that Baylor job.

That's us Panthers fans sitting there like "WTF??? Did that asshole just poo all over us?"

Cam was bad today. Unfortunately, there was a very long list of Panthers who were bad today. This ship is rudderless.

Honestly I have no clue and I don't give a fug. $50M is less than half a percent of Tepper's net worth.

The other ranked win (vs. #20 Navy) was a similar story. Overall yardage was close, but Navy turned it over 3 times to Temple's 0. So in Rhule's two ranked wins, the turnover margin was +8.

Beating unranked teams because he sure did lose to the ranked ones like clockwork.

I don't want Rhule and company picking our next QB. They've already thrown enough resources down the drain on QBs who have failed spectacularly. But yes, if he's retained I do expect either a 1st round QB or a huge splash trade for a QB. And that fuging terrifies me. I just want Rhule and company gone at this point. Brady not being retained next year seems obvious, but what decent OC with other options is going to sign on to work for a coach who's seat will be as hot as any in the NFL next year?

Great hire by USC and honestly a smart move by Riley. The PAC-12 is just so much weaker than the SEC. Seems like he could easily recreate what he built at OU there while OU is going to be just another team in the SEC.

One of my concerns about Rhule (beyond his abysmal record against ranked college teams) was his nearly complete lack of NFL experience and thus likely serious lack of NFL contacts. It's not like Temple and Baylor had NFL coaches flocking to scout talent. When he assembled a staff reflecting that, it was like uh oh.

Yep. Hindsight being 20/20, Rhule's lack of success against ranked teams in college wasn't a fluke. He beat up on bad teams at the college level. There are no "bad" teams at the NFL level. The worst teams at the NFL level are basically right outside the rankings at the college level since there are 25 teams ranked in college and only 32 total NFL teams. And Brady? Yeah, turns out he just walked into probably the most talented offensive college roster of all time and anyone bringing a modern offense into the mix there would've created video game results since the previous system they were running was last seen when football was played in leather helmets.