LinvilleGorge

There's no sugarcoating it. Tepper has been an utter disaster for the Carolina Panthers thus far. The vitriol toward Rhule really needs to be at Tepper IMO. Tepper is the one who gave a college coach with bare minimum NFL experience full control over the football organization right out of the gate. That's setting him up to fail. I don't think any first time NFL coach is ready for that type of control. Hell, very few NFL coaches period are going to best operate with that type of control.

With Rhule having final say and without knowing really how much input they've had on personnel decisions it's pretty much impossible to say for sure. I lean pretty heavily toward no unless inside info says this is Rhule's clown show, they've tried to provide good guidance and he's ignored it to do clown show poo.

Interim coach here this year isn't exactly a fair shake either.

Anyone expecting Rhule to be fired immenently is going to continue to be disappointed week after week. There's no upside to firing him right now. Especially since he's likely land another college job and take a decent chunk of our current staff with him. Many will say no big deal, let them go. And while I agree, you do still need folks in those positions. Rhule will likely be fired at the conclusion of the season or maybe very late in the season like Rivera was. That's just what makes sense. Now it wouldn't shock me if Tepper tells Rhule mid-season that he's not returning next year to try to prompt him to jump ship to a college job to wiggle his way out of that contract but I just can't see that happening. I can't see Rhule walking away from tens of millions of dollars.

We got what I expected. Rhule just wanted to show Tepper he could get former NFL HCs to work for him. So he went out and got two in McAdoo and Wilks who don't fit our talent on offense and in the secondary, respectively.

Julian Council (whoever that is) is telling the hard truth. Seems like a lot of folks are still clinging to hope for Scott Fitterer and I'm not seeing anything to rationalize it.

It's some serious self ownage if he is. Rhule will be fine. Once Tepper fires him he'll likely have another college job pretty quickly. Probably not a powerhouse program. Hell, maybe not even a P5 program. But he'll have no problem getting another college job. I just think Tepper is really struggling to come to grips with him being so sold on this guy that he gave him a ludicrous contract and amount of organizational control and he proved to be very, very wrong. He's struggling to swallow that bitter pill.

Let's be honest though. It's very obvious now why the Browns had to eat most of his salary just to move him for a conditional 5th round pick. That's almost certainly what the Jets would've had to do with Darnold too if we weren't so dumb and desperate.

Probably. And then Darnold comes in and the results will look pretty much the same except with more fumbles.

Add Ian Thomas, Shi Smith, and Chuba Hubbard to the trash list.

The Bucs desperately need to get some points out of this drive with the Chiefs getting the ball after half. If they don't this game might be out of reach by the time they get another possession.

Brady just got wrecked. Bro, you're in your mid-40s and have all the money in the world. You don't need this poo anymore. Your wife is right.

This Pacheco kid looks legit. 7th round pick.

This is getting out of hand quickly. Chiefs up 21-3 early in the 2nd quarter. Just domination. That last TD was straight up playground ball.

They're both terrible. The scary thing is that Darnold is even worse.

I figured it out. The offensive system sucks and Baker sucks too. Combine the two and you get this offense.

Some of y'all have forgotten how awful this poor guy looked in preseason. He would probably make Jimmy Clausen look like Joe Montana on comparison. So yeah, it does suck that he won't be able to play. At least Pickles being so terrible landed us Cam Newton.

For some perspective... Cam was still better than this even when his shoulder was so trashed he was struggling to throw a ball 20 yards.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Just sit back and enjoy the comedy y'all. I quit getting frustrated a long time ago.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Just sit back and enjoy the comedy y'all. I quit getting frustrated a long time ago.

If the phone rings and it's the Panthers on the caller ID

Fire Rhule. Fire Fitterer. Beg Kevin Colbert to come over see hiring the right people.

CMC is really fuging good and we're just wasting his prime.

Chuba has the worst hands on earth.

Listen to those boos!