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I'm mainly talking about the staff and the QB situation. You need two factors on the field to be competitive - a coach and a QB. Those are the two MUST HAVES. You can find elite teams with weaknesses at virtually every other position group but you gotta have a QB and if you aren't strong virtually everywhere else then you better have a HC too.

I just assumed they had Darnold out there actively throwing to DBs.

I hope you're right. I just very seriously doubt it. When you're coming off of three straight five win seasons it's hard to muster up much enthusiasm without an exciting new coaching staff and/or a new elite QB prospect or FA addition. We have neither. Same crew with some bandaids slapped on. Sorry, McAdoo doesn't excite me even a little bit. Probably gonna yield similar if not identical results.

It's Mike Shula all over again except worse. Just zero ability to make adjustments.

This is the big problem with both of Rhule's seasons. No one had super high expectations, but we looked pretty good early on in both but the more we played the worse we looked. That's the opposite of what you want to see out of a rebuilding team. Rhule just doesn't have the chops as an NFL coach. The rest of the league figures out what he's trying to do pretty quickly and he has nothing left once they do.

Hell, I left Colorado almost two years ago because it was already to the point that staying felt financially irresponsible and it's way more expensive now than it was even then.

You can get great replica mounts these days with a pic and some basic measurements.

Probably 5-12 again. I'd be surprised if we win more than 7.

Hey, if you want a pill popping bounty issuing coach, that's on you. But all the poo we've talked about the Saints goes out the window if we hire the conductor of the orchestra.

Welp, here it is. Surely this is rock fuging bottom, right? I mean, we have Panthers fans giddy that we're rumored to be interested in hiring our archenemy. This would be like UNC hiring Coach K. Fug no. Hell fuging no. Make it stop.

Jesus. So hard up at QB (and such a hard on for Temple) that we're now looking at college backup QBs? Oh wee mayne.

So basically, Fitts just announced that if Corral is starting sooner rather than later then he really fuging sucks because Sam Darnold is terrible.

I mean, when you've had three straight five win seasons what do you expect?

https://www.businessinsider.com/wonderlic-test-can-predict-long-term-success-for-nfl-quarterbacks-2020-4 To quantify NFL success, we considered several measures, including — but not limited to — career passing yards, wins, and games started in the NFL. Of all the variables included in our regression models, only two were significantly and consistently associated with a quarterback's NFL success: whether he was a Heisman Trophy finalist and his Wonderlic score. That's concerning for Corral.

Let's see it. A couple of anecdotal examples isn't a "study".

LT was a lass rushing OLB. Totally different position.

Taylor?

We suck so hard right now that I can't even go back and enjoy the highlights of Cam and Luke. Without the injury factor, both should still be playing great football for a strong contender right now since Luke is only 31 and Cam 32. If you'd told me during the 2015 season that in the summer of '22 Luke would be retired, Cam would be a shell of himself and no longer on the Panthers, JR has been forced to sell the team, and we're in the midst of the worst period of losing football in Panthers history I would've laughed in your face. But... here the fug we are.

It isn't the end all be all, but there's a pretty strong correlation between struggling on the Wonderlic and struggling at QB in the NFL.

Tepper is such a great owner we have to go back to the Panthers before Tepper to draw on successes that weren't Tepper's to attempt to manufacture an argument that Tepper hasn't turned us into a doormat. In the Tepper era, our 22-43 (33.8%) record puts us at 5th worst in the NFL during that time period. Worst in the division. Third worst in the NFC. That's pretty doormat-ish.

Very possible. The only argument against it would be length of career.

At his best, Urlacher is the best I've ever seen. That's to take nothing away from Luke. He was phenomenal and when you go beyond just the individual play and also factor in the "QB of the defense" factor you can easily argue he's the best. Total career, it's Lewis IMO.

Oh, I don't think they're disappointed with Tepper. You think they were begging for someone who would come in and build a football organization that would kick their ass?

Tepper may be a thoroughbred in the world of investing, but he's been a plug mule so far in the world of football.