JawnyBlaze

Rivera has made a career of it.

God im tired of hearing about Carolina roots. WTF cares where they're from. I don't give half a hot poo if Wilks is from Charlotte or that Tepper is a yankee or where anyone is from. fug all that noise. All I care about is who does the best job. If they also happen to be from the Carolinas, I still don't give half a lame, blind and deaf dog's turd pile.

We're definitely better than we were at this point last year. Rhule is gone. How much better we will be depends on if Wilks is retained or if we go get a modern coach and draft a QB of the future.

The DL might be too light for his soft ass bitch mode defense where DBs give 8 yards cushion no matter the situation and there's no blitzing ever and the scheme calls for letting short completions happen at will. Sure. But the DL isn't too light to work for a non soft ass conservative coach.

Eh. Rhule was a mistake, 2.25 seasons felt like 1.25 seasons too long, but he actually seemed decent and like he had potential to grow after that first season. We dont want an owner that just gives up after one bad season either, it's a balancing act. So I'm definitely willing to give the Rhule fiasco a huge L. Waiting too long to fire Hurney, yea that sucked too, but he probably just wanted some continuity and could point at all the greats Hurney drafted in the first round to justify letting him stay one extra year. All us fans knew how terrible Hurney is, but there was enough fools gold mixed in his resume it was understandable to me. So yea, an L but an understandable one. The field, that's a lot of teams these days. Just the way it seems to be going. The training facility thing was on the city of Rock Hill, he just reacted like a business man. I don't hold that against him, especially since it doesn't exactly directly influence the team. Soccer, I have no clue. Especially since it doesn't affect the Panthers. I was under the impression the Keep Pounding thing was Rhule. If it was Tepper, then that sucks, probably just him trying to push the team away from the Richardson culture, which I appreciate, but doing it the wrong way. So, in my opinion (and of course I don't begrudge you yours), he made a mistake with the first round of management hires (letting Rivera and Hurney stay too long and hiring Rhule), but that's it. And I'm willing to keep an open mind after one series of interconnected mistakes.

a history with one example doesn't make a trend. he's picked one HC. failed miserably, no reason to believe he is incapable of doing better next time.

He shouldn't. He was bad at it here, he got a HC job based on the insane talent we had (same way Rivera kept his job 7 years too long and got another one). When Wilks was our DC before the defense regressed from McDermott because Wilks calls soft bitch defense that even the talent on those mid teens Panthers teams couldn't excel in like they had before.

The one person away was a good HC. That soft ass defense is what lost, that left the quick out passes open all game, and then not putting someone over the top of Evans was just the icing on the cake. That was an embarrassing game plan and situational coaching. Darnold had high moments and low moments, but failed at what I needed to see him be a legit contender for our QB job next year and that was leading the team to a win on his shoulders. He had numerous times to do it but failed with bad throws, delays of game, and other mistakes. He did make some really good plays, that escape on the second to last drive, all three TD throws were really good, but he also underthrew a couple balls really bad and one of those was an int. The loss is 100% on Wilks and Holcomb.

Yep. Wilks has got to go. This loss was on his soft ass 8 yard cushion secondary, not blitzing until the end of the game and refusal to double Evans or do anything to fix that problem. He gotsta go.

And this game is exactly why i dont want Wilks as our coach. This loss was almost totally on him and his soft ass defense.

I need to see him carry the offense to a win before I'm willing to give him any kind of significant deal or shot at starting next year. He's been playing solid, but it's been mostly handing the ball off. Without some kind of showcase game, I'd be ok bringing him back for backup money with the understanding that he's going to be the backup sooner or later to a rookie we're drafting.

QB draft MLB FA if possible, draft if not WR draft TE FA OL depth FA RB draft Pass Rusher draft

Or even better, Eagles OC is our new HC and this guy can be his OC. Eases the transition to calling plays

Still, it’s better than getting Boger, Blakeman or Baby H

Ugh. There was a couple egregious terrible ref decisions late in that first game. Doesn’t bode well for us

Sure if they cut him.

If Wilks wants the job he needs to replace everyone with much better candidates except Campen. Especially Holcomb. And especially McAdoo.

I’m happy. Loved Josh and he was always smarter than he was athletic anyway. Even if he can just be an influence on the young guys it’s worth it. Probably can’t be a good player any more, but worth it just for his presence.

I remember that. That was hilarous

*11 1/2 years

Indeed. Can’t remember the last time I saw that from a Panthers HC.

Nah.

Still prefer Zane

I thought that weight nonsense just counted if they don’t make the tackle…they’re really nerfing the ability to stop QBs. And as I type this another bs roughing call

So this’ll make two games we win where the opponent scored over 17. That monkey’s off our back