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I think i am getting to a place of apathy with this pro franchise They need to move on from Young quickly and perhaps Canales and morgan anyone who thinks they shouldn’t need only to watch the top 15 teams in league the Panthers are light years away …not being able to sustain a vertical offense, run a qb sneak for a yard. Give me a break after investing millions in the oline, drafting WRs, giving up multiple assets for multiple years for the worst qb ive ever seen at the NFl level, warrants it it is sadly what it is

I was struck at the Saints DLmen not even engaging the panthers oline several times as they knew 1. it was a pass play 2. Where the play was going 3 which pass lane Young preferred to get hands up to block Young’s pass unbelievably smart

Was that the worst loss of season for Carolina Panthers? You better believe it Scott Fowler [email protected] 29 mins ago If the Carolina Panthers wanted to stick a pin into Charlotte and deflate the whole city, they certainly did so on Sunday. The Panthers had suffered some poor losses already this season. Buffalo beat them by 31; New England by 29. But Sunday’s 17-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints before a dispirited crowd in Bank of America Stadium looked and felt worse than any other loss this season for Carolina. This was a helmet-slamming, boo-raining, turnover-making testament to badly coached and played football by the home team. I’d label this one as the biggest letdown of the season, mainly because of the quality of the opponent. New Orleans came into the game 1-8 and was starting a rookie quarterback who had zero NFL wins. But the Saints outplayed the Panthers so thoroughly — outgaining the Panthers 388-175 — that Carolina was booed off the field at halftime and again in the fourth quarter. Carolina dropped to 5-5, looking again like the sadly familiar team that has posted losing records every year since 2017. Where were the feel-good Panthers that had upset Green Bay at Lambeau Field a week before? They apparently never got on the plane. Carolina Panthers made New Orleans rookie quarterback Tyler Shough look like Drew Brees, as he threw for two touchdowns and 282 yards, including monstrous plays of 52 and 62 yards. The Saints decided to stop Rico Dowdle by crowding the box with eight defenders and daring quarterback Bryce Young to beat them. Young and the Panthers receivers never came close to doing it. Instead, it was Young who looked like the rookie quarterback Sunday — jittery and overwhelmed — and Shough who resembled a veteran. And it was Panthers coach Dave Canales who seemed unprepared as to how to adjust to a Saints team that challenged the Panthers receivers with one-on-one coverage and completely blanketed them. I forgot starting receiver Xavier Legette (zero receptions, zero yards, zero impact) was even in the game until he was called for a penalty. Carolina only had a single play of 15 yards or longer all day. The 2-15 Panthers of 2023 would have had a decent shot at beating these 2025 Panthers on Sunday. “Not our brand of football,” Dowdle said. “It sucks,” Young said. “I’ve got to do a better job,” Canales said. All true. A week after a win and Dowdle’s 130 rushing yards disguised Carolina’s serious passing game deficiencies against Green Bay, there was nowhere to hide Sunday. Other than rookie Tetairoa McMillan, Young (17-for-25 for 124 yards, no TDs, one interception) seemed disconnected from the entire offense. Young also got fooled by a fake blitz and threw a horrible fourth-quarter interception directly to the Saints’ Alontae Taylor. “Bad read, bad ball, 100% my fault,” said Young, who came to the sideline and slammed his helmet down after that one. Young also threw another interception on Carolina’s first and only touchdown drive in the first quarter, but was fortunate to have that one negated by penalty. His botched handoff on a jet sweep to Jimmy Horn Jr. resulted in a turnover inside the New Orleans 20. Although Young took responsibility for that fumble, Horn said it was actually his fault. “I’ve got to grab the ball,” he said. “I take full accountability for all that.” Both Panthers players with the surname “Horn” were on the wrong side of big plays Sunday. Cornerback Jaycee Horn, in one-on-one coverage with Chris Olave, lost a hand-fighting battle, fell down and allowed Olave to score on a 62-yard catch-and-run. Olave then added insult to injury by jumping into the premium end zone seating alongside Panther fans to celebrate. Said Ekwonu: “We just weren’t locked into the small details. A couple guys spoke about it. Coach (Canales) spoke about it throughout the week. And you can’t get days back. If you have a tough day on Thursday, tough day on Friday, or whatever, you can always look forward. But you can’t get that day back. So that preparation, or lack thereof, is going to add up. And unfortunately, that just cultivated to what we saw today.” Dowdle, who ran for a modest 53 yards on 18 carries, was swarmed on nearly every play and said he was facing a “heavy box” from the first snap of the game. “They were basically trying to overmatch our personnel,” Dowdle said, noting that the Saints simply brought in one defensive lineman after another as Carolina failed to punish New Orleans with the passing game. Dowdle was asked if he thought the Saints were “hungrier” Sunday. He responded that he didn’t think so, but admitted: “You watch the film, maybe that’s what it might look like.” In any case, Carolina blew a huge opportunity, losing at home to a 1-8 team in what theoretically should have been the most winnable game the team has left. Of course, these Panthers have defied expectations before, both for better and for worse. But on abysmal days like this one, Canales’ relentless postgame optimism does seem misplaced. The coach seemed determined to take all the blame himself for not putting the Panthers into better offensive plays. Of Bryce Young, Canales said: “I think he’s throwing the ball great.” Of Legette: “I think X is running fast. He’s doing everything we ask of him.” Really? Then how come the Panthers’ final nine drives of the game went punt-punt-punt-punt-end of half-blocked field goal-lost fumble-interception-lost on downs? There’s nothing great about that. That’s not what anyone was asking for, except the Saints. I won’t pick on Canales too much, as this was very much a team loss and he wasn’t the one out there making the turnovers. But this a Panthers team that needs to stay humble and realize this reality: Even on its best days, it’s barely good enough to win in the NFL. There can be no letups. No letdowns. And nothing like what we saw Sunday, which was an embarrassment.

Tepper might have something to do with that, who knows Dan also likes his receiver room……..I’m not of that belief but whatever

Other teams had those QBs too some times, as you know, they aren’t ready or the system is a fit some times, they can’t play at the nfl level. Unfortunately the Panthers have this case

Finished after year 5 and 32 million bucks not bad we should all have it so bad the nfl is just not for him

Nothing wrong with giving someone the benefit of the doubt it is a team sport but the unfortunate reality is, as I’ve said many times before, if a team ain’t got a qb, they ain’t got nothing, particularly in the modern nfl.

What is up with the arm rubbing he does it all the time is that some new age calm method or some poo to not say what he wants to say he was a bit passive aggressive in his answers I guess he didn’t want to say, ‘ I suck’ what more do you want me to say ‘

Can’t see down the field and a coach who constantly calls plays that makes him do it …and a qb you can’t use on short yardage …and an offense that is lateral because he can’t go vertical it is a poo show. Plan and simple or Cam used to say ‘simple and plain’

He is so slow and lackadaisical on the field zero intensity slow to react to what he sees… I was serious, this is the most intense I’ve heard him

More intense than he is in a game

He looks to me he will be happy to take his $32 million as his contract expires and dance off to the YouTube sunset nothing about him screams, or even whispers, NFL material and the team knows it.

Just wait until the rams, 49ers, Seattle, bucs twice atlanta might tear his happy ass up too

Down by 2 scores and running. Ok

Who would think they would give the ball to kamara

That is not a play all that close to the goal it just is not Too bunched together

We have reached a new level of impotence and incompetence

Lol

I really have no words I guess the Panthers can’t just outright when a game they have to depend in the other team playing down to them That 2023 draft and all those decisions will not be overcome

That is the problem in a nutshell his happy ass always looks casual

No. Bryce has no arm

Well now guess Bryce is going to have to win a game dave, let your qb toll out and throw ….we are waiting

Minnie. Not mighty

Who would replace him ’this is the business we(panthers) have chosen’

I have no words for this game plan truly