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NFL Gameday - "Panthers have 'no consistency' from week to week


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Disagree. The Panthers have been incredibly consistent this year. Their defense is below average, and has been all year long. Their offense is improving, but tends to be too conservative when they have the opponent on the ropes.

The problem is, everyone expects the defense from year's past to return. They aren't.

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2 minutes ago, Raleigh PF said:

Disagree. The Panthers have been incredibly consistent this year. Their defense is below average, and has been all year long. Their offense is improving, but tends to be too conservative when they have the opponent on the ropes.

The problem is, everyone expects the defense from year's past to return. They aren't.

Bingo

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7 minutes ago, Palmetto said:

This has been said many times over the past couple of seasons

but some posters will give you the poo emoji if this is mentioned

there are a lot of stupid people on this board who believe the panthers couldn't do better than ron.

then there are those of us who know he has been a fraud since he was first hired. he's been carried by his QB for 8 years.

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1 minute ago, bobsfoodbasics said:

there are a lot of stupid people on this board who believe the panthers couldn't do better than ron.

then there are those of us who know he has been a fraud since he was first hired. he's been carried by his QB for 8 years.

To be fair, there was a time we fielded a very good defense, that fans not of our team would say carried our QB.

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6 minutes ago, FugAllY'all said:

What's funny is that before this they would say the same thing but it would be specifically about cam. Now they can see the problem is actually organizational.

Cam has his ups and downs but is easily the most consistent thing about this franchise, other than the disappointment

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