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I wish I could laugh instead of cry but, the fact is, I can do neither

tiger7_88

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The retention of the Hurney/Rivera Regime in the offseason by our super-genius owner sucked any emotion out of this season for me personally before it even began.  It was obvious, outside of the occasional small miracles that occur for Ron Rivera (God loves small children, animals, and the mentally "differently-abled"), that all we would see this season would just be more of the same.

Some people seemingly like mediocrity.  Fear of change makes them that way, they'd rather wallow in "almost pretty good but closer to average" rather than take risks.  Mr. Super-Genius Owner was one of those people during the 2019 off-season.  This team and this season are subsequently showing the results of that timidity.

"You're just a Cam Nut Hugger and that's why you don't care!"  Well... no.  I love and have loved football longer than many-to-most of you have been alive and that pre-dates Cam by a long shot.  What I don't like is predictable mediocrity and lack of imagination.  If you ain't movin' forward, you're just falling behind.  Football isn't just fun when you win, its made fun by watching a well-coached team execute well.  Its fun when you can see imaginative schemes implemented efficiently.  Hell, watching a well-coached team play well and lose to a better team is 1000% more fun than limping across the finish line for yet another boring, unimaginative win.  Why?  Because you know that you can BUILD ON a well-executed loss.  All an inept win does for you is ensure that you are likely to see more of the same thing but never move forward and improve.

In my opinion, the Panthers should be almost a year into a rebuild at this point, with keen young minds running things in the management offices and on the sideline.

But here we are... and the most passion that I can work up for yet another Ron Rivera-led mediocre-derp Panthers squad is an unimpressed "meh".

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1 minute ago, CatTower said:

Let's be real though.  If Cam was 100% this season, the team would be in playoff contention.  So unless Tepper knew Cam was going to be injured from Game 1, I can't argue with his approach.

That's fair.

I don't feel very much like being fair right now though.  

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Felt the same way when we kept the duo of Ron/Marty after last season - I was certain they'd be gone on black monday, but nope.  Got a little optimistic after the draft like always, and was hopeful Cam would be back and healed.  Still, didn't go into this season with the same emotional attachment, thankfully, and its made things easier to watch.  I'm ready for a rebuild, retool, whatever, I'm just not ready for any more Rivera ball.

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5 minutes ago, CatTower said:

Let's be real though.  If Cam was 100% this season, the team would be in playoff contention.  So unless Tepper knew Cam was going to be injured from Game 1, I can't argue with his approach.

Let's be realer... It would still be Cam dragging (his nutz on the league and) this shitty staff along with him like he did every other time we were even remotely good.

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7 minutes ago, CatTower said:

Let's be real though.  If Cam was 100% this season, the team would be in playoff contention.  So unless Tepper knew Cam was going to be injured from Game 1, I can't argue with his approach.

Ok, and then what?

we probably do make the playoffs with Cam. Even then, what good does it do going 11-5 and getting a wild card just so we could go to San Francisco and watch Shanahan outscheme Ron down the field and watch our OLine fail to keep Cam on his feet? Cam masked a lot of ineptitude in this team and now that hes gone its all getting exposed. Maybe it was for the better because FINALLY something might change. For a franchise that loves complacency maybe this needed to happen. Cam carrying this team into the playoffs just to have no shot of winning a super bowl and getting killed on the road would have been the worst possible outcome for this season

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14 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

The retention of the Hurney/Rivera Regime in the offseason by our super-genius owner sucked any emotion out of this season for me personally before it even began.  It was obvious, outside of the occasional small miracles that occur for Ron Rivera (God loves small children, animals, and the mentally "differently-abled"), that all we would see this season would just be more of the same.

Some people seemingly like mediocrity.  Fear of change makes them that way, they'd rather wallow in "almost pretty good but closer to average" rather than take risks.  Mr. Super-Genius Owner was one of those people during the 2019 off-season.  This team and this season are subsequently showing the results of that timid-ness. 

"You're just a Cam Nut Hugger and that's why you don't care!"  Well... no.  I love and have loved football longer than many-to-most of you have been alive and that pre-dates Cam by a long shot.  What I don't like is predictable mediocrity and lack of imagination.  If you ain't movin' forward, you're just falling behind.  Football isn't just fun when you win, its made fun by watching a well-coached team execute well.  Its fun when you can see imaginative schemes implemented efficiently.  Hell, watching a well-coached team play well and lose to a better team is 1000% more fun than limping across the finish line for yet another boring, unimaginative win.  Why?  Because you know that you can BUILD ON a well-executed loss.  All an inept win does for you is ensure that you are likely to see more of the same thing but never move forward and improve.

In my opinion, the Panthers should be almost a year into a rebuild at this point, with keen young minds running things in the management offices and on the sideline.

But here we are... and the most passion that I can work up for yet another Ron Rivera-led mediocre-derp Panthers squad is an unimpressed "meh".

...if it makes you feel any better...i watch planet of the apes every sunday morning at 6:00am on MeTV... but i feel your pain and your post is succinctly put...

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17 minutes ago, CatTower said:

Let's be real though.  If Cam was 100% this season, the team would be in playoff contention.  So unless Tepper knew Cam was going to be injured from Game 1, I can't argue with his approach.

yea...let me count the ways...win against rams, bucks...***** green puke bay...and the sht hole falconts...all winnable games....should have won today!

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