My interest in this team is at an all time low

[Waldo]

As Panther fans, we have seen some bleak seasons. Your right about 2010, we knew we were getting a top 3 pick and a new staff, but we all knew Hunrey would be there to muck it up. This year? We can only guess with this mess. 

I'll still watch but I'm not too serious about it all. Just enjoy the day, multitasking with other fun things. I do a lot of laughing but I have a dark sense of humor.

[bigskypanthersguy]

It's sad to see how far Cam's fallen off.

It's honestly also sad to see how inept Rhule and company are at the NFL level.  I wanted this to work.

But it's not and it won't and we may as well cut bait by season's end.

[Jgsaltwater]

I rarely post - I will say cost of tickets is relative to situations.. I am sitting on about $14k a year for 3 seats. 
I am extremely disappointed in The Panthers, the games and the experience at the games, I have been a PSL owner since 2012 but attended 4-5 games a year since We played in Death Valley. 
This whole deal with The Panthers is just a heart break and a joke. You think our savior #22 really cares if he plays, please he will sit at his $8-10 million house in Charlotte and laugh, the fans , the PSL owners that foot the real bill for Rhule and his underlinks are the real losers here, there is absolutely no ROI. When is there ever good news as a Panthers fan, I feel sure I will be a fan for life.. will I continue to burn $14k a year on just tickets for this train wreck I think not. Maybe I will do like all of the club owners around me and sell the seats the the drunk fans for the other team. Many times at a loss I hear, I have given my seats away to panthers fan to try and be a good fan.  my days of doing that are limited as well.. I am just over this team. 
GO HORNETS!

sorry for grammatical errors. In a cab 

[Mr. Scot]

31 minutes ago, CRA said:

And if you blame that all on Rhule? It still doesn’t speak much about our GM.  He watched it all happen and signed off.  

What other choice did he have?

He's not in charge. Rhule has final say on everything.

[Chaos]

OP nailed it.  Exactly how I'm feeling and to see all the incompetence and mediocrity laid out in that post makes me marvel at the mystery of passionate fandom.  I love this team, live and breathe this team, and never think I will make it through the long offseason because I miss Panther football so much.  Am I like the abused that keeps going back to the abusive spouse, even though I know it's bad for my health?  Why the fug do I get suckered in every year that it will work.  What's the definition of insanity again?  No back to back winning seasons in the NFL in 26/27 seasons, I mean that seems hard to do if you try.

[TheSpecialJuan]

1 hour ago, Ricky Spanish said:

I really don't make threads like this ever, but I am just completely disinterested in this team. 

I have purchased tickets to at least one home game every year since I moved to the area back in 2014, but I have yet to buy any since 2018.

We kept Hurney on board long enough for him to fug up another draft (2019) and dole out a record breaking contract to a RB while said RB was still under contract for two more years only for it to blow up in the team's face (oh wow, deja-vu). 

We have no long term solution at QB while committing close to 60 million and 3 draft picks on the position since last offseason.

The team looks like it is getting worse as the season goes on. We are getting blown out, the offense can't score, and the coaching staff is getting out coached week in and week out. 

We have very few draft picks for next year because we traded a 2, 4, and 6 for the worst QB in the league as a reclamation project that was DOA; and we are without a 3rd that we traded for a project CB that the coaching staff fell in love with during the 2020 draft. 

Things looking the way they are, there is little to look forward to in the near future as a Carolina Panthers fan. At least in 2010 we had the #1 pick to pull for with the chance at landing a franchise QB, and the foregone conclusion that Fox would be gone and a new era of coaching would bring new excitement to the team.

We are hemorrhaging money and picks at the QB position with absolutely nothing to show for it, our best player is hurt (again), our coaching staff looks out of their depth every week, effort is lackluster from all areas of the team, there are no slam dunk QB prospects available in the coming draft, our offensive line is in shambles, and it seems like we are going to give Matt Rhule another year as HC while other candidates with better NFL Resumes will grab HC jobs to breathe life into downtrodden fanbases. 

Rebuilds don't have to take this long in the NFL. Look at the Rams, Browns, Chargers, Tennessee, Buffalo, and Dallas for examples of new coaches getting results within 2 years of being hired. 

What do we have to root for on Sundays now? The corpse of Cam Newton? A rookie RB who looks... decent? WRs that can't get open? An Offensive Line that can't block for crap? A Defense getting manhandled in the run game week in and week out? A very bad Special teams unit? We are on a downward trend and I don't have the optimism I've had in the past that things are going to get better. It seems like every choice we have made since Tepper took over has been the wrong choice that results in the worst possible outcome. 

I am not a fair weather fan, I will always root for this team, but I just can't invest the time or money into a franchise striving for incompetence like the Panthers seem to be. 

[Richard Cranium 1]

I still have interest/faith in the team, instead just a total lack of confidence in the fugfaces pretending to be coaches.

Edited November 29, 2021 by Richard Cranium 1

[Mr. Scot]

As to the topic, I understand.

I've said before that if I made it through fifteen seasons of Marty Hurney, I could make it through anything.

It's not easy, though.

[hepcat]

Your feelings are shared amongst all the fans. It is why the Panthers signed Cam. It took a lot of swallowing of pride to do that. The fanbase was just done with this garbage. But they rushed Cam into the fold and he isn’t the QB he used to be. 

I think there could be hope with a new coaching staff. Hiring a coach like Matt Eberflus and seeing what he could do with all the talent on this defense could be very interesting. The offense needs a QB and the off-season should be dedicated to that search. They’re stuck with Darnold who will need to be cut and that dead money eaten, but could maybe be re-signed for a more reasonable rate and used as a backup or veteran competition for a rookie or other veteran QB. PJ is a solid third string QB. I just vomit at the thought this team could be developing Justin Fields or Mac Jones right now. But knowing this coaching staff they would have ruined whoever they drafted. 

Let’s just hope Rhule and co are let go and an NFL caliber staff is brought in. I have faith in Fitterer and Dan Morgan and hope they get a chance to build a team under a new hand picked coaching staff. Usually the GM selects the head coach, not the other way around. 

[Catsfan69]

1 hour ago, Carl Spackler said:

I respect that feeling, OP. I'm picking a new team next year unless Rhule gets fired. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever to support this reeling pile of garbage. There's no heart, energy, intelligence, strategy or talent. 

There is a reason.

It's called home.

 

It's the reason I pull for my 

Family

State 

Country.

 

Win or lose even into the pit of despair It's us vs the rest of the country.

 

I will never give up as long as they are here.

[Pimpdaddy]

My niece told me: 'uncle pimp, it sucks to suck'....

[Richard Cranium 1]

3 minutes ago, Pimpdaddy said:

My niece told me: 'uncle pimp, it sucks to suck'....

Your family members call you "pimp"?....sweet!

[BIGH2001]

This team is more comparable to 01 and 02. Years where we had an ok defense, terrible offense and little hope for the future. However 01 and 02 at least had Smith and Muhammad at WR. This is the most devoid of offensive talent I think we have ever been.

Edited November 29, 2021 by BIGH2001

[ickmule]

I think many of us share these same sentiments.  Sadly after the SB50 loss I became much less attached and have not watched a full season since.  Now that we have new ownership, and bad one at that, nothing has the same feel as it once did. Tepper has managed to take a franchise we were all proud to pull for and destroy it in less than 3 seasons.  I’d like to think there is hope, but so far Tepper has not show he can or will make the right moves to turn this around.  

Edited November 30, 2021 by ickmule