What is a Successful Season? And is it a regime saving season (If not, what is)?

[Pejorative Miscreant]

Doesn't matter.  
 

[Carl Spackler]

A winning season (lol) would be progress. Rhule Tax means another 5-or-less-win season is coming.

[Jackie Lee]

3 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

A winning season (lol) would be progress. Rhule Tax means another 5-or-less-win season is coming.

Rhule negates our winning potential by 2-3 games however it ultimately works out. Hopefully we have an interim head coach by week 5 and make a run for entertainment sake

[Carl Spackler]

4 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Rhule negates our winning potential by 2-3 games however it ultimately works out. Hopefully we have an interim head coach by week 5 and make a run for entertainment sake

Oh yeah. That's an 8-win team last year, but the Rhule Tax is always taken

[TLGPanthersFan]

11+ wins and NOT a 7th seed.

People hoping for a playoff birth at 9-8 just so we can have the honor of getting the crap beat out of us by the 2nd seed team is not a success, IMO. 

7th seed was a mistake. 

Edited September 5, 2022 by TLGPanthersFan

[rayzor]

2 scenarios. 

1) deep run in the playoffs (Rhule keeps his job for another year)

2) winning record but no playoffs (Rhule gets canned and team is set up nice for next coach)

I'm good with either. 

[davos]

11 hours ago, Panthercougar68 said:

Making the playoffs

You can clamor for a playoff win all you want but the same people demanding a playoff win also have the Panthers as a 6 win team.

You can't scream we want wins and make the playoffs and be mad that we made the playoffs and not win.

Baby steps....now do we make the playoffs? Thats another discussion.

So you want to make the playoffs but don’t mind if we get curb stomped and exit immediately? That sounds like acceptance of mediocrity and being content just looking good. Not my cup of tea. Especially in the NFL where there is parody and not this slow build process being alluded to. We looked better in their first year, last year regressed and underperformed. They need to outperform expectations. Simple as that.

[kungfoodude]

Given what we preached about Rhule's track record of third year jumps,  I think 10+ wins and a playoff berth are necessary to be "successful."

Ideally a win in the playoffs to establish with complete certainty that we have had a monumental jump to being a success again.

Either less than 10 wins OR less than 1 playoff win have to be failures, IMO. If you want to keep selling further improvement and the future being bright, you have to show something more than 0-9 wins and no playoffs.

[Shotgun]

Anything less than 10 wins is a failure in my opinion.

[45catfan]

It only matters to Tepper, unfortunately.  The man does not like to be wrong so a floor of 9 wins (wildcard or not) is enough for Rhule to stick around another season.  It will be hard to Tepper to justify keeping Rhule if our record is only better by 2-3 games especially if the team stays relatively healthy.  The IR excuse has been leaned on heavily the past two seasons.

[Mr. Scot]

Getting into the playoffs doesn't mean anything if you're embarrassed when you get there.

A win would be best, but at the very least you have to be competitive.

If you look like you don't belong, it's worthless.

[top dawg]

Sorry, I can't "get into" a decidedly contrived exercise in wishful thinking. I think that within the specific context of our team and situation, we'll know a successful season when we see it. As such I'm not putting any conditions on it but to see obvious improvements. 

[PhillyB]

if rhule can't get to the playoffs a single time in three years as a head coach he's a bust. that's the measuring stick, no less.

[poundaway]

Win the superbowl.  Anything short of that is a failure.  And yes, all of our past attempts have been failures.  It is likely this one will be too.