Tepper era biggest blunder…

[TN05]

5 hours ago, mc52beast said:

If we’re talking very early blunders I would say telling Ron he wanted a 3-4 defense. Seems that started the ball rolling backwards.

Tepper basically took a team that went to two super bowls in 13 years and said “yeah no, that run-first, vertical passing, 4-3 defense stuff is bad. Go to a 3-4 and a dunk and dunk scheme”.

 

it hasn’t worked

[Day1PanthersFan]

Not drafting CJ Stroud 

Panthers Fans are going to have to say "That Could Have Been us" for every accomplishment he achieves 

Like Chargers fans felt after not drafting Peyton Manning , untill he retired 

[bandu]

what David Tepper desperately needs is someone to tell him NO .until then the Carolina Panthers are going to always be nothing more than David & Nicole Teppers real life fantasy football team. 

 

...just saying 

[Jay Roosevelt]

Biggest blunder was pretty much everything between Rhule's firing and Reich's firing. That stretch of decisions set us back several years even if you don't count any mistakes before and/or after.

Edited October 23, 2024 by Jay Roosevelt

[TNPanther]

All of them.

[Khaki Lackey]

11 hours ago, SOJA said:

There has been so many but in order IMO

 

 

2- Not taking Justin Fields when we had the chance. Not only did we trade for Darnold before the draft. We could have just sat where we were taken Fields. Let him develop under Teddy for a year and see what we had. We save the picks from the Darnold deal but more importantly....THERE would have been no need to trade up for Bryce OR trade away CMC as we still would have been giving Fields his fair shot. Further if Fields had sucked here last year we would have ended up with Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye

 

 

 

Not using the 8th overall pick for a backup caliber QB is one of the few things that this organization has done right in the last 6 years.

[TEClemson53]

11 hours ago, SOJA said:

Cam Newton for the last year of his contract. This is truly when our downward spiral / constant moving towards a new QB started. If we keep Cam that year we likely suck very badly as it is Rhule's first year and Cam would be hurt and we likely end up with Trevor Lawrence 

This. Releasing Cam and signing Teddy was the dumb part of it. Releasing Cam, sure, fine, his shoulder was busted as sad as it was to see. If you were going to release Cam, It would have been an obvious tank but just play Kyle Allen at QB that year and you setup to draft Lawrence. Signing Teddy and trying to win was the blunder. 

[t96]

Baker was fuging atrocious here, and towards the end of his Browns tenure. I don't miss him at all. I miss Sam more, but neither was ever the answer here.

Edited October 23, 2024 by t96

[Cavscout]

His belief that analytics could choose players better than football people. 

[toldozer]

16 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Betcha Marty Hurney wouldn't have drafted Bryce Young.

Marty would have taken Stroud for sure

[toldozer]

16 hours ago, jayboogieman said:

Keeping Marty was the biggest blunder. Everything that has followed comes from that one mistake.

You could argue that firing Marty was the biggest blunder.  You think mediocre is bad.  It can always get much much worse and it has.

[toldozer]

11 hours ago, AceBoogie said:

Getting rid of Cam with no succession plan. 
 

And immediately after that every single offensive coordinator you hire it’s their first time on the job. Then fans sit and wonder why no QB can be successful. 

Neither of those things you said are accurate.  They signed teddy before getting rid of Cam. It was a dumb plan but it was one. And ole Rockstar goober from the giants had been an oc before. 

[strato]

McAdoo had been the head coach of the NY Giants. 

[Johnstonny]

....his dad didn't wear a condom.