This paragraph says it ALL.

[bleys]

Definitely a damn shame.. am still trying to collect myself after that loss. Am telling all fans of other teams to leave me the fug alone.. (funny how they talk poo when their team is sitting home. Until then, QUIT TALKING poo!) lol

anyhow, "there's always next year! (throws up a bit)"

[Kevin Greene]

Our defense didnt really get us many wins at all. Maybe the Oakland game. our offense won most of the games for us, especially after our bye week.

Yep, without the O in the second half we'd be 9-7.

Gotta fix the D, first move TRGO goes. If Fox wown't do it, he goes with him.

[spartan_pantherfan]

Turdo and fox BOTH need to go, it does not get more simple then that.

nothing will change unless fox goes.

the whole we want to go 3-1 in every quarter of the season has to go.

[shinner]

It got us 12 wins.

unfortunately we needed 15 wins this year.....

[OneBadassCat]

The defense has totally shifted. The first half of the season they were very very good though they still lacked pressure. The mentality changed and schemes didn't change and it ultimately cost us. It seems like a year ago when Harris was causing all those fumbles(which he was) but then it just stopped. I remember when he said he felt like our defense was better than the bears. I wonder what he has to say about that now. We have good players in a bad scheme trying to make plays and that has to change with fox's stubbornness and and it has to change by kicking Turgo out.

[fitty76]

twelve wins was nice!!! but damn..woulda been nice if they would shown some respect to Fitz.

I reminded me of the lack of respect the Bears showed Steve in 2005. Same result.

[unicar15]

I was all for Fox sticking around another year but now I'm becoming torn. I love the team that we have assembled under the Fox/Hurney tenure but the amount of times that Fitz torched us last night was seemingly unforgivable. Richardson has some tough decisions to make and I hope that the management isn't too stubborn to make the tough decisions...

[JR PANTHER]

What do we need as Carolina Panther fans? 1. We need to wake up this Thursday and see the entire coaching staff fired. I say this because in the NFC SOUTH and our current coaching staff, do you see us finishing ahead of Atlanta, Tampa, or New Orleans next year.{We cannot take the up and down seasons like years past} 2. We need a QB either by drafting or a free agent. Wow number #89 is covered, in fact he has two or three people around him lets see if I can throw it up and he will make me look good. Can we say look at your second and third options AKA tight ends #87 or even a back. {With this QB and this coaching staff we will have an old #89 and a retired#87 with great aging running backs} Bottom line get a QB and have him signed before training camp. Ownership don't waste this talent open up your wallet and get a Coach with new schemes on both sides of the ball. 3. I was on a blog earlier today and this question came at me. Why do you replace John Fox and his staff? I said unlike the current Carolina Panther game plan lets try something new. This staff was on the hot seat this year to make the playoffs. We made it now what. Can you imagine the coaches that would line up for this job, lets see Mr. Mike Shanahan or the favorite B C and I am not talking about the headache powder. {write a big check and get one these guys in ASAP} Current coaching staff vs the entire NFL next year. Stack the box make Jake beat us. Oh the NFC SOUTH teams well they know the plays by heart, excluding a few dynamic plays from #89 and#34 and the Rookie#28. Look at the Carolina Hurricanes they have the STANLEY CUP. I am holding Raleigh down, see you at training camp or Fan Fest. GO PANTHERS

[CosmoGirl]

Fox should be banned from offensive play-calling period. Turd needs to go period.

[Fright]

lol. His press conference today was great. He first tries to dodge the question if he ever planned to designate a player to Fitz, which he says "We did by design, we even had two guys on him sometimes." Then the reporter has to reword it asking if they plan to designate a specific CB to match up vs Fitz, which he goes on to say, "We haven't done that all year and we didn't do it the first time we played them."

Well Fox, the first time you played them, you probably should have lost. These other teams like you have said, do practice too, and do watch film of you. So why wasn't anything changed?

[AKPantherFan]

From Yahoo Sports.

For reasons that may be debated here forever, Carolina coach John Fox put together one of the strangest defensive game plans imaginable. More specifically, he put together the exact same defensive game plan he always does. Even with Boldin out, the Panthers appeared to pay no extra attention to the one Cardinal who could really hurt them – Fitzgerald.

He rarely was bumped at the line or covered tightly in man-to-man. He mostly faced something that looked kind of like a soft two-man zone. It was like they were daring Warner and Fitzgerald to beat them, gambling the young man wasn’t capable of running into the seams or the old man of finding him.

They got torched for it. Warner threw for 220 yards, 166 of them going to Fitzgerald. Of those, 151 (and a touchdown) came in the decisive first half.

“It seemed like he had the ball a lot,” Fox said of Fitzgerald.

“They don’t really change their schemes. … That’s John Fox’s motto,” Fitzgerald said.

But maybe more telling was this on Coach Whisenhut.

It was predictable enough that Whisenhunt put in a new play for Fitzgerald at Friday’s walk-through. It went for 41 yards and set up the Cardinals’ second touchdown. Soon after, the game effectively was over.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ArIDE17WXIiKpI_7lwnzkeQ5nYcB?slug=dw-cardswin011009&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

After reading that there HAS to be a change.

We are the laughing stock of the NFL.

The only thing John Fox has been consistent at is being inconsistent.

:rant:

[Raskle]

It'll be a fuging shame if Smitty never hoists a lombardi... all that talent, and absolutely no chance to get past the ignorance of a stubborn coaching staff or the lob it up and pray you come down with it of an ineffectual quarterback.

Cue the Fox cheerleaders now... I'm sure they'll want to defend everything he does.

[shinner]

We are the laughing stock of the NFL.

over a winless Lions team? Nah...we were embarrassed for sure but there are a lot of teams that would have loved to have our regular season.