I miss the old days

[MGH1989]

I’m not even talking about teams that’s competed for Super Bowls. A good chunk of the 2000’s - 2010’s this organization, even when bad, still usually won 7-8 games a year. They were competitive, generally well coached (but perhaps vanilla at times), had a couple of blue chip players, and competed for the playoffs every couple of years. 
 

The promise of becoming the “Steelers” has really been being consistently worse than we ever have been. 
 

I don’t have a point. I’m venting. Feel free to respond.

[jimfear]

I miss having hope. Outside of 2015 the Panthers have never been a dominant team, but as OP said, we were decent and challenged for a playoff spot every couple of years. I just don't see any way out of the situation we're in. No coach or GM in his right mind wants to work for Tepper, so we're left with unqualified guys like Canales and Morgan. I have zero faith that things will get better and I really hate that I feel that way.

[Moonraker]

In a league that is friendlier than ever to offense it's amazing how insanely boring this team is to watch. I'm seriously ***** pissed at myself 90% of the time for tuning in

[CRA]

I would rather lose with PJ Walker or Tommy Jone Delhomme.   

there is no excitement to Bryce Young’s passing. Never will be.  Best aspect to his game is his small scramble ability…..which is only nice until a defender gets close because he has to go down given he is built like a middle school kid.  So even that is capped. 

I just want to be entertained and believe a punchers chance is always there 

[TN05]

9 minutes ago, MGH1989 said:

I’m not even talking about teams that’s competed for Super Bowls. A good chunk of the 2000’s - 2010’s this organization, even when bad, still usually won 7-8 games a year. They were competitive, generally well coached (but perhaps vanilla at times), had a couple of blue chip players, and competed for the playoffs every couple of years. 
 

The promise of becoming the “Steelers” has really been being consistently worse than we ever have been. 
 

I don’t have a point. I’m venting. Feel free to respond.

From 2002 to 2017 we genuinely had one of the winningest records in the league, even without "back to back winning seasons" (I'll take three divisional championships and four playoff appearances in five years over that, thanks). We were rarely awful and almost always had a solid core to build on.

Since Tepper we have been consistently awful. 

Edited 4 hours ago by TN05

[MGH1989]

2 minutes ago, CRA said:

I would rather lose with PJ Walker or Tommy Jone Delhomme.   

there is no excitement to Bryce Young’s passing. Never will be.  Best aspect to his game is his small scramble ability…..which is only nice until a defender gets close because he has to go down given he is built like a middle school kid.  So even that is capped. 

I just want to be entertained and believe a punchers chance is always there 

My post isn’t really trying to make a Bryce point. People are certainly allowed to have their opinions on whether he is the guy or not. I still personally believe and see flashes. I get if people don’t.

My overall frustration is that generally teams that stay bad are bad from the top down. Teams that are good are generally well run top down. 
 

I don’t think every member of this organization is an incompetent buffoon, but it’s truly hard to have optimism when the guy running the show hasn’t shown that we can field an average product.
 

 

[Carolina Cajun]

we could have been vanilla and competitive...his name was steve wilks and now we just get to be exceptionally bad.

[Waldo]

The offense is a QB away from the potential of being decent. The D is a hellscape from the scheme down to the dud they brought in to run it and further down to the players that dud envisioned playing in it. 

The coaching is subpar to outright historically bad. The management is tone deaf and way more miss than hit. That's how you stay a bottom dweller and anyone selling a master plan with these people is setting themselves up for many visits to a shrink to help them handle their disconnect from reality. 

[Gapanthersfan]

9 minutes ago, TN05 said:

From 2002 to 2017 we genuinely had one of the winningest records in the league, even without "back to back winning seasons" (I'll take three divisional championships and four playoff appearances in five years over that, thanks). We were rarely awful and almost always had a solid core to build on.

Since Tepper we have been consistently awful. 

Truth. Even in losing, it was a respectable effort. The defense always set the tone. Fox and Rivera were very similar that way.

Nobody ran on this defense like EVERYBODY does now. Those teams, if nothing else, would stop the run. 

This new ish is just demoralizing. 

[Waldo]

4 minutes ago, Carolina Cajun said:

we could have been vanilla and competitive...his name was steve wilks and now we just get to be exceptionally bad.

He isn't even coaching in the league anymore. They won games but the D regressed and the O did too towards the end. 

I'm more upset by all the possible coaches that didn't want to work here due to Tepper and/or the situation. The last coaching search was awful but that was always tied to the mess these duds signed up for so it's understandable. 

[Gapanthersfan]

6 minutes ago, Carolina Cajun said:

we could have been vanilla and competitive...his name was steve wilks and now we just get to be exceptionally bad.

All. Day. Long. 

I’ll say it again. Wilks was the PERFECT ‘bridge’ prove it 1 year deal, coach. It jell’ed so well. Let him bring back dignity….  but we can’t have nice things. 

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Give me late career Jake Delhomme stepping into sacks and throwing INTs into triple coverage all day over this bullshit.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

1 hour ago, Gapanthersfan said:

All. Day. Long. 

I’ll say it again. Wilks was the PERFECT ‘bridge’ prove it 1 year deal, coach. It jell’ed so well. Let him bring back dignity….  but we can’t have nice things. 

Taking it to the Lions in the coldest game in the history of BOA was the literal high point of the Tepper era.  We had an identity, and it was that we're going to line up and run the ball down your throat.  It was nothing fancy but the team clearly loved Steve Wilks and played hard for him.

[LegioX]

Member when Vinney Testaverde came in and played QB for the Panthers and won us a game after being with the team for only 5 days? I member.