Joe Bear

Bounce back by picking yourself up and letting it happen 16 more times.

You'd need to replace 17 starters to get 6 wins.

Regrettably, the chances of that are absolute zero.

He will get put on IR sometime in October. As bad as the quarterbacks are here, the defense is just as awful. One team has the worst QBs, DL, LBs, CBs and safeties even when healthy, and this team collects injuries like penalty yards, missed tackles and turnovers. You might see one reasonably close loss early in the year but from November on, every defeat will be by 3 scores or more.

Yes. Absolutely.

The 2025 Carolina Panthers are also going to go 0-17, but they're going to be a much better 0-17 than the 2024 edition. This team isn't going to lose a single game by less than 17-20 points.

How to move forward: forfeit

63-0.

Trust me, they won't. We used to look back on 11-win seasons fondly. Soon, we'll look back on 5-win seasons fondly. Actually, we already do. Hell, we won't see five wins combined over the rest of the '20s.

I think by the end of the year, 47-10 is gonna be one of the closest final scores. And Bryce is throwing more than two interceptions on Sunday. Probably four. He'll get the hook around Week 7 and there's a distinct possibility he's got 0 TD and 14 INT by then, and a slight chance he ends the season with a QB rating below 30. And I like Bryce -- I wanted him to succeed. But it isn't going to happen. That said, he'd go for 400 yards and 3 TDs against this defense.

63-0 final this week. 73-3 next week.

Can this be renamed "2024 College Football Thread"? I was looking for Week 2 and realized there wasn't one.

Guess The Winning Margin (From 30 to 100)

Yeah I mean, he handled it the way a coach should handle it, not the way angry message-board fans want it handled. No one here is involved in the inner workings of this team and any guesses as to what's said behind closed doors are just that: guesses attempted to be passed off as fact, i.e. confirmation bias. People don't need to a coach's press conference to be told the QB and the defense are historically bad.

And this'll end up being one of the three or four closest games this season...

A 65 is one of your best grades. For most teams, that's one of the worst.

You're delusional if you think a coach in his first game is going to say "well Bryce sucks, he cost us the game himself, he's 5-foot-2 and he throws like a girl." That's never going to happen. There's a level of respect in the NFL coaching ranks, and really at any level in sports, where coaches aren't going to give fans the pound of flesh they demand after one horrible game. It's unrealistic.

Unless the Panthers forfeit, Mahomes will get his 250 yards and four TDs and take the last 3 quarters off.

I'm far more invested in the NCAA than the NFL. That's not going to change.

I'll put a pin in this discussion by saying that I really hope the team considers forfeiting a few games this season, including the next one. They definitely need to forfeit against Kansas City and spare Charlotte the ignominy of the NFL's first 90-point loss. The Chargers and Bucs are hanging 70 on their own, too.

When you have the worst 45-man active lineup every week, no coach can win with that. He can't scheme talent. You have the worst QBs, worst DL, worst LBs and worst DBs no matter who is on the other side of the field. In all 16 games remaining, the 10 best players on the field at any point will not be wearing Panthers jerseys.

For those hoping Canales gets fired: what coach do you think could go 1-16 with this roster? Vince Lombardi ain't walking through that door.

the last QB to lose at home to the Carolina Panthers: Andy Dalton

The Bengals are gonna win 73-0.

They're only going to get better after some 49-0, 56-0, 63-3, 62-7 and 63-6 losses before that 98-point beatdown.