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DJ dropping balls just shows where the players heads are at. No fire being lit under them by the coaching staff. No accountability.

Leading the league in penalties. Poor special teams. Poor defensive gap integrity. Terrible situational play calling. Losing to teams far inferior in talent. I’m over it.

I’ve got a really bad feeling about this game

Can’t help but wonder how much that concussion has impacted his development. Darnold lead him into a skull rattling hit.

Dolphins 27 Panthers 23 Panthers dominate the first half jumping out to a 17-7 lead at halftime. Dolphins have a huge second half and pull away late with the Panthers only scoring 6 points off FGs in the second half.

I’m pretty sure we’re losing today. The Dolphins aren’t as bad as their record. The Panthers IMO are worse than their record

Defensive gap integrity is one of the biggest issues on the defense. Snow’s college formations use these stunts and tricks to fill gaps. If you can’t beat your man one on one and the opponents just body guys up one on one it’s a disaster for run defense

All I’m gonna say is it has 5 different types of cheese and includes bacon

Today I am brining our 15lb bird. Brand new roasting pan to bake that bad boy tomorrow. My scalloped potatoes are legendary in my family. Along with my scratch made green bean casserole. I even fry my own onion strips. Sweet potato casserole and pecan pie made by my wife. Other trimmings and fixings I don’t know about yet. My favorite holiday!

When you lose to Washington it’s always depressing

It’s the gap integrity that fails in Phil Snow’s scheme when teams have an offensive line that can block guys man on man and win. In a Rivera style defense at least in the earlier days with Star and KK, you could stop the run with gap integrity and good linebacker play because of the more traditional alignments, even against a good offensive line that bodied them up. Now the Phil Snow defense relies more on gimmicks, weird alignments, and stunts to put guys in position to make a play in the run game and to fill the gaps. It leaves big wide open holes for 10 yard games when your d-line doesn’t outright win at the point of attack and puts an offensive lineman on a linebacker a lot of the time. Snow’s defense has worked great at stopping some zone run teams, and teams with inferior offensive linemen that could be beat one on one. Against teams that run the ball well with straight man on man blocking like Dallas or Minnesota the results were absolutely horrendous. Washington and New England had a similar strategy to great success. The blueprint is out there, but luckily not all teams have the offensive lineman to pull it off. The Panthers D-line will win against some teams.

Oooo wee Derrick Brown is not working out now is he

They said they saw Darnold as a "rookie" so maybe that is true, and I mean I get the gamble to trade for Darnold since it worked out with Tannehill getting away from Adam Gase. Problem is Tannehill showed a lot more promise on the Dolphins than Darnold ever showed on the Jets. And if you're going to get a pure boom or bust prospect like Darnold you have to hedge your bet with a veteran QB like an Andy Dalton orRyan Fitzpatrick, or just draft a rookie QB.

dude even bringing back Cam is kind of depressing. I love Cam and I'm glad we get to se him play for the Panthers again, but the steps it took to get to the point of bringing him back are so depressing that it's hard to keep up that excitement unless the team magically turns around and makes the playoffs

Their failure to roll the dice on a rookie QB makes me wonder if Joe Brady was the one that was hesitant to work with a rookie. Maybe his lack of experience made him want to work with a QB that already had some experience. I don't know. But it doesn't make any sense. Especially in the 2021 draft when you had two QB prospects that were worthy of the pick.

The biggest problem with the Panthers the last 2+ years is the mismanagement of the QB position plain and simple. I'm not sure if that boils down to Tepper or the current coaching staff but the failure is on both. A franchise QB allows you to compete even with a sub par roster or coaching staff, and it opens the draft up to pick the best player on the board. But until you find that franchise QB, you have to keep throwing sh*t at the wall until something sticks. The Panthers were not doing a good job of that. Signing a guy like Teddy Bridgewater was a move that should have been paired with drafting a QB even if it was in the late rounds. Bridgewater was a failure but they didn't learn from their mistake and traded for another bad QB in Sam Darnold and passed on a few viable QB prospects in Justin Fields and Mac Jones. The most mind numbing decision was drafting a cornerback in the top 10 which is a luxury position to pick that high in the draft for a team searching for a franchise QB. So I can't tell you where the failure lies exactly but there's plenty of blame to go around for the failures at QB. That have all lead to bringing Cam back to save their jobs and keep the fanbase from eviscerating them for their ineptitude and stupidity.

Do we know that for sure? I always assumed Tepper went and got Joe Brady but maybe I'm wrong.

At this point what is the harm in firing Brady and letting Sean Ryan run the offense? Cam has spoken highly of him so far. Cam knows a bunch of plays he's run over the years. Build the offense on the brains of Cam and Sean Ryan.

you think it'll be that long?

We continue to have young team problems. But remember in 2011 and 2012 we were having growing pains and Rivera was getting out coached as well. I remember seeing some frustrating losses in 2012 that were very similar to what we're seeing this season too. They didn't really put it all together until 2013. Only issue is that young team had a very young Cam Newton and Luke Kuechly. This team has....I mean you can't even compare the two. This team doesn't have the same kind of potential with the QB situation the way it is.

I'm just not sure Rhule has the respect of the players. Rivera had a ton of respect in the locker room and from every player on the team. Former player, extremely well liked by almost everyone who has ever worked with him. Rhule is just a rah rah dude who I think has climbed the mountain faster than maybe he should have jumping to the NFL. Same with Joe Brady. The coaching staff is just inexperienced. I thought Rhule should have brought in a seasoned NFL caliber coordinator on one side of the ball, probably offense, to develop a young QB.

He's certainly not making an impact on the stat sheet. I'd have to really dig into the game footage but is he demanding double teams? Opening up space for others to make plays? Freeing up Shaq to make tackles? Other than that he certainly isn't doing any pass rushing or run stopping from what I can see. It's a shame KK's tank ran out last year.

I saw that. Rivera knows he's a choker and didn't want the stadium to laugh at him again.

lol dude you kicked a couple short FGs and some extra points. you did your job whoop dee doo. you didn't do anything special to earn the right to be trolling.

Tough to expect a 3rd round rookie to start right away but I think he will end up being a starter next year. Also keep in mind that Cam was 100x more decisive with the ball than Darnold and will make all of the offensive linemen look better.