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It's too late. The decisions they've made are so bad that I'd be shocked if any semblance of competence surfaced. The team has degraded from a flawed but talented roster lacking a franchise QB to one that has no identity, no star players, and an owner best known for firing coaches mid season on the regular and throwing drinks at opposing fans. The best thing he could do is hire professional football people to run the ship and completely disappear.

It was infinitely more retarded because they were drafting a rookie QB. How does keeping Brian Burns, a tweener part time pass rusher they could have gotten 2 first round draft picks for, benefit a rookie QB? Scott Fitterer and the entire Panthers organization are certified retards. I don't usually use that word and it applies here. Their ability to construct a functional NFL football team is retarded compared to the rest of the NFL.

The scouting department needs to be completely gutted. Hopefully the new GM can build a competent one that doesn't involve David Tepper at all.

They could have drafted Stetson Bennett who is essentially the same QB as Bryce only a few years older and been just as bad this season but had DJ Moore and the #1 overall pick. Bryce is god awful and shouldn’t be the only starting option next season.

Fitterer should have been fired the day he turned down that trade from the Rams. It was that day we knew he was brain dead

Phew. The worst GM in team history is gone.

The guaranteed money will be a big draw. David Tepper is still paying gobs of money to Matt Rhule and Frank Reich. Come work for a short time, so a horrible job, and keep getting paid. If anything it’s going to attract guys who want to f*ck off and get fired.

I feel the same way. The team we once loved is gone. It’s owned by a pot bellied dipshit and I hope he leaves Charlotte without a football team in his ownership ASAP.

It’s really the lack of the first overall pick next year that makes it the worst. On field performance and win loss record was comparable to 2001 and 2010, but the future is definitely bleaker now.

but was his restaurant a serious business venture or a money laundering cover which I often wonder when professional athletes and wealthy people want to open something dumb like a coal pizza restaurant

Special teams was probably the panthers best unit

That’s absolutely not true. The main reason this team failed is Bryce young is absolutely f*cking awful.

You’re deluded as hell if you don’t think this team wouldn’t have won more games with Dalton starting all the games

Yea, they probably could have actually. Dalton is an NFL caliber QB. Did you not notice the one game he played the passing offense seemed to work?

If Bryce Young starts every game next season they could very well be 0-17

I think the minuscule amount of people I see wearing panthers gear these days answers that question

They don’t have a first round pick either. I forgot to add that.

2-15 season. Didn’t score a single point the final two games. Retard owner throwing drinks at opposing fans. No first round pick which would have been first overall. Burn the stadium down it’s over

Agreed. I can’t think of any players on this team aside from Derrick Brown who would have had a spot on that 2015 team. It’s like they are talking about backing up the brinks truck for Brian Burns and I’m like….why? He disappears for games at a time. Scott Fitterer should be ejected into the sun for not taking that deal from the Rams.

I’ve been doing my research on the potential candidates for head coach and I’m fully behind Bobby Slowik. Mike Shanahan was well known for his development of coaches to become head coaches one day and it shows - 4 coaches from his last staff in the NFL, the 2013 Redskins, are head coaches right now. 1 has a Super Bowl ring and I have a feeling his son is getting his very soon. Bobby would probably need an experienced defensive coordinator who might have been a head coach previously, but maybe not. Spending time with the Shanahan’s and showing you can design a successful offense in the NFL might be enough. Maybe Evero would stick around with his staff, who knows. Maybe Tabor stays on as special teams coordinator. Maybe the whole thing gets burned to the ground and Slowik builds his own staff. Either way, I’d be excited by this hire because there isn’t a better coaching tree in the NFL than Mike Shanahan’s.

The real tree to hire a coach from is Mike Shanahan and now by proxy Kyle Shanahan. Mike had a good coaching tree and so does his son because he prioritized growing coaches to become head coaches one day. The 2013 Redskins staff has 4 head coaches in the NFL right now. Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, Matt Lafleur, and Mike McDaniel. You know who was an assistant on that staff? Bobby Slowik.

I can’t believe they took him over Stroud.

Best news I’ve heard regarding the panthers since Tepper bought the team

Tomlin has a much better organization around him than he would on the Panthers. That’s the point. He’s getting the Steelers to .500 every year on one of the best teams in NFL history that prioritizes having a stacked defense. The Panthers under Tepper have no idea what they want to be. So put Tomlin on the Panthers, a team with a trash front office and organization that is constantly turning over, and you can easily surmise that Tomlin would not be success on the Panthers. Side note that Tepper could have just hired Steve Wilks and expected similar results to what Tomlin delivers for the Steelers, but the advantage was Wilks actually proved he could do it in the face of Tepper’s ineptitude.

I miss having good players worth cheering for