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There isn’t a single player, coach, or front office executive who should be a part of the team next season. This is one of the worst assemblies of a team in the history of the NFL

Maybe he just sucks

David Tepper playing 4D chess with the fanbase pumping out cash to have some favorable spin on Bryce at the expense of the offensive scheme lol

Last season, the Panthers were 10th in the league in rushing yards, 12th in YPC, and tied for 12th in rushing TDs. They brought back the same offensive line and two of the same running backs. This season they are 30th in rushing yards, 27th in YPC, and 31st in the NFL with a whopping 2 rushing TDs. Frank Reich and his staff are garbage and should be fired immediately. They didn’t adjust the scheme to the players, they adopted a pass first attack with a rookie QB who can’t throw over defenders and struggles with decision making.

We truly don’t know the extent David Tepper is meddling with the coaching staff. Whose decision was it to give playcalling to Thomas Brown? I really really hope he isn’t making X’s and O’s Decisions but he’s choosing QBs apparently so who knows

tl;dr - the panthers are dumb

When the ignorant fans ask “how do you know Tepper is meddling” this is what I show them

I can’t believe it’s even being suggested. You think we’re at rock bottom now? Wait until the trail of disaster McDaniels would leave

Gotta get Nicole down on the line showing some hole to get those boys back on track

I'd be so nervous if I did that because while yes the Panthers suck balls, you never know when a team will randomly play their best game of the season. The Cowboys lost to the Cardinals who were actively trying to lose at the time. Granted that was when they had Josh Dobbs who is a bit of a revelation at QB, but still. I think the Panthers lose but it's a way closer game than everyone expects just because of the parity of the NFL.

Lots of former panthers coaches to critique here. Dorsey ran the offense as well as Daboll. Sometimes the ball just doesn’t bounce your way and Josh Allen is an inefficient QB. Probably won’t end well in Buffalo

The game just passed him by. Being a good dude means you’re more likely to attract good people around you which is what Frank has clearly done throughout his coaching career. Problem is the Panthers built a staff of guys who don’t mesh together. The results have been….well we all already know

Frank is harder to hate than Matt Rhule which frustrates me. I didn’t get the impression Matt Rhule gave a sh*t and he was so wildly unqualified for the job and ridiculously overpaid that he was a target of vitriol. Frank seems like a decent man, same as Ron Rivera, so it’s harder to just outright hate them. He sucks as a coach though that much is clear and the offense which was supposed to be his specialty is the worst in the NFL. Another massive swing and a miss for David “I know better than you because I’m a billionaire” Tepper

They could hand over playcalling to a 6th grader using Ask Madden and it would probably work better.

At least Bill O'Brien was a successful head coach to a degree. And he's holding that turd Mac Jones accountable for sucking ass. But as a dude he seems like a butthole so I'm not really into hiring him in any capacity.

You can't fire Reich during his first season unless some scandal came out. The Jags got lucky with Urban Meyer being a scumbag. Reich is squeaky clean as a person unfortunately for the fans so he'll be lasting until at least the end of the season. And honestly he deserves at least the rest of the season to right the ship. There are still 8 games left to play and a lot can change. I'm not expecting a single thing to change, but the possibility exists and there's no way to make any real lasting changes until the season is over anyway. So what's the point? To me, if the Panthers are the worst team in the NFL at the end of the season, you have to clean house. Who cares if they're in year 1 or year 10, or two years removed from a Superbowl win. I've always been a firm believer that the worst team in the NFL should always fire their entire staff. You were the worst team, how can you keep your job? It's the literal definition of being a failure. But again a lot can change. If the Panthers show some progress, I think Reich might be able to keep his job. Not looking good though.

I mean if the Panthers are hoping to have the interim head coach have better results than the regular head coach for a second straight season I think it might be time to just burn the stadium down because nothing good is going on there

I was about to come here and say this. Football is a funny sport. As bad as you can look one week, the next a team can look radically different. I’ve been waiting for this Panthers team to wake up and have a blowout win where everything clicks but the more I see from the offense it’s clear that day is not coming. Best I could see is a defensive battle where the Panthers keep it close on some flukey plays where the ball bounces their way. No way in hell the Cowboys lose an extra home game though.

Some people probably bought tickets during the off-season and would have to sell at a loss for every other game than the cowboys game left on the schedule. So they might just go and get the nfl game day experience than losing money on their tickets. Anyone buying non last minute tickets for panthers games these days under Tepper is just making a horrible financial decision.

The “no salary cap on coaches” comment lends me to believe he certainly believes that he can buy NFL assets as if they were stocks. It’s a fundamental flaw in his ability to build a successful NFL franchise. Sometimes the “best” assets won’t be the ones the numbers tell you they are, or the best that money can buy. The best asset is the one that is right for your team. The Panthers as a whole need to start by figuring out who they want to be as people, what identity the team will have, and finding those players. It went from Matt Rhule’s “brand”, whatever that meant, to god only knows under Frank Reich. One thing is clear is the only coach I saw with an identity the players responded to was Steve Wilks. For all his flaws he got more out of the players he had than anyone else Tepper has brought through the door. Soft skills are not in his wheelhouse and it’s painfully obvious every game day.

Tepper underestimated the fact that building a football isn’t the same as building a hedge fund. There’s a massive intangible human element to football that he clearly did not understand. If we play his game and look at players and coaches as if they were individual stock holdings, we would assign a “price” each player is worth at any given moment like a stock, an intrinsic value. The problem with that model is, how do you quantify those values? Each one is so massively volatile because of the human element involved that you can’t use data or algorithms to predict their value or performance on any given day. It is truly impossible to build a winning football team this way. These are real human beings, not money moving around on a speculative market. The soft skills build better football teams, and to his credit, Jerry Richardson did understand that. It’s a damn shame it’s taking Tepper this long to realize that, if he ever does.

The scene at the stadium on Sunday will be one of the ugliest in Panthers history. You want to see rock bottom? The stadium will be 80-90% Cowboys fans, beating the living f*ck out of the Panthers who are on David Tepper’s railroad line I aptly call the Retardville Express

The offensive scheme is so bad that I’m surprised Frank was able to even get this job. It shows how unqualified Tepper is to be involved in the decisions. Pair that awful outdated scheme with drafting an undersized QB with limited physical abilities and you have the worst team in football and maybe franchise history. Man, it’s bleak right now.

The issue is that Tepper fancies himself some kind of savant which is why he thought he could come in and create a winning football team. He tore down the entire culture and infrastructure the Panthers had built under Richardson and replaced it with…..a miserable losing culture. So despite your point that Tepper will never have “it” when it comes to football, he continues to believe he can learn.

I don’t think the team would be 1-8 if he hired Kellen Moore I’ll say that