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Watching the defense the past few weeks….there is ZERO reason to keep Wilks.

Chinn needs to be moved back to LB

Corral isn’t even as athletic as Zach Wilson. Wilson was just a bad prospect. Very overhyped due to the pre draft process and some big throws he made against sh*t opponents in college. I thought his ceiling was Mitch Trubisky but he’s even worse than that. Jury is still out on most of these guys but I feel like I was close on my assessments of the 2021 class!

I mean sure there was vitriol towards Rivera the coach and lots of it was valid. But as a man, Rivera has always been class. Can’t say the same for Rhule.

Yea I think you’d be hard pressed to find a single Panthers fan who has ill feelings towards Ron Rivera. He is a quality human being who is just a frustratingly stubborn head coach. Matt Rhule on the other hand, yowza. If he just kept his mouth shut I think most Panthers fans would have just moved on. But holy hell on a stick, Matt has some wild cognitive dissonance going on. His media tour highlighted a narcissist toad who genuinely believes his own hype. He hasn’t uttered a shred of accountability or humbleness despite his incredible failure on the Panthers, which means he didn’t learn anything from his experience. He will continue to make the same mistakes he has made at all of his previous jobs and eventually it’ll catch up to him.

I have a feeling a young Matt Rhule has chased an ice cream truck or 6

He was? What was his college record against teams ranked in the top 25?

I mean I kind of agree except for that atrocious media tour he went on where he gaslit the entire fanbase and said if he could do one thing differently he wouldn’t take the job. Guy just sucks at his core but whatever I’m glad he’s gone too

Matt Rhule has been posting up a storm on Twitter lately. The comments sections are a lot of fun. I recommend reading through some of them! Panthers fans have been roasting him and Nebraska fans, who seem to have fully gotten behind their new coach despite the trail of disaster he left in Charlotte, have been coming to his defense. No, Rhule did nothing wrong on the Panthers, per these hilariously naive Nebraska fans. It is the Panthers who are trash. Despite the fact the previous two head coaches before Matt Rhule had winning records, and took the team to the Super Bowl, Matt Rhule is not to blame. He is a golden god, and the Panthers are the sorry people. I guess these corn-fed bumpkins are so desperate for any kind of success they are willing to overlook the fact Matt Rhule’s Baylor teams never beat a ranked team in his time as head coach. The record wasn’t any better at Temple. Oh well, I’ve got my popcorn ready for when he screws up Nebraska even more and they ultimately turn on him. His schtick is kind of endearing if he was a good coach. It’s infuriating when he sucks.

I like Steve Wilks but I really don’t care which coach the players want. Most of them won’t be here in 3 years let alone next year.

It’s a no brainer IMO. But, will depend on the next coaching staff obviously.

Just getting the team back to competing every 2-3 seasons would be an improvement

All Wilks has done is return the Panthers to Ron Rivera era competency, which is in my opinion the absolute bare minimum amount of acceptability to be an NFL head coach. Wilks isn’t an unqualified embarrassment like Matt Rhule. And the fact that Wilks has accomplished what he has with a limited roster and remnants of Rhule’s coaching staff is the biggest reason to support him. But I don’t support merely going back to Ron Rivera era football. The QB situation is a mess and there’s not a prospect like Cam Newton that can come in and run a read-option offense right away. The team needs a QB developer at head coach. Shane Steichen is at the top of my list. Frank Reich definitely needs to get an interview. I wouldn’t completely count Wilks out, but I think we’re selling ourselves short by keeping him as well.

I have also heard from multiple sources he's playing hurt this year. I'm not sure putting Cameron Erving in his spot would be any better.

Would you say the roster was in better shape in 2001 and 2010? There were almost the same amount of assets on the roster in 2019 as there is now! The defense is marginally more talented but it's really the same!

Wilks merely returned the team to a minimum level of NFL competency whereas before the Panthers were below the NFL standard with an unqualified and overmatched college head coach. That to me is not good enough to warrant getting the job. I still think Wilks should get an interview but they have to consider other candidates and make an informed decision. After yesterdays horrendous defensive performance, I’m not thrilled to keep Wilks.

Trending trash, maybe. But it’s not like John Fox and Ron Rivera inherited ideal situations either. Fox inherited a 1-15 team and Rivera inherited a 2-14 team. Rhule by contrast inherited a team that was 2 seasons removed from a playoff appearance.

I do disagree with how bad the team was when he bought it. He bought a 11-5 wildcard playoff team. The main f*ck up has been the QB and head coach, which are obviously the most important positions on the team. But saying the Panthers were trash when he bought them is incorrect.

Nobody overrates mediocre Panthers players like Panthers fans

He’s not worth 2 1st round picks and a 2nd round pick from a team that probably will be picking top 10 the next few seasons

Away record is 12-27 since 2018. Panthers are f*cking garbage since Tepper took over.

Protect the Bank? More like Sell the Bank. Is it any wonder why Bank of America stadium routinely fills up with opposing teams fans? Since David Tepper purchased the Panthers, the team has been atrocious at home. 15-25 since 2018, and an even more mind numbing 10-22 since 2019. The Panthers are an embarrassment to the Carolinas right now. David Tepper was the worst possible thing to happen to the team. The Panthers just cemented their 5th straight losing record under his ownership. So much for that promise of “sustained success”. He kept one half of that promise, sustained. Sustained LOSING. Sometimes a new owner completely turns a team around. Like the Patriots and Bob Kraft. Before Kraft, the Patriots were a clown team that couldn’t give tickets away in the early 90s. They were moments away from moving the team to St. Louis. But, Kraft turned the team into one of the best franchises in NFL history. The opposite is true of David Tepper. He took a relatively competitive Panthers team and turned them into a perpetual bottom feeder. He hired a wildly unqualified college coach to a ridiculous contract, fired him after 2.25 seasons because he was obviously a joke, and now the team is a mess that might take years to clean up. And while opposing fans filling up Bank of America stadium has always been a staple of the Panthers franchise, it seems to have gotten worse under Tepper’s ownership. Tepper likely took the fact that Charlotte is a transplant city into account when he bought the team. It allows him to keep a steady profit coming in from opposing team fans despite the fact the team had an abysmal home record under his ownership and Panthers fans are finding better things to do with their Sundays than come watch the Panthers lose. If Tepper whiffs on the next head coach, which is pretty likely given his track record of failure as an NFL owner, the Panthers will cement their place as an NFL punching bag where opposing fans can enjoy a home game away from home.

At the end of the day we all want to root for a winning team. We haven’t been able to do that in 5 years. So there’s a ton of negativity regardless of what strategy you want this team to take. In the end, it doesn’t matter. The Panthers are cursed to be losers until long after we’re all dead and the NFL goes the way of the dodo bird. It’s probably best we all just abandon this miserable hobby and try to make the world a better place.

Not with a meddling douche bag like David Tepper standing over your shoulder

I blame Sir Purr