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I still like Robby, as unpopular as it may be here, but he's got to man up and see it from a fam's perspective. All the money & time my family and I have invested in the Panthers since 1993--hell, my son just gave me an 89, 1 and "that bear" bobblehead for Christmas--Robby has to look at the other side. I have a right to boo and be critical of anything and anybody that I want as it pertains to the Panthers. I've been a Panthers fan longer than he has been a player, longer than Rhule has been the coach, and longer than Tepper has been the owner. Own better, coach better and play better, and the boo birds will sing a different tune!

Christensen should get better with more experience, and with having better players next to him. That's the way this usually works, but the Rhule Effect may stunt his growth and potential.

That's the Rhule effect.

Yep, I apologize to Star and his seeming nonchalant demeanor.

Tepper won't fire him if we have a winning record. I just don't believe it. Meanwhile, we've gotten to the point where just being competitive would seem like a massive breakthrough.

He's not even as good as Star, and has never been.

If rebuilding a team "takes time", why did you carry on like we're in win-now mode and not just take our lumps with the QB situation, as opposed to spending good money and draft capital on middling to bad QBs? Why pass up on Justin Fields for Sam Darnold? It takes time to make things worse--dig an even bigger hole--and then try and fix it during your third draft without making the whole even deeper also. Time isn't infinite, and there is nothing magical about seven years.

Kevin Patra of NFL.com has begun to paint the picture here in Carolina. This can't make Tepper happy. "The Panthers are a mess that Rhule can't seem to clean up. Every button he's pushed this year has sunk Carolina deeper into the waste." https://www.nfl.com/news/matt-rhule-panthers-fans-booing-team-loss-buccaneers Granted, the preponderance of the article is a collection of the "colorful" quotes from Rhule's presser--minus the JayZ reference--but it still sounds like the drivel of a lost man that, at the very best, is drunk on his own Kool-Aid and, at worst, under the influence of something else, or a coach that is out of his league. At least he apologized. One thing is for sure now, we know that Tepper has to know. What he does about it will likely have some repercussions on fan attendance and interest in the 2022 season.

Ha Ha. I thought of the Emperor Has No Clothes in relation to Tepper and Rhule last week. No sh¡t!

MLB and safety.

First off, it's much too soon to be calling the Henderson trade a bad one. Darnold's was the dumb one that became just stupid when they exercised the 5th year option. And secondly, I don't see 18 mil to Sam as a deterrence to signing another QB. Now you may be right about him being under center, but that's because of Rhule's arrogance and incompetence, not because we are just hog-tied financially.

The owner of Fanatics offered the most money. Not that it matters.

It was reminiscent of the Giants loss. It's unacceptable...when you have a legit NFL-level squad running on even half its cylinders. We don't have that. Our offense is a joke. Our defense gets more suspect with each passing week.

It's not the team, it's Matt Rhule and his dumb decisions, including being irresponsible with draft capital and real capital, inability to scout a decent O-line, inability to scout a decent QB, pushing all his chips in prematurely, unbridled arrogance in regards to his "program" and how it needs to be adjusted in the NFL, inability and/or refusal to put personnel in the best position to succeed, inability to make game-time adjustments, and (much like Rivera) sticking with veterans too long or to a degree that talented young players waste away on the sidelines or inactive on game days to the team's detriment.

He could have let Cam play in the last series, sentimentality or not, for all the good it did for Darnold to play. And Fu<k Matt Rhule!

He said Cooper Kupp was the best receiver in the 2017 draft, and he was right.

Yeah, I thought about that too. He's a sh¡tty leader.

Rhule is about as clueless a head coach as has ever been in BOA stadium. Cam, as up and down as he's been post-injury, will be remembered fondly by Panthers fans after all is said and done. Rhule will not.

He's OK, but still a little sketchy--not someone I can trust yet, but perhaps moving in that direction.

There's still hope for a Miracle on Mint St.

I never thought that as a Panthers fan that I'd be embarrassed to be a Panthers fan. This is what David Tepper and Matt Rhule have brought me too. I mean, I used to be able to wear my gear proudly--yeah I still wear it, will wear some tonight at a party--but the other day, as I was taking care of my wife's Christmas gift at the jewelry store, the guy said, "So, you're a Panthers fan." I responded, "Yeah, I know, they suck." That's the depth of conversation now with strangers because I'm reticent of being clowned.

You'll watch in September, but will you be watching in November? Probably.

Until Tepper says something, we don't know anything. We'll likely have to wait to see how this thing plays out. Duh!

See the OP and the third comment.

At least someone asked him about his job status. Even if the low-key smug fat M-f-er is safe for another season, at least someone put his job security on his mind