CPantherKing

It's the management which would be the Teppers and their analysts. Keep Pounding scouting culture as a core element was gutted going into 2019 to a support role. The prime years of the 2011 rebuild was wasted by failing to develop the core leadership and culture of the team. The championship players were ridden with few long term leaders added (also poor core player career projections like Smitty, Gross, Cam, Kuechly, CMC). 2017 was the big blow with the loss of McDermott and Beane in an apparent front office implosion. Hurney managed a respectable save for 2017 leading to the Panthers last playoff game. Then came the Teppers following the 2018 draft and you could see the culture shift in the organization going through that season. Hurney & Rivera were cut-off from football control in the 2019 offseason and visibly battled Tepper's data analyst hires to make football moves. Since then, there hasn't been much of a scouting department factoring into roster building and big boards that could override the Teppers project picks and sports data teams with Rhule being fully on board for years. Panthers scouting now is just data collection and personality tests for the algo engineers. The scouting focus now is on diamonds in the rough and their most important interview question is "Do you like football?" Seems they just work for the AI prompt engineers.

Just pointing out the next priority problem I see until they're replaced, the culture is fixed and the Panthers are playoff/division contenders again. The faster we move through this list, the more we can focus on competitive improvement instead of self sabotage. Saw the problems slowly building over the last decade. 1. Was Young (corrected) 2. Evero 3. Pass protection 4. Run defense on DL 5. Draft/Scouting/Roster building strategy

Injuries and level of talent are not excuses to be a bottom of the league DC. DC is the most important person on the defensive side of the ball as they put players in position to make calls and plays. Evero could have top 10 talent and he would field an average NFL defense. Young was holding the offense back and Evero is holding the defense back. People are willing to hold onto these franchise destroyers for years before admitting the obvious. Snow was terrible and he did more with less in 2020 than Evero has done in 2023 or 2024.

This is what happens when you spend 1st round draft capital on luxury and development picks like Vernon Butler, DJ Moore, Brian Burns, Derrick Brown, Jaycee Horn, Ikem Ekwonu, Bryce Young and Xavier Legette.

Canales mistake was leaning on Evero with a lead to keep the game close and wait for Caleb Williams to make a mistake. Until the Panthers find a better DC the game plan should always be focused on scoring 30 points

Dalton has looked consistent and good when allowed to attack. Last week were dropped balls and poor pass blocking. This week was a complete collapse by the offensive and defensive game plans. They got the lead and thought they could slow play the rookie QB. Evero failed to hide defenders and trick Williams into mistakes. It looked awful for an NFL DC. The game plan was to lean on Evero with a lead to wait for Williams to make rookie mistakes. Evero can't be trusted to keep a game close. Dalton was asked to be a game manager with the lead this week, and Canales waited too late to let Dalton attack deep. Canales trusted Evero to handle a rookie QB, and Evero tanked it by the end of the first half.

Taking luxury picks and project players like Burns, Horn, Ekwonu, Legette, Young, Butler and Brown will wreck a roster. Add in trading away draft picks and key offensive players and there is no roster depth. Mix that with rookie defensive coaches like Snow and Evero and you have zero defensive culture that will be respected by proven NFL veterans. Breaking all my rules with pass rushing specialist, 1st round QB with zero pro pedigree, 1st round CB, 1st round incomplete T that can't pass block. Above are 8 to 9 1st round picks - an entire decade. Greg Olsen made it known today while announcing for another game how hard its been to watch the Panthers struggle for so long.

Luvu and Chinn knew better than to stay with Evero. Horn trying to work his way loose now.

Draft a defensive playmaker for the middle of the field if there is one. Otherwise, trade down to accumulate picks and draft defensive leaders & dual threat offensive players with great hands.

Canales & Evero worked up a week of the worst game planning for NFL coaching. That was obvious. Dalton doing what he's told, and then it's too late after the defense gives up another 30+ point game

Bryce will need to have a Delhomme type performance coming off the bench to take the starting QB back. Coaches game plan and Evero defensive play calls were the worst part of this game, and many players had issues today. Dalton's the most consistent player today in a heap of garbage

Are they going to catch the punch to Horn's head? Vilma couldn't see it

Horn wants a trade

Evero's dialing up softballs for the Bears OL and I don't think Evero likes using stunts

Who needs a center or a tackle when you can field an entire OL with guards? Makes for a great running game though

Mingo is horrible tracking the ball. That should have been a TD. He fell to the ground to catch the ball while being wide open

They need to switch Mingo to a 3rd down RB & blocking WR. Coker is already better than Mingo as a receiver

Evero should just suit up and escort DJ Moore to the endzone

Mingo can't play the ball in the air?

Ask yourself why Canales planned a game manager offense and leaned on Everos ability to call a game to make Caleb Williams mess up. Everos been trying to sneak players around to hide on Willaims and it's signs of a horrible defensive mind

Coaches better have adjustments because their game plan and preparation was garbage going into the game

Evero called that defense. Saw how easy that was pre snap. Players aren't being given a chance to make a play by the coaching

Not going deep is letting Bears cut in front of receivers. This seems to be a really bad coaching performance on offense and defense. Seems like the game plan was to wait for Caleb Williams to mess up

Why are there multiple defenders 2 to 3 yards in the endzone shuffling down the line instead of attacking the gaps?

That's 100% on the DC play calling. Too easy for the offense. Tons of field to work with