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2020 Carolina Panthers season - Wikipedia Our defensive roster was definitely worse in 2020, not even a debate. Remember this is well before Brown broke out and Burns was only in his 2nd year. And Phil Snow had them top 10 in the league. Yes the roster this year was bad too, but Evero was just flat out terrible.

He's terrible and I really just can't fuging stand the 3-4 defense. You have to have such a stacked roster with personnel specific to a 3-4 for a 3-4 to work and not get totally gashed by the run (which we have been every single year we've run a 3-4 even back when Ron switched to it to try to save his ass). Rhule may have sucked but at least he had our defense far overperforming their talent level with Snow running his 4-3. No brainer to can Evero and hire someone to run a 4-3. I'd even be all for considering Rivera as DC if he was open to a reunion.

Coming off a 5 win season absolutely not. Let's see how next year goes. I'm still not sold on any of Morgan, Canales or Bryce. Next year will be a very telling season for all 3. Tepper still sucks until he proves he can hire successful people and not meddle with them. Maybe this current crew winds up successful but only time will tell. I'm definitely not convinced that Tepper won't start meddling if things don't get exactly as planned to start next season.

if only the bucs had also lost so we could've been the ones to knock the falcons out of the playoffs

KOC has exceeded my expectations and obviously I’d love to have him over Canales, but I still think Harbaugh is the better coach and Chargers will be better off than the Vikings.

Incredibly stupid to include the rush stats in with the passing stats, just separate them out and then project. Also let’s see yards per attempt. That passer rating is still bottom of the league. He’s not a good QB, people who still think he’ll be our franchise guy are blind

I don't think we really need to do all that much on offense other than backup QB and backup RB and maybe some depth WR. All of which can be found for relatively cheap. We will come nowhere near competing next year and we do have some potentially good younger pieces on offense, but pretty much none on D other than Horn (great year but still questionable durability) and Brown (assuming his great year wasn't a one-off and he can get back to that level of play post-injury). Getting young pieces on D should be this organization's largest priority for the roster. Well, after QB. But seems like we are sticking with Bryce which is a mistake, and this year's QB crop isn't really that good. Ward could be interesting if we are in a position to draft him but I view him more as mid-late 1st and would prefer D in the top 5-10 this draft. QB can wait a year.

2025 NFL Free Agents Not really. plenty of options for cheap.

I'd sign a legit 1b or top backup in FA before drafting one. Late day 3 I'm fine with, but not sure there's much of a difference between those guys and UDFAs at that point. We need defense help so badly I'm in favor of not even scouting offense this draft. Go offense in FA.

Evero is coaching one of the worst defenses in NFL history. Yeah we've had injuries on that side of the ball and lack talent but that is still inexcusable. Rivera isn't the answer either but he's definitely better than Evero

I’m in FL about an hour from Tampa and never even considered going to this game. Pre-Tepper I wouldn’t have considered missing it. Thanks Dave

Seeing CJ crying like that mid game over a pretty normal football injury was pretty crazy and has me questioning if his dude will ever really be an elite QB who can contend for a title. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying it’s bad or anything to show emotion, it’s definitely something that should be seen as normal for men to do in general. But these are supposed to be modern day gladiators man. Luke is like the gentlest dude in the world and on the field on game days shifted into being a psycho monster. I could never ever picture any of the elite QBs out there losing their composure mid game like that over a normal injury. I mean seriously, can you picture Rodgers, Brees, Brady, Manning, Mahomes crying over an injury? Lol. They’d shrug it off immediately and be right back ready to go and try to win the game. Something like Hamlin, yeah absolutely. But a knee injury? It sucks yeah but it’s part of the game, QB as the leader needs to get his poo together and get the rest of the team to still be fully focused on winning the game. Next man up. Maybe it winds up being nothing but it felt out of place and odd to me.

I don't disagree and my post didn't suggest otherwise. Lol. Just as bad as he was, he is still better than Tepper's other hires, with the jury on Morgan and Canales out

Rhule is actually one of Tepper's better hires. Fitterer and Reich were significantly worse. Jury is out on Morgan and Canales but personally I have little hope for either of them too.

lol what the hell would be different (better) about this team if we had won that game??? nothing

I don't think the Panthers "messed up so bad" with these guys. We've messed up badly with a lot of other guys (Bryce, Burns, McCaffrey, etc.) but neither Darnold or Baker is a franchise QB and neither will win a SB as a starter. They've landed in really good situations and have had some success, good for them, but we need better than those guys at the position.

And half those games as the #4/5 WR

He reminds me of Victor Cruz a bit. Yes he’s our best WR

I fuging love Jalen Coker!!!! Holy poo what a find as a UDFA. Great throw from Bryce too but he was wide open

League is such a joke wow

RIP Bryce circlejerk

People are poo’ing his stats lol. Don’t shoot the messenger

34 attempts for 191 yards (5.6ypa), 1 TD and 1 pick, 69.6 passer rating.

lol as I saw the play unfolding I 100% expected the refs to call a penalty on that block even though it was not even remotely close to being a penalty. didn't matter obviously but my god this league is fuging rigged man. people will view this game being close as a moral victory but all I see with this team are significant issues. maybe I'm just jaded by the last several years but there is very very little that gives me any hope for the future with this team right now.

delay of game on 4th and 4. pathetic