Mr. Scot

The question is being asked...

The most easily fixable thing right now would be the scheme. We've seen no indication that there are going to be major changes to that though.

Regarding Young vs Stroud...

Likely for the same reason that Pamela Anderson's breasts won't look saggy when she's 72

Also wouldn't make much sense to be scared of deep passing when you know the quarterback is likely to be put on his back long before anything like that can even develop...

It's been brought up by several analysts and someone (Sheena Quick I think) asked a question about it in Reich's most recent press conference. His response was that they had no intention of going "smashmouth". Whether it's come up internally or not though, no idea. I do know that Diana Russini said Panthers brass are trying to get Reich to run something closer to Young's college offense (more RPOs and such).

We've talked before about skill sets. There are brilliant doctors who can't balance their checkbooks... High priced lawyers who don't understand simple home maintenance... Orators who can deliver stirring speeches but stink at interpersonal communication... ...and plenty of other examples. Even if you're in intelligent person, you might not necessarily have the skill set needed to accomplish certain tasks. I'd say that sums up David Tepper pretty well.

A typical West Coast offense will feature receivers and backs who can take a short pass for a long gain along with at least one deep threat receiver to spread the field. We don't really have that. The one part of a good WCO that we do have is a reliable possession receiver in Adam Thielen.

He is when it comes to football. And as mentioned above, it's not just the Panthers that are showing signs of a toxic environment. Pretty much all of his sports ventures have shown the same issues.

Allen is the prototypical "big arm" guy who can also run. Fans love that kind of quarterback, but history shows their success has limitations.

Also worth mentioning that this isn't just happening with the Panthers. You've got both the soccer team and the business of Tepper sports and entertainment showing the same issues.

Those are really good analyses. I'd add in what Kirk Herbstreit said...

In a man / power, run heavy scheme like we had last year. If you want to put them in a zone blocking scheme for a WCO, you have to make some adjustments (Ickey to guard, someone more agile to left tackle).

That means blaming him for the Rhule years though. Would that really be a fair thing to do? Besides that question though, we came out of the Rhule situation with pepper deciding to give more power to Fitterer. Does he change his mind on that this quickly?

Dorsey is being fired because he took what was a very effective offense and made it worse. Not only is that not an equivalent situation, but it's also not exactly a ringing endorsement to hire him in an equal or higher role somewhere else.

This actually isn't the first time we're hearing stuff like this about Tepper. The talk that he's an extremely difficult person to work for has been around for a few years now.

For anyone wondering, Dorsey doesn't have any connections with Frank Reich that I know of so I don't know that I'd foresee any indication of him coming here.

The one thing I've noticed is that nobody seems to want to blame Josh Allen for anything. I'm not so sure that's the right approach.

That article isn't nearly as negative about Frank Reich as some of you think.

Dorsey and Brian Daboll might both turn out to be "Peter principle" examples.

Yeah...not the correct read at all. What it's actually a sign of is that Tepper is likely going to screw up whomever works here. Rayzor had it right.

Definitely. And we can only imagine how the nature of the NFL might magnify those issues.

Yikes

No argument. I've been there too.