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I think we will end up starting him. I don't think A'Shawn Robinson was bad last year but he also wasn't very good. And we invested heavily into Wharton. It would make so little sense for him not to be a starter.

That's true in theory but poor management can lead to very long stretches of poor results. The system itself IS indeed set up to have parity and allow some level of fairness in building a team. But, history has proven time and time again that it is possible to be so inept you screw that up. That's really at the back of most Panthers fans minds. Are we one of those teams now? It's not looking great.

I think Daboll's career success will prove to be a result of being with Josh Allen and the Bills rather than vice versa.

His defense in year one was a bit of a paper tiger in some respects but the talent drop off in year two was bananas. He has to recover significantly from last year to survive, IMO. And, TBH, it's not gonna be with tremendously more talent. It's a tough spot. I do think he is as equally to blame as the FO.

I mean.....there is no question that is 100% on the players. That's fuging pathetic.

I mean, if we get demonstrably better, I can see possibly staying the course. But even with a piss poor defensive roster, we need to dramatically improve for me to want to see more of the Evero Experience. There is only so much blaming the roster and injuries anyone is going to tolerate if we are consistently fielding bottom 5-10 units.

It's true. For all his faults, JR was a much better owner than Tepper in terms of cobbling together an averageish or successful team. We all thought Tepper would perhaps break the streak of all this average play mixed with good/great seasons. Mission Accomplished: We haven't seen either since.

Well, even if the odds are low, it isn't like he is gonna bump a quality player off the roster at that spot.

Basically this. If we could contain it simply to Rhule, that would be great but it has stretched 4 GM's(Hurney, Rhule, Fitterer, Morgan) and 4 HC's(Rivera, Rhule, Reich, DC).

That's what teams that develop rosters properly do. You don't end up with the worst roster in the NFL accidentally.

If he isn't the worst, we are in some serious trouble.

Yeah, maybe so. Certainly hope so.

Technically it is a future/development ranking.

Actually, there is no argument that Jerry isn't better. The Cowboys have only had 10 seasons under .500 in his 35 years of ownership. He has literally had as many .500 or better winning seasons as an owner as the Panthers do years of existence as a franchise. Tepper literally took the reigns of a team that was in the midst of it's historical highpoint(2015-2017) and hasn't sniffed .500 since. For all Jerry's faults, he builds winning teams. David Tepper consistently has built dumpster fire teams.

The difference was the starting and top tier backup players were way, way more deep than a normal draft. It will be interesting to see how it turns out in a few years.

He would be a DE in our defense. As a NT is absurd.

Yeah, that's just fuging bananas otherwise. I would be fine firing Evero on that decision alone.

That is flabbergasting. I know it's not a real depth chart, but still.

IDK. That an interesting one to think about. His track record has been to be more patient with GM's than HC's. That's generally why I think DC is more likely to end up on the hot seat first. Well, hopefully we just don't find out.

I mean....I don't think that latter part is a point in his favor. Being a hot head isn't a smart thing if you are fighting for a roster spot.

I wouldn't say overhyped at all. It was incredibly deep but light on elite talent. That was literally the story the whole cycle.

I agree completely. Good prospect, not great prospect.

I hate to burst anyones bubble but this guy played 188 total defensive snaps in three years but 802 special teams snaps. If we do kick the tires, it's probably gonna be for that latter part.

I do believe that Evero gets canned before the end of the season and Capers takes over the D. I think the stage is set for Evero to fall on the sword for a 4-7 win season. Not saying it would be a set up but I do think if that transpires, the seat under DC might start getting pretty warm, rightly or wrongly. That's my read on Tepper. I am not at all excited nor am I dreading anything. I just have extremely low expectations so I am just waiting to see what this revision of the roster looks like. I FEEL like we are better on paper than last season's team but I wouldn't be remotely shocked if we were as bad or worse. Again, I do think this is the 2nd worst roster in franchise history overall. What will really make me happy is for some of the big questions to finally be answered(Bryce, Ikey, Horn, etc). I would like to see a real expansion of our core player pool(basically just D. Brown currently). I want to see a couple of hits in free agency and a couple in the draft. If we accomplish those things, I have faith that we are at least moving in the right direction after many, many years doing the opposite.

I am not so sure about that. I don't know that he is so soley offensively focused as winning focused. But, not really in a productive way. I get the impression he wants to be like Robert Kraft and take credit for "taking a risk on Bill Belichick" and being successful. His track record indicates that in the NFL and in his business life.