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And Seefart dumped Buerlein to make Lewis the starter. Proceeds to cut Lewis in the preseason, starts Weinke, the team wins the first game and then proceeds to go 1-15. Seefart gets canned and In comes Foxy and Jake and the rest is history.

Isn’t XL the player Nicole Tepper told Canales to trade-up for during draft day?

Agreed on letting Canales pick his own QB and hope Tepper allows it. Timing is everything and it’s a shame Darnold or Baker were not here when Canales arrived.

I am not convinced a new coaching staff would have any more success than the current. The stink comes from the top which is the owner. This team has looked horrible since Tepper has been the owner and through multiple coaching staffs they have all looked bad. I have a hard time believing that is a coincidence.

I hope you are right but I don’t trust Tepper.

Tepper will never hire a coach like Payton nor would a coach like Payton work for Tepper.

I am not sure the Panthers can do any better than Canales as long as Tepper is the owner. I am convinced he is still meddling and influencing football decisions. Frank confirmed this was happening during his brief stint and I see no reason to believe it has stopped. Tepper can fire and hire as many coaches as he wants but the results will be the same. He is the problem, as no competent coach or GM wants to work with him so all we get is leftovers.

4-3, to another 5-12 season

Ladies and gentlemen- the Tepper Panthers are now playing .

And 2-3 of them came from the Panthers

Pretty sure Tepper wanted BY regardless of the coach. Unfortunately for Panthers fans. I am confident Reich did not want BY.

But he was left handed. how about Nate Chandler. The converted DT. Gentleman was a genius.

Dan Morgan

Yes, But at least with Clausen he was one and done, and the Panthers did not spend valuable resources around him to pretend like he was the answer. Panthers only spent a high 2nd on him, and missed. Since the BY trade-up, the Panthers have made bad decision after another. Almost as if to justify their bad trade-up decision.

The Panthers did that last year with the picks to trade up for Bryce Young. They gave what turned out to be the #1 pick in the 2024 draft to Chicago. What a terrible decision Tepper made to push this trade up on his team for the 2023 draft. It will take years to recover as we are witnessing.

It seems that Bryce is overthinking it. Pre-snap reading he’s over analyzing can’t seem to pull the trigger to get the play started. That’s why they’re always rushing to get the snap off.

I am not sure if a new HC makes a difference. This stink starts at the top and that is the owner. The Panthers have consistently been one of, if not the worst NFL team since Tepper bought the team. No credible coach will want to coach here because of the owner.

Despite what reports say, I still think Tepper is influencing football decisions. We certainly heard about this during the Reich short era...ie - the Monday morning meetings. There are too many consistent inconsistencies still going on to not think he is still too much involved. New coaches, new GMs....same results. The offense looks the same under Canales as it did under Rhule, Brown and Reich. The only time the offense has looked different was when Wilkes moved to a power run game for 6-7 games. But it was clear Wilkes would not have wanted BY....probably a big reason why he was not retained. The defense was actually better under Snow but he had better players and it was not a great defense. But the defense has gotten much worse as they lost key players (Luvu, Chinn, Burns & etc) but did not replace them with even average talent. The defense was never really strong since the 3-4 defense was pushed on Rivera by Tepper. I think Tepper pushed for BY too. Now Canales is stuck with a QB that does not fit his system. The last 7-years of Panthers football can be traced back to when Tepper bought the team.

I was just thinking back to the 2nd season of the Rhule disaster. The Panthers went 3-0 to start the season, and Fitterererer, and Rhule starting trading for players 'to make a playoff run'. LOL. They ended up winning 2 more games the rest of the year and finished with a 5-11 record. I don't know why that just popped in my head. Maybe because that was the last time the Panthers had a winning record.

Call up DeAngelo Williams and tell him to run the wildcat.

This team has no fire on either side of the ball

It’s too bad Canales was not here when Baker had his short stint. Things could have been a lot different. I don’t think BY can run what Canales wants to run anymore than BY was able to run what Frank Reich wanted to run. The offense has looked terrible through multiple coaches and coordinators since BY was drafted to be the guy. BY is a good guy and hoped it would work out but I don’t think it will.

Pretty sure he will have to get approval from Tepper before benching BY again. this basically would mean….officially they are done with him after paying so much in draft capital and DJ. And the Panther would have to admit they were wrong. You know how many draft picks it took to finally replace DJ Moore? TMJ, Mingo, XL….and TMAC.

Trgovac.- didn’t realize she was still around though.

This is a very undisciplined team.