Panther'sBigD

This. There are so many 'easy wins' Tepper could be amassing to build local/state goodwill in order to sweeten decision-makers up for an eventual new stadium, but instead he's nickel and diming operating costs.

Wasn't Tepper worth 11 billion when he bought the team a few years ago? If he's almost doubled his worth in four years, after the past four years we've had collectively, that's more than enough reason for billionaires to not exist.

He's a middling coach and a company man to a fault. Glad he's coaching another team.

Chloe Grace Moretz has always irked me for some reason, so I ignored this show for the first couple of weeks it was out, but I finally decided to give it a try and it's pretty solid. The nosy deputy/ex-flame character seems superfluous, since the stakes for everyone are already super high, so those scenes are rather tedious. Otherwise the story is pretty tight and entertaining.

lol lmao

Dude, that was a freak play/injury that had nothing to do with wear and tear. That defender trying to knock the ball loose bent his elbow about 20 degrees the wrong way at game speed. Just look at his arm: Just terrible luck in this case.

Refs are given the ability to manipulate the game in real time. It doesn't take a tinfoil hat conspiracy to realize that's what's being done.

What I would like to see happen and what is probably going to happen are two separate things. Would've loved to see Wilks and PJ give us a fighting chance to salvage this season, but after yesterday, it's evident that was never going to happen. I just can't figure out if he's that bad or if they're now fully committed to the tank.

I want a 1-2 round TE. If we do end up going QB in round 1 like everyone says, there's no better friend to a developing QB than a trusty great/elite TE. Look what Chud did with Cam, Olsen and Shockey in Cam's first year. We're currently back at Kris Mangum level starters at TE. We need to at least attempt to get back to Olsen level.

WTF are you talking about? Those professionals all have limited shelf lives. Sure they'd prefer to play on a championship team, anyone would, but you'd be hard pressed to find any professional athlete that's made it to the top tier league of their sport who would rather lose games for a chance at a better year next year. None of them is guaranteed next year.

I feel like Fitterer and Morgan have shown they can get value and select starting material in the first four rounds. We're starting to see just how much Rhule and Snow were hampering player development, and it's maddening. I think the Rhule/Snow and Hurney eras have traumatized a large portion of the fanbase, and they view every deal as though Marty Hurney will be making the picks and Rhule/Snow will be (not)coaching the players.

Man, I feel so bad for Mike Zimmer. He's had it extremely tough.

I'm hoping Wilks is our version of Sean McDermott: a great defensive coach who wasn't ready for his first HC gig, but learned from it and was ready for his second one. We'll have a better idea by the end of the season.

So what team can you point to that has successfully pulled off a 'real rebuild' as you define it? Maybe the Bills, but that's the only team I can think of. I guess we disagree on what needs to change fundamentally as well as how far we are from actually competing. I don't know that we need a huge change fundamentally. This team is built to compete with consistent play from even a middling QB. We just haven't had that yet.

He's only 24 and on pace for 12 sacks this season, without a decent bookend on the other side. We need a few pieces and we can compete now. Go get him help on the other side and the sacks will come. That's just my prediction, which is no sillier than your prediction of him only getting 8-9 sacks per year in the future.

"Blow the team up, get a QB and give him crazy weapons! It's as simple as that!" LMAO You guys play too much Madden.

They haven't traded away of the set pieces of this team. They traded away a WR that was about to get cut and a RB that can't stay on the field and deserved to go somewhere that won't have to ride the wheels off of him. We don't have to tank. With a QB and a couple FAs we could be competing next season. Right now Fitterer has plenty of draft capital to do just that.

An elite pass rusher in the hand is worth two in the (future)draft. If Fitterer takes this deal, then the tank is in full effect. You don't trade away a player like Burns for future picks if you think you'll be able to compete next season.

No poo. Everything is squarely on Wilks; he's the HC.

He got rattled in a big game, probably a big reason he was on the street when the season started. He's been money otherwise, so unless he pulls a Joey Slye and starts missing everything he kicks, he'll probably be fine.

It's going to take longer than a lot of you would like/are willing to bear to wash the stank of Rhule off of some of these players. I was wrong to give Rhule and Snow as much runway as I did. It's evident that they were grossly hampering player development. I'd be surprised if CJ isn't markedly improved by the last quarter of the season now that he's getting coaching from actual NFL coaches with a unified message rather than having to take position coaching from Wilks and then be put in position to fail by Snow.

He had his chance. I wish him well on some other team next year.

If Wilks can build off of yesterday's close loss, and turn it into close wins, and then decisive wins down the stretch, then there's no way he doesn't get the HC nod. I hope it happens. He's a good dude and the guys play hard for him. I like his demeanor better than Rivera's and Fox's. This was his third game, and only his second with a full week to prepare, so he's 1-1 as far as I'm concerned. Would be great to beat the Bengals after they just blew out the Falcons. Hey, it could happen!

That play where he basically jumped on the guy's back and rode him to the ground was crazy! Glad to see him living up to his initial hype. Year three seems to be the magic number for DTs hitting their prime.

Nobody but you cares what you want so