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Stealing a line from Gantt, Matt Rhule has made people stupid for some time. I mean, Rhule is dumb, which helps out. Rhule in simple terms said a QB who beat him and he played against several times should be in their board…and he was told no or ignored on it by the folks who put it all together in the end. Which isn’t outlandish at all. That probable scenario likely happens all the time in the NFL. The, this random kid I like is someone I think should be on our board and doesn’t make it. Teams have all sorts of people arguing for guys that don’t end up making the board. I mean, that’s how a board is formed. every coach, scout, GM has a list of players they could say they liked and if only the rest listened…. Matt Rhule is an easy target. Because he is a floundering coach at this point. And he had always been dumb with the mic. I would assume he largely is speaking a truth, which is why he says to check the receipt on that and offers it up. That doesn’t mean he is as fighting for Purdy. Just that he mentioned a kid he knew….and was ignored in a draft he clearly was in the backseat on at that point

sort of interesting who you got to start rooting to get in if you want Panthers in the future. At this point, you need some of Wayne, Johnson, Holt to all get in likely before 89 has shot. That's going to delay his time you got to think if they don't soon start to go. Clearly, the voting types have put them ahead of 89. Wonder of Luke can leapfrog Patrick Willis given he is already in line.

Peanut Tillman is ours.

and Fitterer followed that up w/ the 2023 nightmare. 2 first and DJ Moore for a middle schooler. Trading up for DJ freaking Johnson. Overpaid Miles, overpaid Hurst, etc. all of which were outplayed by dudes like Hubbard, Tremble, etc already on the roster. The more we saw of Scott Fitterer....the more I still think all signs point to Scott Fitterer being the worst of all the bad. Got to remember the one season Rhule was paired with Hurney the Panthers still overachieved...and tons of folks on the roster had the best seasons of their career. It was flawed. Issues. Everyone was green so it made sense. But there was positive and hope for a minute. Scott Fitterer is the one constant to all the comical nightmare that got barfed up IMO. He singularly should rank at the top of all the idiots (Tepper obviously excluded as he is the technical answer).

Here is what I imagine it was really like. the Matt Rhule/Fitterer era: Matt Rhule brings something the table. Fitterer is like yeah. Sounds great Matt. Matt Rhule brings something else stupid to the table and Fitterer is like.....hold on a second.....let's do something even more stupid instead. And then they do that. And it's just a back forth of two incompetent people doing horrible things. the Frank/Fitterer era: Listen Frank. We got this. We got our sea legs now. We know what we did wrong. I'm going to give you a bunch of people you don't want and don't fit what you do....and you coach it despite being dead inside.

Oh, yeah, in the official rankings. Frank/Fitterer has to rank worse than Rhule/Fitterer. No way around that outside of using gymnastics of the unknown to argue otherwise IMO. Rhule's 2020 alone sends Frank/Fitterer into first place. I mean, if it's just a Carolina ranking. Frank might of been a better overall coach in the grand scheme. But in terms of in Carolina, the Frank/Fitterer shitshow rules supreme.

I mean, there is an argument Scott Fitterer was a worse GM than Matt Rhule a HC. * and Matt Rhule was one of the worst coaches in the couple decades.

I think most rightfully equate Peppers as a Panther. Drafted here, finished here.....majority of his HOF production here. But we claim Kevin Greene. So it's not like we don't do the same thing.

decent odds Purdy's name got brought up tons of places once every team was looking at 6-7th rounders and UDFA. I mean, Rhule probably was more familiar with Purdy than any NFL HC. He faced him multiple times in college. Rhule most likely is taking a grain of truth of running with it at Super Bowl time. I'm sure there were probably people in just about every NFL org that mentioned nearly everyone drafted at some point to some extent. That's how UDFA get picked up in seconds once the greenlight happens. but all this is sort of refresher of why I wanted a clean slate. Everyone found it convenient to pretend Matt Rhule was dictating the complete roster with an iron fist and Fitterer wasn't doing any of the bad stuff. Fitterer was doing a lot of the bad during the Rhule era. Rhule has pretty consistently called out that bologna narrative that the people who remained when he left weren't part of it (and there was never any leaked pushback to it.....and we know now we also employed a poo GM with our poo HC). But this time it's different. We are keeping just the good parts.....again.

GM basically said it too. Ignoring the guys in the room and saying they needed players like JStew and all the old dudes

CMC, DJ, Horn. One of these things is not like the others. after 3 years in, CMC was arguably the best RB in the NFL. after 3 years in, DJ was putting up back to back seasonal production few WRs in the NFL were matching. I mean, everyone knew they were going go be good elsewhere because that's what they were here. the last first several first rounders that disappointed during his rookie contract and left.... didn't go blowup elsewhere. Butler and KB. Heck even ones that didn't disappoint didn't go and do better. Star. Same for the recent 2nd rounders we didn't extend and let see the door from E. Brown to Clausen to Curtis. Last decade, guys who didn't pan out here didn't go pan out elsewhere. Yet somehow people are worried about that?

yuck, thread made me look at 2024. Hurst a 10 million cap hit.

Cool. 3 years in the books. He hasn't played much and I green light cherry picking. Name his signature game to date and the QB/WR duo he shutdown that actually proves he is elite. I mean, there are still some legit questions about his game given how little he has played. Some of the same ones that folks wondered when he was coming out. And we have yet to see him face those questions/tests because he never plays and when he has it largely has been against meh QB/WR combos. I just don't want to pay him, pick anything up or extend him. That's my stance. I welcome him next year. That's it.

Derrick Brown still made the Pro Bowl. Legit breakout years for non-sexy spots often show some lag w/ the national audience/perception. no one is talking about Jaycee Horn because he doesn't play. And when he has played, has never even had Bradberry type moments shutting down a Matt Ryan to Julio connection to even claim he is being overlooked by people. I just don't get it. Horn has been a bust. I don't care to hang on to him. And I don't fear the....but if we let him go and he stayed healthy mind trap. Play the odds, crazy injury prone guys from day 1.....generally don't go on to have iron man finishes. And I think Thomas Davis is a horrific comparable people like to make. He didn't come straight into the league and breakdown every season despite playing a more physical role.

probably a double edge sword for Theilen. This isn't' what he came here for. But a good O probably doesn't have much of a role for him. He isn't suite for the outside. And a good team isn't going to use him in the slot. He is too slow and limits the upside there. He could go to a good O and occupy a small O. Ricky Prohel like. Ricky delivered in big moments but he was never a big part of that Super Bowl O.

he has suited up for 43% of our games. So he misses nearly 6 out of every 10.

creating a huge hole? we would largely just be dealing w/ the same hole that has existed most of his 3 seasons.

Nope. No thank you. I ain't investing money into someone that makes Jeff Otah seem reliable. That's just a reality. Jaycee Horn is only a dawg in Pantherland. No one else talks about him for good reason. He doesn't play. 3 years in and he frankly has yet to even show his stuff vs a legit good QB/WR tandem because he never is on the field for it. I'm focused on Brown and Luvu if I am the Panthers. Building up a functional offense.

generally speaking, if someone says we need a dominant run game and are referencing he team we just had.....I consider that implying we should build and use our resources to build a stand alone dominant run game that can exist even with the garbage passing of last year existing. So to me, that would take big resources and commitment IMO to building a dominant attack and essentially a team from prior eras. Key is always going to be the QB and pass game for me. That's what makes it all work in today's NFL. Biggest problem with our run game last year, is the passing game was an utter joke. Bryce and the O made us one dimensional and easy to stop....and they helped neuter our rush attack. You got to fix the pass game to really fix the run game. Outside of maybe short yardage try and stop us scenarios.

I like how before the season started this was deemed a terrific spot. Better than Young's. ....and then after the season it was deemed a horrific spot for Bryce. I mean, never bought into that hype of the added talent BUT, to an extent, Bryce did have something to do with why it went so bad.....and CJ had a lot to do with why it went so well in Houston. I do think Andy Dalton showed a bit of a red flag. Gameplans were skewed for Bryce. He is part of the why. All it took was an old washed up vet and the passing attack was different.

Running the ball is fine. You need to run. building an OL that runs blocks and sucks at pass blocking isn’t fine. Being an offense that can only threaten with the run isn’t fine. If you have a good QB and a threatening pass attack….you can run with anyone at RB. Rookies. Cheap backs.

we just traded 2 first round picks and DJ Moore for a starting QB nearly the size of my middle schooler.

100% true. We could just add more bad. Which has healthy odds given Tepper only hires people he shouldn't to date. I don't argue that. I just wish this "new era" felt like it was truly outsourced to someone else. I know Tepper claimed to hire a consultant.....but it really feels like that was to take some heat of him and little else. Just outsource it all at this point. Instead we got Tepper, his wife, and Jim Caldwell making up 3/4 of the "decision makers". So, I don't trust anything being done given that.

maybe we did keep the best parts. Maybe we kept some messy parts in that process. All a guess. Clean slate removes the guess work. I like Dan. I still feel there could be a lot of similarities to the logic applied when we kept Fitterer after firing Rhule. Well, all the bad was Rhule. Not Fitterer. Now, it's all the bad was Fitterer.....Morgan surely couldn't of been behind any of the 1000 bad moves while he was the assistant GM. A lot of the right stuff is being said. But that's always the case. team has to earn my optimism at this point. you can only be duped so many times in a row.

I mean, I think the common sense approach is a clean start....if you are coming off a reported Game of Thrones atmosphere in house. We are keeping some big chunks in the front office and coaching intact despite the mess that was going on in Carolina. but I mean, his job is to look for poo and get you to listen. I don't argue that.