PleaseCutStewart

I feel like we are caught between a rock and a hard place. I think rod is a good coach and awesome motivator, but definitely is not a good in-game coach and gets exposed by other good coaches that know how to counter our system. But ... Do we really think any other talented coach wants to coach in Carolina? I highly doubt it. If we fire rod and try to get a new coach, I feel pretty confident in saying we will find ourselves back into being an irrelevant team

Amen... This loss is a crusher also. We saw how the long OT loss killed us last year and sadly I expect the same thing to happen again

Very accurate comparison. We just aren't clutch

I will say - I love rod and his system and we would be dumb to let him go. That being said, he just doesn't make good adjustments in gane

Just look at the Florida series last year to see how this goes

Nah, we're lucky if we push it to 5

I hope Rod tears an asshole into these refs post game

That's the series

I'm trying

He's trying to jinx us

Is it bad I don't remember when Kotkaniemi got a playoff OT goal...

Is it though? We really need this win

This also feels like the Florida game 1 last year. Win and I think we take the series. Lose and we can very easily get swept

Gotta give Freddie credit - I hated on him up to his 3rd goal and he has bailed us out on some terrible defensive lapses since then The real question is can we beat Igor....

These refs deserve death threats

I dunno, the only one I would really question was the last one. Rest were pretty textbook imo Now... The crap nyr is getting away with is another story

If somehow we win, I'll say staal

Fair enough - won't deny that. Still doesn't excuse our undisciplined, unnecessary penalties in the 3rd against a team that we can beat 5v5

We can complain about the refs, but we really took some stupid penalties in the 3rd... Just completely unnecessary penalties

Hopefully. I've just seen this too many times in my life from us and we usually crack soon when we are getting outplayed this bad for a long stretch

Rangers got all of the momentum... Don't see us winning this game

We are going to need probably 2 more to win. Freddie can't stop a beachball

Terrible D, but I think we need to give a look to pyotr for game 3

This. I still think Frank wanted CJ because he likes the tall, strong armed type of QBs. Bryce was literally the complete opposite of every other QB Frank has liked. Bryce has no excuses this year. The Oline is much improved and if our draft picks are at least halfway decent, he has a pretty good looking run game, receivers that can get open (Thielen, Johnson) + a speedster to stretch the field in Legette, and a TE I am pretty high on in Sanders. If he doesn't show significant improvement this year, we need to be drafting our next QB (I assume we will be picking top 5 if he doesn't significantly improve)

At this rate, we will have a 53 man roster of just RBs...