PleaseCutStewart

An owner taking action is one thing. An owner that wants 100% control of all decisions on a team and pretty much just hires people to be figureheads and scapegoats is another. Honestly, I think any halfway decent coach is staying far the fug away from us as long as Tepper is our owner - and I can't blame them for that. Tepper has proven to be a clueless moron in terms of running an NFL franchise.

When you lose half of your defensive starters and you had no defensive depth to begin with, it makes sense. The defense looked pretty good prior to the Lions game (outside of the Seahawks game). Not to mention I feel like we have had about 8-10 turnovers which have given the other team a TD or the ball inside our 20 yard line. Also, I would say about 1/3 of our points scored have come in garbage time or against prevent defenses. At the end of the day, both units have been absolutely terrible.

Yeah, Tyreek and Waddle are very good. That being said, they were also being covered by our terrible secondary also. I'm pretty sure a lineman at WR would have 3 yards of separation against our DBs.

Well, that should make our offense better by him not being on the field

Let me guess. We trade the Eagles Chinn for a 7th round pick and he ends up being Superb Owl MVP.

Trading a 2nd rounder for Darnold when literally nobody else, including the Jets, wanted him. Could have probably gotten him for a 3rd day pick if we didn't become desperate for no reason. Then the subsequent trading up for another QB nobody wanted in Matt Corral because we realized Darnold wasn't a franchise QB (because our dumb front office thought he was for some reason) compounded the problem. Fitterer (and everyone else in the front office) just is not able to assess talent. That's literally your most important job in the front office and honestly we just need to clean house of everybody.

It seems like the current NFL has passed Belicheck's style of coaching. Probably not worth it, although he would be a big upgrade over lame duck Frank

It honestly makes me wonder how elite of a job Philly did blocking for him. If this dude can't read that open of a cutback lane, his Oline must have pushed opposing Dlines 10+ yards downfield every play

Didn't watch the game, but wow is that a bad read. Dude runs straight into 3 of his blockers despite a parting of the red sea cutback lane. Not sure if he jukes out that MLB, but it definitely isn't juking anybody with the path he decided to run. We just need to realize it was a bad contract and stop giving him top volume carries. Chuba should be getting 75% of the carries and maybe Sanders can get the other 25%

Awesome. So we have an annoying owner that wants to be controlling of everything the coaches and front office do. Translation: No worthwhile coach or GM is coming anywhere near the Panthers. Can Tepper please just F off

I'm pretty sure if their entire team underwent Covid protocols except for their punter, we would probably still find a way to lose. We don't need to worry about somehow finding a way to upset them - it isn't happening.

Sadly I feel like I have to agree with this. I just don't understand how he can have a game like he did against the Vikings last year where we let him play more free off the edge blitzing, covering the flats, and covering the RB and he absolutely dominates and then decide "F it, lets just make him a deep cover safety and not let him do anything else"... If we did the same to Burns and said "Yeah, we know Burns can be an elite pass rusher, but we need help with coverage so we will just drop you into coverage every play", we would look like morons. I guess if we did that, at least we wouldn't be having to give Burns 30 mill a year to keep him...

I'm not 100% how this stat was measured, but how are these athletes running slow routes??? I understand if they are running incorrect routes or routes that are not crisp (i.e., not coming back to the ball on curls, rounding their routes on in/out routes). But if you are telling me the speedster we signed in the offseason (Chark) is 78th in terms of speed per route, something is very wrong. I also wonder if the fact we rarely have a receiver run a fly route is factoring in to that stat. It's a lot easier to hit top speed running a fly than it is running a curl or out route.

Honestly, we should just trade Chinn away because he deserves way better than this dumpster fire franchise. I promise you he will be very good on another team that has a competent coaching staff and knows how to utilize him.

I haven't paid enough attention to our defensive formations this year, but I have to imagine we have some sort of big nickel package for passing downs (at least I hope so because I'm pretty sure most teams in the NFL do). He is perfect for that formation of being that hybrid linebacker/safety that we can ask to do a lot of different things. Asking him to play safety and be in coverage (especially man) more times than not is precisely how to not use him effectively... The Vikings game from last year where he scored two touchdowns in 15 seconds is how to use him properly

And who behind him can cover better? Especially with practically our entire starting secondary not playing yesterday. We still don't utilize Chinn correctly. We need to have him do a variety of things so defenses won't always know that he is covering the TE/RB (versatility was our biggest argument for why we drafted him in the first place). He should either be blitzing or playing some type of zone coverage (flats or middle zone to cover slants) in obvious passing downs while helping with the run on 1st and short yardage situations. Honestly no excuse for him only being on the field for 30% of the snaps when he was probably like our 3rd or 4th most talented player on D yesterday because of all the injuries to our D

Ummm, now that we are 0-5, hell no. We don't need to win any games this year so that way we at least have the first pick in the 2nd - 4th rounds. If it were after week 1 when Bryce clearly was not ready to play, then I would say yes. Now we need to just get reps for young guys and evaluate players that should be here long term (which sadly there aren't many deserving of such)

The irony of Burns getting mad at a teammate for an offsides/neutral zone infraction when I feel like he gets at least 2 each game...

I'll take a guess that he gets fired whenever our bye week is

I mean... Is there really any difference between the 2011 bobcats and any other bobcat / hornets team We have fielded the past 15ish years?

Is that Morse code for SOS? As in send immediate help, we have no talent, a terrible coaching staff, and the dumbest owner in the NFL

Are you asking which one TMJ will play for next year or which one the Panthers will get relegated to next year?

I would have to imagine we would have to trade a draft pick away + tmj just to get rid of him. There is no way in hell any other team in the NFL wants that bum

You mean four seasons away from hopefully hitting on a QB / having a good draft class

And to put it into perspective about how bad we are, I prioritized having a board game afternoon with friends than watching the Panthers