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But implementing casual Friday's...uh, I mean, TIGHT WOMEN'S JEANS FRIDAYS! I still say it was coup de'tat.

When Rhule took over this team, as a franchise, the Panthers were only 9 games below .500. That could be made up with one good season. Now we are 23 games below .500. It would take years to get this franchise back to mediocrity.

I would love to get back to mediocrity! That's what we had with Jerry Richardson and Fox/Rivera. That said, any interim coach isn't the answer, but damn, at least I can get excited about game days again. I honestly can't remember being as apathetic about an opening game as I was yesterday.

One problem, Charlotte is a top 5 city in the nation for people to move to. It's been a problem the Panthers have faced for years and it's only getting worse as more people move to Charlotte. I gave up that battle a long time ago--trying to convince people to pull for their 'new' team. It's not like they are just dropping the team they have pulled for years just because they moved to the area.

With a 41% winning record, why wouldn't we keep him? (Hopefully people understand sarcasm).

His press conference after being hired. He sounded like a used car salesman and has lived up to the billing.

Call it a Rhule revenge game and that will put a nail the coffin.

Barkley looking at the Clevaland game film and what Chubb did against us:

Does it make me a bad fan to hope we lose until Rhule is fired? Like in Shawshank Redemption, sometimes you have to crawl through a bunch of poo to come out better on the other side.

Hopefully the strong finish is after Rhule is let go.

Murray was out that game, IIRC. We won against a backup QB.

What do you think Payton was before he was a HC? Payton called the plays for NO as well.

Only problem being Tepper--"brass balls Tepper"-- is a little attached to his boy Rhule. You would think a hedge fund guy would be somewhat ruthless, personal feelings aside. After all, business is business.

Whomever does it first is at the head of the line for Sean Payton.

Yep, because playing like dog poo for 3 straight quarters is the ref's fault. Had we handled our business, that last drive for Cleveland wouldn't have mattered. It only mattered because when the game was nearly out of hand, we finally figured out how to play football and made the game close.

We have the Giants on the road and then Saints at home next two up. If we are 0-3 at that point with the schedule only getting harder, Tepper should pull the trigger. Will he? Probably not. Tepper will run this organization further into the ground trying to prove that Rhule was not a bad hire.

Somewhere Joe Brady is laughing. #cannedbecausedidnotrunenough

Remember, even Saban sucked as a NFL hed coach, but Rhule was supposed to break the mold? Jimmy Johnson was the last college HC (without any prior NFL coaching gigs) to be successful.

Rhule would throw one of his own family members under the bus to save his own neck. Snow is no exception.

Our sloppy play and even worse coaching robbed us. If this team had out-played the Browns all game and it came down to the fake spike, then yeah, I'd be pissed. We got our arses handed to us all game. It's hard to believe that the score was even this close if you were just to look at the stat sheet.

Mid season? One or two more losses in as many games should qualify.

It has to be done if we lose to the Giants next week. Probably the two more winnable games of the year and go 0-2.

I expected it. I started to get amped up too, then told myself a let down still is likely around the corner. Yup.

Typical Rhule coached team, they show up in the 4th quarter to make it interesting. Good teams play entire games, we play a good quarter just to keep the score respectable.

Back in the good old days, I'd be pissed after a loss. Now it's not wasting the energy on. My wife asked me if the Panthers won, I said "no" and went on drinking my beer and surfing the web.