Proudiddy

Agreed on the Rhule hire. Disagree on the whipping boy. We definitely are, regardless of the owner. Look at the officiating week to week and how the games are called. It happened under JR and it's happening under Tepper. We are just a pawn club, used to advance the NFL's greater priorities and storylines. There is no way around it.

He honestly doesn't give a poo. The fans have been sending that message all season. We could keep sending the message for the next millennium, and he and his family will be no worse off wealth-wise. The NFL is a money-printing machine. Our support doesn't fuging matter one way or another.

I've come to some harsh, unpleasant realizations over the last few seasons, and they have all come to a head with the current state of affairs with our franchise, so here you go... NGL, JR was clearly a scumball, but the further we get from his tenure, and the more we see the dynamics on the field with our team and the things going on elsewhere in the league, it is clear we are the NFL's personal whipping boy. You've got Dan Snyder essentially running a safe haven for bigots and sexual predators, while basically simultaneously operating a sex and drug trafficking organization, and the NFL covers for them and protects them. Snyder has been fuging up since day one and a lawsuit waiting to happen, but the NFL has never intervened, except to protect and defend him. You've got guys like Jerry Jones, Irsay, the McNairs, Ross, etc., who have been publicly problematic. Irsay had to go to rehab. Jones flubs are countless. The McNairs and Ross have been openly bigoted and have suffered no consequences. Kraft was out getting his butt fingered at massage parlors by sex workers... and none of them suffered any meaningful consequences. Yet, when the reports came out about JR, where was the NFL? Were they trying to shield him or protect him? No. They forced him to sell, and they handpicked one of their buddies to buy, who just so happened to have been waiting in the wings and rumored to be looking for a franchise to buy for months prior. Then when it comes to on-the-field, going back to the Superbowl in '15, they have constantly made an example of us. They used the biggest stage in the world to steal that game from us and publicly humiliate Cam in his MVP season. At what other point in your life have you ever seen a post-game presser held within earshot of another presser from an opposing player bragging about what they just did to your team? Let alone it being after a Superbowl. This poo is all a fuging soap opera... and we're too stupid to see we're the fuging heel. Just to be used, abused, and manipulated to the league's liking, in service of whoever else they need to help or prop up. Our other Superbowl appearance, we lost after the opposing team videotaped our practices all week after we were forced to practice outdoors the week leading up to it. Brentson Buckner famously told how we had just added new adjustments to our defense that week, and everytime we called them out, Brady immediately knew what they were and called it out to his offense. And what did the NFL do? Viewed the cold, hard evidence and instead of doing the right thing, they stomp the tapes out to destroy them and then bury them somewhere like Jimmy Hoffa, mafia style, so no one could ever tarnish the brand, "The Shield," or the pre-determined storylines. I'm not saying any of this in defense of JR. It's not intended to be that at all... I'm just saying, all of these guys that own teams are more often than not scumbags and sleazeballs, yet conveniently, JR's issues were enough to force him to sell the team to their preselected buddy in Tepper who had been openly looking for a ticket into the club. And not that JR would've had us on some clear-cut path to success either, because he didnt... but, ever since the forced-sell to Tepper, it has all been downhill. And when it comes to us, the NFL has no qualms about intervening for their own benefit, but never ours. And that's my issue. I don't like to go through life viewing myself as a victim. I don't. But in regards to the Panthers, its just hard not to see ourselves in that light considering everything that has taken place and the manner in which it took place throughout our franchise's history. We are the NFL's punching bag.

Honestly, I can't wait for them to get shitcanned so we can hear the truth from the players about how inept this staff is. I've picked up little things here and there alluding to it, but man, its clear as day how woefully unprepared they were to lead a group of professional, grown-man football players.

I'll always have the inherent love for sports, having played them and followed them my whole life, and then there's the personal attachment to our home state teams that I will always proudly maintain. It's a sense of pride and identity associated with our hometeams, so that will always be an unbreakable bond for me... but man, that being said, I have never felt more apathetic towards the Panthers. Don't get me wrong - I'm pissed. I'm disappointed. But, ultimately, I don't think I care anymore. Our situation has never felt so hopeless before. They burned all those draft picks as though this team was making a championship run, horribly mismanaged the QB position, and to see us not even competing against teams we should be curb-stomping... I dont care how many wins we have. When you know you have an incapable staff at the helm, none of it matters, and it won't matter until significant changes are made. And then there's the whole realization of knowing we're gonna have to go through all of this again because we messed it up so badly this time. It's just so old at this point. I'll always be a fan, but I'm definitely not investing the same amount of time or energy towards these games until they show and prove. And judging from Tepper's moves thus far, I'm not holding my breath.

Same. Defenses are literally playing like 15 to 20 yards and down, and that's it. The field is so compressed, both vertically and horizontally. As I posted in the game thread, Miami has the same deficiencies with their offensive line and they have put on an absolute clinic in how to run effective offense despite it. If you're not going to stretch the field or threaten them vertically, you have to stretch it horizontally/laterally, and Brady does neither... there's no space, no rhythm, no setups, nothing... the defense doesn't have to second guess anything, they can just recklessly and violently run downhill.

He's had a hate boner for me for quite awhile now.

Co-signed. It has never been this bad.

Depressing. #KeepPounding

Same, bro. Same. It just gets old and it sucks. And it sucks even more when we realize and get hit with that finality that we just wasted all of this time and investment in a complete waste of a coaching staff and will have to start the whole process over soon.

Yall are worried about the wrong stuff. This begins and ends with the coaching staff. And with the way the officials have called this game, I put no weight into a taunting penalty they called... they never even showed the taunt and the roughing the passer call was complete bullshit. Thats not on Reddick. This team showed up unprepared and are getting their ass whooped by the dolphins and the refs.

Yup. They had a year of film to study. It's why all of the defenses have been jumping routes all year and bragging that they knew what we were running before we ran it.

Yup. Every week. Every season.

Another hold on that outside run, more blatant and egregious than anything we've been called for today that goes uncalled.

Its like clockwork. I've been saying it since Suoerbowl 50, and more recently, since the first holding call today... when the fix is in, the refs influence the game through the field position first and foremost. From the first penalty, if we get a gain of any significance or momentum, they immediately call a penalty. By doing so, they also keep us pinned back against our own redzone/goal line, which allows the defense to be more aggressive - which has resulted in a blocked punt and one of the picks so far. This fix was in. Period.

And while that's true, you can still scheme around it and today is a prime example of how bad our coaching staff is... their defensive front is OK, and their offensive line is just as bad if not worse than ours. Yet, they are thoroughly whopping our ass. It's a coaching clinic at this point. They're overloading our OL and getting instant pressure. Meanwhile, against our defense, they're running RPOs and motions and such to stretch our defense laterally to where they can't push upfield to create pressure anymore and thus, scheming around their horrid offensive line. It also helps when the refs give them complete impunity to hold, too. But yeah, it would be nice if we had an NFL caliber coaching staff that noticed these things and decided to apply some of it to their own schemes.

Pie'd for everything except the balls part. No one has a billionaire by the balls.

Well, they do that after they light Donte up. Now they run and chew up the clock and we end up getting one possession per qtr. Same poo Washington did, and we're completely helpless to it.

Even Reddick has checked out. Itd getting ugly quick.

Defense checked out last week and they ain't coming back. Welcome to the Big 12 ladies and gentlemen. And Washington laid the blueprint of how to attack us last week, and that begins and ends with Donte. Dude fuging sucks.

Thought the same thing.

Sean Ryan. But honestly, they could let Rhule's kid call the offense at this point and it wouldn't matter. This staff is circling the shitter, and fast.

Lol they sub our big edge guys in to play the run, and Miami runs an option to the outside to take advantage of the lack of speed. This staff is absolute poo, man.

You're good. A lot of bad energy making the rounds here right now.

Fake a punt just to go 3 and out again.