Gapanthersfan

Confirmed. Tepper knew this man among men would NEVER be his patsy. He had to go. Steve about to coach in a SB with his dignity and pride still intact. Steve, please let us know what was said in the weekly meetings. Please.

We needed a big guy with a rocket arm. We got a middle school kid who plays video games. It will take a complete revamp of our offense with first, second and third rounders for the Bryce experiment to work. This will take no less than 3 years. He will be dead or out of the league in 2. This experiment will not work. It just won’t. Big guys with rocket arms can make this situation work somewhat, until more talent is plugged in. Defenses have to respect the arm of a big guy. This expands how much they have to cover. Bryce has a noodle arm. He’s a pick 6 waiting to happen. His arm condenses the field. Plug and play? Sounds like we got played, again.

Too many resources will need to be dedicated to make him look competent. In doing so, other needs on the team will only be addressed with mid to lower tier players and we’ll be a .500 team at best until a change is made. He’s the complete opposite of what this team needed.

99% of These guys didn’t get to the NFL of of sheer talent. They all showed at some point, hopefully, that they’re gamers. Complacency and loser mentality is a disease. The leaders in the locker room set the tone. Coaches set the tone. If players see the team leaders being ok with losing (I’m Looking at you Burns), then it’s a wrap. So Burns is supposed to be the leader of the defense and Bryce of the offense…. Yikes.

TD. DAWG! What an all out true warrior. Bad intentions. I’m not sure they build em like him any longer. This current team needs that fire. Please Morgan, put some dudes back on this team. Every report of an older player coming back in some capacity is a reminder to me of just how far the team has sank talent wise. Brown, Luvu and a healthy Horn are the only ones that measure up even a little to our past greats. Those teams were built to compete with anybody. Speed and power. Imagine our current squad going against prime Brees in the dome.

Fiddy

Horn is an absolute stud and the panthers D looks completely different WHEN he plays… and he’s doing it with a pretty stagnant pass rush. He’s got the DOG in him. He’s a shut down corner who plays the run very well. Our turf is the real enemy here.

Burns has all of the ability in the world. That’s never been in question. Look at the first half of the season opener. I don’t know the man personally, but the optics are that he cares more about getting paid than he does football. He seemed completely cool taking the L week. Never even saw him mad about it. I don’t want that in the locker room I don’t want him anywhere near the team culture rebuild.

Next bold prediction: new state of the art ‘security’ cameras to be installed at BOA.

Tepper wants a team culture. The culture is called Dave Tepper. Reich sniffed it out from the beginning. He knew how it would go. Once the selection was Bryce, he checked out. He played the ‘fire me or I’ll continue the Bryce beatdown every Sunday until you do’ card. This team is a local media’s dream. I can’t wait to get more in to the off-season. More will come. We’re the biggest sh** show in professional sports. Tepper knows Bryce is not popular amongst many people on the team. The mole’s task was probably to rat out the heretics. We’re now starting to get a true sense of the paranoia that exists in the man. It’s a piece that fits perfectly in the insecure narcissistic puzzle. Convincing this type of person that they’re ever wrong, ever, in anything, is a lost cause. So here’s a thought. Tepper will not hire or keep personnel that may oppose him. It’ll be very interesting how things play out with Evero. This self reflection BS is not what y’all think. It’s really ‘they’re just not seeing my vision. I need to try harder this time around.’ So this comes to Morgan. Love the dude. His jerseys is neatly folded in my dresser drawer from the ‘03 season. Does anyone really think Tepper would ever hire a ‘sorry Dave, you’re wrong on this one’ type of guy? I want to be wrong.

Burns needs to see the Wizard. He needs a heart. If he wanted to beast, he would beast. That first half demonstrated his capability. He’s shown loud and clear what he’s about. He might play hard for the first season of his new contract with another team as an ‘I told you so’ season, but then I fully expect a disappearing act afterwards where he is a rotational player and costs a GM his job.

Easiest candidate to bully and manipulate? Definitely the only candidate who would come here. It feels like more of the same until proven otherwise.

This entirely. when a qb who has shown actual NFL talent doesn’t have to sweat blind side hits and is throwing at a HOF receiver… things can look pretty good.

I’ve said it before, Evero is the best pick. Not because he is the best option, but he is better than anybody we can realistically land. Seriously, no candidate we would actually want would be here. Additionally, they would be so over Tepper’s ish, it’s another blow it up year waiting to happen. Our goal for this coming season should be just win some damn games and give some sense of overall stability. If we win 5 games and be at least competitive in close losses with good effort shown, then we have something to build on. Evero is a known commodity. He can field a competent football team and his players seem to respond to his style of coaching. Is he our long term guy. Don’t know. It’s a similar situation to Wilks. What do we have to lose giving him a 2 year contract?

This should surprise no one. Has anyone ever even seen a media interview with him? If he’s stuck around this long without being fired, it means he’s just the type of guy Dave wants.

That was the hey day of wrestling.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Football is a people business first. If players don’t like, RESPECT and believe in their coach, don’t expect them to run through a wall for them. These are young, millionaires alphas. You bring in a high pedigree winning resume and/or former player who understands NFL culture if you want the locker room’s attention. There is a good reason for the monumental decline from last year to this one with the roster being mostly the same, minus Foreman and Moore. This year’s team couldn’t win with Moss, Megatron and Faulk.

Gotta be pretty cool having Wirfs, knowing that you not .05 seconds from getting the piss knocked out of you from your blind side. That’ll settle any qb down. Wirfs+Evans+Godwin+White. That’s a hard combination to beat.

Can anyone photoshop Tepper to Ted Dibiase ‘The Million Dollar Man?’ Everybody’s got a price! It has to feel like selling your soul to work for the man.

It is a truly awful position. Keeping Bryce is like trying to sell a house that’s still on fire, while telling prospective buyers that ‘it’s got good bones.’ No good coaching prospect that we get will be any better than Evero. Promote him, let him continue to run the defense and get a new OC.

How about letting a prospective coach know he won’t be fired after a year in trying to work through this abject cluster. How about not repeating the same mistake again. How about a year of leaving everything the hell alone. Listen y’all, next season is a wrap. Stop with trying to buy another car polish. This hooptie ain’t winning anything any time soon. Tepper isn’t letting Bryce go without at least 1 more season. Why put a new coach on the hot seat in a sure lose situation the moment he signs his contract. We are either going to lose with our current bad coaching staff, or we are going to lose with a new coach we had to buy, simply because the roster sucks, Bryce sucks and Tepper sucks. Stick with the current staff, wait out our draft purgatory, Bryce gets 1 more losing year then retires, sign Brown and Luvu, show some continued improvement on defense. With Bryce out, promising defense and a full draft to work with, the job becomes immensely more attractive and may lure a better head coach.

Sigh.

To this day not hiring Wilkes hurts me. Everything was right with giving him a chance. Give him a 2 year contract to prove himself. Keep last year’s roster intact, add Thielen, add Chark. That team at least knew what a first down looked like. Our culture was back. With our brand of football. Our kind of players. Literally everybody but Dave and Nicole were joyful. But it was Jerry ball. Traditional beat your a$$ Panthers football. We may not win, but there’s going to be something wrong with you when you leave our stadium. We’ve had losing seasons, but we’ve never been the get right game for other teams. Rarely have we had a guaranteed L. We had stars. Dave needed Dave ball. Wilks was a man’s man. Not allowed. Weekly meetings would not be pretty.

See this is the thing for me too. We know we need better, but on offense we have a lot of question marks. To answer the original question, I miss a coach that players respected and responded to. An offense that moved the ball at will and set team rushing records, and a defense where 11 players gave it their all from beginning to end and were back to knocking heads once again. A team that legit looked like they were a few pieces away from being at least competitive. I miss my draft picks. I miss the time when we weren’t a complete laughing stock. I miss the not so long ago when we had fans back. We were learning how to win again. We had a Land Cruiser but he wanted a G63. He chose what was behind door #3… a ford Escspe. And this was all brought on with an owner’s fragile ego and his Don Quixote like quest to show the league that he was going to win his way.

The got dang Germans got nothing to do with it!!