LinvilleGorge

It's whatever to me. We all called for Brown and the offense still sucked. It honestly probably got even worse. How about we see that red headed dude at QB again? Let's find out of the offense suddenly looks a lot better again. That sure would be uncomfortable confrontation with reality.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. Reports were that we would've taken David Carr if we had the #1 pick instead of being forced to settle for Julius Peppers at #2 and then falling backasswards into Jake Delhomme.

Burns went from underrated nationally when tied to the Panthers to overrated nationally entering into free agency. If we ink him long-term, expect the narrative to shift again.

Yeah I can appreciate the desire but the desire becomes counterproductive when paired with incompetence and too much ego to recognize it. Tepper seems to have the philosophy that he cannot fail he can only be failed by the underlings around him.

I think that what he's getting at is that it's Tepper actually making the call. It was widely reported that it was Tepper who was so obsessed with pursuing Watson and it was only when the cost got to the point of absurdity he accepted that it wasn't worth THAT.

It's why I expect Howell to go to Rivera and Bieniemy and lobby for his boy. He's a better fit for what they're doing on offense (basically not running the ball) than any RB currently on their roster.

They might have Cam'd him. Trying to play a QB through a rotator cuff injury on his throwing arm is just fuging idiotic.

Even when we whiff on making a huge move it still turns out it was a horrible idea.

I largely agree, but you have to look for every opportunity to improve your roster. If a guy is available for practically nothing who is better than the worst guy currently on your roster at that position then you shouldn't neglect to make that move simply because it doesn't address your biggest roster issues. You have to get better where you can when you can taking advantage of current opportunities. I mean, it'd be awesome if Trent Williams or Tyreek Hill suddenly became available but that's not reality.

If we had the cap hit to do it I'd pick him up and drop Sanders right now and just take the cap hit punch in the dick while we suck. Might as well.

Tough to see us scoring that unless Dak throws a couple of picks sixes. 38-6

We've covered the spread what, twice all year? Yeah, betting against the Panthers is about as safe as bets get.

Bryce was a great college QB, no doubt about it. But there's a loooooooong list of great college players that don't translate to the pros. Sometimes it's physical, sometimes it's mental, sometimes it's off the field, sometimes it's unfortunate injuries, or something combination of some or all of the above. So far, Bryce ain't translating.

I think Bryce's limitations are far more physical than mental but I'm also not sure he's as much a "super processor" as our brain trust was led to believe. Knowing full well that our "brain trust" very well might just be David Tepper.

I've never thought the Panthers had a particularly great stadium game day experience minus Cam's entrances. But yeah, it's definitely significantly worse mainly in a cheesy way under Tepper.

The Bills are spiraling, Josh Allen is a turnover machine, McDermott is feeling the heat, and somebody has to be the fall guy. Joe Brady needs to call more of those "hey Josh, don't throw it to the other team" plays.

Yeah, he had nearly 1000 yards from scrimmage as a rookie. His usage went down last year then he's hardly been used at all this year. I thought he was probably a rotational/3rd down back type of guy in the NFL. His lack of use has kinda been baffling since the guy they're starting has had two good games but otherwise been atrocious and their #2 is barely averaging 3 YPC.

Tepper should sit down and have some serious self reflection and ask himself if he isn't displaying some serious Dunning-Kruger effect assuming his hedge fund experience and success would just seamlessly transition to sports dominance.

I'm blaming the overall environment on Tepper. I never wanted Reich. I don't think he's the right guy. You're interpreting criticism of the environment as defense of Reich. That ain't it.

True. All of his sports ventures are a poo show featuring constant dysfunction and constant turnover. Meanwhile, we're supposed to believe that Tepper ISN'T the root cause? Doesn't add up.

You might have a point if Tepper didn't come into the league already with a reputation of being a very difficult person to work for. Now folks at that level generally are, but when you stick out amongst folks at that level of being a very difficult person to work for you're probably just a thoroughly shitty boss. That's the way it looks to be playing out so far. When you're the boss and everyone under you keeps failing it's time to look in the mirror.

I don't just post about one specific thing over and over though. There's a handful of single issue posters here and you're definitely one of them.

Just look at the history of the Panthers since Tepper bought the team. If you wanna defend the guy, fine. But there's a whole lot of folks with a lot of football experience that have to have suddenly becomes wildly incompetent that have to be at fault to prevent Tepper from being the root cause. Occam's Razor and all that. I'm not necessarily defending Reich. I didn't want to hire him in the first place. I'm just seeing a very specific trend here of chaos and dysfunction while everyone not named David Tepper get churned.

He keeps firing people and hiring new people yet the dysfunction and appearance of the entire organization being absolute amateur hour persists. Gotta start looking for the common threads and we're running out of ones without the last name of "Tepper".