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No one in here wants Rhule to fail he just does his failures on the home field over 3 years are bloody atrocious no matter who the assistants are or the players, his decisions as HC are flat out awful think Sunday was bad, wait until the hard part of the schedule starts

Wow Just wow

Note to Rhule, I don’t care about other teams I care about the Panthers

No offense to you meant, but do you really believe this ? My observation is that 217 running yards by the Browns and the time their backup QB had in the pocket, indicate that trust is very misplaced

I’ll say it to run the ball and to stop the run, the o line and dline haveto be tough and nasty. I do not see that They have to have the ‘want to’ The oline may come around with practice and Bozeman replacing Effline but that D line and LB corp are weak and too light Steve Smith on WFNZ talked about Gross Mateo as an example and the dline yesterday paraphrasing ‘being a rotational piece being asked to be a full time player and he hasn’t transitioned to that role yet and the panthers like most of the nfl believe in the “next man Up theory but unfortunately, most times, the next man up are JAGs and the problem for the Panthers is they have a lot of JAGs on that line’

I know it’s time to move on to the Giants, however, One edit this writer is part of the Raleigh News and Observer but the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News and Observer are owned by the same company now and frequently cross share articles he told the truth, sadly I was really disappointed at the cream puff questions asked by the press to Rhule For example, i really wanted to know on that last possession why they did not try and get a first down at the 4 yard line. They didn’t even need to get a TD Terrible game management. Terrible offensive play calling. I heard them ask what happened but no one challenged the game situation

The Giants can run the ball and have a stud rb the Panthers, yet again, cannot stop the run, so no Either those D players can’t, won’t, or don’t want to tackle. Gotta have some ‘want to’ to stop the run The D line is full of JAGS (including that #1 found DT) and the best player is actually a liability in the run game

Didn’t realize it had been posted It blocked me from posting yesterday Some actually like to read articles written by actual sports writers.

pulled forward notable quote the blame lies where it so often does, on a head coach who managed to both settle for a field goal and leave too much time on the clock at the end, a pair of decisions that came back to bite him on each cheek. Panthers revert to form after being on verge of winning the kind of game they often lose BY LUKE DECOCK [email protected] 1 day ago There was a shimmering moment, between the initial desperation and eventual despair, when the Carolina Panthers looked like they’d finally figured out a way to win the same game they keep losing over and over again. They had recovered from an abysmally slow start, finally found a way to get Christian McCaffrey the ball in places where he could put his skill to use, even managed to get a few stops on defense at critical times. They put the game on the foot of yet another stop-gap kicker — and got away with it. Then the Panthers contrived to screw it up anyway, becoming the first team to lose an opener to the Cleveland Browns in almost a generation and finding, in the end, a way to lose the same game they keep losing over and over again. And as much as people will point to a questionable roughing-the-passer penalty on Brian Burns that jump-started the Browns’ winning drive and set up their long-range field goal for a 26-24 win, much of the blame lies where it so often does, on a head coach who managed to both settle for a field goal and leave too much time on the clock at the end, a pair of decisions that came back to bite him on each cheek. There’s a gym class somewhere missing Matt Rhule, whose team managed to look like 53 guys who were meeting for the first time in the first half only to be let down, once they figured things out, by their coach’s decision-making at the most critical moment in the second. Just when McCaffrey got rolling, getting the Panthers down to the Browns’ 14-yard line, a fumbled snap — one of several by Baker Mayfield on the day in his Carolina debut, including one that McCaffrey picked up off the ground and ran with — cost the Panthers a down. Then, instead of even taking a shot at the end zone, they ran a pair of give-up runs inside and sent out Eddy Piniero, a late-camp replacement for the injured Zane Gonzalez, to kick a field goal with 67 seconds still on the clock. Rhule and Mayfield said afterward that they were run-pass options that ended up runs, but either way, the failure to be more aggressive with the game on the line showed a lack of faith in an offense that finally found its groove — and would prove fatal. The Browns had run the ball almost at will all day, but with no timeouts, they were stuck relying on Jacoby Brissett to take them down the field. The Panthers thought they had a better chance of stopping Brissett than trying to punch the ball in themselves. A 58-yard field goal later, they found themselves in the wrong. Rhule even walked away with a timeout in his pocket after the Panthers got the ball back with 8 seconds to go, for all the world looking like a guy pulling a Full Costanza after finding out the Nebraska job was open. If the Panthers had any trophies, he’d be dragging them around the parking lot right now. That, at least, would have been a Rhule decision fans could get behind. It was remarkable, to be sure, the Panthers had a chance to win this game at all. They were booed off the field in the second quarter, Mayfield bounced five passes off his former teammates and threw a sixth directly to one, and McCaffrey was merely a rumor until midway through the second half. Their best offensive play in the first quarter was a roughing-the-passer penalty on the Browns. CBS, at one point, caught owner David Tepper with the same expression on his face as every Panthers fan. They had no right to be in a game they ended up leading in the final two minutes. But in it they were, with Mayfield finding his groove and zinging a 75-yard touchdown pass to Robbie Anderson, a one-play touchdown drive, and McCaffrey thriving in space and the defense getting stops. A restless, unhappy crowd finally had reason to cheer. If Burns had been able to keep away from Brissett’s helmet, the Browns’ last drive might have ended with a stop, too, and the game with it. “It’s encouraging that we were able to turn it on,” Burns said. “It could have been a whole lot worse than what happened.” So it’s all the more disappointing that the small-minded approach to the final two minutes left the Panthers in an all-too-familiar position when they were on the verge of starting fresh, riding Mayfield and a healthy McCaffrey to a very un-Panthers win, only to end up with a very ur-Panthers loss.

Exactly And that, is why I am livid amazingly, he was not directly asked that question in the press conference today he has zero, I mean zero, game management skills at the nfl level

I guess ole Rhule stopped using his ‘analytics’ Analytics aside, he is gutless

Yep he was so relaxed in his press conference…almost makes one think he has another job already if I was a HC that made the freaking Browns look like rock stars, I can assure I would not have had that demeanor

Yeah, he also missed a block that caused CMC to get totally blown up in the backfield he has been in the league long enough to be able to understand the play and block his man. cmc had a lot of running room had he made that block

I thought your question was about the Reid coaching tree. Didn’t realize you were only thinking about offense specifically the truth is Reid is the offense

I was at the game so it was hard to tell what was going on I watched the replay today and my god, that offensive line was bad, even Moton and OC did zero to help Ickey. They carry all these damned TEs and they couldn’t put one in the backfield to help block …and that defense is horrid Just horrid It is going to be a long year if it gets Rhule out of here, that would be worth it. What NFL coach with 1 min plus left, that can get a first down inside the five plays for a damned FG..depending in a defense that stopped them all day It is mind boggling god help me

That last drive should have been Rhule”s swan song here Didn’t even try to pick up a first down vs playing for a FG and leaving so much time on the clock he is a total joke as a nfl coach I don’t listen to his his press conferences anymore. Full of bullshit and criticizing others instead of himself.

How about the Bills HC. He was Andy’s guy fir a long time

The day he was hired he had zero resume for a nfl job too, never, ever hire a nfl coach that talks too much.

Because…that caused the defense to allow 217 yards rushing no pressure on the QB not being able to wrap on tackle an ol that was horrible a qb who couldn’t take a snap not using the star player…their only star more than 14 times a coach who didn’t declare his starter qb and his starting line until the last preseason game (for one qtr) the list goes on and one but yeah, the refs ‘screwed them’. The organization screwed themselves hiring Rhule

It’s like he doesn’t know 50 yard field goals are routine in the nfl and his defense was a sieve all day he is the worst coach in the nfl he doesn’t belong with the big boys

Yep said that when it happened

Women know

He earned it and continues to ask yourself. What has he done for the past 6 months ? 6 months

16 more games I’d sat Rhule once again tanked my ticket candy

Wishful thinking good coaches play for a win. Not a fg with a defense that had stopped no one all day