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A lot of posters thinking all the second team reps serve no purpose other than to develop Corral. Ever consider that the coaches are evaluating other twos and needed some form of credible QB play to do so. No reason to risk Baker/Sam and PJ probably gave them the best look at everyone else.

Beyond the team regressing last year the biggest concern is how completely unprepared we looked. Compounded with Rhule looking completely lost on the sidelines on multiple occasions and people rightfully started to recognize he and his staff were in over their head. If he wants to finish this year as Panthers HC then he better at least know the rules of the game and where the game clock is situated in his field of view. There were embarrassments last year that just aren't acceptable for a professional football coach and that's not even considering how embarrassing the fugging team was.

There are degrees of sucking though. Right now we're 2001/2010 sucking level.

We have no core. CMC is glass. DJ is the best WR2 in the NFL or a low end WR1. Everyone else on offense is either JAG or worse. Shaq, Burns, Reddick, Djax and Gilmore are above replacement and Horn flashed, but he has to prove it all again after injury. Everyone else is JAG or worse. ST is a disaster. Having traded our 2nd and 3rd picks next year. We’re saddled with either Rhulegime for another year or a new coaching staff with a total gutting likely. Certainly a delicate cap situation with how much money is committed to CMC and our deluge of rotten QBs. We’d have to catch lightning in a bottle to be relevant any time in the near future. Tampa isn’t going away until Tom retires. Green Bay won’t go away until Aaron retires. God forbid but Dallas looks solid. LA is a contender, Seattle is always a wild card. SF is a wild card. Arizona is ahead of us, could probably argue Chicago and Washington are as well. Hell, even New Orleans and Atlanta can make a case they’re no worse than us. That’s just the NFC. It took 5 years after drafting Cam to be a legit contender and it didn’t last long. With that said we went from 1-15 in 2001 to nearly winning a Super Bowl in 2003. So there’s a case for a quick turnaround and the NFL certainly has plenty of examples. Right now the team feels like the Browns though. Just cycling through possible solutions so quickly that you never even know if there was potential in patience.

We are complete trash. Zero identity. If Rhule’s plan could be perfectly executed I don’t even know what that’s supposed to look like. We threaten no one, and outside our fanbase are a laughing stock. If we win everyone else wonders what went wrong with the team we beat or how weird the ball must have bounced. There are no leaders, no answers, only doubt, complacency and questions. The only entertainment provided by the Panthers is the slim humor found in the comedy of errors from the sidelines to the yard lines. We’re not close either. We’re not a coach away, a player away, execution away, schedule, luck, calls, we are infinity away. It’s a travesty. A moldy basement. An ex girlfriend. I need a secondary team at this point or the NFL is just basically dead for me. I’m thinking it’s going to be Arizona for now. They’re real similar to us, hit or miss, mostly miss. Low expectations, and oddly have often been decent in the same years we were also decent. Uggg, lots of drinks, probably drunk. But the Panthers are awful, I’m certain of it.

We could use a bingo hopper to pull plays and have more creativity. Come to think of it, this might be what Brady is doing.

Sometimes I accidentally click into a BigKat thread too.

<tinfoil> Many times I've felt the tug of conspiracy watching NFL. It can all be so easily manipulated with just a couple of flags at the right time. The way Denver was allowed to murder Cam in the Superbowl and subsequent season opener really had me questioning was it even worth watching. If manipulation is occurring then I submit it's on a smaller scale, targeting a specific team like the Panthers, or even specific players like Cam. I don't believe it's happening on a league narrative level. If it were the Cowboys would have won something by now. (Unless the league has been trying hard to give it to Dallas and they still somehow fug it up?) </tinfoil>

Nothing to argue here other than Brady might be slightly more predictable than the sun rising. At least a sunrise can be obscured slightly by clouds. The sun rises from different points on the horizon as the year advances. Additionally in extreme latitudes there is no sunlight at all for much of the year. These small deviations might just make the sun less predictable than Joe Brady.

I disagree. You go into every season trying to put together the best roster you can at every position. Trying to put parts of a team in place before addressing other needs is sticking you head in the sand to injuries. At any moment in time your perfectly assembled line that's now ready for a QB could be decimated, as we've seen with our line this year. Starting 3rd stringers is going to be ugly on any team. Also, you never know when you'll catch lightning in a bottle and have a team that plays beyond expectations. Do we need oline upgrades? Absolutely. Do you forsake other needs until you have it? Absolutely not.

Using a gambling analogy to describe your football coaching plan is truly odd. You double down when a successful outcome is HIGHLY in your favor. Any other use of doubling down usually results in a bigger loss. Sounds like Rhule loses a lot of money in Vegas.

This is exactly how the NFL wants it. I became convinced that NFL officiating is influencing the narrative of the league after Super Bowl 50. It's not always subtle either. But the most glaring evidence is the willful rejection of technology that would guarantee the right call was made. Instead they try to frame it as some sentimental or authentic aspect of the game that would somehow reduce the purity of the product on the field. I'm not saying the NFL is rigged, but I am suggesting that officials have great power to manipulate the outcomes and the NFL seems happy to leave it that way.

Still waiting on the Jets to cut our real savior so we finally rebuild proper. But I nominate you nameless future ex-Jet, newly anointed Panther savior. You don’t know it yet but we already have our eyes on you!

All I know is he looks darn old.

That was a ridiculously bad coaching decision regardless of who our kicker is. Our defense was playing too good to be scared of attempting a 50 yarder in the NFL. Also, if you don't think your kicker has a decent shot from 50 what in flying hell is he doing on a NFL roster?

Slide 14, otherwise known as KK's kicks hahaha, KK's grin and #12 in the background make this photo damn near priceless IMO.

Fantastic defensive series, but come'on Bene!

WTF was that REF thinking? WTF WTF

When your record would be a two score lead in a game things are going well! Great post Philly!

Sounds like this all started with the kid just wanting an autograph. Why not just sign an autograph? If things escalate from a guy wanting your signature to a physical altercation then the best path may not have been chosen.

I'm not going to bother supporting the following statement with stats, hopefully common sense will be enough. In the NFL the better team wins an overwhelming amount of the time. Thus it's not surprising that the better teams end up in the playoffs each year. Carolina is better than Miami by a wide margin at this point in time. Cam > Tannehill (Tannehill is a ..good.. developing young QB, but this isn't even close.) Smith/Lafell/Ginn/Olsen > Wallace/Hartline/Matthews/Clay (Wallace would compete for best WR on the field but as a group I give our guys the edge) Williams/Stewart/Tolbert/Cam > Miller/Thomas (Miami's running game is respectable but Cam puts us over the top here again) Offensive line (Carolina grades out better in every meaningful category, Martin and Incognito both gone now as well) Defense (Does this merit any discussion whatsoever? ) Special Teams (Field Goal % Carolina, Touchbacks Carolina, Punting Miami, Returns Push) Summary, Carolina is better over the entire field. Biggest concerns Carolina will have on defense, don't let Wallace blow the top off our secondary, seriously doubt protection will hold up long enough for that to happen anyway. On offense....Cameron Wake. Overall, be disciplined on Special teams and don't allow Miami to change the game cheaply and protect the ball. Do these things and the better team will win...Carolina!