We are not tanking. Might as well get over that notion.

[Icege]

10-6, coach of the year :D

I'm still a little drunk from last night's fantasy draft, but I STILL BELIEVE

[Davidson Deac II]

19 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Mehhhhhhhhhhh! 

They have multiple championships. People aren't talking about copying cheating, as you should know.

All we have to do is use a 6th round draft pick to get one of the best qb's of all time.  Piece of cake.  

[top dawg]

Tanking is a preposterous notion for a professional football team. It's barely worth discussing with any seriousness. Only on message boards by somewhat irrational fans.

As for how well we do, expectations should be set according to the situation. Our team is inexperienced. The roster even moreso! The defense even more than the offense. No one from the coaches to the players have had adequate time to gel as a unit! The only thing that will enable us to win at all is pure excellence and/or pure luck, and perhaps the familiarity of Brady and Bridgewater, and the ability for the veteran "skill positions" on offense like Brady, CMC, and Anderson to "professional" (and yes, this will be probably the only time you see this adjective intentionally used as a verb) us to a win!

So, I don't know how many we'll win or lose, but I know when I see promise (kind of like Newton's first game against the Cards), and I do know when that "aha" feeling comes rushing to the forefront of my dome, it is legit! So win or lose, I'm just going to observe and let the natural instincts guide me as to what I'm seeing. I've been watching this game in earnest over 40 years now, so I know the difference between bullsh¡t and legit! 

[top dawg]

14 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

All we have to do is use a 6th round draft pick to get one of the best qb's of all time.  Piece of cake.  

Well, I'm not gonna lie, that helps!

Funny thing is, you still have people that don't want to give TB12 his due.

[mrcompletely11]

17 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

All we have to do is use a 6th round draft pick to get one of the best qb's of all time.  Piece of cake.  

And just as important he always negotiated team friendly deals so they could field a really competitive team around him.  

[LinvilleGorge]

18 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

All we have to do is use a 6th round draft pick to get one of the best qb's of all time.  Piece of cake.  

Gotta make sure he marries a supermodel raking in more than he is too so that he continually signs team friendly deals making his cap hit that of an average starting QB.

[Baskinridge]

Hoping this organization looks more like the Pats than the Jags reminds me of when people were comping Kyle Allen to Brady lol. I mean sure, you hope against hope but the Panthers are what they are and never do well stuck in that 6-7 “win now” mediocrity mode. The last time this franchise became relevant and had some decent success was taking a chance on a top college prospect out of Auburn with the first pick. Hard to ignore that fact.
 

Maybe this coaching staff can prove differently and not require that route, but I guess we’ll see.

[Moo Daeng]

Tanking is only the realm of message board losers.

Imagine one of these dorks telling Cam, CMC, Luke, Smitty  to tank. Lol

[MHS831]

There is nothing wrong with tanking.  Photographic support for this hypothesis:

 

[Panthera onca]

No way does a first year NFL head coach try to tank. He wants to instill a winning culture in the players and tanking sends the wrong message. Maybe with all the rooks on D we unintentionally tank but no one in the organization is trying to lose so we can draft Sunshine.

[jfra78]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Rhule was 2-10 in his first season at Temple. He was 1-12 in his first year at Baylor. He's walking into a similar dumpster fire here. He completely tears down to completely rebuild. Call it tanking, call it rebuilding, it's just semantics. The end result is a lot of L's in the first year.

This isnt college, you don't have to turn around a bad program

[Moo Daeng]

5 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

This isnt college, you don't have to turn around a bad program

Exactly. That should be obvious. 

[LinvilleGorge]

7 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

This isnt college, you don't have to turn around a bad program

You're right. It's harder to do at the NFL level.

[Moo Daeng]

9 minutes ago, carhartt said:

Believe what you want but we are not winning 6 games. The roster is bad with a bunch of coaches from Baylor. 

Last years dumpster fire won 5 so anything is possible.