This off-season will be the most pessimistic the fanbase has ever been if Rhule is brought back for a third season.

[hepcat]

I can’t believe it’s come to this but here we are watching David Tepper and the Panthers brass staring down the legit possibility of inexplicably keeping a massively overpaid, woefully unqualified fraud of a head coach to lead the Panthers to yet another miserable losing season. 

I really hope all the recent media squeaking about Rhule being retained for a third season is smoke and mirrors. The fanbase clearly isn’t happy with FIRE RHULE chants breaking out in the concourse at the freaking Hornets games.

But sadly it needs to be said. Rhule and his staff are clearly in over their heads and the fanbase isn’t ready to wait around for them to fix the litany of issues they caused that even a random bozo on Twitter with an IQ of 85 could see were bad ideas. Like trading for Sam freaking Darnold who was the worst QB in the NFL his first 3 seasons and oh wow let’s pick up his $19m option before he even plays a down for the team! Brilliant!

Or better yet let’s hire a head coach to a massive 7 year $62m deal when he NEVER BEAT A RANKED TEAM IN THREE YEARS at his previous college job. 0-11 vs ranked teams, but I guess Marty Hurney really liked Matt Rhule’s wife’s meatballs so why the hell not, back up the Brinks truck Teppy!

Now the team continues to embarrass themselves by showing the world 60 minute liquid brown diarrhea performances every Sunday. The team lost its final 10 of 12 games, many of which in blowout fashion. But I guess we just can’t see the progress. Or the super secret “Process” no one really knows about. 

Bottom line, if the Panthers really are going keep Matt Rhule for another trip around the sun, it is going to be a miserable off-season of pessimism and vitriol not only among the fanbase but I have to imagine the team as well. Matt Stafford straight up gave this team the middle finger last year when they tried to trade for him. Dude knew a dumpster fire when he saw one. Who wants to play for a head coach that doesn’t make halftime adjustments and couldn’t outcoach Tom freaking Herman at Houston OR Texas? How do you expect a guy like that to win in the NFL???

It might be the worst off-season to be a Panthers fan in team history because you just know these guys are going to f*ck it up! You just know it! What’s next for Matty Rhule’s traveling brigade of foolish decisions? Hiring the Baylor women’s tennis coach as offensive coordinator? It honestly wouldn’t surprise me! Matt’s 3rd grade best friend Bongo McQueefhole will probably get an interview. 

I honestly don’t really care what they do anymore. I don’t have any faith in the leadership to make good decisions. They could get an A++ from every football pundit for every off-season transaction and draft pick they make. But I know that if Rhule is back coaching those players, the team will be constantly unprepared on game day, be incapable of adjusting to the changes other teams make, and QUIT in games where they’re clearly in over their heads.

Bring in an NFL level coaching staff, Panthers. Or it’s going to be a VERY negative off-season in Charlotte. And that’s not going to help anyone. 

[L-TownCat]

He’ll be back, and he won’t make it to October.

[Reebis21]

Can u imagine working in Ticket Sales if Rhule is brought back? I feel for those people.

[SizzleBuzz]

22 minutes ago, Reebis21 said:

Can u imagine working in Ticket Sales if Rhule is brought back? I feel for those people.

 

82.8% of all Panthers tickets are already pre-sold through PSL's...

...good gig if you can get it.

Edited January 6, 2022 by SizzleBuzz

[Cdw]

I'm just clinging to the hope that Tepper can't be dumb enough to keep Rhule around another year.  He just can't be that dumb.  I refuse to belive it.  God, we're fuged.

[onmyown]

who cares? Rhule already gutted the draft and cap and fuged 2022 for this franchise

it really doesn’t matter

what does matter is he be not allowed to do poo with 2023 draft or give out any big contracts - now that happening, I will be livid about

he’s chosen his ‘process’ if he must be back make him stay on track

ive seriously never heard someone’s plan or process is to continually change directions. You’d think anyone can see that’s BS

[X-Clown on 1]

Are we just going to glaze over that Matt Rhule has a best friend named Bongo McQueefhole?

[kungfoodude]

Show up in 2022 and boo lustily. You want to make your voices heard, make it uncomfortable for the announcers and ownership. Make them not be able to avoid it.

[hepcat]

2 hours ago, X-Clown on 1 said:

Are we just going to glaze over that Matt Rhule has a best friend named Bongo McQueefhole?

Wish I could fire emoji this twice 

[Waldo]

It's boo time.

Watching the videos of fans chanting to fire Rhule at the NBA game was great. Carolina fans showing out and looking more galvanized that they have since 2015 is the only positive to be found. The wine and cheese crowd will hate all of this, fantastic.

Maybe it's another step towards having a real fanbase that we just have never had here. JR regulated the stadium so hard that booing could get you kicked out by a yellow shirt. Cheer and boo, it's all just feedback and it needs to be heard or we will see the same BS year in and out like we have.

[hepcat]

1 minute ago, Waldo said:

It's boo time.

Watching the videos of fans chanting to fire Rhule at the NBA game was great. Carolina fans showing out and looking more galvanized that they have since 2015 is the only positive to be found. The wine and cheese crowd will hate all of this, fantastic.

Maybe it's another step towards having a real fanbase that we just have never had here. JR regulated the stadium so hard that booing could get you kicked out by a yellow shirt. Cheer and boo, it's all just feedback and it needs to be heard or we will see the same BS year in and out like we have.

In Philly or Oakland (back in the day) the security guards wouldn’t even try to remove a booing fan because they’d get their asses kicked. The yellow shirt guys aren’t trying to get a black eye to remove someone for booing. Panthers fans might be getting to that level of angry!

[Waldo]

Just now, hepcat said:

In Philly or Oakland (back in the day) the security guards wouldn’t even try to remove a booing fan because they’d get their asses kicked. The yellow shirt guys aren’t trying to get a black eye to remove someone for booing. Panthers fans might be getting to that level of angry!

I'm not needing to be Philly but that was some BS. The 'you are standing and interrupting the other fans' is still here for sure. It's a freaking boo and chant, how is that much different than a wave or cheering?

[Khyber53]

This team, under Rhule's direction and Tepper's ownership, has become a dog poo smeared tennis shoe. 

No one wants to wear it.

No one thinks the ones who did it can possibly clean it up.

No one wants to admit it, but it might be time to just chuck the shoe and get some new ones.

 

[beo]

I'm more worried about the personnel side of things than anything, though 2022 will also be another lost season if he's the coach. If we bring Rhule back I'm worried that we give Reddick a 18-20m a year megadeal and then have no money to sign anyone else with (generally 10m or so goes to the draft, and we have 28m). Our future gets grimmer every day he remains employed. We still have money clearing next offseason so its not completely unsalvageable and if we act now we won't have to start over again, but I don't know if I have faith in Tepper to act.

We could've gave that Robby contract to Stephon Gilmore (maybe a bit more on the money side of things) if we had simply been patient, but we just had to pre-emptively extend him because he played at Temple.