Panthers' Season an "Avalanche"

[Ruff]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – You know that lockout that everybody keeps saying might be coming in 2011? It’s already started for at least one National Football League team.

That’s the Carolina Panthers.

They’re 0-5. They’ve got a lame-duck coach. They’ve got absolutely no offense and a defense that already is almost worn out. They’ve got absolutely nothing positive going for them right now.

Why?

You could say Carolina owner Jerry Richardson already has locked out his franchise and his fan base. If you want to see what an autumn Sunday without NFL games looks like, look no further than what happened in Bank of America Stadium in a game that will go down in the books as a 23-6 victory by the Chicago Bears over the Panthers. But that was not NFL football.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/14070/14070

[bigdog10]

well, that was a delightful read.

Can't really argue with any of it, just disappointed it has come to this.

[mav1234]

I like his articles, heh.

[usmcpanthers]

good ol' media kicking us when we were are down and re hashing things we already know. Espn is loving it, they have never liked us

[FuzzyDuck13]

Panthers suck.

More at 11.

[Mother Grabber]

Yeah, but his has quotes in it...

[CRA]

Yas is on the money unfortunately.

[mav1234]

he really wants to interview richardson, has been pushing hard for it for a few weeks.

not gonna happen. JR is willing to burn this season for the future...

we'll see if it pays off down the line.

[Cat'sGrowl]

I think the end of the season will be pretty dang near bottom.

This team has talent.

They just don't have experience.

[ChucktownK]

[Sloth]

Great article by Yas.

[pantherfan81]

“Something has to change,’’ defensive end Everette Brown said.

No doubt, but do the current collection of people who coach and play for the Panthers have the wherewithal to suddenly stop the avalanche? I don’t see it.

There’s really only one guy who can stop the avalanche. That’s Richardson. Again, we don’t know exactly what he’s thinking and you have to believe some of what he’s doing is to prepare his franchise for a lockout.

But the avalanche keeps coming and it sure seems like there is a non-stop blizzard at the top of the mountain.

That sums it up. Hoy vay

[Ruff]

That sums it up. Hoy vay

I pretty much thought the same thing.

I think the most telling sign of the whole article, though, was when it said "Sir Purr shrugged his shoulders".

[Squirrel]

You cant copy the whole article.