“Consensus” =/= “unanimous.”

Lol I love when fans on this board act like the Panthers have had some sort of phenomenal success and we should all grovel in gratitude. Whoa me oh my, two SB appearances, yes, very nice, hang the banners. Atlanta has lost two Super Bowls since 1995 too and I don’t see anyone saying nice things about them here. Now do the part about no back to back winning seasons, the abundance of 7-9 records, and the <33% of the time the franchise has had a reliable/healthy QB.

Just because they aren’t the Browns or Bengals or Lions doesn’t mean they are some paragon of success. The entire history of the Carolina Panthers is mid as fuck. Also, two of those historically putrid franchises are poised to eat our lunch for the next decade…

I don’t like Florio but I find it eminently believable that the owner held an outsized amount of influence on who went 1.1, directly or indirectly. This fanbase often struggles with the concept of “two things can be true.”

Forget where I read it (last few days have been a whirlwind of nationally covered Panthers stories, which is…not the norm) but someone somewhere made a pretty decent point on Bryce being the “unanimous” pick as MR TEPPER claimed in his presser. If you’re BuckFitty, Morgan, Reich, anyone on the scouting staff, etc., you are not going to voice a dissenting opinion in the war room that Stroud (or AR, or whoever) is the pick when ol’ Brass Balls already made his opinion clear. Same as the Jones failsons and their reports don’t speak up over Jerruh. You don’t have to issue a mandate to influence opinion when you’re the owner.

Think about it this way. What are the odds that among the GM, assistant GM, coaching staff, college scouts, etc, it was truly unanimous that Bryce was the pick? I mean, there were still conflicting reports on who was going to go right up until draft night – obviously some of that was smoke, but when you have 1.1 and aren’t looking to trade, what’s the need for smoke? I find it pretty intellectually dishonest to think that an entire NFL FO came to the exact same opinion on a group of non-generational QB prospects. Not one Stroud or AR vote in the room? Or a Will Anderson/Jalen Carter guy to mix things up? I find that pretty hard to believe tbh.

Cue the downvotes in 3, 2, 1…

Had me nodding along up until Howell lol.

Lol I do not understand how you can say this franchise has historically overachieved by any metric given that they’ve had seven winning seasons/eight playoff appearances in 28 years. Maybe you’re too young to remember, but the 97-2002 stretch was pretty bleak and eerily similar to the past six seasons: no answers at QB, overall mediocre rosters, poor drafting, etc. At least in 2002 we landed an amazing rookie in Pep, put out a top 5 defense, and had a nice receiver pairing in Moose and 89.

One one hand, this is nice. On the other, his aDOT is 6.4 and DFL in the league amongst QB1s. He’s ahead of Bagent and DeVito and behind everyone else. So he better be pretty GD accurate if he’s dinking and dunking all day.

Bro, did you fall asleep in 2018 and never wake up?! This stretch of disappointment extends wayyy beyond September. This team HAS NEVER HAD BACK TO BACK WINNING SEASONS IN THE HISTORY OF THE FRANCHISE. On the doorstep of 30 years of being down bad.

Some of y’all are happy to get pissed on and tell the rest of the fanbase it’s raining. I don’t want to be the Chiefs or the Eagles, I’d settle for being, like, the GD Jaguars.

What makes the owner look worse, firing the guy he hired eight months ago or continuing to lose while rolling out the league’s worst offense? I think he has little brain recency bias so while I initially felt like Reich would get the whole year no matter what, I’m not feeling as confident in that these days.

If Reich gets the chop, Fitt better go too. Let Caldwell be HC with Brown calling plays/OC and Evero stays focused on defense. See what you have roster wise and open up the gd playbook, for the love of god.