Carolina Panthers Discussion Forum

<r> 28-6 Saints at New Orleans, with minimal offense. <br/> Defense held their part up, certainly early, but a punt block gave the Saints an easy score, and the Saints converted in the red zone at least some of the time; despite the intent on complimentary football, I feel like some Chris Tabor choi...

<r> Carolina's 2023 guts are hanging on the table, and as expected, the media eventually covered it.  Most of this comes from The Athletic (Dianna Russini, their lead analyst and also beat writer Joe Person), to which I'm just piecing stuff together.  I have read it but do not have a subscription. W...

<r> Carolina will switch from Spartanburg to Charlotte for training camp, the team says. Excepting the inaugural COVID year of 2020, camp has been at Wofford College for the entire history of the team.   The move comes with an announcement of upgrading practice fields, which comes after an earlier d...

<r> Greg Olsen came up as either a guy interested in the Carolina job or sought for the Carolina job. I love Greg but let's not do this. Seasoned coaches only, for now. Greg, were he to find value in it, would be a great coach if he followed the channels into coaching.  He could become a position co...

<r> Mike McCarthy's festive appendix reminded me of something unlikely - he ended up being the best that Carolina interviewed in 2020. We possibly learn for the future, by learning from the past: 62-39, he still has his team.  And they're good right now. McCarthy didn't have the best chance - he was...

<r> I'm rolling through some possibilities for 2024 that haven't been interviewed here before.  A few more, hopefully, will follow.    Let's talk Mike MacDonald, Ravens. Currently 36, which has to be enticing. Second year DC - but, killing it.  Having been under John Harbaugh hasn't been the worst t...

<r> Another fresh coaching candidate.  My premise in part is, since they've had two hiring cycles in four years, and an OC change in another, that there are a lot of guys out there you have told 'no'.  Find some new ones. Enter Bobby Slowik.  Houston Texans OC.   Came with Demeco Ryans from the 49er...

<r> Very much the same as before, it's time to look at 2024 with fresh eyes and not the same old prospects.   So I give you, Brian Johnson. Now, this isn't the AC/DC singer, this is the coach; yet another 36 year old, he's a hair older (he'll be 37 before the draft).  Johnson was highly sought by th...

<r> Dennis Allen might be doomed if he can't pull up from 5-7.  Carolina's already doomed. This one, at Carolina, will have to be hard-fought.  In concept, stopping a lot of what NO does is remedied by the 2-deep shell Carolina likes. That would in concept provide the reach to Alvin Kamara and to Ji...

<r> Since I paid the first amount of attention to football stragegy I've noticed how often individual play calling gets criticized for overall strategy (micro v/s macro, I suppose?), and versus execution. That leaves me with the final drive this week.  Set the stage - Carolina 31, 3:31 to go, down t...