The offensive performance in Nashville today is unacceptable. To get four turnovers and only put a late TD on the board when the game is out of reach is not NFL quality offense.
David Carr is completely unfit as a QB. To repeatedly put him in 2nd and 3rd and long passing situations is moronic. To refuse to put Steve Smith back to return punts in a close game like this is idiotic. Fire Danny Crossman while we are at it.
This team is 4-4 and going absolutely nowhere. The Saints team everyone confidently counted out of the season are also 4-4 and face a much easier road going forward. Tampa Bay is sitting quite pretty at 5-4, waiting for the toothless Panthers to show up in Florida.
The OL is a wreck, the DL a joke, and LBs only sporadically effective. The DBs still cannot cover crossing patterns and our WRs outside of #89 are of arena league quality. Our RBs cannot find holes.
If John Fox does not give Matt Moore the first-team work this week and activate WR Dwayne Jarrett, he should be fired as well — but never will be by the Richardson clan who are quite happy to put a sub-par product on the field so long as it turns a little profit. Fans need to remember that only the abject horror of 1-15 provided the motivation to try something different. 4-12 this year might be enough, but it may require 2-14 next year for a complete overhaul.
The front-office and ownership are ultimately the root problem with the Panthers — which explains why the clueless Uptown paper of record zeroes in on the players as the primary performance problem. Because the paper’s reporters and editors know that only their access gives them any advantage over non-credentialed analysis of the Panthers, they absolutely, positively will never put that access at risk by criticizing the Panther brain-trust and check-signers.
I’ll be at the Atlanta game. I fully expect it to be the last $250 I spend on the Panthers for two or three seasons.
