Those 3rd and long draw plays I hate so much?

Yeah, the Panthers ripped off one for 30 yard and another for 32 yards and a touchdown. Yeah.

Penalties, Rookie Mistakes, Turnovers, and the O-Line

Overall, the D made tackles when they got a hand on someone. Despite the score they played hard (I was worried about that).

We shot ourselves in the foot when the O was already at a disadvantage.

Not sure Herb is better than Mac at this point.

WTF was the coverage where our blitz was burnt for the TD?

Mouthy Steve Smith got his clock cleaned twice (and I was hoping he wouldn’t get back up).

Fire Herm and Carl and put a real management team in charge of the rebuilding movement.

I’m sorry, but there’s no way you can tell me that the head coach had a clue of how to prepare this team for this game. Rich Gannon had a comment from Herm where he apparently said he told his players to “not be perfectionists” and to “go out and just play” and my immediate thought was “Yeah, this definitely looks like a team that isn’t trying to be perfect…or even good”.

Herm’s a loser and a team-killer.

This game was the perfect example of why Herm has no idea what he is doing anymore. The playcalls were predictable and terrible. The players weren’t motivated at all. My conspiracy theory is that the Chiefs players have given up in order to get new management and a new coach and that they came out to play last week for the fans one last time this season. Did we pass once on 1st down?

pisses me off too. It’s not LJ, its our line and whomever we revolve taking snaps. You can’t make lemonade outta thin air

We all knew we would be terrible this year. Now, some weeks we’ll suck more than others, and this appears to be one of the suckier ones, but losing is losing.

I’m really not mad at all. I’m not necessarily optimistic, one of the options, because I am starting to seriously doubt whether we can ever do anything with Herm Edwards. I love his commitment to youth, and it was necessary for us to truly compete for a Super Bowl in the near-future-ish, but the whole commitment could be entirely ruined by such an imcompetent GM/Coach tandem.

Carl needs to go, Herm needs to go. Neither in the middle of the season, but this offseason they both need to go and we need to find ourselves a good, young coach. I’d rather stay away from the Bill Cowher-sorta mold, but I’ll take him if he wants to come. But I’d much rather go for a young, offensive genius-type (with Jason Garrett being the obvious target, if he is willing to come; if not him, there are a handful of others to consider…Lane Kiffin, maybe?) to build this offense. Let them pick up a QB that they think is a Super Bowl-caliber QB and develop him and continue the youth movement.

Herm isn’t the answer. Carl isn’t either. I think Herm did play a role in this whole thing, with him being willing to blow up the entire team and go all the way with youth, but I also think that he has very little chance of being ‘the guy’ for us to take the next step and be a perennial playoff contender.

So, as far as your question goes, I’m not angry, really. I expected this coming into the season. We all know Damon Huard is terrible. Thiggy, while young and exciting, ain’t much better, if at all. But I’m also not optimistic, at least as long as Herm and Carl are in charge.

So what do you think about the Panthers? How do you think they can go? Playoffs? Superbowl? Sea of tranquility?

You heard it from me… yes, me Goldzone. Bill Cowher was sighted catching a late flight outta NY to head to Texas. In Texas on Monday meeting with who? I wonder

I am just numb, I no longer feel angry or embarassed after a loss like that because I feel like it is useless. This team will look like this all year.

I don’t know what is wrong with the run D, but the pass D’s problem is that there is absolutly NO pass rush. You could have the best secondary of all time back there and if you give the QB five minutes to throw he is going to find someone open.

My list of concerns by position is:
1. pass rushing DE (they help the entire D so much)
2. More O-line talent
3. QB (I just want an average one at this point)
4. MLB