Toes on the line; Field Goal Shift; Victory Slam; Roughing the Center and False Start on the Defense.

We went from Cover 2 Defense to Cover Nobody Defense. Monty would be proud.

When all else fails, just run it up the middle.

Oh yeah, we’re good.

It will be interesting to see if he will even hire a strong football man to fix that mess. The roster is poorly built (two RBs, one being nearly 30 years old making top dollar, seriously), never getting a complement for Steve Smith in the passing game, and the defense is peppered with average to slightly above average players when the one beast you had (Peppers) is now making the Bear defensive line arguably the best in football.

Considering the reports of how he condescendingly spoke to respected players like Manning and Brees during the CBA negotiations, I wonder where such a poor franchise makeup stems from? I’m going to guess it begins and ends with Jerry Richardson.

I’ve always thought it was a little weird when a GM gets the axe midseason. The only thing I can think of is that the owner has someone else in mind and needs to get a jump on him.

Lmfao what an idiot, I didn’t know Newton could fire Marty H. Hurney overstayed his welcome, JR was the idiot to keep him around when he should have been let go with Fox after 2010.

“how about instead of pouting and blaming everyone else you stop turning the ball over and play like a real qb should.”

Blaming everyone else? He clearly stated how he needs to improve etc. At least his press conference has gotten better over the past 2-3 weeks unlike the Giants game.

remember at the beginning of the season people had the Panthers in the playoffs and said Miami would be the worst team in football because they have the least talent, a rookie qb who everyone said would not be that good is out playing your star qb who every one deemed “the one” with less talent around him. what a joke.

Miami Dolphins and Philadelphia Eagles fans

You want to talk about a front office going out and overpaying to keep the few quality players they did have but you need to understand the free agency moves were not why Carolina isn’t winning; it’s the fact that the Panthers have been unable to build through the draft. Look at their starting defense for crying out loud. CAPTAIN MUNNERLYN is still a starting cornerback. This falls ENTIRELY on Hurney for the lack of talent they have on the field. Both John Fox and Ron Rivera were severely handicapped by this awful drafting.

I get it in theory that the buck stops with Mr. Richardson – but it was pretty clear that Peppers wanted to leave (which I suspect had more to do with the head coach at the time – Fox – than anything else) and no amount of revisionist history will change that. I as a fan appreciate the loyalty the Richardson shows to productive, quality, high character players. After the nightmares/tragedies/failures of Rae Carruth, Fred Lane, Jason Peters, etc. – it’s a little hard for to throw rocks at the Williams and Stewart contracts.

It’s about time for some new blood and fresh eyes in the GM’s office – I would love to see them find a young hungry guy like Grigson in Indy to inject some new thinking and finding some real quality in the later rounds of the draft.

Back to the story, yeah Hurney is the fall guy, but they are not going anywhere with Newton and Rivera. Newton has promise, but Rivera is in over his head.

Doing JP like that was the last straw.