Optimism is for other teams. The 2023 are worse than the 2018-2022 Carolina Panthers. They were all losing teams, but this team is in the running for the worst in franchise history. I don’t know if anybody is going to get fired heading into the long weekend, but it wouldn’t surprise me either way. Just like it wouldn’t surprise me that anybody hired to replace Scott Fitterer, Frank Reich, or any of their employees ended up being less effective than the current regime.
This franchise has been in search of an identity, whether they knew it or not, since 2018 and the only one they have come up with is a collection of compounding mistakes.