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Bringing you part two of this week’s fan mailbag! Come see answers to your questions!
Hello Panthers fans! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly CSR mailbag for everyone! This week’s topic of the week was addressing questions about the coaching staff and the future of the team. Most questions were coaching focused, however we covered a wide range of Panthers related subjects. To recap, this piece is part two of our weekly fan mailbag, where we answer commented questions from the Brian Asks piece from earlier in the week. That is your place to ask your questions, whether they be Panthers related, football related, or even completely off topic (killing me with the lack of food questions this week)! Let's dive in!
Bull123: read that coach is pushing XL to get back on the field...is he gonna be anything more than a mediocre player for us?
will brooks ever see the field for us again?
Xavier Legette was mentioned as “week to week” following the Cowboys game. As of Thursday, he still hasn’t practiced. I don’t really see any reason to read too far into these last few games as far as snap counts go, especially with an injured player like Legette. He’s shown enough flashes that I don’t see him falling into bust category just yet. As far as Jonathan Brooks goes, him getting hurt was just unfortunate but even if he’s out all next season, I’d expect the team to give him a chance again in 2026. No reason not to.
bolshy: What’s the biggest problem with this franchise: players, coaches, management, or ownership?
I think its mainly an issue of trying to right the ship from horrible management and coaching decisions in the past. I don’t think any reasonable unbiased spectator would have expected Dave Canales to come in and make this team a playoff contender, nor do I think anyone would have expected one draft (lacking a first round pick to start with at that) was going to right the ship either. Criticize David Tepper all you want for the past, but he’s seemed to stay out of things from an owner/management perspective now. I think the biggest problem is just that there isn’t enough distance just yet from the missteps of the past, which could very much change this offseason.
SmoothC85: Why is Evero still employed? One of the worst defenses in the nfl since arriving at Carolina. And why is he dead set at running a defensive scheme that he doesn’t have the personel to run and not make adjustments like actual good coaches and coordinators do?
I mean, when the team actually gives him the personnel to run his scheme, he might be more successful? I do understand the “scheme around the players you have” approach, but Carolina’s defense just isn’t good from a personnel perspective no matter what way you slice it. In Ron Rivera’s hayday he ran a similar scheme when his secondary was mostly replacement level players...
