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      Yes, you read that right — seven. As in, less than

      The Carolina Panthers are 0-2 after a disappointing home loss on Thursday Night Football to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers https://www.carolinapanthersfanshop.com/J.J.-Jansen-Jersey , and our FanPulse users are showing their displeasure with the team’s lackluster start with a vote of no confidence.According to our latest FanPulse survey, only seven percent of Panthers fans are confident in the direction of the team moving forward. Yes, you read that right — seven. As in, less than 10 percent. Seven. Percent.Just look at this constant decline over the last few weeks:Panthers Fan Pulse confidence results(percentage of fans who voted ‘confident’)Regular season Week 8 — 79%Regular season Week 9 — 33%Regular season Week 10 — 51%Regular season Week 11 — 47%Regular season Week 12 — 5%This is, quite simply, unacceptable. The Panthers aren’t a bad team https://www.carolinapanthersfanshop.com/Mike-Adams-Jersey , but they’re not really a good team either. At least they’re not acting like one. Maybe it’s a lack of talent. Maybe it’s a lack of depth. Maybe it’s injuries. Maybe it’s bad coaching. Maybe it’s a combination of things. Whatever the reason, things aren’t going well in Carolina right now, and fans have every reason to think they won’t get much better now that franchise quarterback Cam Newton is injured (again) and is considered day-to-day and might not play this Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals. To be frank, I don’t think I can say that you should be confident in this team right now, and while I’m a little surprised the number dropped as far as it did (I expected it to be around 15-ish percent), I can’t say that a vote of no confidence is wrong. I just don’t know where this team is going https://www.carolinapanthersfanshop.com/Matt-Kalil-Jersey , and with the uncertainty surrounding Cam’s injury it’s difficult for me to be confident that things are going to get better. Maybe if Cam is able to play on Sunday and he looks like the Cam of old I’ll see something to make me believe, but right now I just don’t see it. (In case you were still wondering, I voted not confident.)To make things better, every FanPulse user — regardless of team fandom — was asked which NFL head coach they think will be fired first. Ron Rivera was among the choices, and while he wasn’t the ‘winner’, he was voted the third most-likely coach to be canned first by 22 percent of survey users. That’s not good if your name is Ron Rivera https://www.carolinapanthersfanshop.com/Captain-Munnerlyn-Jersey , or if you’re among the dwindling base of Panthers fans who still want him at the helm.I could go on and on about how the Panthers should probably cut ties with Rivera, but honestly it’s really just a waste of words and a pointless exercise for my fingers to type it all out for what feels like the 50th time. It’s well known how I feel on the issue, so I’ll spare you the details again*. What I will say, however, is that if the Panthers don’t find a way to turn this season around quickly there’s a good chance we’ll see the end of the Ron Rivera era in Carolina. The Panthers have a bye in Week 7, and if they go through the first six weeks with two or fewer wins https://www.carolinapanthersfanshop.com/David-Mayo-Jersey , we may be talking about interim head coach Norv Turner (or maybe even interim head coach Chase Blackburn, which is the path I’d choose in this wonderful adventure). I can’t say whether making a mid-season coaching change will improve the team’s fortunes or not, but at the very least it will send a message that new owner David Tepper will not abide failure.*- I will say this, for the record: It’s not about 0-2. It’s about years of doing the exact same thing and expecting different results. It’s about years of ruining the careers of franchise players. It’s about years of failing to adapt. It’s about years of ‘missed opportunities’.What do you think, Panthers fans? Do you think there’s a chance Rivera gets fired during the season? Why or why not? If you do, what do you think it will take for that to happen? Share your thoughts with us! The Eagles did not want to do Amazon’s All or Nothing series. They had no choice.The NFL selected them as the subject of the season-long series produced by NFL Films https://www.carolinapanthersfanshop.com/Devin-Funchess-Jersey , Paul Domowitch of the reports.The Eagles confirmed it to Domowitch.“There has to be somebody on the show,’’ Eagles president Don Smolenski said. “And if there are no volunteers. Then the league makes a selection.“There’s a certain criteria – I don’t remember all of the criteria – for those teams that cannot be chosen. And if you don’t fit that criteria, your name goes into a bucket with a group of other teams, and the league picks from the bucket.’’The Eagles are the fifth NFL team to do All Or Nothing. The other four were the 2018 Panthers, the 2017 Cowboys, the 2016 Rams and the 2015 Cardinals.This is the first time the all-access show subject was revealed before the end of the season. NFL Films cameras are in the locker room https://www.carolinapanthersfanshop.com/Mario-Addison-Jersey , on the sidelines and off the field, giving viewers a look behind the curtain of an NFL franchise’s complete season. After the Panthers’ eight-episode premiere last summer, coach Ron Rivera said he had no interest in doing another reality show.

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