Week 2 · 2025–26 season
Panthers
L 22-27 at Cardinals · Sep 14, 2025
Misery Index · Despair
Panthers fans blaming Canales, Bryce, the o-line, and the franchise itself, then remembering it's all the same thing.
The emotional rollercoaster
Fan misery across the game window. Up is worse.
What happened
The onside recovery by D.Richardson gave Carolina a heartbeat with 1:58 left, then B.Young got sacked by C.Campbell and flagged for intentional grounding on the next snap, and the game quietly ended there. The J.Sweat strip-sack in the first quarter set the tone, but the real bruise is a familiar one: drops, questionable play-calling, and a quarterback being asked to survive behind a line that keeps letting him get hit. Two weeks in, nothing looks fixed.
What fans said
“Ok now I’m really pissed about that overturned catch by Sanders at the end of the first half”
u/bunsenturner64▲ 172rage
“Im usually chill but fuck you fuckers saying that is on Bryce. With all the receiver drops and having 9 other players on the field because XL does not fucking exist”
u/SomeonePayDelta▲ 88rage
“The hornets and panthers always go out of their way to make sure I’m never happy”
u/Sharp_Collection2031▲ 112despair
“Immediately remembered why I despise Zavala”
u/RememberApeEscape▲ 57rage
“Play calling and clock management load us this game. Those two point conversions were unnecessary.”
u/Afromain19▲ 103frustration
“Anybody else confused with TMac’s usage the last drive? Felt like the cards kept gifting us more chances but Bryce never looked at TMac/play design was just for tmac to clear out”
u/PsychologicalBowl441▲ 206frustration
14 more
“This is all on Canales for getting the team back in it and then absolutely blowing it.”
u/Gloomy_Ad6095▲ 52rage
“But, ultimately, we are still the Carolina panthers”
u/Accurate-Big-7233▲ 62despair
“I like how we gave ourselves a chance. Only to not give ourselves a chance in the end. 😮💨”
u/kewe316▲ 498frustration
“Garbage tier play calling on that last drive. Why was every play a long developing play with two starters out on the o line”
u/TheSmallIndian▲ 176frustration
“The Carolina Panthers are cursed and doomed and the team I once loved is a literal dumpster fire.”
u/Newk_IV▲ 26despair
“Do not for a second think we showed promise this game. We sucked.”
u/multiple4▲ 39despair
“XL is a bum. JT Sanders is a bum. Bryce is a bum. Corbett is a bum. Canales, Evero… you guessed it… bums.”
u/SpaceMonkey175▲ 25rage
“We were legit just running all go/everybody run to the first down marker every play, made no sense.”
u/Colt32▲ 113frustration
“respectfully fuck off now”
u/EbbAccomplished6851▲ 32rage
“Wish he were invisible, he’s straight up a liability”
u/daswassup13▲ 21rage
“Something to play for? Choke.”
u/-YEETLEJUICE-▲ 71frustration
“Man we were basically handed that game by the gods and we still couldn’t win”
u/Firm-Glass7519▲ 31despair
“WHY ARE WE PUNTING? WE THREW 5 YARDS ON A 3RD AND 13 AND ARENT GOING FOR THE FIELD GOAL? WHAT ARE WE DOING???”
u/NatsuruHelpMe▲ 20rage
“I’m not sure if I have ever seen worse play calls”
u/keeppounding13▲ 18rage