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Most head coaching contracts in the NFL are guaranteed. Except in rare cases a coach is fired "For Cause". A coach fired for cause means the remaining years on the contract are voided. Take for example, Lane Kiffin's departure from the Oakland Raiders in 2008. Then Raiders owner Al Davis fired Kiffin "for cause" after a public feud with the coach. Kiffin filed a grievance with the NFL to recoup the money owed to him on the final two years of his contract, which was denied. https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=5808642 Urban Meyer was also fired by the Jaguars "for cause" after reports he abused a player, reportedly kicking kicker Josh Lambo in the leg during a practice. https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/12/18/urban-meyer-fired-for-cause Should Panthers owner David Tepper choose to fire Matt Rhule after the 2021 season, the remaining years on his 7 year, $62m contract would need to be paid out unless Rhule is fired "for cause". Joe Person's recent article in The Athletic highlighted some questionable comments and decisions made by Matt Rhule. Perhaps David Tepper's PR team is preparing to make a case to fire Rhule "for cause" and claim some of the issues were unknown by ownership. This dirt-digging endeavor could save Tepper millions. I think we will know if Tepper plans on firing Rhule in the next week. If we see a flurry of new articles highlighting previously unknown unscrupulous activity by Matt Rhule, Tepper could be planning to fire Rhule for cause. If it's quiet, and all we see is reports he's being kept for a third season, we might all be disappointed. Time will tell.

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The problem is, Rhule has done nothing to be fired for cause. Tepper is going to have to pay out a huge amount of money to fire Rhule. Urban Meyer kicked a player and probably got fired for cause. So the Jaguars might not have to pay out his contract. If we keep seeing disparaging articles come out about Rhule and Tepper's people dig into Rhule's behavior and find something to fire him for cause, maybe we see him get fired. But like I've said before, the biggest reason Tepper is keeping Rhule is money.

Tepper gives Rhule a contract extension

Silver lining is this team will get the #1 overall pick next season

He got better coaching in Green Bay

Harbaugh would be an improvement over the current coaching staff but I don’t love it. Doug Pederson or Matt Eberflus are my first choices

Never thought of it that way.

I think the team is going to fire him and allowed reporters to start having open season and asking hard questions to soften the blowback on the team and Tepper for firing him only after two years. It’s a little too convenient these stories are coming out now at the end of the season when some of these quotes and storylines were probably from earlier in the season.

I just noticed this thread and my first reaction was who cares. I really hope they get their dicks pulled out and stomped on again because a meaningless late season win dropping draft position would just be so bad for what this team needs right now.

There’s a different feeling right now than those past bad seasons. It’s an air of hopelessness. The Panthers have been a bad before but there were reasons to have hope. Even in 2001 the team had more hope than now because Seifert was obviously getting fired. Right now there’s a new owner in place who has done nothing but lose fans and produce a bad product on the field for 4 straight years. The Panthers management and coaching has made many bad football decisions. Just head scratching bad decisions that even casual fans can look at and be like, why? Trading for Darnold and picking up his $19m option despite the fact he has been the worst starting QB in the NFL his entire career tops the list. Now we’re getting fed articles by trusted team reporters that Rhule is likely getting a third season. We’re going to have to sit through yet another very likely losing season before there’s any hope of another coaching staff coming in to clean this mess up.

Would have been WAY more interesting if Diddy and co bought the team

Sell your PSLs? Not go to any games? Stop watching the games? Burn your Panthers merch? Personally I’m already at an all time low of interest, in that I mean my faith in this group of people currently in charge of the team will not have any success in my opinion. I’ll just continue putting more of my fan energy into Austin FC who I believe will be a far more successful MLS franchise than anything David Tepper’s soccer team will ever accomplish. Mark my words on that.

You’re probably right about that. It softens the blow of embarrassment when Tepper fires him. They can’t possibly keep Rhule another season with the amount of fan vitriol towards the team’s performance. Fans are dumping their PSLs at the highest rate in team history. I don’t even think it matters what the team does in the off-season if Rhule is the coach next season - it’s time to move on and get an NFL caliber coaching staff to clean up this mess.

If they trade for Watson at the prices being discussed it will be the dumbest thing this franchise has ever done

I think we're going a liiiiitttleeee too far guys

psh you've already lost the huddle @Zodwe're ready for a new leader /s

I mean true true but at least we had winning seasons under Richardson too! Something Tepper can't say....yet?

no it actually wasn't, add up the records of the last 4 years under Tepper's ownership and this is the worst stretch in team history thanks for playing though

he's got enough money to get stem cells injected in his skull

Richardson is probably thinking "these damn yankees are making a joke out of my team" He has to be watching this clown turd party getting flushed down the toilets of the NFL laughing all the way to the bank. Grass is always greener fellas. I was in favor of him selling the team but now.....about to be a bottom feeder for the next decade.

This team is a f*cking mess.

I had a douche bag narcissist sociopath boss that would say sh*t like this during team meetings. He got fired. The crazy thing is he actually DID go get a better higher paid job.

Would be great if this defense would just play a standard front and focus on actually stopping the run

who is the top QB prospect in 2023? because if Rhule is retained we will probably have the #1 overall draft pick