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On paper Steichen seems like the next big time head coaching prospect but like many other factors he might just not fit with the people who are in charge of the Panthers right now. Working for Tepper is a tough sell for a coach who might have a lot better options if he is patient.

Sirianni has a bad case of the butthole eyes

So I'd assume the second round would involve more people maybe in the scouting and personnel departments. Maybe Pat Stewart.

2nd round interviews usually involve a different set of people. Maybe this is where they meet with Fitterer and Morgan and co? Not sure who is involved in the first round of interviews aside from Tepper and his wife.

I think they hire Dan Quinn but try to keep Evero as DC

I’m not saying I love these choices. Steichen seems like the guy with the highest ceiling. The guy who could take you to a Super Bowl. But it’s quite possible he doesn’t want to work for the Panthers. An interview is a two way street. The candidate is interviewing who they will work for as well. Might be why Ben Johnson dropped out. It’s just as important to hire someone who WANTS the job as well as be qualified and motivated, all that stuff. Rhule didn’t really seem like he wanted to be the Panthers head coach but Tepper threw so much money at him he couldn’t say no. Even after he was fired he said the one thing he’d change from his tenure was NOT TAKE THE JOB. What an asshole that guy was. My point is that the Panthers can do a lot worse than hiring Frank Reich or Steve Wilks and it’s nice to at least have the prospect of having a proper NFL caliber coaching staff again.

We’ve come a long way from having Matt Rhule as coach. Wilks or Reich are not going to embarrass us. They may not excite us, but we root for a miserable loser franchise and we must take the small victories lest we rip our eyes out

It seriously seems like Saturday has some kind of blackmail on Irsay to catapult him to HC with literally zero other professional coaching experience.

You’re overqualified to have an opinion on this matter

Wentz is washed. Backup for the rest of his career. Time to stop wasting time on reclamation projects, put together a good offensive staff, and draft a QB.

If Reich doesn't get a head coaching position, and Shane Steichen gets a HC job, Reich could very well be back to being the OC of the Eagles.

Steichen is my favorite choice but also the riskiest. I have to wonder if the team waits until after the Eagles/49ers game on Sunday to make a decision. If the Eagles lose, they might try to grab their guy. Otherwise, onto their fallback.

This is an ideal scenario. But who is the DC? Holcomb? I have a feeling Wilks is talking to Byron Leftwich. He was his OC in Arizona. But Leftwich was kinda forced on Wilks, since he was there working under Arians before they hired Wilks. That whole staff was kinda weird.

I think you have to either make Wilks the HC or cut him loose. I feel like you'd lose the locker room otherwise.

The draft is a crapshoot, 50/50 propositions like you said. But where I fault Fitterer the most is asset management. Trading draft capital for bad players, signing one of those players to a guaranteed $19m deal before he played a down for the team, drafting a CB when the team had glaring needs at LT and QB which are more important positions to win in the modern NFL. He has made a handful of solid decisions as well, mostly in fixing the offensive line. Every professional GM will have their plusses and minuses. But what I can't excuse is wasting resources when the value add isn't there and he's done that in spades. He also passed on trading Brian Burns who I think the team wildly overvalues. The Rams look like a dumpster fire over the next few seasons and that haul of draft picks would have been good spots. Surely a competent GM could have replaced Burns with those picks. If a head coach wanted to come in and had worked with someone primed to be a GM before (Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll come to mind), I don't mind cutting Fitterer loose. Results are mixed and I'm on board with an organization that functions well together after what Rhule did to this franchise.

Frank Reich shouldn't have been fired from the Colts. That organization is a mess from the top down and the fact he had the success he did after Luck unexpectedly retired was a miracle. He will need a strong DC to create a competitive team though. Eberflus had that defense humming and the main reason the team sucked in 2022 aside from Matt Ryan being washed out was their defense took a hard fall from grace. That said, Frank Reich just feels like a bland hire. Won't excite the fanbase, but might produce results on the field. Best thing he has going for him is he might have a good chance to develop a rookie QB.

Wilks with an offensive staff that can develop a QB wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Honestly I feel like hiring Sean Payton is the worst decision this franchise could make. The HC choices are better this go around than in 2020.

you say the wrong things

Let’s not forget trading a third round pick for a pothead loser like CJ Henderson who has sucked ASS since he entered the NFL

Can anyone tell me what Fitterer has done to deserve staying though the next head coach? What’s his best move? Drafting Icky? Signing some offensive linemen who panned out? As far as I can see he wasted a ton of resources on Sam Darnold who sucked ass most of the time he played for the Panthers, whiffed on re-signing some key players like Hasaan Reddick, drafted injury prone Jaycee Horn instead of Slater or Justin Fields… Wait why is he still the GM again?

He looks like straight Billy Eichner

Or hiring a coach that everyone interviewed and no one hired

Why don't the Broncos just promote him then

Maybe they’re interviewing Kellen Moore as a OC candidate if the Cowboys blow up their staff to get Sean Payton