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I’d be surprised if Tepper clears out the front office after Rhule is fired. I agree it probably wouldn’t be the best decision. But hey, Fitterer did think it was a good idea to pick up the $19m option for known failure like Sam Darnold. So maybe his decision making skills aren’t so great either.

I’m not sure Fitterer or Morgan have any regrets - yet. Rhule is probably going to be gone next off-season and they will be in charge of hiring the next coach. I think any hope I have for this franchise comes from the opportunity those guys will have to put their stamp on the team. They have at least been around winning NFL teams.

Has he come out and said it was an intentional sabbatical? Because the more likely scenario is like the NFL at large wasn’t happy he benched Eli Manning, one of the golden children of the NFL, and there wasn’t any interest in his services. He took a job on a doomed 2020 Jaguars staff, had an outside consulting role for an old colleague in Mike McCarthy which seems like a job he got almost out of pity, and McAdoo again finds himself on a doomed staff. It’s just not a situation that inspires any confidence this staff is going to put together a winning team. It feels like a collection of guys who couldn’t get jobs on most of the other NFL coaching staffs.

Yea, it’s Rhule’s staff. But you’d hope at the very least I’d hope the other professionals in the organization would be helping him make good decisions. Ben McAdoo just doesn’t move the needle. He wasn’t a desired candidate anywhere else and it seemed like he was almost pushed out of the NFL after he benched Eli Manning, one of the NFL’s golden boys. Hence my point in the thread - NFL outsiders and David Tepper. The Panthers are becoming the NFL’s island of misfit toys.

This is where I wonder is it just Matt Rhule who has a limited professional network? Or is it also Tepper? You’d think Fitterer and Dan Morgan would have more connections to help with a coaching search. That also begs the very real question we’ve all wondered that who would really want to take a job on a sinking ship like the Panthers? And even moreso, why did David Tepper need to pay a mediocre college coach like Matt Rhule so much money to coach the Panthers? None of it makes sense. It reeks of incompetency and seems like no one wants to work for the Panthers.

I agree with everything you said. But I also recognize that JR’s last two head coaching hires took the team to a Super Bowl. Right now I’m not hopeful the team goes back to the Super Bowl until I’m a geriatric

McAdoo wasn’t the right fit for the QB coach position on Rhule’s staff in 2020 or 2021 but now he’s the offensive coordinator? That doesn’t inspire me that he’s a desired coach on many other staffs around the NFL. Seems like he took the only offensive coordinator job he might ever get again.

This is exactly my point. The Panthers have positioned themselves outside the regular NFL circles. Rhule doesn’t have many NFL connections outside of one season he spent with Tom Coughlin and it’s hurting the team. Tepper seems to actually LIKE hiring NFL outsiders from Pennsylvania.

So what, would they just promote McAdoo to head coach? Lord this could get messy.

F*ck you.

Might as well go ahead and add Sam Darnold to that list

He was out of the NFL for two years in 2018-2019. He was QB coach on the 2020 Jaguars who went 1-15. He interviewed for the QB coach position on the Panthers in both 2020 and 2021 and did not get it. Let’s keep putting lipstick on this pig and polishing this turd though.

It feels like the Panthers have been pushed outside the NFL circle since David Tepper bought the team. I have a feeling the other NFL owners don’t really respect David. He’s the newest owner and he came from more humble beginnings. He blew up the coaching pay scale when he hired Matt Rhule and I can’t imagine the other owners were happy about that. Jerry Richardson was the opposite, having been an NFL player and bringing the Panthers to life in the first place, he was well liked by the other owners. Tepper seems to gravitate to NFL outsiders, and maybe that’s not by choice. Matt Rhule had one year experience in the NFL, as an assistant offensive line coach. Most of the coaching staff under Matt Rhule had minimal NFL experience. And now Ben McAdoo becomes the offensive coordinator, and guy who spent several seasons out of the NFL entirely after being fired by the Giants. He was a guy who couldn’t even get a QB coach position on the Panthers after the disaster that was the 2020 Jaguars offense. For better or worse, the David Tepper owned Panthers don’t seem to be running in the same circles as the rest of the NFL. It’s gonna take a long time to fix this mess.

That says a lot about the quality of people who wanted to interview for the job.

of the candidates they interviewed, maybe. but that's not saying anything at all. /thread

I've always had a love/hate relationship with the Panthers but right now it's 100% hate and no love. I don't like anyone who works for the front office or coaching staff, I don't like most of the players, and I especially don't like the owner. What is there to be a fan of anymore? Bleak times.

"He's the only guy we could hire who looks more like a certified pervert than me so it was a no-brainer."

I'm expecting none of the people involved with the franchise right now to be here in 2 years.

Everyone involved with the Panthers from the owner down are a bunch fo ridiculously overpaid losers who have no idea what they are doing. Ben McAdoo is a clown. Matt Rhule is a fraud. David Tepper is an arrogant yankee who knows nothing about building a winning football team. Scott Fitterer should have stuck to baseball. Dan Morgan has too much brain damage to run a team. I hate the Panthers right now. I can't be a fan of any of these people.

I’d throw a used jizz towel at Deshaun Watson if we traded for him.

The Panthers will probably vomit their way to 1 or 2 wildcard berths this decade but otherwise be a flaming pile of trash. The people in charge don’t know how to identify winning traits in coaches or players

Nothing novel in this article

Would be a good hire if the Falcons hired him

only thing I wonder is did he intentionally take a year off after the disaster that was the 2020 Jaguars or is there just not a lot of interest in him