TonyN

The crisp decision making seems to have evaporated.

I am not sure why anyone would be surprised to find the Panthers are planning for possibilities. Ron Rivera has been around the league long enough to know anything less than a playoff run this year and he is toast. This is just the political reality in Carolina. He also knows if his team goes on a tear and makes it into the playoffs that he will be impossible to fire. Ron Rivera has to win NOW. He knows this.