Mr. Scot

She knows I love to read about football analysis.

Or you allow your decision making to be affected by the fact that you need to save your ass.

On a brighter note... ...one of Lady Cowboy Fan's Christmas presents to me. (she knows me well)

I wouldn't bank on that. I'm not gonna criticize someone for not wanting to spend their hard earned money on sh-tty football. Nobody here owes David Tepper a damn thing.

So...after Matt Rhule is fired, then

So for the latter part of your post, were you listing all the good things about Matt Rhule potentially coming back?

Throw in defenses being able to predict our routes...

Is that a path you can see a coach who needs to save his ass following though?

I don't really have a whole lot of that lying around right now

The next pick after that is in the 4th.

I could see it.

It's honestly not guaranteed, and I'm not exaggerating. Rhule is just awful, and I have zero faith in any notion that's going to change anytime soon. I do however have a lot of confidence that I'm far from the only one who's thinking about it.

This is the full paragraph from The Athletic, and overall it's pretty non-committal. Rhule has five more years left on the seven-year, $62 million contract he signed in January 2020, but David Tepper has shown he’s willing to cut his losses and paper over his mistakes. Team sources believe Rhule will be back in 2022. But Tepper’s not happy about a fourth consecutive losing season, so nothing’s guaranteed unless or until the $16 billion hedge fund manager says Rhule is safe.

I have never not watched a Panthers season but another year of Matt Rhule would make it extremely difficult to do so.

Would he want to be?

Hasn't Robby also vouched for Rhule, though?

Also this offseason... Anybody doubt Rhule will bring him back?

I laughed pretty hard at the time, especially when they showed Cowher laughing on the sidelines Watched that game with a good friend who's a huge Steelers fan too. We had slightly different reactions to the final interception.

That wouldn't surprise me. It also won't surprise me if it's "addressed" by signing versatile guys with long arms

Mine as well...

He has a process in his head, but he's tied to silly things like arm length and crap of that sort... There are trained auto mechanics who could tell you all the ins and outs of a car and diagnose a problem deep within the engine just by listening to it run for about thirty seconds. Then there are guys who think they know car repair because they go on YouTube to look up how to change a car's oil or air filter or whatever. Matt Rhule is that second guy. So basically, the job of repairing the Panthers needs to be taken away from him and given over to a true, certified mechanic.

One positive to keeping Matt Rhule... You know all those complicated playoff scenarios you see late in the season where Team X needs to win but Team Y needs Team Z to lose or tie or whatever...yeah. Well good news, as long as we have Matt Rhule in charge, we can completely ignore those. They won't have anything to do with us at all

That's one of the reasons I'm not as high on Matt Eberflus as a head coach. He has ties to Garrett from their days in Dallas.

Neither would I. If the overwhelming majority of their resumé is ollege coaching, I'm probably not interested in hiring them for an NFL head coaching job at all, but if I were it would only be with some pretty high stipulations.

There's no shortage of "we could do this" or "we could try that" scenarios here and elsewhere, but it all begs the question... If you have to go to these kinds of lengths because of your head coach, why are you keeping him at all? The ultimate answer is that he just needs to go. I don't know if he will, but he should.