Mr. Scot

From the story... The league had its annual Front Office & General Manager Accelerator Program attached to the meetings, where there were several soon-to-be GMs in attendance. Team owners had the voluntary opportunity to meet with the 42 participants at a 90-minute cocktail reception on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday morning they were part of a networking roundtable with some participants. ... Sources said the two team owners most active and engaged with participants at the program were Washington's Josh Harris and Tepper, both of whom could have GM openings by the end of the season. League sources believe as many as a half-dozen GM jobs will be open.

Thanks for warning us about Rhule.

Just wondering what the reactions will be when we announce our new GM... Meet Browns Assistant GM Catherine Raiche

Panthers, Chargers confirmed. Commanders, Bears and Patriots expected. Bills, Bucs, Jets, Titans and Falcons speculated / rumored to be possible. Raiders leaning toward keeping Pierce (also Kelly as GM).

I'm not a Harbaugh fan, but I do see him being a favorite for that job.

Yeah..no. Hurney and Rivera were terrible together, and even that's not far back enough. If I were going back in time, I'd start off with us taking Steve McNair instead of Kerry Collins.

Already said I don't think we'll get Dodds, but someone with an attitude like his might be necessary. Dodds has made clear that in any GM job he takes, he wants absolute control. Given the way Tepper acts, we probably need somebody like that. Truth be told, "The Appaloosa Way" and its collaborative approach to things has done unfold damage to this team.

I go back to what I think was a pivotal moment for Rivera, and that was the decision to hire Mike Shula as OC. It was typical of his loyalty issues, and it was absolutely the wrong choice. Gettleman reportedly wanted Pat Shurmur, and while Shurmur the head coach was lousy, Shurmur the OC was a defense killer. Picturing what a Shurmur led offense could have done paired with a rivera-led defense makes me wonder just have different things could have been. The only question I have is that Shurmur ran a WCO and Newton wasn't well suited to that sort of scheme at the time, but I'd like to believe between them they could have made it work. (Shula still being his quarterback coach probably would have helped)

Ron and Marty were awful together. Probably as much as anything because they just too similar in their weaknesses. Both tended to favor players too much, as with Rivera's desire that every veteran have a good ending to his career.

Trust me, if I could rewrite Panthers history I'd be going back way further than that But yeah, if I recall correctly at the time we hired Matt Rhule I was pushing for Dan Campbell.

Not to knock Rivera but I've never taken the Coach of the Year award all that seriously. For one, those two years that Rivera won it he was alternating with Bruce Arians. Also true that if you take a look back at the history of the award, the guys who want it had great seasons but very few of them finished them out with Lombardi trophies.

Prior interview experience probably crosses Ed Dodds off the list too.

On the other front, while he certainly had his limitations, Bridgewater did at least warn us about Matt Rhule. Wish we would have listened.

We did that with Phil Snow though and got run over.

This I would agree with. Offenses now are becoming increasively complex, and league rules are no longer allowing defenses to just beat people up.

Again, can't agree. It's all about combinations. Rivera / Gettleman worked. And I'd love to have seen what would have happened had they been able to continue working off that 2017 draft. Rivera / Hurney didn't work. Gettleman / Shurmur didn't work. Whatever working chemistry those two had just didn't transfer to anybody else. Maybe it was the combination of nice and nasty that had a happy medium.

Not as a head coach. Don't know if he still lives in Charlotte but I'd probably take him as a linebacker coach.

Can't agree. Dave made bad moves just like Marty made good moves, but It's the overall result that matters. And what can't be argued is that when Rivera / Gettleman ran things we had the most successful era of Panthers football ever, including a historic season.

I gotta feeling the Bears job belongs to Harbaugh. If not him though, someone else likely takes it this year.

I don't know wizardry it was, but Rivera and Gettleman worked really well together. Neither of them found success apart. Richardson fired Gettleman after what was probably his best draft. I'll always wonder what could have been if he hadn't been so dead set on bringing Marty back.

Word also that Teddy Bridgewater is retiring.

This likely means the end for Hurney as well. Marty got his start in Washington under Bobby Beathard. He'll finish his career where it begin.

The nostalgia to have former players like Newton and Olsen come back and save us is fun and all, but...no. There are a million things that a team president does that have nothing to do with football. That's why it's the kind of thing you ideally work your way up to.

Telesco was actually with the Panthers scouting department in the beginning (1995-1997). He's got a pretty good reputation, but no connection to David Tepper that I know of.