Mr. Scot

I didn't, but I believe you. Sure did his best to screw over Ejiro Evero

Person's article actually did mention that. I just didn't include it in the excerpts.

A potential member of Reich's staff goes to Detroit to replace an actual member of his staff...

If the mods ever decide to filter Matt Rhule like they did Timmy from Florida, this is the filter I'd recommend.

Another one who might join Payton in Denver...

Related to the initial search... "Substantial"

Probably

This pic brings to mind the phrase, "and the horse you rode in on"

Don't know, but I'd sure love to see that clip

I'm appalled

Relevant note from Albert Breer regarding the coaching search... After the initial round of interviews, David Tepper asked for everybody to rank their top five candidates. Everybody except himself. Tepper refrained friend from submitting a list or mentioning his own preferences because he didn't want to influence anyone else's opinion. That tells me two things. 1) He trusts his top people (in this case Fitterer, Morgan, Suleiman and Kristi Coleman) 2) He's learning

Our new free safety approves

Sorry. Misinterpreted.

What remaining defensive staff? Seriously though, there aren't many guys left. Wilks fired most of 'em.

FYI @Jon Snow, Breer did catch his mistake.

There's speculation that Richard will be joining Sean Payton in Denver.

I don't want to Technically I already did though. I wrote a summary profile of his assistants back when they were hired. As far as looking back on it though...

I didn't even notice that. I'm gonna guess he edits that at some point

Notes from Breer's article... - When Scott Fitterer initially said the list wasn't long, he wasn't lying. The Panthers had just five candidates in their original plans, and Frank Reich wasn't one of them. - That initial list consisted of Steve Wilks, Ben Johnson, Shane Steichen, Mike Kafka and Jim Caldwell. Interesting to note here that would mean Caldwell wasn't just a Rooney Rule interview as many of us thought. - Wilks performance over twelve games definitely made them think, and he was seriously considered, but a big part of what sunk him (besides the previously mentioned thoughts about his tendencies as a defensive coach) was concern about his ability to build a great staff. - Breer confirms that one of the names on Wilks' list was Eagles QB Coach Brian Johnson. We also know Wilks wanted to keep Al Holcomb as his DC, but Breer doesn't name any others. - As crazy as it might sound, what made them double back and look at Reich again was a TV report incorrectly saying that Reich was expected to be considered for the job - The search committee had initially liked Reich...a lot. Just not as much as the other five on their list. The TV report gave them pause though, so they started rethinking their position on him. - Scott Fitterer is acquainted with Colts GM Chris Ballard and had worked with Assistant GM Ed Dodds in Seattle, so he called them to talk about Reich. They called Reich "a legit guy" and told Fitterer "you gotta talk to him"...and so he did. - Reich was very impressive in his initial interview, as was Jim Caldwell. The air of authority that the two of them brought made the younger guys seem "green" and caused the Panthers to rethink the plan of going young. This also was a factor in the team deciding to interview Sean Payton, something they originally had not planned to do. - The search process itself served as a "teachable moment" for David Tepper. He felt like he was learning a lot about his own organization, other teams and his previous mistakes (including the 'first swing" hire of Matt Rhule). - That's what led to more candidates, including Payton and now Panthers DC Ejiro Evero, being added. Again, this confirms that like Caldwell, Evero also wasn't a Rooney Rule interview. - Among that added group was Kellen Moore, who according to Breer impressed the Panthers more than the other young guys they'd interviewed. He was actually driving to the airport to go back to Dallas when the Panthers called and asked him to stick around a little while longer. - Interestingly enough, Steve Wilks had already had his second interview before they called Moore back. - The original round of interviews had been conducted by Fitterer, Dan Morgan, Samir Suleiman Tepper and his wife. For the second round, they brought in team president Kristo Coleman. As it turned out, the addition of Coleman would actually prove to be an important part of the process. - Coleman found Reich's "big picture ' plan equally as impressive as the others had and that helped Reich pull away from the other candidates into the lead. Breer's description of that "big picture" is as follows: "everything from his coaching staff to player engagement to how the equipment room would work" - In a pivotal moment, after the first round was finished, Tepper asked all those involved to list their top five candidates. He himself, however, did not submit a list. The reason? He didn't want to influence anyone else's choices. - Once the lists were submitted, there was disagreement on some lists from two to five, but number one was the same on every single person's list. it was Frank Reich. ... And thus, here we are... Breer adds As a final note that he feels like this process helped make the team better because of what they learned. I'm all for that

Albert Breer tells the story from his perspective... If you want to know why the Panthers hired Frank Reich, you can actually go back to the fourth-and-3 that the Eagles converted early in the NFC title game. On the play, from the Niners’ 35, you’ll remember Philly held nothing back—Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts ended up escaping to his left, and launching the ball against his body to an open DeVonta Smith inside the 10. The ball was in range, Smith’s effort was spectacular and the chains moved. Whether Smith actually caught it is immaterial to this discussion. What matters, in this case, is that Philly took that chance, something that illustrated the advantage that the Panthers thought hiring an offensive coach would give them. Where a defensive coach, in that spot, might throw at the sticks, or run a draw, or punt, Carolina saw an offensive coach more willing to take the sort of chance Nick Sirianni and Shane Steichen did, for a variety of reasons, and make Philly tougher to defend and more likely to convert. Reich, by the way, is Sirianni’s mentor. And Reich actually wasn’t even part of the Panthers’ initial group of candidates. But when it came down to it, the Carolina brass leaned on what they learned from 12 games with Steve Wilks as interim coach, and tacked on that feeling they had all along—that they wanted a guy with an offensive background, and Reich is where they landed. Here’s a snapshot look at how they got there … • Through the fall, owner David Tepper’s research, as we’ve written in this space, focused largely on innovative offensive minds in general and young ones in particular. With 12 weeks of runway, the Panthers’ first list was short, and that was by design, with five names on there—former Lions and former Colts coach Jim Caldwell, Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, Giants OC Mike Kafka, Eagles OC Shane Steichen and the incumbent Wilks. • Wilks had at least made the Panthers think about pivoting, and the biggest reason why was because of how he’d been able to capture the locker room in an adverse situation and turn the ship by creating a very real identity. The biggest question coming out of that related to the sort of staff he’d be able to assemble. My understanding is Eagles QBs coach Brian Johnson was part of Wilks’s preferred group as offensive coordinator. • So Reich wasn’t on that first list. But there was a television report late in the season that he’d be considered for the Panthers job, which caused Carolina to double back on the work it had done on the former Colts coach, whom the search committee liked. GM Scott Fitterer pulled on his connections to Indy’s front office, including ties to GM Chris Ballard and assistant GM Ed Dodds (his former Seattle coworker), and those guys told him, “No, you gotta talk to him. He’s a legit guy.” At that point, the Panthers’ thinking basically was, Why wouldn’t we talk to him? • Because of the rules regarding coaches in the playoffs, Reich wound up being the third coach the Panthers talked to. And the command, presence and maturity both he and Caldwell showed in the process pushed the Panthers back to what they’d learned with Wilks as their interim coach—and it made some of the younger coaches seem green. • Through the first round of interviews, which, again, was intentionally small, Tepper—still relatively new as an owner, and having run a truncated process that became a pursuit of then Baylor coach Matt Rhule on his first swing—noticed something. He was learning a lot about his own organization, and other organizations, through a grueling first round. So he decided to open it up to some new names and brought in Sean Payton with a second group, including Broncos defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero, Bills OC Ken Dorsey and Cowboys OC Kellen Moore. • Moore made an impression at the wire, in part because he had to wait for Dallas’s season to end to interview. The Panthers offered to do it with him over Zoom after the Niners eliminated the Cowboys on Jan. 22, but Moore said he really wanted to come in. So that Tuesday, Carolina squeezed him in for an interview from 9 to 11 a.m., so Tepper and his wife would be done in time to prepare for the memorial service for Charlotte FC defender Anton Walkes (who’d died suddenly days earlier) that afternoon. • Moore really impressed the Panthers. They had some of the same concerns with him they’d had with the other young offensive coaches, but they’d seen and heard enough to want to bring him back. So they called Moore, who was in a car on the way to the airport, and asked him to come back Jan. 25 to continue the conversation. • At that point, Wilks had already had his second interview. Reich came in for his after the continuation of the Moore interview on the afternoon of Jan. 25. Where the first round included Tepper and wife, Nicole; Fitterer, assistant GM Dan Morgan; and lead negotiator Samir Suleiman, the second round looped in team president Kristi Coleman. And it turns out Coleman’s presence in the interview helped separate Reich from the pack—his big-picture vision for the football operation (everything from his coaching staff to player engagement to how the equipment room would work) impressed her, as it had the rest. • Tepper, as he had after the first round of interviews, asked everyone to rank their top five candidates, abstaining from the vote (so as not to influence anything). Reich was first on everyone’s list. From Nos. 2 to 4, the lists varied, making Reich a pretty clear-cut choice—and leading to Reich’s hire, made official Jan. 26. So the Panthers have a new coach, Reich has a second shot, and, it seems, Tepper feels like his organization, and everyone in it, is better for having gone through the process.

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Meanwhile in New Orleans...

Some more background on Evero can be found in this Denver Post article from last year: Ejiro Evero introduced as Broncos defensive coordinator

Horn at corner, Free Safety open as in someone not on the roster yet. Jackson is listed at the other corner so I'm not sure where you get that he'd have to learn two different positions.

As was discussed many times, no Super Bowl winning coach has ever won again with a new team. Winning a Super Bowl is extremely hard and requires a combination of multiple factors. It's very difficult to make that lightning strike twice.