Khyber53

Giaccomo's in Greensboro.

Some of the best candidates are still coaching in the playoffs, it'd be a shame to hire one and see their team melt down because of their inability, or a shame to miss out on one that puts together a genius game plan. We rushed and got Rhule. Honestly, we rushed and got Tepper. Let's hope they've learned to take their time.

Please no Payton.

And they failed to report that the Dukes of Hazzard theme song was blasting from the tractor for most of the chase.

That's my people!

That's the kind of rich man we need more of in this world, rich in spirit and love.

Isn't it interesting how Payton isn't interested in going back to New Orleans? They'd pay him well and he'd be the king of the city once again. It's the proverbial bird in the hand thing. But as a warning, it's also a tell that it's not about the team, and it will never be about a team, it will be about him from here on out. It's best to let the self absorbed go elsewhere.

Such a tragedy.

Yeah, but that wasn't the real story being told, it was just a Tribute.

No deal with the Devil ever works out in your favor.

Take Mayer in the first, grab Stetson in the late second. Take best DE available with our first second round pick. Get the weapon, then get some help for Burns, then take a flyer on the small guy who won two national championships.

I mean, the Saints are only like $58 million over the cap for next season right now. Good management and accounting there. That team sold their souls to a Voudoun mambo to get that Super Bowl ring and since then it has been a long slow stroll down to the urine soaked alleys lining Bourbon Street. How about we stay out of that and keep our hand on our wallet until we get out of that neighborhood?

You are 100% right! I agree wholeheartedly!

Nouveau riche dude buys the most expensive, flashy college coach he could, process fails miserably. Nouveau riche dude then goes out and tries to buy the most expensive, flashy unemployed former NFL coach he can. It will probably work out just as badly, but this time with a huge dose of karma mixed in. If he's hired, I won't quit the team, I'll just keep kicking that turd down the road until he is inevitably fired as well.

Please, no.

Sometimes the greatest blessings are the things you did not get.

This is my team. I'll either outlast any problem they have or be buried first.

Let's just walk away and let this play out elsewhere. The risk greatly outweighs the potential for gain for us.

I just want it to be a blow out either way. Either team could end up firing their coach after this one and both are more attractive landing places for Sean Payton than we are. This really is a loser gets Sean match. Eff-em both, though.

Why is Tepper so damned determined to make a deal with the Devil? New Orleans will be a decade paying off the bokkor's curse that Payton left them holding.

Without a doubt, but the motivation to make them believe the adjustments would work... that's something else! Talk about buy in!

There are many connections beyond work/college ones among NFL coaches. There are a lot of friendships made along the way and friend of a friend introductions are really commonplace. My thinking is that he's being interviewed here as part of getting back to the Panthers identity and reinforcing what Wilks has been rebuilding. Or it could be a Frank Reich thing just as easily.

That must have been one helluva halftime speech. I mean, pulling the QB back from one of the most epic collapses in a playoff game is one thing, but he also got the defense to quit acting like they were pushovers, too. Masterfully done and we could have had Peterson if Tepper would have fired Rhule in January rather than October.

Purdy looks like he belongs not just out there, but looks like he belongs as the leader of that team.

It's lasted so far. I think he'll make it to the NFC Championship. The kid is making the reads, he isn't scared and he not only can move, but he knows when and how to move either in or out of the pocket. He also knows when to bail out of a play, that's wise beyond his experience. Not saying he doesn't have great weapons and protection around him and a defense that helps immensely, but we've all seen guys who had all that and couldn't do much with it.