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I mean you can't fire a coach 11 games into his first season and then not hold a presser?

Who would you be satisfied with as HC? I think you like Ben Johnson so you'd be good with that. I want to know off the cuff what other names you'd like (doesn't need to be a deep dive). Would just be curious to revisit in 10 weeks who ends up being named HC and if it's someone you'd like.

And at the end of the day someone will be named the Panthers next fulltime HC, and it will likely be a pretty good name. There's only 32 of these gigs available. Ben Johnson will likely have his pick of the litter, yes, and probably won't be the guy here unless Tepper throws him a Rhule-level contract in terms of $$$. But someone will be the coach here and I think it will be a name that people will find acceptable, if not exciting.

The Texans fired a HC after one season in back to back years and still landed one of the hottest coaching candidates in DeMeco Ryans. Yes, I know he has history with the franchise; reports last year were that Ben Johnson as an NC native grew up a Panthers fan, so you could see a similar pull. And at the end of the day, money talks. I actually think a first time coach stepping into this situation is in a great position - if you fail and get fired, everyone will give you the benefit of the doubt saying that no one can win here with Tepper as the owner, but if you succeed, you get all the glory.

Off the cuff here's my list, criteria being a young innovative offensive mind: 1. Ben Johnson 2. Frank Smith 3. Bobby Slowik If none of the 3 above are interested, I'd give Bienemy his first shot as a HC.

Huh? Who else would be making the announcement? Fitt? He’s a dead man walking himself.

woof.

Don't blame him because I think this offense is beyond repair this season, and the losses would accumulate on his record anyway even though he has no hand in the offense. Wouldn't mind if he's kept around by the next HC but also you don't want to handcuff the next guy from being able to pick his own staff.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut, a broken clock is right twice a day...Tepper will hit on a coach eventually. Reich was clearly in over his head.

You can get nearly 3-to-1 odds on Cowboys -10.5/o41.5/Cowboys -6.5 1H parlay. Easy money, might as well make some $ off this clown show

Only 18 of the retread coaches eventually won at least one playoff win. Nearly 87% of retread coaches get fired or retire without ever seeing any level of success after getting fired—even the coaches that were successful with their first team rarely see any real success with their subsequent teams. However, of the 328 times when a team hired a first-time head coach, 100 times the team won at least one playoff game during that new coach’s tenure (30.5%). Also, more importantly, 38 of the 328 first-time hires won a championship (11.6%). It’s valuable to note that 198 of those 328 first-time head coaching hires were never rehired by another team after leaving their first team. More than 60% of first-time head coaches will get fired and never get a second shot at being a head coach in the NFL. However, even with the high failure rate of NFL/AFL coaches, it’s important to highlight that championships are heavily in favor of first-time hires. Since 1960, 46 different NFL/AFL coaches have won a championship. 38 of 46 (82.6%) of those championship coaches were with their first team. https://thecapisfake.com/2023/07/13/should-nfl-teams-hire-retread-head-coaches/

It's hard to untangle his success from Brady's, but he seems to be a pretty good OC and he's likely burned any and all likelihood of ever becoming a HC again, so I wouldn't think there's flight risk there. No real connectivity with Reich and co though so feel like he'd have to come in as an OC under a new staff with some connection to him.

Based on the tweet posted right above your post by Steven Ruiz, that seems more like conjecture than anything rooted in facts

From interviewing for HC gigs in January to being fired in November, quite the fall for Dorsey. Interested to see how Joe Brady does for the rest of the season.

During games I'm of the "someone needs to be fired ASAP" mindset. After a night's sleep, I realize it doesn't really make sense at this point in the season. Might as well just ride it out, I think everyone deep down knows they are done, but might as well do some "work" to collect those paychecks and blow out the entire operation after week 18. The only thing I can see happening is firing Fitt and Tepper engaging a consultant/former exec to help him identify potential GM candidates who could then start developing their own HC lists. But I think you'll see an entirely new front office and staff here next season.

I do agree with this.

The guy doesn’t even call plays anymore, just what the fug does Reich do?

I think you actually have to fire someone after this game. Reich or Fitt, I don’t know which one, but one has to go.

Bryce averaging 1.4 YPA on the other 13 pass attempts besides the 45 yarder…

I'm sympathetic to Bryce playing behind a bad OL and with subpar receivers, but he's also a guy that was thought so highly of that he was the #1 overall pick. Howell is a 5th rounder who's also essentially a rookie (he played in 1 game last season) and is averaging 7.0 YPA with 14 TDs to 9 INTs while playing behind an arguably worse OL. Bryce is averaging 5.5 YPA, 8 TDs, 7 INTs (with two more lost fumbles as well). You can argue all you want about supporting cast but I would hope that the guy who was taken 1 could put up comparable stats to the guy taken 144th.

Do you though? Honestly I think I would rather see if Ricky Lee or David Sharpe could be serviceable at LT because it's not like Icky has been (serviceable, that is).