Hope y'all are ready to win.

[Jeremy Igo]

Above all else, Tepper does not strike me as a guy happy with mediocrity. Something JR seemed happy with at times.

I suspect if this is not a winning season, whooo buddy. Seats will be on fire.

 

[Saca312]

He definitely said that ‘coaching won’t change’ for PR fluff. I have a feeling he has everyone on the hot seat in reality.

If we have a .500 season and miss the playoffs (given our unknown o-line situation sadly, it is possible) I feel he’ll be ready to clean house.

Either way, I expect a huge fire lit under everyone to actually try and do good. We have the weapons and we could theoretically have an okay o-line (don’t start Silatolu Ron pls) for Cam to make a run, but it all starts from making the right coaching choices (pls give Cam the freedom he had in 2015) and personnel.

[DeeJay]

Huddle will find a way to complain even if we win soooooo.

can he fire huddlers to?

[DaveThePanther2008]

3 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Above all else, Tepper does not strike me as a guy happy with mediocrity. Something JR seemed happy with at times.

I suspect if this is not a winning season, whooo buddy. Seats will be on fire.

 

I wasn't impressed with the press conference but not because of Tepper but the lousy questions.

He has a good vision and love it or not he is bringing some of that Steeler mentality.   He seems to like Ron and Norv and they have the tools to be a good team.   God Forbid they fall flat on their faces.

[Mr. Scot]

8 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

He definitely said that ‘coaching won’t change’ for PR fluff. I have a feeling he has everyone on the hot seat in reality.

I apply that only to this season. You can't change coaches in July.

13 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Above all else, Tepper does not strike me as a guy happy with mediocrity. Something JR seemed happy with at times.

I suspect if this is not a winning season, whooo buddy. Seats will be on fire.

I suspect that people who were overpromoted for ass kissing are probably pretty nervous right now.

It's hard to imagine Tepper allowing anyone with subpar job performance to keep their job.

[Lumps]

17 minutes ago, DeeJay said:

Huddle will find a way to complain even if we win soooooo.

can he fire huddlers to?

Hard to say, since consistent winning seasons has never happened since 1996. What's amazing is a lot of huddlers were content with an owner like JR and think it hasn't been that bad because we can compare our selves to 3-4 other teams who have it worse. Back to reality, statistics and numbers however, and it was really that bad.

It'll be interesting to see a culture change, but to be honest, it would be pretty hard for Tepper to do worse than JR just looking at numbers.

[panthers55]

Seems getting rid of folks and changing personnel if we don't win goes against his stated patient approach and positive affirmation of our football people. If anyone left it would be Hurney.

[hepcat]

I feel like there is going to be a ton of firings and a cleaning of house. You don't keep around people who were complicit to what Richardson was doing behind the scenes. Maybe that doesn't extend to the coaching staff, but you gotta purge that bad juju out of there.

[Cary Kollins]

My bod is ready.

I found it interesting how much Tepper emphasized how Rivera is such a "defense" guy, and not so much an overall head coach.

[Jeremy Igo]

1 minute ago, Cary Kollins said:

My bod is ready.

I found it interesting how much Tepper emphasized how Rivera is such a "defense" guy, and not so much an overall head coach.

He called Rivera a "good" coach.

 

Didn't seem like a glowing endorsement.

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, Jeremy Igo said:

He called Rivera a "good" coach.

Didn't seem like a glowing endorsement.

People noticed that when talking about the "good" football operation, he mentioned Rivera, but not Hurney.

I don't necessarily think it means anything, but it qualifies as one of those "file it away" things.

[ladypanther]

I think this is Hurney's best work as GM...except for the dumb kicker thing at the beginning of last season.  Not saying he will stick, but I do think this team is in a good position to make a run in the playoffs. Sounds like Tepper will bring in some people who will help him evaluate things.  At least he won't likely be making decisions based on friendships on the team or staff. But he is not going to clean house just for the sake of it either.

[AggieLean]

I’m ready. Hopefully, we get that back to back winning seasons monkey off our backs.

 

[top dawg]

Tepper obviously isn't a dumb guy, seems patient, is a straight shooter, and he knows football. I'll take him at his word until he says otherwise. There's really no need for pretty much baseless speculation at this point. 

As for Rivera, he basically said in so many words that he didn't want to give Ron the big head but that Ron is a good coach. I see this as positive, not negative (in any sense). 

In my opinion, all the hot seat talk is out of line and very much premature. 

Hurney, for all his detractors, has set Cam and the offense up to succeed for probably the first time in Cam's career. But for an absolutely crazy Kalil contract by his predecessor, he probably would have fixed the O-line too. Even still, we have enough pieces to win between the draft, free agency and Norv Turner. The win train was in motion even before Tepper became the imminent owner.