A follow-up question to those who believe it is too "risky" to replace a head coach because the new HC might not be better than the present HC

[tiger7_88]

Does that same philosophy apply to new assistant coaches and new coordinators?  Or are new assistant/coordinator hires exclusively a positive?

And, if new assistants/coordinators are NOT always a positive addition and there is a chance that they will make the team worse , how is keeping Ron but forcing him to change his assistants/coordinators any different from firing Ron and bringing in a new staff with a fresh perspective?

I think the answer to that question, if I had to guess, is that Ron will be sure to hire new assistant coaches and coordinators that fit his football philosophy (i.e. straight out of the book of his "friends"), ergo no new or "fresh" perspective. 

To which I would respond that that will only delay the inevitable and put this team further behind the 8-ball.

[jfra78]

no one knows half the assistants so they dont matter

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[LinvilleGorge]

It's just a chicken poo mentality, period. We're a .500 team over the last three seasons combined. Three winning seasons out of eight. If you dont think you can do any better than that, then just quit.

[mc52beast]

If Ron sticks to his guns and hires people with the same old philosophy then he’s gone eventually. Tepper is trying to make it clear that he wants the Panthers ran like a progressive organization and is giving Ron a chance to evolve.

If I had just spent over 2 billion dollars on a football team and watched them free fall from 6-2 I probably would have done more than just give Ron an ultimatum.

[Mr. Scot]

People like to use isolated incidents to avoid looking at the big picture. It's what I call "microscope" thinking.

An older player makes a highlight-reel play in a game where he gets beaten several times...

A coach beats a team everyone thought would blow us out yet also loses several others that we were expected to win...

A GM drafts a couple of good players, but they become being part of a roster that ends up with a losing record in a historic collapse of a season...

People focus on the isolated incidents and say "See? That proves they can be good!"

That's one of the most common ways you wind up keeping people that you should have replaced.

[Cdw]

Hell, there were people that didnt want to get rid of Shula for fear of winding up with someone worse.  Change is scary I guess.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

The NFL is about taking risks. I don’t get how so many people don’t see that 

[Moo Daeng]

8 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

People like to use isolated incidents to avoid looking at the big picture. It's what I call "microscope" thinking.

An older player makes a highlight-reel play in a game where he gets beaten several times...

A coach beats a team everyone thought would blow us out yet also loses several others that we were expected to win...

A GM drafts a couple of good players, but they become being part of a roster that ends up with a losing record in a historic collapse of a season...

People focus on the isolated incidents and say "See? That proves they can be good!"

That's one of the most common ways you wind up keeping people that you should have replaced.

It's not much different than looking at a few new successful coaches and thinking the answer is as simple as hiring a OC without taking in to consideration all the failures who fit that description. For every McVay (roster loaded to the gills with talent) and Pederson there is a Mcadoo, Kelly, Gase, Shurmur,  Jay Gruden

[Peppers90 NC]

I don’t recall really hearing that so called fear yet 

[GoPanthers123]

After experimenting with Washington at DC, maybe Ron will do better this time around.  To be honest every coach has strengths and weaknesses, so it is always a risk - a risk keeping a coach and a risk changing a coach.

[lightsout]

In this league, I think three years is a good amount of time to give before passing judgment provided the locker room seems healthy and you're at least competitive.

Ron has had chances and time and he's not changing. Either fire him now or fire him after another wasted season. 

[Chaos]

It's either make a change with the hope of improving, or stay the same knowing exactly what you have.  I guess to each their own, I'm okay with the risk of change because I would never find fault with any one person or any organization that takes calculated business risks to improve.

 

[Moo Daeng]

If he wanted to change coaches this season I believe he should have dumped Hurney several weeks back and got his own GM in here for the new HC process. I cant imagine having a GM and HC search going on simultaneously. 

[klumme]

11 hours ago, mc52beast said:

If Ron sticks to his guns and hires people with the same old philosophy then he’s gone eventually. Tepper is trying to make it clear that he wants the Panthers ran like a progressive organization and is giving Ron a chance to evolve.

 

The keyword here is "eventually". This is a team that have now pissed away 17 years of sorry ass 80´s boring sad conservative football with Fox and Rowboat Ron.. For that we have 6 winning seasons.