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What we're learning about David Tepper

Mr. Scot

By Mr. Scot,
in Carolina Panthers

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16 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

He is his own man.

 

Had people in his ear telling him "don't fire during season, it just doesn't look good. yada yada"

 

Tepper threw all that out the window and let those brass spheres swing.

 

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We don’t know anything. He’s in the process of firing all the holdovers from the previous owner after taking a season to settle in. Ron, Hurney, and apparently Cam were all going to be moved no matter what. If the team succeeded this year then great, let them run out their contracts and not renew. If they had a bad year— well there’s the reason to fire a year early. None of it is particularly ballsy. 

Everyone wants to pin their hopes on Tepper, but at the end of the day he’s a businessman who has never built an NFL team before. Analytics are great, but analytics don’t  make a coach great. Belichick and John Harbaugh were great coaches before analytics. I can’t name a coach who became great because he used analytics. Gettleman used analytics to draft before and I’m sure Hurney does too. One of them has better social and emotional intelligence and I think it shows in their draft picks. Football is more holistic than baseball analytics. My hope is he understands that and picks people who can use both intelligences.

Plenty of other owners have tried to tap into the “patriot way”. Look how that goes for them. I think the problem is it’s not the “patriot way”, it’s the “bill and Tom way”, and those guys don’t export to other teams. Everyone around them is fools gold without them. Tepper shouldn’t be foolish enough to buy into that. He needs to look at Baltimore.

Tepper has traits people say are positive for the new NFL. I hope he’s also lucky. Because even the best in the NFL can be wrong quite a bit and lose/get injured/fail even when they shouldn’t. 

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9 minutes ago, Ship said:

We don’t know anything. He’s in the process of firing all the holdovers from the previous owner after taking a season to settle in. Ron, Hurney, and apparently Cam were all going to be moved no matter what. If the team succeeded this year then great, let them run out their contracts and not renew. If they had a bad year— well there’s the reason to fire a year early. None of it is particularly ballsy. 

Everyone wants to pin their hopes on Tepper, but at the end of the day he’s a businessman who has never built an NFL team before. Analytics are great, but analytics don’t  make a coach great. Belichick and John Harbaugh were great coaches before analytics. I can’t name a coach who became great because he used analytics. Gettleman used analytics to draft before and I’m sure Hurney does too. One of them has better social and emotional intelligence and I think it shows in their draft picks. Football is more holistic than baseball analytics. My hope is he understands that and picks people who can use both intelligences.

Plenty of other owners have tried to tap into the “patriot way”. Look how that goes for them. I think the problem is it’s not the “patriot way”, it’s the “bill and Tom way”, and those guys don’t export to other teams. Everyone around them is fools gold without them. Tepper shouldn’t be foolish enough to buy into that. He needs to look at Baltimore.

Tepper has traits people say are positive for the new NFL. I hope he’s also lucky. Because even the best in the NFL can be wrong quite a bit and lose/get injured/fail even when they shouldn’t. 

The old saying: be careful what you wish for.....that comes to mind.  There’s as much chance we suck for the next 10 as there is we become a consistent winner.  Will never forget how excited Redskins fans were that Snyder was the new owner way back when, look how that has turned out for them.  

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33 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Several sources have said this (Joe Person, Jason LaCanfora and others)

Also to note: In the Impromptu Meeting thread, there is a tweet from Steve Reed that has him quoting Tepper saying that he would like to follow the trend and go with an offensive guy but would not be oppose to another defensive guy that meets his criteria

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Just now, ickmule said:

The old saying: be careful what you wish for.....that comes to mind.  There’s as much chance we suck for the next 10 as there is we become a consistent winner.  Will never forget how excited Redskins fans were that Snyder was the new owner way back when, look how that has turned out for them.  

Can we give this troll some time off please?  Like forever

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2 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Can we give this troll some time off please?  Like forever

So truth makes someone a troll.  Kinda funny, but my “trolling” as you call it normally ends up becoming reality .  Sorry if that hurts your feelings.  

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