Baylor's Sean Padden hired as VP of Football Operations

[kungfoodude]

2 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

Not hardly. Most of Baylor's fans are pissed.

Not to mention that is Cowboy country. They aren't going to abandon that for a coach that was there for three years. It's not like he was some beloved, long time coach at Baylor.

[SmittysLawnGuy]

7 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

Not hardly. Most of Baylor's fans are pissed.

Guess that makes sense. Back to checkers it is. The Panther way.

[Toker Smurf]

Ugh, don't like this. Looks like he was the d-line coach at Albright when Rhule was there as LB coach. He was out of football for 9 years before Rhule made him the Director of Football Ops at Temple.

[Harbingers]

1 hour ago, Rastlet said:

It's cause Rhule has no NFL connections. Put me on record as this whole thing ending in unmitigated disaster. 

Redskins will win the superb owl next year. Just you watch. While we trifle in 0-16 territory. 

[SmittysLawnGuy]

And we thought Ron was bad hanging on to his buddies. This guy is next level. This dude is the definition of nepotism!

[raleigh-panther]

This is poor 

we are Baylor North

last I looked, Baylor was never that great of a college program. 
 

don’t like it. 

[JawnyBlaze]

1 hour ago, rhyslloyd said:

Agreed.  Rivera was ripped for his nepotism, but this is shaping up to be the same type of situation all over again.  Maybe these guys will actually perform, but it's not a good look to just hire all of your buddies with no experience.

I’ll admit, I’m not crazy about all these nepotistic hires. I was super happy he went outside the box and got Joe Brady and I was ok with Phil Snow because by all accounts he’s been a good college DC, but the rest of these have me uneasy. But the real test of whether he’s going to Rivera it up is whether he refuses to let underperformers go.  Rivera refused to let his buddies go even when they were atrocious at their job like Shula, we’ll see if Rhule is the same way. 

[Happy Panther]

Rhule did the same thing when he took over Baylor - cleaned house. So all these guys have been with him through the 3 year rebuild. Maybe he can do it again. Tepper is clearly giving him free rein.

Wilson and Parcell surmised that this is not the future assistant GM position but more of an administrative spot.

[stbugs]

34 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Yeah but he banked his entire future on getting Barkley and Jones. If those moves don't pan out quickly, Gettleman will be headed into retirement. And some of those openings on the roster were created by him jettisoning good players.

But, he has definitely done a better job drafting than Hurney. Not a super high mark to hit at this point, however. The results are that they have won a total of 9 games in his two seasons. It's pretty hard to ignore that.

I don't expect it will get much better next season.

2018 was just an awful team with Eli. He is banking on Barkley and Jones, but without making this an I wish DG was still here thread, they are at least making strides to getting their core. Whether they are good enough, who knows but we’ve got Moore, CMC and then lots of question marks. Way too many question marks. Cam is a question mark, the OL, the DL, the secondary, TE, non-Moore wideouts, pretty much everything except RB.

[WoahW]

23 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Redskins will win the superb owl next year. Just you watch. While we trifle in 0-16 territory. 

You ride Rivera’s dick more than some porn stars do in videos give it a fuging rest or go be a Redskins fan 

[Pazhoosier89]

Everybody is getting worked up over the job title.  This is probably more of a glorified administrative role with a title of VP. The more important hire is assistant GM and that probably won't happen until after the draft.

[Cary Kollins]

lol if you're getting your jimmies ruffled by this as if you have any idea what a vp of football operations does

[trueblade]

1 hour ago, stbugs said:

Dude they were 3-13 the year before DG got there and were in shambles with a QB who was done. They had a decent couple drafts. According to PFR, they’ve got 8 starters from the past two years. We’ve got 2 starters from the past two years.

I don’t want him back but he’s drafted better than we have since he’s been gone.

I thought W/L record was the only thing that mattered in evaluating GMs? I know I've heard that an awful lot in these discussions.

[ellis]

I’m surprised more people aren’t thrilled that the Panthers are building a college football team, all the way up to the VP of FB Ops.