Panthers interviewing Reese today

[Mr. Scot]

Jay Glazer said yesterday that we'd be getting started today.

[kungfoodude]

I am going to be curious if this process goes like the coaching search. We have a full plan laid out and then all of a sudden it is all over and we have a guy because Tepper finds "The Guy."

[Davidson Deac II]

If we hire him, I hope Reese can piece together a good draft/group of free agents.  

[Khyber53]

I'm not sure if getting another manager from the Giants is a great move. Last one ended badly and there just isn't a lot to look at when it comes to the Giants in the last few years. 

All we need is another Bup Bup Bup Youse Guys at the helm again to sink us completely.

[Mr. Scot]

Reese is getting a look because he was the GM in New York the year that Matt Rhule was an assistant there.

[saX man]

Being the first interview led is a sign your capable but not the primary target.

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, saX man said:

Being the first interview led is a sign your capable but not the primary target.

Also a sign that you were unemployed, available and we didn't have to ask anybody for permission.

[t96]

3 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

I'm not sure if getting another manager from the Giants is a great move. Last one ended badly and there just isn't a lot to look at when it comes to the Giants in the last few years. 

All we need is another Bup Bup Bup Youse Guys at the helm again to sink us completely.

Did DG really end badly? He certainly wasn't perfect here and has been questionable in NY, but DG had pretty damn good success here, ultimately.

[onmyown]

Yea....NO thanks. Worse than Hurney in the draft and won SBs with a roster already built. 

[NAS]

15 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I am going to be curious if this process goes like the coaching search. We have a full plan laid out and then all of a sudden it is all over and we have a guy because Tepper finds "The Guy."

I hope so. If you find the guy you don’t stall 

[Dunn]

I'm ready to see us hire a trainer assistant from Temple or Baylor. 

[top dawg]

17 minutes ago, t96 said:

Did DG really end badly? He certainly wasn't perfect here and has been questionable in NY, but DG had pretty damn good success here, ultimately.

I have never disagreed with you more, but that's OK.

I think he had above average success on the contractual side and below average success on the drafting side! I think that he was downright bad to abysmal at what I'll call situational team building (which it's all situational), as he was much too dogmatic in his theories and approach to modern-day football. Just my $0.02. I am not going to get into an unnecessary debate on Gettleman. He's gone... thankfully!

[t96]

23 minutes ago, top dawg said:

I have never disagreed with you more, but that's OK.

I think he had above average success on the contractual side and below average success on the drafting side! I think that he was downright bad to abysmal at what I'll call situational team building (which it's all situational), as he was much too dogmatic in his theories and approach to modern-day football. Just my $0.02. I am not going to get into an unnecessary debate on Gettleman. He's gone... thankfully!

Maybe it’s just because the only thing we have to compare him to is Hurney, but here are the results of each of his seasons (including 2017 because he was GM for the draft and free agency so that was his team despite getting fired during training camp):

 

2013: 12-4, divisional round loss

2014: 7-8-1, divisional round loss

2015: 15-1, Super Bowl loss

2016: 6-10, missed playoffs

2017: 11-5, wild card loss

 

I don’t know how anyone can argue that is anything other than a mostly successful tenure, in terms of pure outcome. I agree, he wound up missing in the draft considerably more than you’d hope for, but as Belichick (a notably horrible drafter) has shown, it doesn’t matter how you get there, as long as you can build a roster that can win. He should not have been fired when he was, and it’s certainly possible the team still would’ve fallen apart with Cam’s injuries whether DG stayed or not, but I wouldn’t assume that. We’ll never know, but that 5 season stretch is easily the best in our team’s history and DG should’ve been kept around at least another year or two to see what he could’ve kept building here. If we still fell apart then yeah I’d agree with you, but we never got the chance to see how it played out. His Giants tenure isn’t looking so good, but his 5 seasons here were pretty successful overall.

[thefuzz]

2 minutes ago, t96 said:

Maybe it’s just because the only thing we have to compare him to is Hurney, but here are the results of each of his seasons (including 2017 because he was GM for the draft and free agency so that was his team despite getting fired during training camp):

 

2013: 12-4, divisional round loss

2014: 7-8-1, divisional round loss

2015: 15-1, Super Bowl loss

2016: 6-10, missed playoffs

2017: 11-5, wild card loss

 

I don’t know how anyone can argue that is anything other than a mostly successful tenure, in terms of pure outcome. I agree, he wound up missing in the draft considerably more than you’d hope for, but as Belichick (a notably horrible drafter) has shown, it doesn’t matter how you get there, as long as you can build a roster that can win. He should not have been fired when he was, and it’s certainly possible the team still would’ve fallen apart with Cam’s injuries whether DG stayed or not, but I wouldn’t assume that. We’ll never know, but that 5 season stretch is easily the best in our team’s history and DG should’ve been kept around at least another year or two to see what he could’ve kept building here. If we still fell apart then yeah I’d agree with you, but we never got the chance to see how it played out. His Giants tenure isn’t looking so good, but his 5 seasons here were pretty successful overall.

Yup.

People don't want to look at team success when they "evaluate" GM's, they would rather look at 1st round draft picks.

It's a really weird condition that the Panthers fans have.