Who’s the best head coach in Carolina Panthers history?

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

fox by a hair. more accomplished and his teams were less talented than rons

[Waldo]

Zero championships...so none.

[Sione Fua]

1 hour ago, Carl Spackler said:

We had a coordinator discussion, so here’s one for the head coaches.

Dom Capers
George Seifert
John Fox
Ron Rivera
Matt Rhule

Not including the three-game tenure of Perry Fewell, here’s how I rank them:

Rivera - Rough start/finish, but led us to our best season ever, 1 NFC title, 3 division titles and 4 playoff appearances. Players loved him and while his message grew stale after 9 years, it’s very clear Ron’s far better than what we replaced him with in every conceivable category 
Capers - Didn’t have the highs of Fox’s tenure but he didn’t have the lows (almost did though), and he’s not nearly as much of a dick
Fox - Fox got us to our first Super Bowl and had, coaching-wise, a good reputation around the league while here, but he absolutely didn’t try in 2010 bc of his JR feud
Seifert - Came so close to a playoff berth in his first year and guided us to our worst season ever, but also had the best draft we’ve ever had
Rhule - Has contributed nothing but shitty motivational-speaker platitudes and a penchant for hiring and signing Temple and Baylor people over people with better skill. Will go down as “the dark era” in our history 

I tried to like Matt Rhule, but the guy has been awful at in game decisions, personnel decisions favoring baylor and temple guys, and the two QBs he picked out were pretty bad.

Dare I say that his 2nd handpicked QB is worse than the first?

[45catfan]

Fox

Rivera

Capers

Rhule (still to be determined)

Seifert

[nosuchthingasapanther]

john fox.

[Kuhndog94]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

Slight nod for Fox over Rivera.

Combined back to back winning seasons between the two: 0

Remember when Rivera got booty tickled during a press conference over the B2B winning seasons thing? 

We WoN tHe DiViSiOn, tHaT cOuNtS aS BaCk 2 BaCk

How are ya gonna brag about winning the division with a record of 7-8-1 

[Carolina Cajun]

Missed the true Goat, Perry Fewell.

[Wanderlai]

Fox but man he wasted talented teams as bad as anyone ever has. 

[Pantherxtreme]

I'm go with Rivera.

In 2013 we won 10 or 11 games in a row. 2015 we won 15 in a row. We never had that type of sustained win streaks with Fox in a given season. 

I feel like injury to Steve Smith in 2004 derailed us from back 2 back winning seasons with Fox.

I think Gettleman derailed our back 2 back winning season with Rivera in 2014 by gutting our entire receiving corp and depleting the secondary. 

[RJK]

None of the above, Or the rumor of Bill Cowher. 

[Carl Spackler]

For the “Ron had Luke Kuechly and Cam Newton, Fox is better” crowd:

John Fox had Julius Peppers and Steve Smith, plus two different pro bowl running backs. Three winning seasons, three playoff appearances, 2 division titles in 9 years. 

[Pantherxtreme]

4 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

For the “Ron had Luke Kuechly and Cam Newton, Fox is better” crowd:

John Fox had Julius Peppers and Steve Smith, plus two different pro bowl running backs. Three winning seasons, three playoff appearances, 2 division titles in 9 years. 

I'm sorry but if I'm starting a team with 2 players imho I'm taking prime Julius Peppers and a prime Steve Smith over a prime Newton and prime Kuechly 

[Carl Spackler]

43 minutes ago, Kuhndog94 said:

Remember when Rivera got booty tickled during a press conference over the B2B winning seasons thing? 

We WoN tHe DiViSiOn, tHaT cOuNtS aS BaCk 2 BaCk

How are ya gonna brag about winning the division with a record of 7-8-1 

I mean I’d rather win a playoff game than sit at home 

[Cdparr7]

John Fox is without a doubt our best HC. His problem was he couldn’t move on from Jake until it was too late Hurney didn’t exactly give him much to work with either afterwards.

Rivera was overrated and should have given Cam and Luke half his salary for carrying him as long as they did.

Dom was okay but the whole Collins thing kinda put a rain cloud over him.

George was a good talent evaluator but lost the locker room pretty quick.