Jerry Richardson knew you didn't have to win it all, just some.

[Snake]

Here we stand at a point in Panthers history which seems a bit bleak. Two years of failure backed by a former coach who was on his ride out of the stadium. What JR really understood about fans and putting butts in seats and it was this. You didn't have to win every year you just had to win enough to keep people coming back. That's why when faced with coaching choices he picked the middle of the road coach. Someone who was going to give him a consistent 6 to 9 wins every year. 

Fast forward to now. We have a owner who is more worried in my opinion in winning a championship than putting butts in seats. Tepper has more money than most of the NFL combined and his goal is to win. This leads a owner to sometimes do drastic things. Hurney sold him on Rhule being the best and Joe Brady being the best. Hurney has always loved college coaches and this showed fully with this head coaching pick. Tepper took the leap and now we are back at square one. Joe Brady is gone and Rhule will now have a full college staff steering this team into oblivion. The good news now folks is Tepper has learned. Hopefully he and Fitters will search out a true NFL head coach and we will truly start a successful rebuild. 

[Mr. Scot]

Jerry Richardson didn't have any clue how to build a championship team.

Neither does David Tepper.

The one hope that I have with Tepper is that he at least might be willing to let the people he hires do their jobs.

Richardson never would.

 

[Paa Langfart]

No idea why you think Tepper has learned anything.

[hepcat]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

Jerry Richardson didn't have any clue how to build a championship team.

Neither does David Tepper.

The one hope that I have with Tepper is that he at least might be willing to let the people he hires do their jobs.

Richardson never would.

 

Richardson knew a lot more about it than Tepper did, that is a stone cold fact. 

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, hepcat said:

Richardson knew a lot more about it than Tepper did, that is a stone cold fact. 

Not enough.

The Panthers finished exactly 500 under Richardson. What ultimately happens under Tepper remains to be seen because we're still only a few years.

[hepcat]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Not enough.

The Panthers finished exactly 500 under Richardson. What ultimately happens under Tepper remains to be seen because we're still only a few years.

Panthers went to the NFC championship in Richardson’s second season as an owner and a Super Bowl within moments of a championship in 9 seasons. Go ahead and sneeze at the past regime all you want but right now this owner has turned this team into a miserable dumpster fire. At least under Richardson there were gasps of relevancy. 

[onmyown]

almost 25 years vs 3 years is literally impossible to compare

it’s true JR never cared about consistency, but consistency is also something that is much harder to build/do

only a few franchises can say they win regularly every season

gonna have to just wait this out…if it takes Tepper half a decade to establish at least a decade of back to back winning, all is good

Tepper appears to be learning from his mistakes at least and JR didn’t GOF and by modern standards wasn’t the brightest bulb

[Mr. Scot]

10 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Panthers went to the NFC championship in Richardson’s second season as an owner and a Super Bowl within moments of a championship in 9 seasons. Go ahead and sneeze at the past regime all you want but right now this owner has turned this team into a miserable dumpster fire. At least under Richardson there were gasps of relevancy. 

None that ever lasted.

If it takes Tepper longer to get to a winning team, but he does so consistently, he'll surpass Richardson.

Keep in mind I say all this as somebody who doesn't have much faith in David Tepper.

[Paa Langfart]

10 minutes ago, onmyown said:

almost 25 years vs 3 years is literally impossible to compare

it’s true JR never cared about consistency, but consistency is also something that is much harder to build/do

only a few franchises can say they win regularly every season

gonna have to just wait this out…if it takes Tepper half a decade to establish at least a decade of back to back winning, all is good

Tepper appears to be learning from his mistakes at least and JR didn’t GOF and by modern standards wasn’t the brightest bulb

Show me the learning?

[Chiefzack]

24 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Jerry Richardson didn't have any clue how to build a championship team.

Neither does David Tepper.

The one hope that I have with Tepper is that he at least might be willing to let the people he hires do their jobs.

Richardson never would.

 

Richardson had 2 teams in the Super Bowl.

The 15-1 Panthers weren't a championship team?

They just ran into a buzz saw that beat up the GOAT 2 weeks before.

[Prowler2k18]

23 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Jerry Richardson didn't have any clue how to build a championship team.

Neither does David Tepper.

The one hope that I have with Tepper is that he at least might be willing to let the people he hires do their jobs.

Richardson never would.

 

True. Tepper has done more to improve the front office in 3 years than Richardson did in the 20+ years of his ownership. Just hasn’t translated to the field just yet.

[hepcat]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

None that ever lasted.

If it takes Tepper longer to get to a winning team, but he does so consistently, he'll surpass Richardson.

Keep in mind I say all this as somebody who doesn't have much faith in David Tepper.

It never lasted but at least it happened. Right now I have no faith in this ownership even putting together a playoff team. This is going to be 3 straight years with 5 wins. Yes I’m pretty sure this team doesn’t win another game.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, hepcat said:

It never lasted but at least it happened. Right now I have no faith in this ownership even putting together a playoff team. This is going to be 3 straight years with 5 wins. Yes I’m pretty sure this team doesn’t win another game.

It's valid that we face some bad teams, and anything can happen, but I don't have any faith that we win another game either.

And as mentioned, I don't have any faith in David Tepper. But in the case of the very specific condition that he defers to guys like Fitterer and Morgan, I do have hope.

[4Corners]

Richardson - more than happy and willing to go 7-9 and 8-8 every year. Make sure we are accommodating to drunken moron visiting fans and PSL owners who pull for the Pats or Steelers on Sunday. Also need to make sure the NDA slush fund is full so he can buy his way out of racist and sexual misconduct. 
 

Tepper has a long way to go before he is even close to Jean Friday Jerry.