WashPost story on Rivera

[ThPantherFan]

5 hours ago, ladypanther said:

Maybe things would have gone a little better.

I wish it had.  

[ThPantherFan]

5 hours ago, Waldo said:

It stinks but Tepper really screwed up by keeping Huney

One of many screw ups.

[ThPantherFan]

5 hours ago, jackson113 said:

Rhule is so bad we pine for mediocrity, just  a pathetic way to think...

Isn't it though.  I'm tired of being bad (less than mediocre).  It's time we had a kick ass and take name leader.  Fire that moth$%^&@inh Rhule!

[ThPantherFan]

3 hours ago, Jaxel said:

I mean, Ron is a slightly above average QB away from a contender. If he can hit on the QB market this off season, the WFT will be in good shape.

Very well could be.

[ThPantherFan]

3 hours ago, hepcat said:

I’d take their roster and coaching staff over what we have now 100 times out of 100

That's a no brainer!

[mav1234]

Rivera was a better coach than some of us give him credit for, but he isn't an amazing coach. He is what Washington needed to stabilize their football organization.  If he can find a franchise QB he might be in pretty good shape, but that seems unlikely. His team reminds me a little too much of his post/without Cam teams here.

Rhule is so bad Rivera looks like a fuging genius tho.

[Rick78]

I had to make an account to comment. I just cannot believe Panther fans are still scapegoating Hurney at every turn for the ineptitude of the organization as a whole. Hate him all you want, but the truth is Hurney picked players that were the best in this franchises history, some being HOF players. He picked, and traded for players that should have had consistent success.

He had the QB, Cam.

He had the QB of the defense, Luke.

He had the left trackle, Gross.

He had the Mr. Dependable, Olsen.

He had several great defensive lineman.

Then you have pieces like Wharton, Gamble, Deangelo, Stewart. The team was littered with talent when Gettleman, and Rivera got it. Just littered. 

Yeah, the cap space was fuged from the cap not growing in 2010, and then going down the following year (isn't that the only time that's happened before in the NFL)? But we should have been operating around max cap anyway with the amount of talent on the team, and the amount of elite players on rookie deals. That's how perpetual winners do it. You don't win games by going into a season with 20 million in cap space (Gettleman).

Meanwhile Dave Gettleman goes to NY and shows his true colors. Consistently produced a top five pick team, throwing away tons of assets, and even *SHOCK* cap space. He's been terrible. They are somehow worse than us.

Meanwhile in Carolina we've had the worst off-season in franchise history and a lot of people here I'm reading are all about giving Fitts mulligan? HELLO? He wasted 3 draft picks on a certified bust at quarterback, wasted a first round pick at a luxory position that lately has been producing top 10 busts (ironically for QB needy teams that end up letting them walk in FA or trading them, then finally getting their QB they needed), signs two horrific offensive lineman the first day of free agency (while letting guys that did alright last year walk), then he goes into the season 3-0, big dick swinging, talking about playoffs and trades for another fuging cornerback like it was a need.

Shockingly we're going into the third season of needing a quarterback, and just like smart fans last year predicted this was going to be a really bad year to need one.

I don't get how people here post tens of thousands of times, but are so consistently off the mark. Do you have eyes?

[Green-Ghost]

7 hours ago, NAS said:

No, it was time to move on from Rivera. Tepper made a mistake of not getting rid of Hurney at the same time and letting the new GM pick the new head coach.

Which coach is better?  Riverboat Ron or Matt Rhule.  I realize that it is easy to second guess decisions.

[NAS]

3 hours ago, Green-Ghost said:

Which coach is better?  Riverboat Ron or Matt Rhule.  I realize that it is easy to second guess decisions.

Rivera is much better but it was still the right decision to fire him, wrong decision to hire Rhule. Both truths are self evident