Panthers fire Blackburn, Okam, and Meyer

[Paa Langfart]

30 minutes ago, AU-panther said:

Doesn’t matter.  Getting rid of some of the bad coaches is better than none of the bad coaches even if the methodology is bad. 

Unless of course you believe that they are going to be replaced with worse coaches, like I do.

[AU-panther]

2 minutes ago, Paa Langfart said:

Unless of course you believe that they are going to be replaced with worse coaches, like I do.

So you would prefer him just to do nothing? 

[Khyber53]

If you have to fire that many people from your staff, maybe you aren't very good at managing and developing people.

Just sayin'.

[YourLastThought]

My only question is why didn't the fire the ring leader dodo head bird brained clown coach? He is the main problem. The soldiers are only as good as the Captain. Get rid of the moron in charge dammit!

[rmoneyg35]

Even though we had the 2nd ranked defense somehow I think our defensive line sucked. Look at former 1st round pick Derrick Brown, he’s sucked, I could be wrong but I think he’s regressed. The other young defensive linemen haven’t done much better. Brown and Reddick may get sacks but their overall PFF grade sucks. We have had plenty of games where we haven’t got after the QB or let them run down our throats. I think the whole 2nd ranked defense is misleading anyhow. Our offensive line sucked and honestly I don’t see any improvements from our OL. It took all season just to see the two rookies get some playing time. We need coaches who have NFL experience and can help develop young talent. I don’t think college coaches are going to get the job done.

[Paa Langfart]

4 minutes ago, AU-panther said:

So you would prefer him just to do nothing? 

Nope. I'd prefer he gtfo.  This sh it is rotting from the head.

[AU-panther]

2 minutes ago, Paa Langfart said:

Nope. I'd prefer he gtfo.  This sh it is rotting from the head.

Doesn’t look like that is going to happen so I’m the meantime I’ll take any change that might help 

[Oldschool Leroy]

Man, about the only "panther" thing I had to look forward to was Matt Rhule getting fired. bummer...

I wish there was a fast forward button up in this bitch so I could just fast forward to next year this time. 

[KatsAzz]

 I always liked Brian Flores and thought he was doing a good job. I was surprised when the Miami Dolphins fired him. I feel sure the Panthers would be a better team going forward as well as the present, if he had been their head coach

[Cuttinedge]

It’s a start both lines sucked and special teams weren’t very special. 
Now we will see how big of idiot rhule is by who he replaces  them with. 
He better get some assistants with a boatload of nfl experience 

[PNW_PantherMan]

1 hour ago, Oldschool Leroy said:

Man, about the only "panther" thing I had to look forward to was Matt Rhule getting fired. bummer...

I wish there was a fast forward button up in this bitch so I could just fast forward to next year this time. 

It's the silver lining to each year going by faster as you get older.  It feels like its Christmas every 90 days or whatever.  What's another year at this point?  I'm just hoping we don't have to wait decades.

[OldhamA]

7 hours ago, MHS831 said:

about Okam---while we had the #2 rated defense, we also were #20 vs. the run.  Not sure that Nixon or Haskins developed like they hoped.  We were playing Fox and YGM inside a lot---I dunno--a scapegoat?  Maybe.

Haskins was a 7th round pick and Nixon was on IR for a good portion of the season - when he played he looked good.

[ichigo1057]

8 hours ago, Growl said:

Did anyone at any point last season think “hm yes if only our special teams play was improved”

if anything this team has had a really good run of specialists with Blackburn here

he was fired because he was a holdover from the previous regime and probably still says “keep pounding” in hushed tones when rhule isn’t around

#culturechange

I mean, Rhule is responsible for it as well but we are talking about the same Special Teams coach that didn't have any form of backup plan in case the kicker got hurt. Even worse, it was revealed that our Punter literally had no experience placekicking which means unlike many other teams they didn't even take a tiny bit of time to practice just in case poo happened. I can see the firing for sure.

[Michael G]

Rhule often said he wasn't happy with the DL. He would say it everytime someone mentioned how poor the OL was. Okam is the only one of the three coaches fired today that came with Rhule from Baylor. I wonder if they have asked Satterfield come up from South Carolina to be OL Coach (wasn't he the assistant OL Coach here in 2020)?

Edited January 12, 2022 by Michael G