How Rhule's Fug Ups Secured Him Another Year

[Saca312]

It is clear Matt Rhule has another year. With his media appearances and future talk, the odds that he finds himself on the street grow lower every passing day. 

It's a sad reality for Panther fans - myself included. After all, as the season progressed, the Panthers only seemed to be falling flat on their face furthermore. It makes no sense, based on the teams awful performance, why he still finds himself heading this professional football team.

One particular fan seemed to try and rationalize why Rhule is still here, and honestly it makes sense in the worst way:

 

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My answer, and what I'm pretty sure is going through Tepper's head, is this: right now, our QBs are fuging terrible. We have neither the cap space (only $26 million) or draft picks to trade for a veteran. We're inalterably stuck with Darnold for another season, the QB draft class is weak, and frankly, the OL is so bad that nobody's going to succeed behind it anyway. Next year, we'll have $100 million in cap space, a lot more draft capital to trade with, and a QB class in which taking someone in the 1st might actually be an option. Plus we'll have had a year to focus fire on rebuilding the OL.

Basically, if we were to dump Rhule now, we're an extremely unattractive landing spot for a potential head coach. We'd probably have a hard time wooing a top tier candidate. Next year? Entirely different story. Wait out Rhule for one more year, fire him if it's awful, start fresh when we have more resources to rebuild with.

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It does make sense. In no way shape or form is this a situation any new or good head coach will want to dive into. Waiting it out until 2023 to make it a more attractive job is potentially the game Tepper is playing.

Of course, that means sacrificing 2022 to another dead season. Sadly, pretty much all of this is a result of Rhule ineptitude and his bringing, as these issues are caused by him.

In a way, Rhule's fug up secured himself another season. The damning reality.

Given that, it seems Tepper's plan is get past this next awful season and blow it all up. However, that gamble also is contingent with Rhule not fugging up furthermore and wasting away 2023's potential with more bad contracts and throwing out picks. 

I wouldn't put that below Rhule either.

So, in light of this, it seems 2022 is a sure lame duck season at this pace. The hope is Rhule's power is taken away from him at managing player personnel, contracts and draft to minimize the risk of further handcuffing the Panthers to him, or that he does not fug up any further on that front. 2023 is the hope for a true good future as a more attractive coaching destination.

Nevertheless, the damage is done and the Panthers are handcuffed to it. The bad guy wins another year and his ineptitude happened to protect him. The worst kind of situation.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 12, 2022 by Saca312

[PandaMan]

Matt Rhule is failing upwards and went to the Sam Bradford School of Making Money, top of his class.  There’s no doubt that we’d have a hard time finding a quality coach being stuck with Darnold and Walker.  I just pray he doesn’t destroy the rest of our draft capital on the way out 

[Waldo]

Lame duck HC year again. As long as they don't trade away future draft capital, this staff can choke on it.

I just hope Tepper has the brains to hire a consultant to clean up this mess by next offseason. God help all Panther fans if he take the lead in that process. 

[trueblade]

If we're going to do this, Tepper/Fitterer have to protect 2023 draft picks and minimize free agent signings in order to maximize 2023 comp picks. No trading of future picks. No free agent signings until after the comp pick window.

[mc52beast]

If I was an attractive HC candidate and Tepper had a blank check I wouldn’t care who was on the roster.

[PandaMan]

8 minutes ago, trueblade said:

If we're going to do this, Tepper/Fitterer have to protect 2023 draft picks and minimize free agent signings in order to maximize 2023 comp picks. No trading of future picks. No free agent signings until after the comp pick window.

The main thing is that it sounds like Rhule still has total control.  Completely agree that he needs to be reigned in.  If what’s in the OP is accurate, he will be reigned in to not destroy future HC options since we’d have nothing to build on.  We can only hope it’s true for our own sanity 

[PantherGuy]

@Saca312I think you're right. As much as we all want to be rid of Matt and Sam, Sam will still be here next year unless he decides he's had enough of being a bad football player and retires. What coach would want this job knowing he's stuck with Sam for the first year and there's only so much he can do to upgrade the line?

[CRA]

Biggest downside to OP, is you give Rhule another year to dictate contracts and player resources….that will impact the future.  Because they will be made to fit his vision.  

[hepcat]

These are all terrible reasons to keep a fraud like Matt Rhule. Get rid of him ASAP. Stop the f*cking bleeding. Any hungry young coach worth his salt would jump at the chance to lead a team. 

Tepper made a HUGE mistake hiring Rhule. 
 He guaranteed Rhule so much money that he doesn’t even need to try to field a winning team. Let alone I don’t think he’d be capable of it if he tried his best.

There needs to be an NFL qualified up-and-comer brought in ASAP. Rams OC Kevin O’Connell is just that kind of guy for example. 

[PNW_PantherMan]

So what's the rationale if we win 5 to 7 games next season and he's still around for year 4?  There's really no reason to keep around a coach that should be fired.  It would be better to go ahead and move on, and give the new guy the expectation that we aren't gonna have the most resources year 1.  It would be a rebuilding year, like 2020 should have been before we signed Teddy Bridgewater and got impatient.

[Harbingers]

46 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

It is clear Matt Rhule has another year. With his media appearances and future talk, the odds that he finds himself on the street grow lower every passing day. 

It's a sad reality for Panther fans - myself included. After all, as the season progressed, the Panthers only seemed to be falling flat on their face furthermore. It makes no sense, based on the teams awful performance, why he still finds himself heading this professional football team.

One particular fan seemed to try and rationalize why Rhule is still here, and honestly it makes sense in the worst way:

 

_____

My answer, and what I'm pretty sure is going through Tepper's head, is this: right now, our QBs are fuging terrible. We have neither the cap space (only $26 million) or draft picks to trade for a veteran. We're inalterably stuck with Darnold for another season, the QB draft class is weak, and frankly, the OL is so bad that nobody's going to succeed behind it anyway. Next year, we'll have $100 million in cap space, a lot more draft capital to trade with, and a QB class in which taking someone in the 1st might actually be an option. Plus we'll have had a year to focus fire on rebuilding the OL.

Basically, if we were to dump Rhule now, we're an extremely unattractive landing spot for a potential head coach. We'd probably have a hard time wooing a top tier candidate. Next year? Entirely different story. Wait out Rhule for one more year, fire him if it's awful, start fresh when we have more resources to rebuild with.

_____

It does make sense. In no way shape or form is this a situation any new or good head coach will want to dive into. Waiting it out until 2023 to make it a more attractive job is potentially the game Tepper is playing.

Of course, that means sacrificing 2022 to another dead season. Sadly, pretty much all of this is a result of Rhule ineptitude and his bringing, as these issues are caused by him.

In a way, Rhule's fug up secured himself another season. The damning reality.

Given that, it seems Tepper's plan is get past this next awful season and blow it all up. However, that gamble also is contingent with Rhule not fugging up furthermore and wasting away 2023's potential with more bad contracts and throwing out picks. 

I wouldn't put that below Rhule either.

So, in light of this, it seems 2022 is a sure lame duck season at this pace. The hope is Rhule's power is taken away from him at managing player personnel, contracts and draft to minimize the risk of further handcuffing the Panthers to him, or that he does not fug up any further on that front. 2023 is the hope for a true good future as a more attractive coaching destination.

Nevertheless, the damage is done and the Panthers are handcuffed to it. The bad guy wins another year and his ineptitude happened to protect him. The worst kind of situation.

 

 

 

 

You shut your whore mouth. 

[kungfoodude]

Mark my words, these guys are going to go bananas trying to win now. poo, you saw what a three game winning streak did, watch what the threat of unemployment does. 

[firefox1234]

9 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Mark my words, these guys are going to go bananas trying to win now. poo, you saw what a three game winning streak did, watch what the threat of unemployment does. 

Will not be suprised if we traded future picks to trade back into the top 100 in this years draft. This crew is looking that desperate to me.

[Waldo]

11 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Mark my words, these guys are going to go bananas trying to win now. poo, you saw what a three game winning streak did, watch what the threat of unemployment does.