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Lombardi on Reich, Tepper and the Panthers job

Mr. Scot

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57 minutes ago, Byrdman4real said:

Fitterer is not a roster builder, that's his problem. He's more like a gem seeker, trying to find the next unknown player that will become a superstar. He passover the talented players, which the team needs, for later round players. Fitterer is more like a debuilder. 
 

 

I think Fitt has just been trying to get the players these coaches wanted.

Unfortunately, on offense that meant obtaining players to fit Brady’s scheme, then obtaining players for McAdoo, then obtaining players for Brown/Reich.

Fitt has wift on a lot of guys, but it’s impossible to build a roster when you’re switching what you’re looking for every year.

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2 hours ago, Tbe said:

I think Fitt has just been trying to get the players these coaches wanted.

Unfortunately, on offense that meant obtaining players to fit Brady’s scheme, then obtaining players for McAdoo, then obtaining players for Brown/Reich.

Fitt has wift on a lot of guys, but it’s impossible to build a roster when you’re switching what you’re looking for every year.

Which is why some recent draft picks wound up cut. They weren't necessarily bad, they just didn't fit the new scheme.

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Honestly, despite what Tepper has said, the Panthers appear to be anything but patient.  We've been running through coaches, trading away good players and future assets, and generally look like a team without a plan.

We absolutely need someone who can build the team.  From a team president who will keep Tepper's mits off the operations of the Panthers, a GM who can identify talent that a coach can use, and a head coach who brings something either schematic or leadership (Wilks).  Then they need time.

Time to rebuild the culture.  Time to find and develop talented players.  Time to set up systems, make mistakes, fix them, and develop a winning formula.  IF we can get there, we can build a long term winner.

For every instant turn around team, how often do they sustain that success?  Some teams are fortunate to be able to build on the fly while others need time to put things together before they take off.  What it will take is a team and leadership group that can work together, with some time.  

Tepper needs to get his next coach and GM right, or else we're back to this cycle of firing darts into the darkness, hoping we hit.

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I still think that the Reich hiring and the assembling of a monstrously large, all-star coaching staff was one of those Dream Team attempts that is just doomed to fail.

There were just too many voices at the table, too many names, too many reputations, perhaps even too many factions. The team, offense and defense, just played like a collection of players instead of one team. There was no cohesiveness, no sense of shared purpose, no identity, no immediacy. All of which points to the famous "too many cooks in the kitchen" set up.

I get the feeling that Reich never got to put him plan in actual place, and there's a really good chance that he never really developed a plan in the short time between his firing and his hiring. There was nothing really built there and then it came down to a committee approach with the most lackluster results imagineable.

Reich, in the later news conferences, looked like a weathered, worn out Dad at the end of a five day family road trip. What had seemed like the dream vacation had become a migraine-inflected nightmare.

 

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