The Athletic: “‘Hunger Games’ culture” at BOFA

[SuperBowlBound]

From Person & Russini:

https://theathletic.com/5105215/2023/12/06/carolina-panthers-frank-reich-firing-david-tepper/

[ncfan]

[Mr. Scot]

Whoa, boy

[Panthercougar68]

Too many cooks in the kitchen.

[Ricky Spanish]

1 minute ago, Panthercougar68 said:

Too many cooks in the kitchen.

 

[rayzor]

[Ricky Spanish]

Also, I'm numb to the dysfunction.

Now I just think it's hilarious.

If I didn't I'd just be sad.

[Panthercougar68]

This is why Scott isn’t marked safe from being fired, he’s had a bigger hand in this whole season then people think.

Yeah Tepper has his faults but people on Frank’s staff and Scott were trying to hide things.

[Mr. Scot]

More:

Tepper also encouraged Reich to go outside of his “circle” with some of the hires. As such, many of the offensive coaches had never worked together and brought different philosophies to an offense that would be led by a rookie quarterback from Week 1. Besides the disagreements in scheme, there were personality conflicts and factions formed on a staff that included two main holdovers from Rhule’s staff — offensive line coach James Campen and special teams coordinator Chris Tabor, both of whom were retained at Tepper’s urging.

After Tepper named Tabor interim coach last week, one of Tabor’s first moves was to fire quarterbacks coach Josh McCown and running backs coach Duce Staley, who was on Philadelphia’s staff with Reich in 2017 when the Eagles won the Super Bowl. Staley was still with the Eagles two years later when McCown played for the team.

The 44-year-old McCown logged 17 seasons in the NFL as a backup quarterback. McCown twice interviewed for the Houston Texans’ head-coaching vacancy, but his Panthers’ role was his first NFL coaching job.

Some in Carolina thought Reich and McCown weren’t tough enough on Young as the 2021 Heisman Trophy winner from Alabama got off to a bumpy start.

[Daeavorn]

Man this looks like a fuging catastrophe. What a disaster. If this doesn't humble him nothing will. 

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, Panthercougar68 said:

This is why Scott isn’t marked safe from being fired, he’s had a bigger hand in this whole season then people think.

Yeah Tepper has his faults but people on Frank’s staff and Scott were trying to hide things.

This article pretty much indicates he stabbed Reich in the back.

[Daeavorn]

This is an interesting bit.

"Young’s difficulty understanding Reich’s offense,"

If Young was so smart and had such a superior grasp on football, what does this say for Reichs offense? Is Young not as capable in that area as we were led to believe?

[Mr. Scot]

More: 

The Panthers’ defensive assistants, nearly all of whom had worked with Evero previously, have been more aligned, according to sources.

But that has not been the case on the offensive side. At one point, several coaches wanted to bench Young in favor of Dalton, who had the Panthers’ only 300-yard passing game when Young missed the Week 3 game at Seattle with an ankle injury. But those conversations never reached Reich, Fitterer or ownership, according to high-ranking team sources.

Other coaches felt they couldn’t voice their opinions without being viewed as malcontents.

Several sources said Reich would call out Young for mistakes during team-wide film reviews — as he did other players — early in the season but backed off in recent weeks, with Young’s confidence in mind.

“You can coach a player hard,” said one staffer, “without killing his spirit.”

But one player said it wasn’t Reich’s nature or coaching style to be overly critical of any player or position group.
 

[WhoKnows]

3 minutes ago, Panthercougar68 said:

Too many cooks in the kitchen.

Yep. I think everyone started preseason thinking we had an all star staff and a solid team like Reich saying we were playoff contenders and Fitterer saying the roster was better overall. Once preseason games hit and we looked terrible, the CYA stuff came out. Once we just started losing every week to be team #32, it doesn’t surprise me that this started happening. Reich and Fitterer knew they were on hot seats and so did the rest of the staff. Reich seemed to take the I don’t care just fire me and pay me approach and Fitterer appears to have taken the throw everyone else under the bus approach. I have no idea exactly what role Tepper played in all the moves but I can get why he was so pissed at the results and Reich obviously needed to go. I just hope we decide to get a legitimate GM in place with legit consulting/advice to get a good offensive mind in place and get an actual rebuild process in place. We can’t compete as we are now but we do need to know if Young has any chance. We fuged up not getting a bounty for Burns but at $30M per season he’s not part of a true rebuild. Unfortunately we already wasted our chance to get something real for Moore and CMC so we’re going to have to buckle down and draft well at the top of the round for a couple more years.