Dan Morgan named GM/President

[Tarheel119]

The team terms it a “restructuring” if I read that correctly. It will be interesting to see what that entails. Who is added to the front office? Do changes occur in the scouting department?

[CPantherKing]

43 minutes ago, Toomers said:

Get a Time Machine or just make up whatever version you need to. I would say the 1st year Director of football administration was handling that part. Then a couple years building a 1-15 team. Then these are Marty’s own words about the 2001 draft….

 

Although head coach George Seifert still had the final say in all personnel matters, virtually all of the planning and execution for the 2001 draft was done by director of football operations Marty Hurney and director of player personnel Jack Bushofsky.

"It was a good draft. And actually Jack Bushofsky was in charge of that draft. I love Jack, and I can talk about it - but that really was Jack's draft," said Hurney, who now is part-owner of a radio station in Charlotte and also hosts a sports talk show on it.

https://www.panthers.com/news/2001-draft-yields-bumper-crop-15078585

Keeping one of the creators of a 15-loss team seems like a tradition now. 

With that you go against your original comments.  Hurney was a key part of that roster building. Morgan was agreed upon. Jenkins was spotted by Jack & his scouts. Care to tell me who spotted Smith? It wasn't Jack & his scouts Chris Weinke was 100% Jack/Polian QB scouting model.

I hope Dan Morgan can spot the Steve Smiths & be open to backing them even with their faults as a person while steering clear of the Weinkes.

[WestPanthers]

Found this from the Bills channel -

Hope this end up with the right hire....

 

[PleaseCutStewart]

Seeing as how Tepper immediately hired him, I will assume it was the wrong move...

I hope I am wrong because I loved Dan Morgan as a player, but I'm not too thrilled about this hire

Edited January 23, 2024 by PleaseCutStewart

[CarolinaRideorDie]

There are a lot of positives to take from this hire. I do think Dan can be the right hire for the following reasons. 

1. He is a former player, our current players will buy into what he has to say and build some rapport with him. Look what John Lynch did for SF.  

2. He is former Panther from the glory days/Super Bowl days. He knows this city and has seen the success that we had (Keep Pounding), the current Panthers are a team far from that culture and we need culture. 

3. He had up close experience and view of what went wrong during this disaster of a season, from an internal standpoint, sometimes you need to know what went wrong to know how to fix it. 

4. He was part of the brass that drafted Young. I know a lot of people will dislike this, but ultimately Tepper was going to find a guy who believed in Young regardless of our opinion of Young. Forwarning, Tepper will hire a HC who believes in Young and can groom him. 

 

All of this to say, I know a lot of people will also be against this hire because he was attached to Fitterer. We were so hyped with the "All star" staff last year and looked how it turned out. Maybe Dan isn't the big name we want, but this hire does make sense. 

[strato]

Like it matters anyway. Looks like Bryce Young comes back as unchallenged black hole, Tepper still here, the faces and names don’t matter. 

Good luck Dan hope you are getting it upfront. 

[bandu]

yes MorgAN...

[pantherclaw]

7 hours ago, Zod said:

Then you don't know Dan.

 

I know Dan and he is far from a yes man.

 

He is also one of the most competitive people that has ever walked in the stadium.

 

I hope it works out for him

 

 

Thank you for saying what you have. Can't believe anybody who knew of Dan even open up their mouths and say anything negative of the man.  

He has worked his ass off to have this opportunity.  I am sure that he is excited and prepared to turn this franchise I into a proud one. 

[Krovvy]

I think Dan can do the job, it's just a matter of when the time comes can he tell Dave to fug off and let the football people handle it.

[kungfoodude]

9 hours ago, JawnyBlaze said:

Chark, Thielen and Hurst were all good signings. Sanders too, arguably. They just didn’t work out because we had no one throwing them the ball and defenders could cheat against the run game because there weren’t going to be any catchable passes over 10 yards. 

I assume this is tongue in cheek???

Chark, Hurst and Sanders were probably some of the worst offseason signings in the entire NFL. Especially Sanders.

[Toomers]

6 hours ago, CPantherKing said:

With that you go against your original comments.  Hurney was a key part of that roster building. Morgan was agreed upon. Jenkins was spotted by Jack & his scouts. Care to tell me who spotted Smith? It wasn't Jack & his scouts Chris Weinke was 100% Jack/Polian QB scouting model.

I hope Dan Morgan can spot the Steve Smiths & be open to backing them even with their faults as a person while steering clear of the Weinkes.

  You mean the comment that you can’t have it both ways. That’s been made very clear. I had to assume since you didn’t address any comments about the GM you were referring to.
 

You claimed he was then responsible for all that was good from 1998 forward. Also BS. I’ve given directs words from Marty while you just cherry-pick and make up whatever scenario needed. 

   And the Panthers are doing the same exact thing as back then. Just like you always do in these discussions. Pretend anything bad on a resume’ is someone else’s fault and just hope for the best. Hope is not a plan. 

[Khyber53]

What has been done is done. So... here's hoping he proves to be our John Lynch.

Good luck to the man, he knows the mess he has walked into, maybe that gives him a leg up on fixing it.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

10 hours ago, raleigh-panther said:

 

 

Scott  fowler on Dan Morgan 

Dan Morgan, the new guy in charge of the Carolina Panthers’ personnel, just performed his first near-miraculous maneuver.

He’s going to need to perform a second one to make this team good again.

Hiring Morgan really could work. He’s smart, he’s deeply invested, he knows the Panthers and the Charlotte market inside and out and he’s respected around the league after previous stints in Seattle and Buffalo.
 

But I didn’t think Panthers owner David Tepper would actually do this, because Morgan was so closely associated with previous general manager Scott Fitterer. He was Fitterer’s right hand man for the past three seasons, and in those three ugly seasons Carolina went 5-12, 7-10 and 2-15. It was that final year, when the Panthers posted an NFL-worst record, that did Fitterer in as GM.

Although Fitterer was the boss, Morgan was deeply involved in a number of questionable Panther personnel decisions: Trading Christian McCaffrey, picking Bryce Young over C.J. Stroud and declining the L.A. Rams’ offer of two first-round picks and a third-round pick for Brian Burns, to name just three.

Tepper could have picked from a number of other candidates who didn’t have the stain of those past three seasons, and he interviewed a bunch of them. And then he chose Morgan, whose official title will be President of Football Operations/General Manager. Somehow, Morgan convinced him this was the right path.

“Dan has a thorough knowledge of our football personnel and a clear vision to take us where we all want to go,” Tepper said in a statement released by the team Monday night. “We know he will attack this opportunity with the same intensity he did as a Panthers player.”

No doubt that’s true, but Morgan also is going to have to prove he’s different than Fitterer. In the next few months, he’s going to have to sign a far better free-agent class in 2024 than Carolina acquired in 2023, figure out what to do with edge rusher Burns’ contract and draft a stud with the No. 33 overall pick (the No. 1 pick, which would have been Carolina’s, got shipped to Chicago in the Fitterer regime).

If he fails, people will say, “Tepper should have known better. This was just more of the same.” 

But Morgan somehow convinced Tepper that he can bring something different, something new to the Panthers.

It’s not the first time the organization has bet big on Morgan. With head coach George Seifert in charge, the Panthers drafted Morgan in the first round of the 2001 NFL draft (Steve Smith was the team’s third-round pick that same year). All Morgan cared about was football then. He was as single-minded as anyone who ever walked into the Panther locker room as a rookie, and I’ve seen every one of them.
 

Football is me,” he said then.

When Morgan was healthy, he was Luke Kuechly before Luke Kuechly ever got to Charlotte. People forget that, but he was. Morgan made an unbelievable 25 tackles in the Super Bowl loss to New England. 

Morgan also is one of the franchise’s last remaining direct connections to Sam Mills, the team’s first great inside linebacker and the Hall of Fame member who invented the “Keep Pounding” chant. Morgan played under Mills, who took the youngster under his wing and took him bowling as he got him used to what Charlotte was like.

 

If he was truly part of turning down the Burns trade, then I’m worried 

[ForJimmy]

11 hours ago, 45catfan said:

If he benches Bryce after a bad start to the season, we will know who is--truly--running the show.

GMs adjust starting lineups? That’s usually the HC I believe…