Dan Morgan named GM/President

[CPantherKing]

19 minutes ago, Frank9999 said:

Just a bunch of disgruntled armchair analyst…pissed off of lack of recent success. Dan is a good hire

He's not a hire. He's a promotion for his success with the organization.

Call it what it is. I want to know the success credited to Morgan. Do you?

[ncstatekwi]

[CRA]

5 minutes ago, KBRed said:

Luke for Head Scout…Beason for LB coach. Let’s go. Maybe we can bring the Keep Pounding culture back. 

Dan Morgan is part of the brain trust that brought us the 2023 Carolina Panthers.   The saddest roster in Panther history.  Seems like we are content to Keep Sucking.  

 

[Mr. Scot]

7 minutes ago, Doc Holiday said:

He used to own that pizza place that was super hard to get into around Stonecrest. It had decent pizza I remember, just a terrible location.

Ate there two or three times.

No exaggeration, some of the best pizza I ever had.

[CRA]

4 minutes ago, emhoward said:

It would be interesting to see if anyone can think of examples of an assistant GM that worked under a bad GM, who when he eventually got a shot, did well. Brandon Beane is obviously the first that comes to mind, any others?

Marty Hurney wasn’t actually bad.  He was decent.   Fitterer was bad. 

[LegioX]

We are going to be the Lions in 30 years. I can see it now “this is a reason to celebrate Panther fans.” “This is the first time in 30 years you have won a playoff game”

lord help us

[Shocker]

[ProcessBlue2]

5 minutes ago, CRA said:

Marty Hurney wasn’t actually bad.  He was decent.   Fitterer was bad. 

Marty Hurney was the most mediocre of average GMs.

So unremarkable yet not terrible.

Edited January 23 by ProcessBlue2

[DrowsyJungle]

11 minutes 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.

 

Still all speculation. That article is designed to generate clicks. 

[SteveSmithTD89]

I am whelmed. Honestly hard to care about anything this franchise does anymore.

Its the good times that still keep me around and since Dan was a part of some of those here's to hoping he'll be the guy to bring them back. 

[DrowsyJungle]

1 minute ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

Marty Hurney was the most mediocre of average GMs.

So unremarkable yet not terrible.

When Hurney hit on a pick. It was definitely a HIT. But his misses far outnumbered those hits. 

[scpanther22]

What does a NFL GM actually do day to day..I mean I know the larger draft stuff/contracts but I wonder what does he do day to day lol

[KBRed]

[Shocker]

4 minutes ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

Marty Hurney was the most mediocre of average GMs.

So unremarkable yet not terrible.

He was absolutely amazing…I seriously mean that