I don't think Fox has any intentions of leaving next year

[pantherfan49]

Difficult? Why? You really think it's THAT hard to find a coach who can't have back to back winning seasons and make the Playoffs every now and then? I think that's quite doable if you do your homework and don't hire a dud.

Don't hang on to the past because you're afraid that's the best you'll ever have. If Fox is the best we'll ever have, we all may as well find a new team to cheer for.

I think only a handful of coaches have always had a 7-9 or better record through almost a decade of coaching.

[CRA]

At this point, I wish we were.

And I am beginning to believe the problem is Davidson and his vanilla offense.

I'll say this, fans should not be able to predict what is coming with such accuracy....just imagine what legit NFL minds can figure out. Delhomme definately lost something after Tommy John but Fox/Davidson make it tough on a QB here. Sure there ain't load of WR talent but we need some better coaching.

[Anybodyhome]

"And I am beginning to believe the problem is Davidson and his vanilla offense."

I said the same thing about Dan Henning... until he left and look what he's doing with the Miami offense. Davidson is Henning 2.0 with Fox holding the keys to the handcuffs.

"FYI- Fox has a lot to do with what happens on draft day, to think otherwise is just stupid."

Nobody is saying he doesn't have anything to do with it, he just doesn't have the final say. All one need do is look at the idiocy of giving up a 2nd rounder for a project in Edwards. Would Fox ever in a million years agreed to such a thing? I think not.

[CRA]

"And I am beginning to believe the problem is Davidson and his vanilla offense."

I said the same thing about Dan Henning... until he left and look what he's doing with the Miami offense. Davidson is Henning 2.0 with Fox holding the keys to the handcuffs.

as Dan Morgan said, Fox has his finger on everything. Coordinators may change but they are all gonna run a Fox version.

[ddowney25]

Maybe John Fox hasn't been signed to an contract extension for the same reason Deangelo Williams, Jon Beason or anyone else has been extended this year?

[CRA]

Maybe John Fox hasn't been signed to an contract extension for the same reason Deangelo Williams, Jon Beason or anyone else has been extended this year?

they weren't told they wouldn't be held to there contract and could go get employement elsewhere. Fox just couldn't find a job and game back to do 1 final season.

[MooreToSmitty]

If I had a girlfriend and we both knew they were only going to be together for one more year and no matter what we were breaking up mutually, then why even wait?

It's a little easy to stay for one more year when you're getting millions for it.

[Anybodyhome]

Maybe John Fox hasn't been signed to an contract extension for the same reason Deangelo Williams, Jon Beason or anyone else has been extended this year?

Except that during a lockout year (2011) players don't get paid. All coaches on the staff are like management and would still collect a salary during the lockout... care to guess how much money JR will save by not having to pay a coaching staff during the lockout?

[CLTPanther]

I really hope they know better than to have a lock out next year. It has nearly destroyed baseball and they have to know that.

[Chaos]

I think it will be very difficult to find a coach that is better than Fox.

I hear that Bill Cowher has a house in NC somewhere, and kids go to school in NC, and pays taxes in NC, and may be interested in coaching again one day, likely in NC.

I live in NC.

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I think it will be very difficult to find a coach that is better than Fox.

Even so, it's better to try than to just accept perennial mediocrity.

And I am beginning to believe the problem is Davidson and his vanilla offense.

Just like we all thought it was Dan Henning's fault. It's not. It's Fox's.

[KBRed]

I'll say this, fans should not be able to predict what is coming with such accuracy....just imagine what legit NFL minds can figure out. Delhomme definately lost something after Tommy John but Fox/Davidson make it tough on a QB here. Sure there ain't load of WR talent but we need some better coaching.

It's pronounced 'Jone', Tommy Jone.

[Mr. Scot]

Not to be mean, but realistically, no NFL coach goes into the season thinking "I plan to be unemployed next year".

To be clear, Danny Morrison works purely on the business side of the Panthers. He has zero to do with the draft (this is, after all, his first ever NFL job).

On the football side of things, Marty Hurney is all but omnipotent, subject only to Jerry Richardson. Given their working relationship though, there's little doubt that John Fox's word carries some weight with Hurney.

Will Fox still be around next year? Depends a lot on this season, but barring a Seifertesque collapse, I'd say the odds are better than many think.

[Anybodyhome]

Kind of...

When Jerry Richardson returned to his daily routine with the organization following his transplant and subsequent recovery, he has Morrison carrying his torch. Jerry used to be very hands on and was involved in most every decision, football and otherwise, within the organization. His word was and is final, as it should be.

These days Jerry spends less time at the stadium, less time around the team and Morrison was hired simply because the two men think alike. Morrison was involved in the draft as much as Jerry has always been involved in the draft in the past and Morrison has the implicit trust of Jerry to make decisions regarding the team that would mirror any decision Jerry himself would make. And the draft is as much about the business side of the organization as anything else, and Morrison was, in fact, involved with that.