Jerry Richardson announces that Fox and his entire staff will not return in 2011

[bigdog10]

I don't think they will mail it in. These guys are auditioning for another position somewhere else. Mailing it in would not make them look good to a potential employer

[OneBadassCat]

What about Skipper?

[MHS831]

Although everyone knew it was coming, could the fact that the announcement was made before the final game, as opposed to next week mean we are looking to move quickly on the next coach (fighting SF and Michigan for Harbaugh)?

That is the key issue here. Not that it happened, when it happened. We are all up in Miami and now can talk Turkey if we need to. Is this a counter to the SF announcement? Yes it is.

[Dpantherman]

my bad he said more than Rivera, he brought up Grimm again, and said Mike McCoy and Harbaugh...sorry. my point remains though. if it isn't harbaugh, they could name the coach next week.

[blackcatgrowl]

What about Skipper?

He's on the staff. None will be retained. Sounds like he's hitting the road.

[Dpantherman]

What about Skipper?

gone

[ElkinPanthersFan]

I'm one that is glad Meeks is not being retained. His defense is vanilla, and has looked decent just due to how bad our offense has been.

If our offense was average this year, everyone would be biting at Meeks head for how poor our defense has played in some games.

When you spend more than 32 minutes a game on the field as defense, your going to look bad. We have the 4th worst TOP in the NFL behind Ten, Seattle, and Arizona. Our total defense is 16th ,10 spots higher than TEN @ 26, Arizona 28, and Seattle 30.

We have the 2nd most punts in the league at 88. While they have been suspect in a few games, the defense in not the main culprit. We are last in total points.

[bigdog10]

wonder what that means for Dwill?

[Kurb]

wonder what that means for Dwill?

Players don't dictate coaches.

[OneBadassCat]

fug that's bullshit Skipper has done a good job. The new WR coach should stay we just hired that guy and he seemed to do a good job with Gettis and LaFell so far.

[Sam Mills Fan]

I guess this also does make it pretty official that Hurney will be back next year though. Goddamn that's depressing. Thanks for ruining New Year's for me Jerry. I was about to go leave for uptown festivities, I'll make it a point to skip anything Bojangles-related.

[Dpantherman]

What makes you think Fox wouldn't have taken him anyway??

[Cyclonus]

Damn I wanted Meeks to stay.

[jtnc]

This is gonna be an interesting off-season!