"Time to bench Jerry Richardson"

[mpritc1019]

There are a lot of people defending JRR on this board and I don't understand it. He is the only one holding the NFL shield running into battle. The rest of the owners are sitting back and being the "good cops". Goodell should be the one doing it. The other owners are acting like this solid group all the while signing their players to new contracts and using the franchise tag. JRR is one of the only if not the only owner taking this hard stance and the Panthers will end up paying the price for it.

JRR tries to intimidate everyone and you saw it at the embarrassing press conference he had a couple of days before Luck decided to stay in school. Who knows if it was related.

I, for one, am ruing the day I bought my PSLs and am honestly thinking about just non renewing them. I would rather be a "fan" who watches them on TV with the same passion as the ones in the stadium. I viewed it as almost my civic duty to buy the PSLs to support the Panthers but now I feel like an idiot.

Jerry needs to step away from the table, drop the NFL shield and pick up the Panthers flag. /rant off/

[blackcatgrowl]

Ugh. Not only are we the laughing stock of the NFL as a team, but our owner is out to embarrass us as franchise.

Maybe someone should explain to him that the Sesame Street generation doesn't take to hardnose angry debates that well.

[God]

yep people are finally starting to see richardsons true colors and that is an obnoxious inconsiderate old man who cant put a winning product on the field

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Ugh. Not only are we the laughing stock of the NFL as a team, but our owner is out to embarrass us as franchise.

Maybe someone should explain to him that the Sesame Street generation doesn't take to hardnose angry debates that well.

Or maybe the other owners shouldn't back him 100% lol

Seriously if the other NFL owners and reps involved in this are running to his defense then it's pretty obvious that there's more to this issue than one guy acting like a dick.

[Highlandfire]

http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/02/15/2837856/league-owners-have-richardsons.html

Has full support of the owners.

No friggin way! I mean don't they know JR is old, senile and has upset poor widdle payton?

[Highlandfire]

yep people are finally starting to richardsons true colors and that is an obnoxious inconsiderate old man who cant put a winning product on the field

When this is all said and done he will look like a friggin genius. BTW all the owners support him. Too bad his fans aren't as loyal.

[Matt Moore]

“You guys made so much [expletive] money – if you played three years in the NFL, you should own your own [expletive] team.”

At that point, as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and several of Richardson’s fellow owners cringed, league representatives suggested that the two sides take a break.

“It was bad from the start,” said one player who attended the session. “[Richardson] opened the meeting by describing how he was almost annoyed how we would ask for that meeting on their busiest weekend of the year. And I’m thinking, ‘Your team finished 2-14. You shouldn’t be that busy. Why are you worrying about how busy you are during Super Bowl weekend?’ ”

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[Happy Panther]

All I care about is sitting in my seat in about 7 months with my buddy or kid sucking down $6.25 miller lites and having a good time.

Jerry's actions over the past 12-24 months make me worried that either we will not have football or we are a long way from a winning franchise.

I'll be happy if those worries are unsubstantiated.

[blackcatgrowl]

All I care about is sitting in my seat in about 7 months with my buddy or kid sucking down $6.25 miller lites and having a good time.

Jerry's actions over the past 12-24 months make me worried that either we will not have football or we are a long way from a winning franchise.

I'll be happy if those worries are unsubstantiated.

This.

[frash.exe]

Jerry strikes me as someone who is business smart but not very football savvy relative to other owners

[mountainpantherfan]

You know the media is looking at any way possible to get a deal done before March 4. PFT and said it numerous times over the weekend that the news was slow and they weren't sure for how much longer it was going to be slow.

So what does the media do if they thank they are going to lose viewers because the NFL won't have Free Agency and trades and OTAs and training camps? They start making up issues that aren't there to begin with and they start picking sides. It's very clear that the media has now picked a side and it's the players.

[thunderraiden]

lol you guys are silly. Owners hold all the cards, they can talk to the players anyway they want.

[pantherclaw]

I've never seen so many pussy footed, over reacting group of peope than all of you that have turned their back on an owner, all because of misconceptions, misunderstanding, and last season.

Id laugh if it was 1 or 2 people doing it, but it contagious!!

So all I can do is shake my head as people continue to be bigger asses than they are accusing richardson of being, and as they attack anybody and everybody who has better understanding than themselves.

[CatMan72]

If the owner's didn't support they way Richardson was handling things, they would bench him, they could always use the excuse of "health concerns" if they didn't want it to be viewed as a sign of weakness by the NFLPA... so don't be mad at JR or single him out, he's doing exactly what the rest of the owners elected him to do and he sounds like one of the few owners that has the balls to do it.