Former RB Mike Davis on Rhule and CMC

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

Basically Rhule had CMC doing full-speed, goal line drills in OTAs coming off injury. 

Pretty much explains why CMC wanted to be traded and further illustrates how stupid Rhule was as a coach.

This actually makes me somewhat appreciate what Canales is doing as far as preserving players’ health as much as possible.

Edited August 27, 2025 by Move the Panthers to Raleigh

[WUnderhill]

Typical college coach bs. All of our current problems have been a butterfly effect of hiring that egostistical douchebag and giving him way too much power for way too long.

[Icege]

The entire episode is hilarious. Mike Davis is funny af.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

8 minutes ago, WUnderhill said:

Typical college coach bs. All of our current problems have been a butterfly effect of hiring that egostistical douchebag and giving him way too much power for way too long.

Rhule was a huge setback. Cost us more than I realized at the time

[TLGPanthersFan]

19 minutes ago, Move the Panthers to Raleigh said:

Basically Rhule had CMC doing full-speed, goal line drills in OTAs coming off injury. 

Pretty much explains why CMC wanted to be traded and further illustrates how stupid Rhule was as a coach.

This actually makes me somewhat appreciate what Canales is doing as far as preserving and players’ health as much as possible.

Wasn’t Rhule supposedly obsessed with player health? 

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

Just now, TLGPanthersFan said:

Wasn’t Rhule supposedly obsessed with player health? 

I don’t recall that

[therealmjl]

3 minutes ago, TLGPanthersFan said:

Wasn’t Rhule supposedly obsessed with himself

Yes

[csx]

Not to defend Rhule but these things were commonplace like 4 years before this.

People complain about practices being limited and then dont like the coaches that do promote what was celebrated just a decade ago

[scpanther22]

I remember when Rhule was first hired they said him and Tepper were going to "revolutionary" things in the NFL when it came to how players practiced and prepped 

[PanthersATL]

2 minutes ago, scpanther22 said:

I remember when Rhule was first hired they said him and Tepper were going to "revolutionary" things in the NFL when it came to how players practiced and prepped 

revolutionary = Head Coach trying out for the Defensive team
 

 

[PappyMay]

No wonder he wanted out. I really would have loved another 2-3years of CMC. Have him play RB for a year or 2 then move him to the slot. We dont get much Ring of Honor talent, but he could of been one.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

3 minutes ago, PappyMay said:

No wonder he wanted out. I really would have loved another 2-3years of CMC. Have him play RB for a year or 2 then move him to the slot. We dont get much Ring of Honor talent, but he could of been one.

Yep, we systematically got rid of our blue chip talent over the years and replaced them multiple scrubs. It’s why we can’t crack 5 wins for years

[LinvilleGorge]

45 minutes ago, WUnderhill said:

Typical college coach bs. All of our current problems have been a butterfly effect of hiring that egostistical douchebag and giving him way too much power for way too long.

You're right about the butterfly effect but wrong about the source. David Tepper is the butterfly's wings. Hiring Matt Rhule was a downstream effect 

[WUnderhill]

3 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

You're right about the butterfly effect but wrong about the source. David Tepper is the butterfly's wings. Hiring Matt Rhule was a downstream effect 

I agree Tepper completely bumbled everything after purchasing the Panthers. Kept Rivera and Hurney too long, including letting Hurney last into Matt Rhule’s tenure instead of hiring a GM to hire the head coach, and then hiring Matt Rhule and giving him way too much power, then keeping him into year 3. For all the reputation Tepper has as having too quick of a trigger finger with coaches/GMs, it is entirely unwarranted. 2 out of 3 head coaches and GMs he kept too long.

That being said, it would have all probably ended up fine if Matt Rhule had not been a complete egotistical idiot who felt the need to piss all over everything about the franchise to mark his territory. All he had to do was keep Cam on the last year of his contract, listen to 1st round draft genius Marty Hurney and go up and get Justin Herbert, and not trade for reclamation project QBs every year. And now hearing poo like this, how about not run your star RB in goal line drills his first practice back from injury. I wish Matt Rhule nothing but the worst in his coaching career because it was his hubris and arrogance that led to all of this.