Former RB Mike Davis on Rhule and CMC

[Icege]

6 minutes ago, Captain Morgan said:

i was real lols when Mike said "that was selfish."  Looks like it wasn't CMC's fault though.

I was dying when they were giving him Hell about going to South Carolina and trying to get him to do the cheer

[Loyalty4Life]

23 minutes ago, frankw said:

The man held a press conference where he did virtually all the talking after firing his third head coach in three years while relegating his front office personnel to glorified lackeys.

Do you work for the Tepper's?

Which one of those firings did you disagree with?

[frankw]

10 minutes ago, Loyalty4Life said:

Which one of those firings did you disagree with?

The issue is they were hired in the first place. 

And Mr. Tepper didn't just hire front office executives to handle everything. He personally hopped on a plane with his right hand man Marty Hurney and flew out to Matt Rhule's house and let Rhule woo him with meatballs and life stories.

Tepper was also fully involved in the hiring of Reich and did so bypassing another candidate in Wilks.

Tepper also made it abundantly clear that he was pining for Bryce Young months before the draft.

To believe he was not steering the trajectory of the team in some significant capacity throughout this would be akin to believing in Santa Claus.

Edited August 27, 2025 by frankw

[frankw]

To be clear I am legitimately hoping the Tepper's have actually learned something through the worst win percentage in professional sports.

Anywho. Icege pooing posts over valid David Tepper criticism is peak white knighting. Never seen anyone here so delusional and that includes PFFL.

[AceBoogie]

6 hours ago, Move the Panthers to Raleigh said:

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

Oh no some of us realized it immediately 

[shaqattaq]

1 hour ago, frankw said:

The issue is they were hired in the first place. 

[CRA]

31 minutes ago, AceBoogie said:

Oh no some of us realized it immediately 

I was optimistic at first.  I celebrated at least attempting something radically different.  Once press and cameras got into camp after COVID going into his 2nd season......the red flags were going off like crazy.      And the Panthers have had preseason red flags ever since. 

[Loyalty4Life]

2 hours ago, frankw said:

The issue is they were hired in the first place. 

And Mr. Tepper didn't just hire front office executives to handle everything. He personally hopped on a plane with his right hand man Marty Hurney and flew out to Matt Rhule's house and let Rhule woo him with meatballs and life stories.

I've always said this from the start.  Tepper has made 2 huge mistakes.  Rhule and Reich.  Im open to adding Fitt as well.  Trusting his football people can be damning when you choose the wrong people.

[CPcavedweller]

7 hours ago, WUnderhill said:

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.

I think he got rid of Rivera too fast. Rivera wasn't the issue here, Hurney was. 

[WUnderhill]

2 hours ago, frankw said:

To be clear I am legitimately hoping the Tepper's have actually learned something through the worst win percentage in professional sports.

Anywho. Icege pooing posts over valid David Tepper criticism is peak white knighting. Never seen anyone here so delusional and that includes PFFL.

Everybody can speak for themselves, but my guess is you got poo’ed for immediately reverting to the “Do you work for the Tepper’s” comment in an otherwise normal discussion.

[frankw]

7 minutes ago, WUnderhill said:

Everybody can speak for themselves, but my guess is you got poo’ed for immediately reverting to the “Do you work for the Tepper’s” comment in an otherwise normal discussion.

Oh please lol. If that's enough to trigger someone they need to get off the internet for their own well being.

[matt rhules gut fat]

People didn’t realize how many times players were rolling their eyes at the poo Rhule was doing

Should have been a new and exciting time to finally be rid of Rivera and yet the Carolina Teppers found a way to screw it all up

Truly impressive tbh

[Davidson Deac II]

2 hours ago, CRA said:

I was optimistic at first.  I celebrated at least attempting something radically different.  Once press and cameras got into camp after COVID going into his 2nd season......the red flags were going off like crazy.      And the Panthers have had preseason red flags ever since. 

For me, the first red flag was saying that it would be a five year rebuild.  Then cutting Cam, and then inexplicably signing Bridgewater for a significant amount of money, basically saying that just because we were in a five year rebuild didn't me we couldn't win now.  All before he coached a single game.  That whole thing was just baffling.  

Better to just stick with Cam for his final year, see if his arm had anything left and if not, draft someone else. 

[SOJA]

hiring matt rhule and giving him full control was maybe the worst singular decision this franchise has ever made outside of Rae Caruth