Panthers/Chargers have mirror image frustrations

[panthers55]

I don't like that stance.

Makes a large assumption that b/c players are still playing hard they are doing it for the coach. Our core players can have little to no faith overall in the ability of our coaches YET still play hard.

Not usually true. What about Morris in Tampa? Were they playing for him? No. Were they playing hard?? No. Yet they still had jobs and knew he was going to be fired.

Should I go down the list of teams that have quit on their coach or stop playing for them?? It is a much longer list than those teams that played hard with no faith in their coach. Particularly on a team like the Panthers with young players in key roles and questionable leadership. If the players didn't believe in the coaches, this team would have folded weeks ago. Players questioning not going for it a few weeks ago is a far cry from not believing in the coaching staff at all.

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I thought everyone who knows even a modicum about Rivera and his pedigree knew he came from San Diego and was close to Turner. Rivera hired his son as offensive control coordinator. You really just figured out that they were close???

Do we pattern some of the offense after the Chargers?? Duh......

For the most part there have really been only 3 major offensive systems out there, the WCO, the Coryell vertical passing game, and the Erhardt/Perkins System which incorporates everything else. Some argue that the whole spread option system is distinct but many see it as an EPS variation.

For that matter, this isn't the only time we ran the Coryell System. We ran in with Fox when Henning was the coordinator from 2002 to 2005.

By the way the San Diego offense has been pretty prolific most years. It is down this year but in 2011 it was 6th in the league, in 2010 it was 1st in the league, in 2009 it was 10th. So we could do a lot worse. Honestly the whole Coryell System is custom built for us. I would hate to scrap it for a WCO for example.

I am with you on that sir. I do not think that the WCO would suit Cam at all.