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2021 Carolina Panthers Thread - Time for the 2022 thread

DeacsOrDie said:
Romo made a good point on the broadcast. The panthers need to design their team around CMC always being hurt instead of building the offense around CMC. So if cmc is healthy, good for us. But if he isn’t the train keeps rolling. Although I think he was talking about scheme, we need the players.
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Yes. That was a good point. Unfortunately his contract isn’t designed like that.
 
Joe Judge has been fired, making Rhule the worst coach in the league by a country mile.
 
JackBauer said:
Obviously the poster meant number of seasons, not temporally/chronologically. Luke played 8 seasons. CMC has played parts of 5 seasons. At this point, unless CMC converts to WR, my money is on CMC retiring with fewer seasons played.
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Yes, that was my question.
 
2021 Carolina Panthers Thread - 5-12, but Rhule is coming back

Demonwolverine said:
Not only that, Rhule is 0-6 against coaches that have been fired this week.
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Yet Tepper remains unbothered. Just fire a few more assistants and everything will be fine.
 
I’m resigned. This is our coach next year. Fortunately there will be no more excuses so either he’ll be good or gone for good.
 
2021 Carolina Panthers Thread - 5-12, but Rhule is coming back

We’ll be a lot more desirable of a landing spot when we’re 1 year closer to ditching Darnold, and either a year closer to getting Watson or what could be a top 3 pick next year. No coach is trying to come in and waste their shot and reputation on Darnold…well, I should say, no GOOD coach.
 
And Rhule has to hire an OC to coach Darnold and an OL coach to work with a bad OL. Thankfully the new DL coach will have some good players to work with.
 
Demonwolverine said:
We’ll be a lot more desirable of a landing spot when we’re 1 year closer to ditching Darnold, and either a year closer to getting Watson or what could be a top 3 pick next year. No coach is trying to come in and waste their shot and reputation on Darnold…well, I should say, no GOOD coach.
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NFL head coaches are egomaniacs who make $5 million a year.
 
Really weird to see other teams fire coaches better than yours, and yours remains.

Tepper comes from the Steelers. "The Steeler Way" is to commit to a coaching hire - only three coaches in the team's existence - which builds continuity. So here we are.
 
awaken said:
Really weird to see other teams fire coaches better than yours, and yours remains.

Tepper comes from the Steelers. "The Steeler Way" is to commit to a coaching hire - only three coaches in the team's existence - which builds continuity. So here we are.
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Not so fast on the " three coaches in team's existence" for the Steelers. Actually the Steelers have had 16 coaches since 1933. Only 5 have winning records. Chuck Noll, who began the current run of success, Bill Cowher and current HC Mike Tomlin.

In earlier years, only Buddy Parker 1957-1964, 51-47-6) and Jock Sutherland (1946-1947, 13-9-1) had winning records.

That "Steeler Way" myth is built on the records of those three, not the 11 who had losing records and were replaced after 1-5 seasons
 
2021 Carolina Panthers Thread - 5-12, but Rhule is coming back

Sure. But Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher, and Mike Tomlin were young guys with plenty of NFL experience on defense. And all three were basically the same dude with respect to their demeanor. Fun fact, Mike Tomlin has coached as long as Cowher and is the same age Cowher was when he retired. That’s 3 years older than Rhule.

Also I’m pretty sure none of them ran the whole operation.

LOL blue. The Steelers had 13 coaches in the first 34 seasons and 3 in the last 53. That’s more than enough to talk about the Steeler Way.
 
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mike tomlin might be one of the best hires of all time
 
awaken said:
Really weird to see other teams fire coaches better than yours, and yours remains.

Tepper comes from the Steelers. "The Steeler Way" is to commit to a coaching hire - only three coaches in the team's existence - which builds continuity. So here we are.
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He could have brought over plenty of good ideas and philosophies from the Steelers, but instead all we get is this shitty one. Who knows how the Steelers would've handled Cowher or Tomlin if they started their careers 10-23, that never came close to happening.

And to be fair I think bringing Rhule back is less a byproduct of him wanting to run the Panthers like the Steelers (again, scant evidence of that in literally every other aspect of how this team is run) and more him just being stubborn, a bean counter and refusing to own a mistake
 
2-12-0 and 11-28-3 got the two coaches before Noll fired. So the Steeler Way is to keep competent coaches and fire incompetent ones.

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Only one of the Steelers 16 coaches before Noll coached more than 50 games. The Rooneys changed coaches frequently because they didn't win.
 
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[h=1]Matt Rhule keeps making the Panthers worse and worse[/h]
Matt Rhule is drowning the Panthers with his incompetence.



https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2022/1/13/22881872/matt-rhule-carolina-pathers-sucks

This is really at the heart of Carolina’s problems: Matt Rhule is unable to evaluate talent at any level. Two of his hand-picked coaches are now gone for not working out, he’s whiffed on starting quarterbacks in back-to-back years, and he only threw gasoline on the fire when asked Thursday why the Panthers, who desperately need offensive line help, decided against drafting Rashawn Slater.

Slater was recently named to the Pro Bowl in his first season with the Chargers. One of the only knocks on Slater in the pre-draft process was his arm length. Coincidentally, arm length appears to be an issue for Matt Rhule on a personal level as well, because he’s behaving like a football dinosaur.
To make matters worse: Rhule has almost complete control over the Panthers. The highly-coveted college coach seen as a “program builder” who turned around Temple and rebuilt Baylor, there was no shortage of teams who were interested in him. Owner David Tepper decided to make this his big marquee move, landing the coach everyone wanted and giving him the moon for it. Not only was Rhule given huge money, but he was allowed to hand-pick every aspect of his coaching staff, no matter the cost, and have a multi-million dollar analytics department built to him to execute his “modern” and “analytic” approach to football.
Now, two years later, Rhule is on the radio saying that he wasn’t interested in drafting a player who would become a Pro Bowl left tackle because his arms were too short. This flies in the face of modern football analytics, it runs counter to the way successful teams think about NFL players. Adhering to arbitrary size figures without examining talent, technique or statistics-based data fundamentally runs counter to the “modern” approach Rhule made his bill of goods.
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This is a good read. The author doesn't mince any words. Make sure you check the title of the link for a good laugh, too.
 
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