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Interesting write up on offensive coordinators and their schemes. Dorsey was unexpectedly high. https://jetsxfactor.com/2023/01/24/ny-jets-oc-mike-lafleur-areas-control/ Tepper is a well known metrics and analytics guy.

I don’t think they are considering Payton anymore. The comp to the saints is too big a pill for most teams to swallow let alone a division rival. I think the interview was more feeling out and conversation than an actual interview

Aside from Shanahan’s teams, the trend is good QBs

I think it’s Dorsey because of the team connection but he told me it could be either.

Same source that told me Matt Ryan was furious at the falcons before the Watson speculation and was demanding a trade long before it was reported. And the one that told me Michael Oher has permanent brain damage. But like I said he’s not always right

A little birdie told me that they’re gonna interview either Kafka or Dorsey again but I can’t verify that

Ben McAdoo worked with Kellen Moore in 2021 just saying

No idea. All I got was interviews are probably not over.

From everything I’ve read publicly, it’s Reich. From what I heard from my sometimes inside team source (and yes I really have one but it’s not as plugged in as it used to be) this might not be over today and there’s another dark horse interviewing.

Ryans played for Houston so it makes sense. Denver’s players fit his scheme and I could see him being a fit there too. Nothing insidious. Needs to be a fit for both parties. Something Tepper is hopefully learning.

Where did Rapaport say Moore was out? Just because he went home doesn’t mean he’s not getting the job either. Might just mean the team is going to take more time to make a decision. I will say that every hiring process I’ve ever been a part of, albeit in much different industries, if you’re the guy, they will extend and offer or at least let you know fairly quickly.

Actually conducting themselves like an NFL team for a change

Lol Jeff Saturday was “available”

Is Reich interviewing anywhere else? Could he really be a OC candidate?

Those fans left with cam

I really don’t care who the players prefer since most of them won’t be here in 3 years let alone next year. Any good coach will get all the players behind them and playing hard.

Unless he is fired in Dallas can he do that? He’s still under contract with the Cowboys right? He can’t take a lateral position?

On paper Steichen seems like the next big time head coaching prospect but like many other factors he might just not fit with the people who are in charge of the Panthers right now. Working for Tepper is a tough sell for a coach who might have a lot better options if he is patient.

Sirianni has a bad case of the butthole eyes

So I'd assume the second round would involve more people maybe in the scouting and personnel departments. Maybe Pat Stewart.

2nd round interviews usually involve a different set of people. Maybe this is where they meet with Fitterer and Morgan and co? Not sure who is involved in the first round of interviews aside from Tepper and his wife.

I think they hire Dan Quinn but try to keep Evero as DC

I’m not saying I love these choices. Steichen seems like the guy with the highest ceiling. The guy who could take you to a Super Bowl. But it’s quite possible he doesn’t want to work for the Panthers. An interview is a two way street. The candidate is interviewing who they will work for as well. Might be why Ben Johnson dropped out. It’s just as important to hire someone who WANTS the job as well as be qualified and motivated, all that stuff. Rhule didn’t really seem like he wanted to be the Panthers head coach but Tepper threw so much money at him he couldn’t say no. Even after he was fired he said the one thing he’d change from his tenure was NOT TAKE THE JOB. What an asshole that guy was. My point is that the Panthers can do a lot worse than hiring Frank Reich or Steve Wilks and it’s nice to at least have the prospect of having a proper NFL caliber coaching staff again.

We’ve come a long way from having Matt Rhule as coach. Wilks or Reich are not going to embarrass us. They may not excite us, but we root for a miserable loser franchise and we must take the small victories lest we rip our eyes out