CPantherKing

Never trade picks for a SB winning coach. It's still a risky coach that I don't want, but you are better off going with a defensive minded college coach (at least a couple of them have won multiple SBs) with little to no NFL experience and using the picks on players. SB winning coaches will get you close but they don't win SBs. 5 SB winning coaches have gone to the SB with 2 teams. Only 2 have gone back to the SB with a new team and lost. Don't do it. I'm good with getting Payton and giving him 2 seasons to post a winning record and 4 seasons to win a SB when he isn't under contract.

The DC and OC are for rent. Separate from the HC at the start of a rebuild. HC brings in his offensive and defensive guy that he loves. The DC/OC were former HCs or DC/OC and want to prove themselves for more opportunities. They are allowed to bring 1 or 2 coaches of their choosing to develop and take with them when they leave in 1 to 3 seasons. In return, they teach and develop the HCs guys to be the future DC/OC. Imagine hiring Rhule and allowing him to choose Brady and Snow. Rhule agrees to work with someone from a chosen list of former HCs for 2 to 3 seasons. Ex: The year is 2000. Rhule is hired. He brings his guys Brady and Snow. Rhule is given a list of OCs and DCs to choose from. Rhule, Brady, and Snow agree on McAdoo and Wilks. McAdoo brings Gilbride. Wilks brings Holcomb. Chase Blackburn is a franchise carry over >>> Rhule HC, McAdoo OC, Wilks DC, Brady QB/PGC, Gilbride TE, Snow Asst.HC/DB, and Chase Blackburn STC. These coaches get together and fill out the rest of the assistant coaches. McAdoo and Wilks agree to 3 year deals with the knowledge that they will likely not be retained at the end of their contracts as they are mentors/tutors who are given a chance to develop their chosen assistant(s), and they are free to explore HC positions as a package deal with their chosen assistant with complete support from the team. Would this have worked? Couldn't have turned out much worse lol. I doubt Rhule would have agreed to it, but we would have never had to deal with that headache if this were the plan. Better than letting an inexperienced coach drown and fire coaches only to have to replace them with coaches they did not choose in hopes these coaches could tutor and save the failing inexperienced coach.

Seifert screwed up when he thought he was Bill Walsh and could dump Beuerlein because he found Jeff Lewis and Chris Weinke as his back up. Too bad he had a real NFL QB succeeding in NFLE in Dameyune Craig who he never gave an opportunity to start and prove he could succeed in the NFL. Draft Brady in 2000 and Brees in 2001. Beuerlein, Brady, Brees, and Craig would have made for a nice QB room. Bill Walsh he was not.

Fangio is going to be DC for Jim Harbaugh or Sean Payton if he takes a DC position. I doubt he is not going to pair up with a HC who has less than a full year as an independent OC like Ben Johnson. I don't see that happening with all the opportunities Fangio has in the NFL. Fangio interviewing likely means Harbaugh or Payton is serious about taking the HC position. It would be interesting to see Burns at OLB/Edge, Brown 3 tech DE, and Chinn at SS in Fangio's defense. Panthers have the players he needs.

That penalty to make it harder on the Ravens with 30 seconds in the game was unnecessary. Good game. Bengals defense wins it. Bengals defense is good enough they did not need help from refs.

Are the officials going to factor in at this point of the game with small penalties?

Harbaugh is great at game management

This is why you draft defensive playmakers with the 1st round pick and not a QB like Burrow or Stafford. You can find other QBs that can produce enough to match a 1st round QB. Freakishly talented WRs and defensive leaders are what a team should draft in the 1st round. Trade down for more picks if neither are available. Only draft QBs in the 1st round who have the pedigree that has allowed them to be around professional sports since the age of 10. The Mannings or Mahommes. Arch Manning will be available in a few years if the Panthers need to go all in on a QB because they still have not found one.

Bengals defense is winning this game. Ravens and Bengals offenses seem even.

Bengals punter just keeps trying to flop

Did they not just rule that a fumble in the other playoff game yesterday when it came off his finger tips after the arm was impacted?

Appears that was a bad decision by Huntley. Play was designed for Huntley to protect the ball and be pushed in.

Andy Reid tree (Paul Brown) and Bill Belichick tree (Chuck Fairbanks) are crossbreeding at the championship level with the Giants coaching staff. The best of a mixed West Coast and Erhardt-Perkins offense. You can watch as the Giants become dominant or grab their offensive genius in Kafka/Tierney now.

My want is Johnny Holland as DC. Doubt he would do it. He seems to want to develop players and turn them into coaches like he has with DeMeco Ryans. I've liked Holland since he has been coaching with Holmgren in Green Bay and Seattle. Kafka will likely grab a DC with Bill Belichick or Sean McDermott ties.

Kafka from the booth and Tierney on the sideline working with Jones. They have this offense working like a machine. It is clearly more the coaching and play calling than any individual player. This offense has been practiced/prepared very well throughout the season. Kafka as HC and Tierney as OC. Now is the time. They have helped develop some of the best QBs in the NFL. Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagovailoa, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, and Daniel Jones.

Check out Tierney coaching up Daniel Jones on the sideline and going back and forth with Kafka in the box. Tierney has Jones on point before he even takes the field each drive. I wanted Kafka over Rhule in 2020. Now, that Daboll has paired up Kafka with TIerney, I want both of them. Kafka as HC and Tierney as OC.

Daboll has been hiding and riding Tierney since he stole him from Saban after the Alabama national championship in 2017. Compare his coaching style to a young Bill Belichick.

The Lions game where they only scored 7 points with 18 minutes remaining in the game? The game against the Panthers where Wilks chose to run down the clock for the entire 2nd half and play a soft zone for a full 2 quarters to end the game? The game that ended the Lions playoff chances?

Anyone who thinks he is the one who worked with Goff needs to dive into Johnson's history. He gets more credit for the losing days in Miami with Tannehill and Matt Moore as an Asst. QB coach than he does for his limited work with Goff.

Johnson was not Campbell's OC in 2021. Goff has been handled by Mark Brunell exclusively per Dan Campbell. The only QBs Johnson has helped develop as an asst. QB coach was Matt Moore and Ryan Tannehill with Miami. Goff's work has largely been with Mark Brunell over the past 2 seasons. Campbell made a point to bring in Brunell to work with the QB and assist with offensive game plans and play calling. Johnson even stated that he did not get to start working with Goff until late in 2021 season. Campbell hand picked Brunell and Duce Staley, he named Staley assistant HC. Anthony Lynn was paired with Campbell and half way through the season there was clashing between Campbell, Goff, Brunell, and Staley with Lynn and the play calling. Campbell took over the offensive play calling with the help of Brunell and Staley. Johnson was elevated to TE/PGC at the end of 2021. Johnson leaned on the relationship of Dan Campbell and Mark Brunell at the senior bowl and in the offseason after elevating Johnson to OC. Johnson was still not given the lead for calling plays going in to the preseason. This was shared between Campbell, Johnson, Brunell, and Staley. Campbell mainly chose Johnson because he liked his ability to communicate plays into the huddle and would listen to Campbell, Brunell, and Staley without going rogue like Lynn did in 2021. Johnson was finally given the lead for play calling days before the season opener. Ben Johnson has not been a complete OC for an entire year, and he leaned heavily on others when he had full OC responsibilities. If hiring an OC to build a team as HC, I would want to see the development of young playoff/championship QBs who win, and a successful offense under at least 2 coaches that have gone to playoffs. Ben Johnson is 0-1 in the playoffs with the Dolphins as an asst. WR coach under Clyde Christensen (the QB coach for the Bucs who has helped develop Byron Leftwich).

I've been expecting Leftwich as Tepper's play. If he gets Kafka and Tierney to come together as HC/OC, I will be surprised on how right he got it. He already surprised me by being the first owner to request an interview with Kafka for HC. Then all of a sudden the Texans responded with a request too.

Starr, Griese, Staubach, Bradshaw, Simms, Aikman, Elway, Roethlisberger, and E.Manning. Rodgers and Mahomes too, but I don't see them finishing their career with the team they started with if they only manage 1 SB win.

Since modern free agency Roethlisberger and E.Manning are the only championship QBs that have been unavailable to the Panthers. They could of had any of the other QBs. Of 34 championship QBs in NFL history only 11 have not been traded or let go from the team that held their rights as a rookie. I believe Rodgers and Mahomes will be taken off of this list before their career is over. The trades and signings are out there and available most of the time. It's up to the Panthers to know how to find a QB and pay the price.

Justin Herbert looks lost

Justin Herbert fail. Better luck in your next playoffs Herbert.