Mr. Scot

It's also worth looking at who the two head coaches were prior to Ryans. The hires of Lovie Smith and David Culley were greeted with responses like "him?" and "who?" You can also look to the Raiders going for Lane Kiffin back in the day or even Josh McDaniels given the lack of trust he had after pulling out of his last hiring. Can you still get a head coach with bad team ownership? Sure. Are you going to get the best head coaches in that situation? Only if you luck into it, and that's not something I feel comfortable counting on.

Kinda hard to picture a "generational prospect" with 32 fumbles.

He may not necessarily have to convince him of anything. If it's true that Tepper is the one who was sold on Brtce Young and influenced the decision, who do you think she's going to blame for things going wrong: the GM who was equally sold on him or the guy who was coaching when the problems happened?

He didn't turn down the Panthers. He turns down being a head coach this season because he felt like he wasn't ready. He may still not be or he may get an offer elsewhere, but the notion that he declined the Panthers is incorrect. The question would be whether he, or any good candidate, would want to work with an owner who fired a coach just one year in.

As to the story, I read the full article. Here's what I got from it: Her take seems to focus on Reich as the object of Tepper's concerns. Scott Fitterer is only mentioned as having hired Reich. She says in passing there are some who feel the roster isn't right for the offense (it isn't) but seems to feel the roster is solid in other areas. She adds that the feeling around the league is it's too early to say anything definitive about Bryce Young.

Johnson grew up in Asheville and was a Panthers fan during the Delhomme years

Tepper already interviewed him once and passed for Matt Rhule.

Just listened to this, sounds familiar...

Wasn't it just two years ago that Harbaugh got interviewed for the Vikings job? Story there was he walked in like he owned the place and was ready to start giving orders, till they told him" eeehh, no thanks, we're good"

Not so sure the play calling is the issue so much as the plays. Hell, when Reich was doing the playcalling we were actually scoring more points.

Ellis chimes in...

That'd be daily screaming matches

No idea whether he will or not... ...but he should.

That depends pretty heavily on who he put in charge of the offense. Given their success last year, that very well could have been McAdoo. Also likely would have expected Al Holcomb to keep the DC spot. For whatever you think of our current staff, I'm not especially convinced that one puts us in a much better spot.

Official...

I could see that. And if so, then yeah it likely would have been Arizona Part Two

Explained that elsewhere.

Definitely possible...

Does firing a GM send any better message when the league wide perception is that you influenced the top draft pick?

Staff-wise, at least... They could still change the approach.

Even in bad circumstances, can always count on Colin Cowherd for an (unintentional) laugh

Are you sure Wilks would have wanted him? Pondered elsewhere whether or not it might have been a similar situation to what Wilks had in Arizona where he wanted one quarterback but team brass and ownership insisted on a different one. Given what we've heard about Tepper, it's not hard to imagine that scenario repeating itself here.

I'm not sure even Dan Marino could function effectively under the conditions Young's been put in.