Mr. Scot

We've talked before about skill sets. There are brilliant doctors who can't balance their checkbooks... High priced lawyers who don't understand simple home maintenance... Orators who can deliver stirring speeches but stink at interpersonal communication... ...and plenty of other examples. Even if you're in intelligent person, you might not necessarily have the skill set needed to accomplish certain tasks. I'd say that sums up David Tepper pretty well.

A typical West Coast offense will feature receivers and backs who can take a short pass for a long gain along with at least one deep threat receiver to spread the field. We don't really have that. The one part of a good WCO that we do have is a reliable possession receiver in Adam Thielen.

He is when it comes to football. And as mentioned above, it's not just the Panthers that are showing signs of a toxic environment. Pretty much all of his sports ventures have shown the same issues.

Allen is the prototypical "big arm" guy who can also run. Fans love that kind of quarterback, but history shows their success has limitations.

Also worth mentioning that this isn't just happening with the Panthers. You've got both the soccer team and the business of Tepper sports and entertainment showing the same issues.

Those are really good analyses. I'd add in what Kirk Herbstreit said...

In a man / power, run heavy scheme like we had last year. If you want to put them in a zone blocking scheme for a WCO, you have to make some adjustments (Ickey to guard, someone more agile to left tackle).

That means blaming him for the Rhule years though. Would that really be a fair thing to do? Besides that question though, we came out of the Rhule situation with pepper deciding to give more power to Fitterer. Does he change his mind on that this quickly?

Dorsey is being fired because he took what was a very effective offense and made it worse. Not only is that not an equivalent situation, but it's also not exactly a ringing endorsement to hire him in an equal or higher role somewhere else.

This actually isn't the first time we're hearing stuff like this about Tepper. The talk that he's an extremely difficult person to work for has been around for a few years now.

For anyone wondering, Dorsey doesn't have any connections with Frank Reich that I know of so I don't know that I'd foresee any indication of him coming here.

The one thing I've noticed is that nobody seems to want to blame Josh Allen for anything. I'm not so sure that's the right approach.

That article isn't nearly as negative about Frank Reich as some of you think.

Dorsey and Brian Daboll might both turn out to be "Peter principle" examples.

Yeah...not the correct read at all. What it's actually a sign of is that Tepper is likely going to screw up whomever works here. Rayzor had it right.

Definitely. And we can only imagine how the nature of the NFL might magnify those issues.

Yikes

No argument. I've been there too.

Just read that. Had largely the same reaction

Re: Bill O'Brien, this respondent to Russini has a point...

To be fair, that probably has more to do with it being the offseason where you've got more time to spruce up and take care of yourself as opposed to in-season when all your time is taken up by football stuff. But yeah, working for David Tepper probably does wear on you...a lot.

Here's the thing... Whether or not David Tepper influenced the pick of Bryce Young, he absolutely and wholeheartedly signed on to it. That means any admission that Young was a mistake is a tacit admission that he made a mistake. And naturally, that's impossible So then who do you blame? The GM who only did what you either influenced or agreed with, or the coach who's responsible for the product on the field? If what one of our folks with inside connections reported about Fitterer being organizationally "close" to Tepper is true, that potentially colors all future moves.

Dorsey might be a better quarterback coach than OC.

I don't want Reich to call plays again. Handing the playcalling over to Jim Caldwell would be an option though.

Yeah, that'd be helpful.