Mr. Scot

Forgot about that. Yeah, he was.

New York Post reporter...

Which is why some recent draft picks wound up cut. They weren't necessarily bad, they just didn't fit the new scheme.

Well, this is new. David Tepper is now getting heavy criticism from...The Guardian? Apparently our situation is so bad even people in Great Britain know about it

More from today... At this point, it feels like if we quoted every tweet ripping Tepper's performance in today's presser, this thread would top a thousand posts.

Did it suddenly get entertaining again? OP asked to let this go.

My biggest complaint about Jerry Richardson was always that he trusted the wrong people (Marty Hurney, in particular). It's a similar issue with David Tepper, but almost like he doesn't know who to trust. Odd given that he was around some great football minds in Pittsburgh.

Don't worry It's an interesting topic, honestly. A lot of stuff has come out since the firing (as tends to happen) that's beginning to help explain things we'd seen prior to this point.

For sure... Also, I'd imagine the interview process was different. Plenty of us have gone through an interview process thinking a job was gonna be great only to find out otherwise once the day to day routine set in.

It was Thomas Brown who said it, dude. He doesn't work for Panthers PR. And for the record, I wasn't the only one pointing out how stupid the idea that Brown said that for PR reasons. I was, in fact, one of many. Of course, you followed that up with the notion that we should have redone the entire offensive line rather than just ask Frank to adjust his scheme, so I guess you're consistent

Sheena Quick backs it up...

The coaching change is warranted. So we're the others. Unfortunately, it's also true that David Tepper doesn't know what he's doing.

Yeah sorry, but that whole thing of yours about how he said all that before the season even started just to protect Frank in case things went bad is still some of the dumbest sh-t I've seen on here Yes, Brown wrote the playbook. He has influences from others but it was still his.

Once had an interview for an insurance sales job when I was 22 or so with an older guy who asked how much I thought I was worth. I said as much as I was willing to work. His response was that he wouldn't hire anybody that didn't feel like they were worth at least fifty thousand plus a year. My response was to think I didn't wanna work for this douchebag. S Sometimes personalities just don't mix.

Is there really any choice but to be?

Not at all what he's saying. That you can't run a football team like a hedge fund though is correct.

Sad to say this is pretty accurate...

That jibes pretty well with what Michael Lombardi was saying.

I'm never a fan of one year firings unless there are deeper issues then just losing games. The more I read, the more it sounds like that may be the case here.

In these case, it's AB. Still can't believe they did that though

Breer goes through that sequence in his article.

Guy from the 33rd Team commented on that same thing not long ago. He mentioned that with the next hire, York first Lynch and Shanahan six year guaranteed contracts, then promised to be completely hands off and let them do what they needed to do. General consensus is that's exactly what Tepper should do at this point as well. The question is whether he will. And as Pat McAfee mentioned, you still gotta hire the right people. I desperately hope that he brings in someone like Kevin Colbert to help. Otherwise I don't have a whole lot of confidence in that last part

What Lombardi said about rake having "PTSD" might actually help explain a lot. Most of the positives that you have about Frank Reich were things that came before the Wentz thing and his last few years with the Colts. Had we hired the pre-Wentz Frank Reich, maybe things could have gone smoother. As it is though, no it didn't work out.

This might be one of the more definitive articles I've seen... Excerpts: “His thing is, the minute it gets bad, it’s going to get worse, so we better try something else,” says one former Panthers staffer. “He’s a hedge fund guy; that’s what hedge fund guys do. The second something stops earning money, they take their money out of it, take the profit and move on to something else.” “He doesn’t care about the money,” says a former Panthers coach. “He looks at it like a stock—you make a poor investment, there’s a sunk cost, boom, you move on.” ... And that sounds good on paper. The problem is, in pro football, if you keep churning through coaches and scouts and philosophies, you wind up with collections of talent that go together like scrambled eggs and ice cream. So it is that there’s a positionless defensive player, in Jeremy Chinn, drafted to play for Matt Rhule, who was excellent early in his career then fell into disuse simply because he didn’t fit new defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero’s defense the way he did Phil Snow’s. So it is that the left tackle Ickey Ekwonu, who played great as a rookie, had some of his physical limitations (namely, his length) show up this year in a way they didn’t last year. So it is that another lineman, Bradley Bozeman, has seen a similar fate after the staff changes. The blood from those messes is, very much, on Tepper’s hands. He’s the one who picked the coaches, who chose to move on from them and who signs everyone’s checks. ... One example came with how Reich’s staff was assembled. Tepper felt like Rhule hired too many assistants who weren’t ready for their roles. He told people, after firing Rhule, that no Fortune 500 company would just hire one guy, then let that guy hire everyone else. He asked why it was like that in pro football. He also liked how the Giants went outside Brian Daboll’s tree to assemble a staff and how the 49ers capitalized on the NFL’s incentive system for having diverse coaches and scouts hired away. So Reich was hired, and then a well-intentioned Tepper called for Reich to bring together a diverse all-star staff, with depth and experience within it. And it’s true that Reich hired a lot of good coaches. But they were coaches from different places, with different ideas, and it was always going to take time for that to mesh. The problem Reich had was the offense was lagging behind the other units, and there wasn’t enough adjusting or evolving, and all that was affecting the development of the quarterback. ... And if there’s one other problem, according to those there, it’d be that Tepper does have his hands in everything, which is an issue because he’s not in the building daily. He’ll be around Friday through Tuesday or so of a game weekend and for the road trips, but he still lacks the day-to-day context needed to be that hands-on as an owner. ... Highly recommend reading the full text. It's extremely informative.

I'd say closer to intestinal gas