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2 minutes ago, Bear Hands said:

That whole debate seems like years ago.  This season I tell ya

The fact that last season our coach starting the season was Matt Rhule feels like a Mandela Effect. You're telling me it hasn't been 5 years since he was fired?

We need another team to hire Rhule so he can give us a 2nd, 4th, and 6th for Bryce like he did for Darnold.

Looks like it's Dean Smith.

From Topbin90

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The Smith Era is set to begin

 

According to sources, Dean Smith is finalizing his move to become the next head coach of Charlotte FC. He will be Charlotte’s third manager in three years.

 

Smith has over a decade of coaching experience. He has coached at the top three levels in England since 2011, from League One with Warsall to the Premier League with Aston Villa, Norwich City, and Leicester City.

Also being reported by the Daily Mail.

10 minutes ago, Leaky_Faucet said:

A lot of those in the G-SP area have turned to the Falcons the past few years and a lot of those in the Low Country follow Florida teams.

Or they just don't care about the NFL at all and only follow college, which feels like the majority of SCians.

Is everyone here under the impression that Panthers fans in SC are fans purely because they do training camp in SC?

Seems unlikely to me.

4 minutes ago, TLGPanthersFan said:

Might at well rename the team the North Carolina Panthers. 
 

The Patriots have had their training camp in Foxborough for 21 years now. Should they be the Massachusetts Patriots?

From Topbin90

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According to sources, Charlotte FC are close to finalizing their next head coach. The team has interviewed two former Premier League coaches: Chelsea legend Frank Lampard and former Aston Villa manager Dean Smith. Both are on Charlotte FC's shortlist.

 

Lampard, the three-time premier league-winning midfielder, was recently in Charlotte for an interview- as well as Smith, two big-name managers who have shown interest in the club.

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Per sources, Charlotte FC will make their decision on who their next coach will be in the next two weeks.

32 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

FYI: Adam Johns (longtime Bears beat writer) wrote in the Athletic that if the Bears make a change at head coach this offseason, their candidate list "starts and ends" with Jim Harbaugh.

There have been behind the scenes reports that the Chicago job is his top choice. If so, and if Matt Eberflus is fired, this one might be academic.

Not before he interviews with Tepper to gain that sweet, sweet leverage for better contract.

12 hours ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

The season after Jake imploded against the Cards in the Playoffs. My hope was dashed when he imploded against the Eagles.

You were never hopeful/hype going into a season when Cam was here?

13 hours ago, CRA said:

FSU likely isn’t one of the top 4 best teams.  But you had to put them in.  You simply can’t exclude an undefeated power 5 team for a bunch of 1 loss teams.   That is the committee imploring too much subjectivity….and in a year where the other power 5 conferences weren’t even that great vs prior years. 

I get both sides of the argument. If Travis doesn't go down, FSU is probably in, but I can see a world where the committee doesn't want another 2021 Cincinnati or 2016 Washington situation, where a team got in because by letter of the law, they met the requirements, but then gets blown out because they weren't really one of the best four teams in the country. 

Either way, the committee will either be vindicated or indicted depending on the results of the FSU Georgia game. Georgia wins handily, committee is vindicated. FSU loses closely or wins, committee will hear the noise. 

All of this is moot anyway because of the expansion next year. Even if there is a snub out of the top 12, it won't be nearly as dramatic as a snub out of the top 4.

55 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

Yes Harbaugh had brief success in the NFL. He also inherited a solid roster and only coached for what 4-5 years? He wins everywhere he goes so he should be good, but I still prefer the GM/HC balance. 

Yeah I think best case scenario out of a Harbaugh HC stint here would be a reset of the culture, and a return to knowing what it’s like to win before handing it off to a long term HC. Who knows how it’d actually go tho 

Just now, ForJimmy said:

It’s definitely better than what we have, but I don’t like the HC having full control like Rhule. Just fire Fitt, hire a good GM and let him pick your next HC. 

The key difference between Rhule and Harbaugh being that Harbaugh has experience winning in both college and the NFL

5 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Interesting passage...

As it was described by sources, even though Reich's tenure resulted in a 1-10 record, there was no sense of relief in the building when he was fired. The entire building was relieved when Tepper fired Rhule after Week 5 of the 2022 season.

There’s no sense of relief because everyone realizes these problems are way deeper than Reich. Rhule was looked at as the root of the problem, not the symptom that he really was. 

But is it Young that is making Mingo look like a JAG, or is he just a JAG? Or is it the offensive system that has stifled any ability for either player to make plays? Or is it all of the above? We've got a feedback loop at the moment where every individual piece of the system is sucking, and simultaneously causing other pieces to suck. It's a death spiral. 

We simply won't be able to evaluate anyone effectively until conditions change under a new staff. 

1 hour ago, MechaZain said:

y'all realize he has two sports teams in Charlotte right

They only remember Charlotte FC exists when it comes to time to complain about how he "cares more about soccer than football".

8 minutes ago, csx said:

I assumed BigKat bought it. His daily vague yet provocative topics seem to come from Zod playbook to generate traffic.

If BigKat bought this place, we'd know. That dude loves telling everyone here about his financials, to the point where it feels like bragging. 

I think he just likes to create new threads for every new thought that pops into his head.

There are two outcomes of Tepper receiving mainstream ridicule: 

1. He realizes his mistakes and rectifies the situation by lessening his impact on decision making. (He'll never remove himself completely, no owner does.)

2. He doubles, triples, and quadruples down on his idea that he's the decision maker, and he'll desperately try to prove the doubters wrong with attempt after attempt to finally get it right.

I'll leave it up to y'all to determine which is the more likely outcome.

2 minutes ago, CRA said:

I mean, the NFL is always evolving.  And any coach in the year 2023 should be able to somewhat adapt to different personnel. 

Adapting to different personnel wasn't exactly a hallmark of Frank's tenure here.

17 minutes ago, BY9Franchise said:

No idea probably lack of talent.... Him and Doug Peterson made the RPO a thing in 2017 when the Eagles won the SB your not the first one to say that either it seems to be a common misconception here that's what he was hired to do.

Chip Kelly brought it to the league, and we were running RPO with Cam before 2017, but your point stands. It just doesn't add up that if he's known for an RPO offense, he would refuse to utilize one.

Oh boy

4 minutes ago, BY9Franchise said:

False

 

So what's changed between now and then that is making him unwilling to incorporate RPO now?

So they fired him for not running something that he's never historically run. This is on Tepper and the FO for not knowing who they hired and the system he runs, and saddling him with a QB that doesn't fit that system. This organization is something else, I tell ya.

1 minute ago, TheBigKat said:

1 hr podcast.... that's a no go for me

That's a very standard length for a podcast.

4 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Being that we can’t hit on any rounds after 1 I’m not sure it matters.  

That was with Hurney. We can't hit on any of them anymore.