Panthers Beat Writer on the current stage in the HC search

[ImaginaryKev]

Gonna be a fan of the team regardless but I'd be bummed about anyone but Kevin Stefanski

[45catfan]

Here's the deal sealer for McCarthy: he's a Pittsburgh guy, no, not the Steelers, but born and raised there just like Tepper.  You know he has a soft spot for anything Pittsburgh.  The check boxes keep adding up for McCarthy.

[Mr. Scot]

9 hours ago, Woodie said:

And by the way, GM candidates not being available until after the draft is the same reason we couldn't just dump Hurney when we let Rivera go.  Like him or not, Hurney at least knows how to run a draft and do some of the administrative things teams have to focus on in the offseason (extensions, cuts, whether to tag or not, coordinating the scouting for the upcoming draft, etc.).  It's why I think all the fears of Tepper keeping Hurney as the GM are a waste of energy.  Hurney may be retained, but probably not as GM.  Dave is likely just waiting until he can legally talk to the guys he really wants in the position.

Yep. And post draft is when you've seen a lot of teams clean house on their scouting departments in the past.

[raz]

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Yep. And post draft is when you've seen a lot of teams clean house on their scouting departments in the past.

maybe i wasn't paying close enough attention, but i thought last year was the first year that started.  

[(ATL'ien)CamNewton]

Jim Harbaugh

[Ship]

McCarthy will get a look because he had a lot of success in green bay and he deserves the respect of being considered and given a “hard look” but in the end I’m taking that as lip service and due diligence. Tepper is going to want a guy who lives in the analytics world and isn’t just visiting out of necessity. They’re going to look in every nook and cranny for coaches and I’m betting we see more candidates interviewed and vetted than ever before. So it makes sense to get the college coaches set up now before the playoffs. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Tepper partially builds out his own coaching staff. I could see him finding a college guy he really likes and making him a coordinator or other kind of assistant for the HC to agree to. My hope is for the Vikings OC. He sounds like he fits Tepper’s bill, he’s young enough to agree to some assistants if Tepper wants to meld guys together, and the Browns own analytics team said he was the guy to hire and the Browns ignored it— making it the classic right choice for some other team to make and prosper for it.

 

[1of10Charnatives]

10 hours ago, ImaginaryKev said:

Gonna be a fan of the team regardless but I'd be bummed about anyone but Kevin Stefanski

I didn't really know much about him until recently and most of it I've learned through this board, but there's literally nobody out there otherwise that I'm really excited about, and on principal I'm against college coaches because of their low success rate and retreads because bleh, so right now Stefanski is the guy I want.

[Captain Obvious]

billy cowher or jeffrey fisher.

GM Thomas Coughlin

 

Done. the extinction of the Panthers is complete.

Bring on MLS in 2021.

 

[(ATL'ien)CamNewton]

Jim Harbaugh

[joemac]

18 hours ago, Forty-Eight said:

Robert Saleh is my choice. 
 

But thinking McCarthy or McDaniels will be the HC. 
 

Would be amazing if we could lure Lincoln Riley away from OU.

Thats who I want out of all the coaches in the entire country - Lincoln Riley.  Also, would like to kick the tires on Urban Meyer and see if he has any dreams of coaching a pro team.

[Wes21]

On 12/19/2019 at 2:40 PM, 45catfan said:

I'm okay with McCarthy.  Agreed he's not flashy, but substance is better than flash most times.  The one caveat I have is he has to bring in a defensive guru with him.  Green Bay's problem many year under him wasn't the offense, it was their defense was usually garbage.

On paper the offense didn’t appear to be a “problem,” but on film it is a different story.  The offense was heavily dependent on Rodgers other worldly talents to make things work.  McCarthy wasn’t a stellar playcaller and his offense grew old and stale on top of it.  Rodgers made it look much better than it was by holding onto the ball and turning things into a scramble drill instead of relying on the initial playcalls.  As the offense “didn’t suck” year after year, McCarthy kept thinking it was him making it work instead of being humble enough to realize he wasn’t doing a good job...and it was the QB making it look like it was working.

 

Outside of running the offense, I really like McCarthy as a HC.  He’s incredibly detailed.  If you watch him for a while, its far beyond most other coaches.  A lot of it had to do with building on top of things that were already established under Holmgren, etc...but I have zero doubt he’d bring the same level of detail to his next team and they would benefit from it.

As far as Josh McDaniels, no thanks.  People are so desperate to try to capture a piece of the Patriots dynasty.  Its pretty clear that Bill Belichick is the greatest coach in NFL history and his underlings are failing at an alarming rate.  Even Bill Parcells success in the NFL takes an interesting turn when you compare the years he had Belichick on his staff to the years he didn’t.

[ForJimmy]

Hopefully it’s Jim Harbaugh.

[Malt Liquor]

I think David Tepper will hire Kevin Stefanski as the next head coach because of his ivy league education.

[Mr. Scot]

One thing to watch on the assistant front: It's being speculated that Wade Phillips will not be back in Los Angeles next year. His contract is up and apparently there's been no movement toward an extension.

Heaven knows Phillips has tortured us in the past. For the record though, he is 72 years old.