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All is quiet on the OC front

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davos Grand Master

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Prefacing this with the PSA it is a bit speculative but I find things kind of interesting right now.  Panthers.com initially had a few posts about potential OCs, some articles, with pretty hilarious reactions by the fans on IG, their site, and here. Mainly, no one cares and it was all basically “Fire Rhule”

Today, there is no sign we’ve talked to anyone but some pretty poor candidates a week ago. Hearing no rumors, nothing about new interviews. Panthers.com has nothing outside of a player personnel article on an offensive renovation by Gant.

Midst the backlash to his WFNZ appearance and the bitterness in the fandom, and media backlash, is this search going poorly, are they waiting for playoff teams, or is there something else afoot?

I get that no real signings have happened (which is interesting) but to have such little noise makes me feel Matt could really just being doing this on his own with Snow or maybe he is still being considered for the boot. 

Basically, things still seem shaky to me and I’m unsure he’s still safe for next year. There could be credence to Jay Glazer’s report the other week.

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All the good OCs are going to go with the new HC jobs.  Nobody that is a name is going to sign under Rhule who is on the hottest seat in the NFL unless they get assured they will be named permanent HC once he’s fired.

tepper has to accept this and plan on a loser season ahead or dump Rhule now

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Rhule is hanging in by a thread so no really good prospects are going to want to come here with so many legit jobs coming open for other teams wisely starting over.

Plus, Rhule isn't going to come out of his comfort zone, he'll roll with guys he knows from college.

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Pretty much what we should expect.

No good coordinator will want to come to a team with a coach on the hottest seat in the league.  There are not that many great OC's in the league anyway, let alone willing to risk their employment on Matt Rhule's regime.

The entire report that Rhule's job security for next year hinged on a "rock star" OC hire never made sense to me.  I just don't see how we could possibly hire one . . . as an OC.

Now, get rid of Rhule and offer one of those rock stars the HC position, that's a different prospect entirely.

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2 hours ago, Zod said:

Going to be tough to talk a qualified candidate into damaging his career with this regime. 

I truly wonder what NFL circles would still be open to Rhule.  If he can only pluck conversations & interviews through secondary connections that aren't all that special, he's really going to be cornered.  

He's going to have to sell hard to Tepper.  Maybe that's where Tepper's silence is.  This is a few week process of a sh*t or get off the pot moment with Matt.  

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When Tepper boastfully proclaimed that he wouldn't be settling for mediocrity, dumb old me just assumed that he was shooting for the top not the bottom. Four years into the Tepper era experiencing four straight losing seasons and three straight seasons managing only five meager wins, here I sit kinda longing for mediocrity again. The Panthers were always a mediocre franchise, but we DID have occasional success. Any hint of fleeting success seems too far distant to imagine currently. 

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I feel like a lot of the OC interviews are being done in bad faith by Rhule anyway. It's going to reach a point where nobody wants to come here (duh), but it's too late to fire Rhule, so Tepper gives in to Rhule's way of keeping Nixon and that's the sword Rhule will die on. He's now Rivera's Eric Washington.

Tepper gives Rhule year 3 to prove it "his way", which ultimately fails. We go into 2023 with cap space, a high pick, and a gutted staff. Next year is going to suck...this offseason all I care about is not trading away future picks or making idiotic signings in FA. 

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