How Fox could keep his job (even with 4-12)

[Gman was right]

He used the injury card in 2004, 2006 and 2007. I heard him on Panther Talk Monday talking about how he's been devestated with injuries throughoutt his tenure here. Thats just a coach desperately making excuses to try keep his job. Not gonna work this time! We were 0-3 before we were ravaged with injuries.

[unicar15]

If John Fox is still here (no matter the record) then Jerry Richardson needs to sell the team, let the franchise move, and stop leading the fans on.

Here are the teams from the 2008 season with losing records:

Green Bay (New starting QB) - Coach Kept

Detroit - Coach Fired

Seattle - (Injured QB) - Coach Resigned

St. Louis - Coach Fired

Buffalo - Coach Kept only to be fired this year

Cincinnati - Palmer injured - Coach Kept

Cleveland - Coach Fired

Jacksonville - Coach Kept

Oakland - Train wreck and I refuse to compare us to them

Kansas City - Coach Fired

Out of the 10 teams with losing records from 2008, 6 of them have new coaches now.

GB and Cincy kept their coaches because Aaron Rodgers was essentially a rookie and Carson Palmer was injured.

There is no excuse for Fox's team to suck this bad. It is his fault that he kept Jake Delhomme and Bill Cowher is just sitting at CBS, ripe for the picking. He would have this team in the hunt for the NFC Championship 2 years from when he takes the job.

[Delhommey]

The important factor is Fox has 1 year left on his contract (meaning he'd have to be bought out if he can't find work) coupled with the fact a lock out is very possible in 2011 (making it less likely he can find work).

If you get a new coach, you're contractually on the hook (resulting in legal battles at the least, paying a guy to do nothing at the worst) during a labor stoppage.

I think it will take a lot to not see Fox in 2010.

[monstercat]

Fox and Hurney are gone. There are no excuses this time.

[Sam Mills Fan]

If we lose out, that will put Fox's career record at 69-61. That means that he wins a whopping 53% of his games. Oh my, my, what a great coach.

Career winning percentage of .530.

We'll be looking at LEAST at a five year drought between playoff wins.

Not a single back-to-back set of winning seasons.

He's ran his course. Take this sumbitch out.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Not to mention we would have a dropoff of EIGHT wins in a season, most in franchise history and the most in the league period in the past few seasons. And that's with the exact same team as we had last year for all intents and purposes.

[Baschski]

With a year left on his contract, I think it might be worth it to see what Fox can do with a different starting QB. Of course, that's assuming that he actually starts someone other than Jake next year.

[outlaw4]

The important factor is Fox has 1 year left on his contract (meaning he'd have to be bought out if he can't find work) coupled with the fact a lock out is very possible in 2011 (making it less likely he can find work).

If you get a new coach, you're contractually on the hook (resulting in legal battles at the least, paying a guy to do nothing at the worst) during a labor stoppage.

I think it will take a lot to not see Fox in 2010.

This actually makes sense to me. Better to give Foxy the last year and simply not re-sign him if he doesn't turn it around. That way, not only does Jerry not have to "fire" someone, if there's a work stoppage, the organization might save money on the new staff.

[pantherj]

I never thought Fox would be fired at the end of this season. Fox is a good coach who made a bad call on a QB. It happens. I'd give him next season to try out Moore, or some other QB. If the new QB is terrible, then don't resign Fox for failure to find a good QB. If Moore, or whomever, shows promise, then resign Fox. We are a good QB away from being a playoff team. The kind of playoff team that can beat the Saints, or any other team for that matter. That's Fox's doing. He just blew it with Jake. Let him fix it, if he can't, then so long.

[Kevin Greene]

If we lose out, that will put Fox's career record at 69-61. That means that he wins a whopping 53% of his games. Oh my, my, what a great coach.

Career winning percentage of .530.

We'll be looking at LEAST at a five year drought between playoff wins.

Not a single back-to-back set of winning seasons.

He's ran his course. Take this sumbitch out.

This can't be defended.

[Snake]

Maybe. I'm just not convinced it's a lock. Again, these are all things that could happen. I'm not about to predict what will.

My current preference would be to get Mike Zimmer. The only scenario I see where I favor keeping Fox would be if he brought in someone like Charlie Weis and a new QB. To be clear, I don't prefer that scenario over getting Zimmer, but I prefer it over the status quo.

Maybe the question should be what has he done to be resigned this year?

I mean Jerry has been a Football player and knows injuries happen. Still teams pull threw and win. We have also had coaches in the past mishandle the QB pos and that did not go so well for them. Also Fox losing his players dose not help him ether. Put that with all the things we dont know and draw your own conclusion.

[jasonluckydog]

We win out and Moore is good Fox will be back .

[Udogg]

Unless the team completely gives up on him, Fox will be back next year. Jerry Richardson seems to me the type who likes Foxes philosophy of run the ball and play defense. I think Fox is a good coach who stayed loyal to the best QB the franchise had had too long. I mean as of last year he was a good coach.

[Jangler]

I think Fox will be back next year. Fox gets his last chance to do something and JR can now put some major heat on him because of that fact. If that doesn't make a coach preform nothing will.

It does make me sick we have to deal with run/play action x 100000000 for the next year but at least the d will be solid.

I truly believe the only major change is going to be Delhomme. And while I would like to see Fox gone for being an idiot, as a business man this would make more sense.

If they don't waste time and money on Peppers, and go for a good ready to play FA QB. I'm all for giving Fox one more shot.

If John Fox is still here (no matter the record) then Jerry Richardson needs to sell the team, let the franchise move, and stop leading the fans on.

overreact much?