Reich New Head Coach

[rayzor]

i'm totally fine with this hire. 

no excited yet, but i will be. 

finally we've got an offensive HC. 

been a long time coming.

[PantherKyle]

1 minute ago, ncfan said:

 

LOVE THIS.

[Basbear]

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/indianapolis-colts/

[Jackie Lee]

12 minutes ago, PootieNunu said:

Im glad, we dont need Wilks as our DC, he is not good in that role. Maybe if he wants to stay as DB coach or something, but I would pass altogether. 

Yeah Wilks has everything except the actual being good at defense thing down. We gotta rank towards the highest of secondaries to get burned deep despite playing deep zone all the time. Maybe someone will finally use Chinn the right way as well

[KillerKat]

I like it. 99.9 made some good points about him. We couldnt settle for Wilks, another Rivera clone.

[Mike2.0]

Frank Reich is a good hire. He faced adversity with the QB position after Andrew Luck did the dirty by retiring on the eve of preseason week 1. Their future looked bright before that juncture and after that it was stop gaps and some reclamation projects. Hopefully Reich gets a better deal here by getting a long term QB to work with. 

As for Wilks, I feel for the guy. He did a good job turning this team around as the interim head coach. However, did the ownership and front office believe he could put together the offensive staff to support and develop our next franchise QB? If they did, they would have hired him. They didn’t. So that suggests to me they felt Reich would be better suited to that role. 

I see racism has come up again. I don’t think race played a part here. Most interim head coaches don’t get made permanent. The last ones made permanent were Doug Marrone (Jacksonville, took over from Gus Bradley) and Mike Mularkey (Tennessee, took over from Ken Whisenhunt), and aart from one AFC championship game for Marrone, neither had long term success. So was us not hiring Wilks a surprise? Not really. The same probably would have happened for a different interim head coach from the staff.

[TheRumGone]

Let’s hope the DC hire is an actual “rockstar” so that we can finally get the most out of this young, talented defense. Especially Chinn.

[trueblade]

14 minutes ago, Basbear said:

Prime Shaquille Leonard was pettttttyy close...

[Mike2.0]

1 minute ago, stbugs said:

I hope it works out but I like that we can go get the best guys now. Fingers crossed it works. QB is still the biggest thing we need, although picking the right OC/DC is very important as well.

It wouldn’t surprise me if we went after Gus Bradley to coach the defense if he’s not retained in Indy. 

[KillerKat]

2 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Yeah Wilks has everything except the actual being good at defense thing down. We gotta rank towards the highest of secondaries to get burned deep despite playing deep zone all the time. Maybe someone will finally use Chinn the right way as well

Exactly. Cant be a defensive minded HC when your defenses keep sucking. He blew his chance against Tampa. If he had won that game, he would be our HC.  With playoffs on the line, his defense sucked and he was also part of the reason why we lost.

[Panthers Fan 69]

1 hour ago, Day1PanthersFan said:

4-12 is all that matters, and he had more talent than we did

And will probably be our record for the next 4 years 

Nah bro. Shitty take. All good years and you focus on the one bad one.  Byyyyyyyyeee

[jayboogieman]

23 minutes ago, UNCrules2187 said:

 

CEO role you say? Where have we heard that before...

Oh son of a...

[Basbear]

1 minute ago, stbugs said:

I hope it works out but I like that we can go get the best guys now. Fingers crossed it works. QB is still the biggest thing we need, although picking the right OC/DC is very important as well.

If you look around the league, frank has effected the NFL somewhat. Recently too, lots of young minds. I think it was the biggest difference between him and wilks- staff. I believe you will approve of his hires, maybe one or two will be ?????? why, no not him(like Brian Baker)..... 

[Basbear]

6 minutes ago, trueblade said:

Bro, this a fact held by many. He just ran into a bad injury deal, but before.......many high IQ footbal that know, had Leonard as the best MLB in all of ball.... He was just like luke and game changing too. I hope the panthers look into a bargain trade for him.