Dubious distinction for John Fox if he returns to the Panthers next season

[Sam Mills Fan]

He'll be the first coach in NFL history to have coached nine seasons with the same team without a single set of back-to-back winning seasons. That's pretty amazing.

[carolinanimal]

he has to get fired. jr knows better than to have a lame duck coach in there for next year. that would make a bad situation worse.

[Razzy]

Sadly, I'm all too certain he'll still be here next year. If he gets fired I will eat crow, video tape it, and post it.

[Carolina Husker]

Sadly, I'm all too certain he'll still be here next year. If he gets fired I will eat crow, video tape it, and post it.

Posting for posterity...

[Argus Plexus]

He'll be here next year

[Murph]

He'll be here next year

I think so too. Anybody who doesn't think the potential lockout in 2011 will have a major effect on all NFL business transactions this offseason really hasn't thought things through. That lockout looked only slightly possible two years ago. Now it is very possible.

[N1kkadeemuz]

He'll come back and lose in the playoffs for another glorious year!!

[carolinanimal]

you cant go into another season with a coach making decisions based off his contract status. all his decisions will be made on this premise, his drafts personnel decisions, everything.

[Sword]

would we still be on the hook if he was hired by another team if he got fired here?

[PantherPhann89]

Fox will be here as HC next year, it'll be looked at as though we had a loosing season due to injuries, but Davidson will take the fall for the troubled offense

[Sandy Claws]

He'll be the first coach in NFL history to have coached nine seasons with the same team without a single set of back-to-back winning seasons. That's pretty amazing.

Not as amazing as the fact that somebody had so little of anything resembling a life that they chose to research that. THAT IS AMAZING.

[njpanther]

I think so too. Anybody who doesn't think the potential lockout in 2011 will have a major effect on all NFL business transactions this offseason really hasn't thought things through. That lockout looked only slightly possible two years ago. Now it is very possible.

So is the plan to not have a head coach heading into the 2011 season just in case there is a lockout?

:conf:

[Sandy Claws]

would we still be on the hook if he was hired by another team if he got fired here?

Usually for the difference. He could take a DC spot for 1 mill/year and we would owe him 4.5 mill.

[Urrymonster]

So is the plan to not have a head coach heading into the 2011 season just in case there is a lockout?

:conf:

Seriously?

What he means is that signing someone to a multi year deal this off season could be incredibly bad business as there is a potential lockout on the horizon. JR might see it as fortunitus planning that has left him with his head coach's contract expiring just as the lock out is due. That way if a lock out DOEs occur then he currently has no contract in place for a head coach, meaning he is not paying anyone to do squat all.

In the event that the lockout does not happen he can say goodbye to Fox and then hire someone else in the 2010 post season.