Foz,hurney,entire staff back according to sources

[Sloth]

no. they havent . 2 games makes up for a season of sucking and bad game planning. if he was such a good coach, why did we play so bad in the first 13 games? every year he loses is some excuse.

if you guys want to give him credit for taking a team to the superbowl and 2 nfc championships then fine. but you also have give him "credit" for the 5 losing seasons and no back to back winning seasons, the up and down level of this team. a team that gets beat by buffalo but destroys the vikings and the giants.

It's bouncing back and forth some, but I'm pretty sure folks will settle on the IR excuse for him this year.

How could he possibly get us to the playoffs with so many people on IR?? Despite that, look at how much HEART they have in December!

..something like that.

[rayzor]

I didn't see her say "playing hard", even though that can be argued as well. She said, "Playing to Win" and it was 100% on the money.

Foxball = playing not to lose

Foxball = a punt is not necessarily a bad thing

Foxball = a starter does not lose their job due to injury

Foxball = the goal is to win 3 games out of 4

[ladypanther]

He does not call the plays and he never has.

Every play goes through Foxy...he vetoes what he does not like.

[ladypanther]

Foxball = the goal is to win 3 games out of 4

Yep...planning to lose.

[monstercat]

Every play goes through Foxy...he vetoes what he does not like.

He must have one hell of a memory then, because I have never seen him consult a play sheet. I'm sure he is heavily involed in game planning during the week, but I have seen no evidence whatsoever that he is involved in the play calling on game day, other than deciding to go for it on 4th downs or telling them to run the ball when they have a lead, which every fan is very happy about when it works.

[grateflday]

Fox ball = bend dont break, keep it close, hold teams to FG's and count on turnovers to win it. If you dont get the turnovers :eek:

[God]

Yep...planning to lose.

This is the biggest joke of them all. You play to win the game.

[ladypanther]

How could he possibly get us to the playoffs with so many people on IR?? Despite that, look at how much HEART they have in December!

..something like that.

Well....it is the losses before most were on IR (except Kemo.....and who's fault that there was no depth at that position?)...that will keep the Panthers out of the playoffs.

[Baschski]

Fox Ball = Run the ball to set up the play-action pass.

Fox Ball = Stop the run, pressure without blitzing, create turnovers.

I like these things.

[carolinanimal]

i dont see how this is a good situation at all. even if we wanted to keep fox i would just go ahead and extend him now. no coach wants to operate under a 1 year trial basis. how is that good for continuity.

what happens if things go south?

will the player rebel knowing the coach wont be here next year?

what happens if he is one and done in the playoffs? do you extend him then?

what if he wants to leave? (Based on the posts of some , we would instantly become the oakland raiders and fox would be become belichek, tom landri, bill cowher all rolled into one and win 25 superbowls elsewhere.)

what if he sucks and then he leaves and we have to rework the staff ANYWAY with inferior coaching options? \

[Sloth]

Well....it is the losses before most were on IR (except Kemo.....and who's fault that there was no depth at that position?)...that will keep the Panthers out of the playoffs.

The retort will end up being that losing Kemo was too much to overcome early in the season.

[jramsey4]

Fox Ball = Run the ball to set up the play-action pass.

Fox Ball = Stop the run, pressure without blitzing, create turnovers.

I like these things.

I as well. What I don't like is Jake over Moore (cost us the playoffs most likely), Foster over Dwil, Brayton over Johnson. Its his poor decision making when it comes to crucial depth chart changes that I want rid of.

[monstercat]

I'm curious...what does everybody think Bill Cowher's philosophy is? Aside from the 3-4 defense, it's exactly the same as Fox's, in case everybody didn't know that already. Yet, he is considered the savior of this franchise by most Panther fans.

[Acewalker]

I'm more against passing up on Cowher than I am against letting Fox finish his contract out. This will be one frustrating offseason if this happens, especially if the Bucs pick him up.

edit: I didn't know Cowher's philosophy was take the team down with your struggling QB, voiding any chance of playoffs..