The Athletic: “‘Hunger Games’ culture” at BOFA

[Johnstonny]

3 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

Not sure anyone can come away from this and not understand bryce needs to be benched right now, but I’m sure the Cope Squad will tell us. 

sure wolfcop has a solution...

[Mr. Scot]

15 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

No military personnel in the building apparently. That poo would never fly. 

Well there is that one guy...

Would love to hear what he thinks of all this

[Mr. Scot]

9 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

If you try to keep evero you have to fire everyone he doesn’t want, let him pick the gm, and probably let him pick team president. 

like give him belichick levels of control. Or else why would he stick around for this place intrigue bullshit

Does he even want to be here though?

He'll likely have other opportunities. Why would he choose to stay here with all this bullsh-t?

[nctommy]

8 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

Rooneys got him fast tracked to buy the panthers so they wouldn’t have to deal with him anymore. 

They have been successful at getting minority owners an NFL Team.  Not sure if they influence the decisions, but could be.  Haslam with the Browns, Tepper, and now Josh Harris buying the commanders.  

[Panthers Fan 69]

What a circus. It’s like Tepper brought a Bravo TV style reality drama with rich drunk woman fighting. 

[electro's horse]

3 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Does he even want to be here though?

He'll likely have other opportunities. Why would he choose to stay here with all this bullsh-t?

His last two head coaches have been fired. 
 

maybe people will think he’s haunted or something 

[SmokinwithWilly]

3 minutes ago, nctommy said:

They have been successful at getting minority owners an NFL Team.  Not sure if they influence the decisions, but could be.  Haslam with the Browns, Tepper, and now Josh Harris buying the commanders.  

Letting Tepper buy the Panthers feels like a fug you from the NFL for what happened in 2015. 

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

His last two head coaches have been fired.

maybe people will think he’s haunted or something 

Same was true of Campen before he got here.

Now it's a trifecta...

[thennek]

Well Panthers football is not interesting so I guess Tepper turned his football team into reality tv. Very sad really. 

[MtnJax]

3 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

My guess would be temper saw the headlines about how Brian Daboll assembled his staff in New York and thought "hey, why don't we do that?"

Turned out to be a disaster. Hell, it's not even looking so good in New York anymore.

I think he saw what Rhule did bringing in his completely outmatched college staff and wanted Reich to do the complete opposite and not bring in his buddies. He might’ve also seen how Reich’s end went in Indy on offense and didn’t want those coaches either. Either way, he needs to realize that, while trying to bring in the best coaches possible, they still need to be of one mind on scheme and philosophy so it’s a consistent message to the players

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, MtnJax said:

I think he saw what Rhule did bringing in his completely outmatched college staff and wanted Reich to do the complete opposite and not bring in his buddies. He might’ve also seen how Reich’s end went in Indy on offense and didn’t want those coaches either. Either way, he needs to realize that, while trying to bring in the best coaches possible, they still need to be of one mind on scheme and philosophy so it’s a consistent message to the players

I'd guess that both Rhule and the Daboll story playef into the decision.

Yet another overcorrection, it seems

[Panthers Fan 69]

3 hours ago, Manna said:

So…the most important thing I took away from all this is that Bryce sucks. That and there’s a lot of drama queens in the organization/staff tattle telling on one another. There’s no more ‘Keep Pounding,’ just keep whining. 

Keep Pounding is gone. Keep pounding won’t come back until we stop acting like bitches.  

[Mr. Scot]

Genuinely did not think things would get worse than they already were.

But damn

[Mr. Scot]

Now this from Jonathan Jones

Some of the one-and-done firings were justifiable, others were not. But all reflect a common truth: Most NFL owners have no clue what they’re doing.

For all of their business success, many NFL owners have no idea how to run their teams, and in general they’re awful when it comes to hiring head football coaches. That’s why we see so many ill-fitting marriages, such fruitless efforts and short tenures.

Yes, there are some owners who know how to evaluate talent or can identify potential coaches with strong leadership, communication, organizational, motivational and strategic skills.

But the majority? Shoot. Most owners are nothing more than billionaires playing real-life fantasy football. They guess here, follow popular opinion there. Then they roll the dice and hope they’ve gotten it right.

Tepper perfectly embodies the problem with NFL owners. The highly successful hedge fund manager had learned a little about the league during nine years as a minority owner of the Steelers. But that knowledge obviously was limited, because in his six seasons as the Panthers’ majority owner, Carolina has exhibited not one ounce of the stability and shrewd decision-making for which the Steelers are known.

Instead, Tepper now is looking for his fourth head coach since 2019. He just tabbed special teams coach Chris Tabor as his second interim head coach in two seasons and his third in five years.