posted on: October 19, 2020
In the playoff loss at New Orleans, two of the Saints’ touchdown passes came when the Panthers blitzed Drew Brees and were not able to get to him in time. What he didn’t want, ultimately, was Rivera – whose Panthers began this season 5-3 but have since lost four straight games.
In fact, some sources inside Bank of America Stadium -- while surprised at the timing -- believe that Tepper did Rivera a favor Tuesday if he had planned to fire the coach anyway. He isn’t Mike Shanahan, a head coach who brought a championship pedigree … OK. I’m there, too.”. The Panthers hit Nick Foles 9 times without a sack, but it was the D’s best game yet, At socially distanced Durham event, Biden criticizes Trump on leadership, health care, Coronavirus live updates: Here’s what to know in North Carolina on Oct. 18, NC State QB Devin Leary out 4-8 weeks after having surgery for broken fibula, Early voting update: Twice as many NC votes now have been cast than this time in 2016, Coronavirus live updates: Here’s what to know in North Carolina on Oct. 19, Panthers have injuries stacking up. Six years before Davis first entered the league in 2005, Ron Rivera was the linebackers coach for Andy Reid's Philadelphia Eagles. You also agree to our Terms of Service. Washington has been key in the development of some of the mainstays along the Panthers’ D-line, including Kawann Short, Star Lotulelei, Mario Addison and Wes Horton. Tepper and Rivera met face-to-face at Bank of America Stadium Tuesday, two days after the 29-21 loss to Washington. Rivera finishes his Panthers career as the most successful coach the team has ever had, with four playoff appearances and one Super Bowl appearance in nine years. He will get another job, probably in the NFL, probably as a head coach, probably in 2020. And while some critics questioned whether McDermott would be better off waiting for a head-coaching job other than Buffalo, he and former Panthers assistant general manager Brandon Beane combined to end the Bills’ 17-year playoff drought. Soon, the coaching carousel will take another spin. I was drafted in the second round in 1984. Tepper told a group of us reporters two weeks ago that he had been losing sleep over Carolina’s losses, and since then there had been two more. Although he said he would consider both collegiate and NFL coaches, and offensive and defensive specialists, reading between the lines Monday it sounded like Tepper wanted an offense-first coach, and one who also had NFL experience either as a head coach or a coordinator.
As for how long it will take the new coach to achieve the “sustained excellence” Tepper keeps referencing, he said it would be silly to think it would happen immediately. So Tepper shook the tree hard Tuesday. Wilks, 48, was named the Arizona Cardinals’ head coach Monday after just one year as an NFL coordinator. He also is the reason Bryan Cox Jr. signed with the Panthers an undrafted free agent last year after entertaining similar offers from Tampa Bay and San Diego. Wilks’ departure will create more ripples at Bank of America Stadium, where Rivera will go into the 2018 season with a new owner, three new coordinators and several new assistants. Sports columnist Scott Fowler has written for The Charlotte Observer since 1994. For the first time since early 2011, the Panthers will be riding it. But Monday’s move was a product of the Panthers’ continued success on defense – and one Rivera saw coming when every team with a head-coaching vacancy called to ask for permission to meet with Wilks. Chicago upends Carolina, Beautiful day, brutal game: Thoughts on the mistake-prone Panthers losing to Bears. We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests.
Connect to local news for just $4.99 a month for 12 months. Now they desperately need him, Beautiful day, brutal game: Thoughts on the mistake-prone Panthers losing to Bears, It’s early, but Panthers game vs. Bears could have NFL playoff implications, Fire at Lake Norman community left behind a torched club and a family vowing to rebuild, Why to start Panthers’ Teddy Bridgewater, Mike Davis in fantasy football vs. Bears, How good is Teddy Bridgewater? Rivera had two coordinators on his staff he could have put in charge while he was gone: Mike Shula, who’d been Alabama’s head coach for four years, and Sean McDermott, who would become the Buffalo Bills head coach a couple years later. Meanwhile, Rivera’s coaching tree keeps extending skyward – especially on the defensive side. But clearly the word was out in league circles about Wilks, whose only previous experience as a head coach was a one-year stint at Savannah State, which finished 5-6 under Wilks in 1999. So Tepper shook the tree hard Tuesday. But there’s no doubt this is Wilks’ time to become a head coach, just as it was for McDermott a year ago. Scott Fowler is a national award-winning sports columnist for The Charlotte Observer. Tepper isn’t waiting for anything anymore. See our, Read a limited number of articles each month, You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads, Unlimited access to washingtonpost.com on any device, Unlimited access to all Washington Post apps, No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking. But he didn’t want to wait any longer. He didn’t want to be put at a competitive disadvantage, but he also didn’t want to start talking to prospective coaches behind Rivera’s back, and so he sped up the process.
Rivera gets a head start now on his own job search, with his name prominent on many lists, while Tepper gets a head start on the Carolina coaching search. If fans are expecting something to be miraculous next year -- listen, it could happen… but there has to be a degree of patience to build sustained excellence… Do (they) want to wait five years for sustained excellence, for 20 years of winning seasons? Carolina went 12-16 in the 1 ¾ seasons since Tepper bought the team from team founder Jerry Richardson, who had abruptly decided to sell after his involvement in a workplace misconduct scandal. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms.
Washington has been the Panthers’ defensive coordinator-in-waiting for the past year. So Tepper watched and waited. See our Privacy Policy and Third Party Partners to learn more about the use of data and your rights. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Rivera will be OK. Rivera always did that, but he never broke Carolina’s dubious 25-year streak of never posting back-to-back winning seasons. The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website: We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. Get in-depth, sideline coverage of Charlotte area sports - only $1 a month. He acquired the nickname “Riverboat Ron” in 2013 for his successful fourth-down gambling and he was considered by everyone to be one of the nicest guys in the game. You see just no-nonsense football.”. We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. Recently-fired Panthers coach Ron Rivera will have a robust market of suitors in 2020, according to numerous executives and agents who will be involved in the upcoming coaching …
“But there’s a point where you have to realize you have to try to elevate a whole organization,” Tepper said Tuesday night. The football side, on the other hand, Tepper said he believed was “kind of OK.” He liked general manager Marty Hurney and said Monday he still believes Hurney – who now appears likely to stay on as GM – is “an excellent evaluator of college talent.” Rivera was an old-school, defense-first coach (as is interim coach Perry Fewell). By the end of the week Rivera had hired longtime NFL head coach and coordinator Norv Turner to run the offense, and confirmed to the Observer that Scott Turner, Norv’s son, would be hired as quarterbacks coach. The Panthers also parted ways with special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey and promoted his assistant Chase Blackburn to the position. Ron Rivera isn’t a sexy hire, and I mean that in a most complimentary way. “He’s by far the best defensive line coach in football,” Cox Sr. told the Observer last spring. One betting site listed the top 10 possibilities in this order Tuesday: Jim Harbaugh (who once was briefly a Panthers quarterback); Jason Garrett; Josh McDaniels; Dan Quinn; Urban Meyer; Greg Roman; Mike LaFleur; Jay Gruden; Doug Marrone and Pat Shurmur. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand.
Fewell, currently the secondary coach, will be the interim coach for the season’s final four games. He made the Panthers fun to watch without McCaffrey. He asked for Rivera to use more new-school analytics as a coach and said Monday that Rivera “accepted it to a certain extent.”. They better.”. Fowler has won the Thomas Wolfe award for outstanding newspaper writing and 13 national APSE awards. Meanwhile, Rivera’s coaching tree keeps extending skyward – especially on the defensive side.
I come to work like I did as a player, and that’s to do the best I can.”. Who will that next coach be? It is expected that Norv Turner will stay in the coach’s box on game days and Scott Turner will call plays from the sideline in what will be something of a tryout for a job for the younger Turner with the next Panthers coaching staff or elsewhere. “We want to figure out the talent we have within, to see if there’s a possibility there,” Tepper said.
Well, Washington will be getting a raise in his new role … and maybe an even bigger one with his next move, if recent history is any indication. “He’s not paid the highest like some of these guys are. Those turned out to be an array of blitzes, more than what McDermott preferred as coordinator and more than all but one other team in the NFL. The former tight end, who played under the legendary Eddie Robinson at Grambling, has overseen one of the league’s most productive defensive lines since joining Rivera’s initial staff with Carolina. “Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy? He fired Panthers head coach Ron Rivera just four games before Rivera, 57, completed his ninth season. Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. He said Monday that the home losses to compromised teams like Washington and Atlanta “played a little bit into the decision.”.
Let’s evaluate how Carolina’s backups are playing, Analysis: Panthers never fixed the mistakes that hurt them in win streak. Him and Sean are two very good people who are very special to this organization. For nine years, I came into that facility in Chicago, wondering if I was going to get cut. It’s going to be a tough one. He had hoped to wait to fire Rivera at the end of the season instead of now, with a month to go. “He’s by far the best defensive line coach in football,” Cox Sr. told the Observer last spring.
Maybe the most telling interview Wilks received came last year in Los Angeles, when he met with Rams’ officials about their head-coaching job before he’d ever called a play as an NFL defensive coordinator. Bryan Cox Sr., an NFL linebacker for 12 seasons and an NFL defensive line coach for 10 years, steered his son toward Washington.
And just as he did last offseason when McDermott left for Buffalo, Rivera is wisely staying in-house with his choice to replace Wilks. Tepper fired Rivera in what he described as an “emotional” meeting. But like Frazier, his first chance as an NFL position coach came in 1999 with the Eagles, when Andy Reid was hired.
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