Panther Paw Prints: Fox Job Security Edition

is that if Fox gets fired, lots of us at BBV have been thinking that Fox could become our DC. Our current DC, Bill Sheridan, lets just say he doesn’t wow anyone.

Fox has had a history with the Giants. So we’re kind of rooting for your team to tank it, fire Fox, and let him be our DC.

Do you think Fox would take a Coordinator job if he gets fired, or do you think he’d become a HC somewhere else?

Not exactly a perfect match for Goodson to see extended playing time but, hey, when you’re behind three ‘pretty damn good’ to ‘great’ backs, you gotta take every opportunity that presents itself.

I think that depends entirely on Fox’s mind frame.. if he wants to take the responsibilities of head coach or if he wants to take it down a notch to coordinator.. I’m sure he’d have offers for both.

I personally hope Fox doesn’t go anywhere. Despite our bad season, I just don’t feel like Fox has ‘lost it’. I feel like we had a bad season, as happens in the NFL, and we’ve got to look to improve on that next year, not go out and get a new HC. I’d really like a less conservative approach offensively (or at least a willingness to try new things lol) but if that’s all I’ve got to deal with to keep Fox, I’ll suffice.

     I think all the speculation about coaching changes is just that, speculation. I don’t think the FO has any intentions on making a HC change this year. We have a few holes in the roster and staff to fill then we can be back in contention next year. Making a HC change would throw everything off.
     People talk about Cowher all the time. But Cowher is a 3-4 style coach who would want full control, and probably want to bring in a lot of his own coaching staff. Which means a possibility of changing multiple coaching positions. I don’t know about you but I feel we have a great squad right now, and are in need of a few adjustments only. We don’t need to tear down the walls and build new ones when a coat of paint would suffice.
    I personally think Fox did a pretty good job holding it all together considering all the games with multiple turnovers, losing a large part of the active roster to injury (it’s just been one of those seasons), and the 2nd hardest schedule in the league. (as well as some other reasons). Furthermore, the players have great respect for him.
     

With one year left on his deal I highly doubt the Big Cat would fire him and be forced to pay 2 coaches for a season… unless there’s someone out there who he and Hurney absolutely love and would only come to Charlotte in 2010, not wait until 2011.

You yank a coach after installing a new defense, benching a QB for an unforseen implosion, and an injury plagued year. I can’t think of a coach that would take their team to the playoffs in that scenario.

As long as:

1. The special teams coach is given the boot.
2. The offensive coordinator is asked to leave.

I’ll be a very happy camper and we’ll be in great shape.

I think it is time for change and we need to take a serious look at getting cowher into our program. he pretty much has said he would strongly consider our head coach position, without coming out and actually saying it. Being a native of raleigh he said he would only coach close to home. and he also has said he would wait to the end of the season to take a look at possible positions when all the other teams were currently looking in the market at that time. He would come in and clean house which is really what we need. I think all panther fans can agree that we need changes at the sp cordinator and the off. cordiantor positions. if meeks were to stay we would most likely run his scheme but if not we would move to the to 3-4. In this scheme the panthers could be even stronger on defense. can yall imagine the depth of our d-line with players coming back and then the possible linebacker core of peppers,beason,davis,diggs. peppers would play lights out every game for cowher and he really wants to play in the 3-4 anyway. i dont blame the troubles of this year solely on the coachs but change for them is coming.

With all that being said I think it will be unlikely that john fox will be fired. We will most likely allow him to finish out the last year of his contract before making a decision. I will actually be ok with fox keeping his position if we make the necessary changes else where through out our team. We need to pick up a qb of the future for the team, and we need to do this through the draft not through the fa market. If you take a look at the fa market there aren’t any quality guys out side of possibly jason campbell. but with the un-cap’d year a possibility he might not even be available. we could consider mccoy and bradford if they slide to the second round and our draft positions were to stay. we need to find a quality reciever to pair with steve smith. with smitty drawing double teams and the attention somebody should be making plays in the recieving game, simple as that. we need to make adjustments in our special teams game in some way. and a possible return speicalist would be nice. i can’t blame fox for how this year has played out. injuries, qb play, sp teams play, and the tough scheadule could take a lot of the blame as well.

yea its weird really. i dont know of any contracts in recent years history of that magnitude coming after a playoff performance like that. I thought it was dumb at the time and even dumber now. jake is one of those guys you really want to like but can’t. he has hit his ceiling of potential in his superbowl season and loss to the patriots. everything else has been sub par. we really havent seen what moore can really do. if last games performance was an indicator of what he could possibly be i say keep him and give him the starter position.