Panthers Fire Secondary Coach Ron Meeks

why would u fire him put him back at dc and fire mcdorment he sucks

In his defense(pun intended lol), he didnt have much to work with

Are there any good DB coaches available?

wasnt raheem morris a db’s coach previously? if so i wouldnt be suprised if we look his direction

Next!

Alas, what James said makes sense here.

I will always remember what he did with the 2009 defense though.

Obviously things didn’t go well this year but I appreciate what he gave us. I remember all the “Fire Fox and promote Meeks” calls there were here.

Didn’t turn out quite so well. I’m sure he’ll land a new gig somewhere else soon

Sean McDermott comes to Carolina and has almost none of the personnel he needs to run a Jim Johnson , aggressive blitzing system.

His system requires two really solid corners who can hold their own without help, and two extremely good DTs one of whom needs to command a double. This creates a situation where he can send his LBs and DBs in to blitz the QB, the DEs rush the passer and the two corners needs to keep their head on a swivel.

Meek’s system was about speed over aggressiveness and asked for almost all of the pass rush to be generate from the front 4, while the rest of the field was covered by DBs and LBs.

So… McDermott enters the picture. We don’t have a #2 corner who can hold their own, we don’t have stout DTs and Beason is out. He then needs to pull the linebackers and send more of them to try and generate a pass rush because the lack of DTs means the DEs can’t get a rush. This places more on the safeties, who in Meeks’ system weren’t responsible for much and the CBs are asked to do more than they’re able to.

It was a mess all around, but I’m sure it let them evaluate the talent on the team.

that were getting a new secondary coach for our first round draft pick CB Dre Kirkpartick

I’ve never really cared for hiring Meeks. He may have never been the most popular guy in the city, but Mike Trgovac got the job done. Our yearly totals from 2003 when he became DC through 2008 had us as 5th overall in yards allowed. Where do we stand now?

I’m really not sure where to go from here, but we can’t do any worse.

Here we go again. I hope he doesn’t turn us into the Chargers because we sure are headed that way right now.

Then who in the hell is our Special Teams Coach?Richardson’s nephew?Better yet, why is he still employed?

gives him a chance to find a chair before the music stops.

Hard to point fingers at Meeks for the woes of the defense this year, but if Rivera feels there needs to be a change I’m on board. This difference in philosophies seem to be a bad fit but I was assuming Meeks could adapt to what Rivera and McD were trying to do.

I find it hard to blame Meeks for this bad season. It’s tough to create a cake when you’re giving mudpies to work with. I suppose the organization knows best, but we should be firing our special teams coach for blowing another good year and Mare for being the worst. kicker. ever.

i love ron meeks to death, and even though i saw the contrast between he and rivera’s schemes i pushed him for dc over mcdermott. a great coach, a great man and some nfl team on the bottom half of defensive statistics just got lucky. it’s probably best for us that we move on as well. with meeks gone, i’m betting year two will see us saying “fire in the hole” a bit more:) blitzkrieg. anyway, now for that physical corner to round out the unit….

Chis Gamble is not effective anymore any needs to take a cut in his pay to keep his job. Only 3 interceptions in 2 years? Gamble avoids contact and he doesn’t tackle well at all.
No sir, not for $8 Million per season. I wouldn’t trade him, but I would re-work his contract. He is a 2nd CB, at best.

Anyone else starting to get the feeling 3/4’s of ‘fans’ don’t watch the game and rely on box scores and highlights to get their ‘knowledge’ about the team?

He was using McD’s defense. If there was a problem it falls on McD. If you tell your assistant to do something your way and he doesn’t then you fire them in mid season when you see their disobedience is causing you to lose, not at the end of the season. All year people said McD doesn’t have the players to run his defense, but yet he stuck with it all year instead of trying something else. Yep, fall guy here.

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