Panthers approached formally by Jaguars to interview OC Chudzinski

A Panthers coordinator after a strong first season with the team

If Chud leaves, hopefully, we can minimize the damage and promote Shula to the OC.

Dream scenario if Chud leaves is hopefully Nory Turner comes over, assuming he gets canned. We have so many SD connections, not to mention his son works for us.

Really think Chud can turn their team around? Carolina has the players necessary to make his offense work. No other team has a talented QB like Newton or a pair of game changing running backs. I just hope Chud sticks around to apply the finishing touches to his well oiled machine.

Eeeee~ This is not good. Chud would have a lot of work to do in order to get the Jags off the ground. We’re talking about the WORST passing offense in the league. Literally no weapons at WR. The best target they got is a TE. On the other hand, you have Maurice Jones Drew.

The organization has made some head-scratcher moves lately too. The way they got rid of David Garrard after his back injury that would have kept him out 4-6 weeks to start the season screams “CHEEP!” to the highest magnitude and as a head coach, I would not want a general manager that removed such an essential piece of my offense like that.

If Chud wants to leave, he can find a lot of better places to go besides Jacksonville. They’re up there on that list of candidates to go if a team was to move to another city as well. That would be a rough road to travel.

I might need a tissue.

David Garrard lost his starting job the same way he got it: Just days before the season opener and in stunning fashion.

The Jacksonville Jaguars released Garrard on Tuesday, making a “pure football decision” that will save the franchise $9 million in 2011.

Whether it saves coach Jack Del Rio’s job remains to be seen. Team owner Wayne Weaver has said Jacksonville needs to make the playoffs for Del Rio to stick around for a 10th season. ((Never mind the state of the team! Make the playoffs NAO! Oh by the way, we’re cutting your QB. Lol!))

Del Rio made it clear late last season that he had grown tired of Garrard’s inconsistent ways, but the coach remained steadfast through training camp and the preseason that Garrard was his starter. That changed Tuesday, when the Jaguars parted ways with Garrard after nine up-and-down seasons.

If the timing of the move wasn’t strange enough — five days before Jacksonville’s opener against Tennessee — it came two hours after the team introduced Garrard as its starting quarterback at a kickoff luncheon at the chamber of commerce.

I mean cmon, how could you coach for a team that’s going to make knee-jerk reactions like that?

Pink slips have been flying all over the NFL today.

I’m sure most every coach in the NFL has aspirations to be a HC at some point and if you don’t take the opportunity when it’s available, it may never happen. But lots of guys will get interviewed and only a few will be hired. Rivera interviewed something like 9 times before being hired.

Apparently Rivera said in his presser that they may look to offer Chud an extension/raise if necessary to keep him here. Hopefully he will want to continue with what he’s started here instead of uprooting after 1 season after we finally got the system installed. A QB of Cam’s caliber can make coaches look good and Chud knows what he can accomplish with Cam running the plays.

As far as potential replacements Norv would be the best option if available, if not we need someone familiar with the system we run because I think this is the perfect offensive system for our personnel. Not sure about Scott Turner’s capabilitie,s but perhaps he could be given a look. I do think Shula may be able to effectively run the offense as he has experience, but I also agree that he may be best suited where he is.

Somebody’s likely to offer him a job with all the openings. I certainly hope not but it seems inevitable.

Who was it that was sitting next to him in the booth? Is it Norv’s son? He would seem to be the obvious choice to follow Chud since he was there every step of the way and could continue the philosophy.

I’m more concerned with McDermott. Wasn’t completely sold on Micky D when he came over and I’m less so now. Granted he was given backups to work with but man, his defense sucked the big one regardless. Wouldn’t be too upset if he got replaced by a Jeff Fisher or even a Raheem Morris.

He was a great coach with us. Once he left Jake hit the fan big time.

Don’t know how many of ya’ll go to other team’s blogs, but the blogs of many bottom dwelling teams are talking a lot about Robert Chudzinski.

I really hope he doesn’t leave, I love what he has done here. However, if he does leave, I’m certain, like James, that Ronny will find us another superb OC. As long as Shula doesn’t leave though, I’ll be okay with Chud going. I’d hate to see it, but still as long as Shula doesn’t go, I could cope. I really think Shula has been instrumental in Cam’s immediate success (besides Cam himself) and I think if you took him away, Cam could suffer some setbacks.

We’ll find out soon enough.

if he does leave, but I believe Cam will be fine. I think Newton made Chud look good more than the other way around, and there were some worrying trends in the second halves of games where it seemed like Chud could not adjust to whatever the defense had changed.

Cam is obviously very talented, smart and a hard worker, as long as the new guy (this is all speculative of course) doesn’t have some radical new system, the Offense and the QB will be fine.

is there not some kind of rule about hiring coaches under contract already? I want to say there is but i am just curious. i just hope he stays

dont leave us chud

If Chud actually leaves, could Martz be in the running for OC for the Panthers?