A lot of high profile coaches have been rumored to be on the hot seat this year, and while Ron Rivera’s name has certainly been mentioned, his job status has mostly flown under-the-radar. There was a report last week that new Panthers owner David Tepper could consider making “major changes” after the season, but other than that it’s been pretty quiet. Rivera let a couple of his assistant coaches go last week in an effort to help stabilize the crumbling defense, but his own job could very well be in danger.
The Panthers started the season 6-2 and were the toast of the league for a while, but have since lost five straight games. While Tepper is patient and has a good relationship with Rivera, if the losing streak continues Rivera very well may be fired after eight years with the team, according to Joseph Person of The Athletic. The team lost to the Browns today, and Cam Newton‘s play has declined sharply after a hot start. Reports this week have indicated he’s been dealing with lingering shoulder pain, which has undoubtedly contributed to the team’s struggles.
Here’s more from around the league:
- Cowboys guard Zack Martin suffered a scary looking knee injury in their overtime win over the Eagles, but it looks like he escaped major injury. Owner Jerry Jones said after the game that the team is “concerned” about the injury but that there doesn’t “appear to be any structural damage.” While it’s good news that his ligaments are alright, it sounds like he could still miss some games. Being without Martin for any period of time would be a major blow for Dallas, as Martin is one of the league’s best guards.
- Colin Kaepernick would be very interested in joining the Redskins, sources told Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports. Kaepernick has been working out and the sources told Robinson that he’s in the “best shape of his life.” Redskins coach Jay Gruden said the team “discussed” Kaepernick, but wanted someone with more experience in their system. After Mark Sanchez melted down today and the team had to insert Josh Johnson it’s possible they reconsider, but still very unlikely.
- In case you missed it, the Ravens could move on from John Harbaugh even if Baltimore makes the playoffs.
Redskins should take Harbaugh if Ravens fire him
The coach isn’t the problem with the Redskins franchise.
Yeah Sanchez clearly had a lot of experience in the Washington system
Ha!
With the win today Martin should be able to sit out the final 3 games and have about a month to heal up and get ready for the playoffs. He should be ready to go by then hopefully.
for the love of god…. ENOUGH about meaningless Kaepernick “news”. At this point, he is interested in joining ANY team!!! Stop with the daily “Kaepernick is still available and he works out” posts!!!
To follow up, just out of curiousity…. is Kaepernick the only unsigned QB who would be “interested” in playing for the redskins?? Is it racist that they signed johnson instead of Kaepernick? Wait, that can’t be. Is there any “white” QB who is “interested” in playing for the redskins?!?! Stop posting news…. that is NOT news. Big update: ryan leaf would be interested also
Should we call the police for you, so they can come arrest the person with the gun to your head that’s making you click on the Kaep articles and making you read them???
Pretty unnecessary pal
So what? You’re unnecessary, PAL.
This isn’t a Kaepernick article….. it’s an article about active football personnel (players, coaching jobs, injuries, etc)…. with the daily sprinkle of Kaepernick working out and being interested in playing. So no need to call the police, thanks for the concern. Just keep Kaepernick “news” where it belongs….. not in the news.
WHO CARES what the article is? Again… should we send the police to your house? I know it sucks when you’re get threatened and made to click/read articles.
If Kaepernick makes it back to the NFL I might become more invested in soccer.
He’ll accept a job from any team…except from the only team to have reportedly offer him a contract last year; The Baltimore Ravens. Apparently they didn’t offer him as much money as he wanted and didn’t offer to hand him a starting job and after he refused the offer his GF called Steve Biscotti a slave owner and Ray Lewis an Uncle Tom.
So no, he’s not willing to accept any job.
We’re all racist bro. The word has completely lost it’s meaning at this point.
Nailed it. Like the boy who cried wolf.
My problem with the whole situation is that some people are trying to redefine the term and add “institutional” to it so that they can include in their definition that it has to do with some notion that one people holds power over another people.
That’s not racism. Racism is simply believing that one race is superior to another and that another race is inferior simply due to ethnicity. ANYONE can be a racist. It isn’t something owned by one specific group.
You can’t have a conversation about racism if you believe only one specific group can be racists and no other groups can be.
I think Kap is absolutely good enough to be a backup in the NFL but no team wants to deal with the media s&!t storm that will ensue upon which ever team signs him. He’ll be the biggest distraction ever. He has every right to kneel and make his political protest but he also has to deal with the consequences of his actions. He needs to know that most of America doesn’t agree with his form of protest, they don’t agree with his pig socks, and they don’t agree with his openly hateful/neo girlfriend.
I don’t really think that most of America has a problem with criminals getting shot, regardless of skin color.
He doesn’t want to be anybody’s back up and doesn’t want back up money. The Ravens offered him that job and he refused the offer. Take a look at a previous reply of mine.
Rather odd that among all the coaching “hot seat” talk no mention is being made of Atlanta. The Falcons are but a shadow of the team that went to the Super Bowl just 2 seasons ago and are trending worse each week.
Quinn should be fired. Shanahan was that offense clearly.
Well, he certainly has done a bang up job in SF. What are they 15 games below 500 w/ him at the helm?