with the Panthers
and we may as well. Bookend Monday, we saw
what played out when you have an owner
who interjects himself into the operation of the team
excessively and screws everything up,
I would say. David Tepper, and Jim irsay don't have a lot in
common on the surface. One guy
earned his money,
one guy was given everything
one guy speaks
Well,
not all that Charming but speaks well extemporaneously.
The other guy who the hell knows what he's saying.
But at the core of the problem is
they are both
two hands on. I was talking to somebody about this yesterday.
There's a sweet spot for owners to fall in.
You you want to be present,
just merely, it's just merely being there in the building.
Make the team facility, your primary office, you're there.
It just adds something Sims and I have talked about this when
Simms said, you know, when he was playing in Tampa when
ownerships there, it's different when he was working
for the Patriots, went to crafts in the building. It's
a different feeling
so you're there. But you're not doing too much, you're
trusting, the people you've hired to do the job of running
the team because they're the experts in. You're not, you're
there for support Bert.
You're there on those moments where there is need for a big
decision to be made. You can be a sounding board and
they can make sure that you're on board with it but
you don't want to try to do too much and Shireen the problem
with the Panthers is I feel like David Tepper who has been
wildly successful through his own creativity, resourcefulness
and raw
hard work thinks, he can just
turn those qualities
to a football team
and through. the sheer force of the will that made him 17
billion dollars
can
Make All the Right Moves to will his team to be good and
the harder he tries, you know, he's squeezing a handful of
Jell-O in the jello is going everywhere. So
the so I
am gently going to disagree
with your take although I'd say the roster right now is set up.
Well,
The impediment for it to becoming the best roster, it
can possibly be and become a perennial Contender is
ironically, coincidentally, whatever.
It's the guy who
wants that team, so badly
to be great, the owner of the team.
Yeah and it's a great Point. Mike I just meant more on
the talent. I think I would take the pain. I love their defense
of talent. I think it's very good I think yeah I drew
diagrams. Yeah team yeah it's a good conversation. I'm not
disagreeing with you.
They're going to reach that they're going to reach a limit.
There's good. There's going to be a point where they can't get
any farther because the owner is trying his damndest to push
them farther instead of just letting it all play out.
Yeah, and it's a legitimate point. It's a great point,
maybe he finds that sweet spot, maybe he hires a coach, it's
not going to be Sean Payton, no way possible the Saints, let
Sean. Payton
trade, Sean Payton to the Panthers
but maybe they get a coach like that who says
a big-name coach. Who says look, I'm
you're going to step back. Take a step back. Like Bill Parcells
did when he came to Dallas with Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones did
take a step back and that Bill Parcells run things.
He's in Dallas and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe it takes
that type of Coach, bring that type of coach in. And the coach
to have that ability to say, look, you just need to get out
of my way right now
and and we'll do this and we'll do it together, but you've got
to get out of the way and let me do my thing and and so if he
does that,
this team has a legitimate chance to win and win in
a hurry. If they get the right coach, in the right quarterback
and he's in the owner takes a step back, if he doesn't,
you're right. There's going to be a ceiling to how far they
go. We've seen it
so much easier said than done though,
for the multi billionaire
who is not used to being told anything
that that multi-billionaire doesn't want to hear. Because
once Parcells was gone in Dallas, Jerry never took a step
back again, although
they're kind of like trying to finesse him now Steven and
others to, you know,
to not be as involved. But, you know, Jimmy has I'm a prime
example guy in Cleveland that is involved more. Then he
should be and you can scare away. Good coaches.
I think David Tepper is one of the reasons why even if
the Saints would
trade the rights. It's essentially a trade
of the contractual rights of Sean, Payton to Carolina.
I don't know that Sean Payton want to work, but David Tepper
because I don't know that you can trust. Epperly Malone,
remember the year that Daniel Snyder decided he was going to
take a step back. This was early in his ownership of
the Washington franchise
hired. Marty Schottenheimer gave him the keys, got out of
the way.
Cleared out Vinny cerato who was the right-hand man for
Snyder in those early years
and Schneider couldn't help himself. After one year, he
fired Marty Schottenheimer and paid out like 20 million over
four years on the back end which was
top of the market at the time
because he just couldn't, he couldn't help himself and
that's the problem. So you
we've learned a lot about that. This week in two different
contexts, the Colts more notoriously and obviously, but
it's more subtle but still unmistakable with With
the Carolina Panthers and credit Arthur Blank. I mean,
he's on that team 20 years now
and yeah, they had a Super Bowl in hand and
he supports and, and gets out of the way. And let's his
football people make football decisions, but I think he does
like to be involved to me the end of the day. It is your
team. I'm
not saying
that somebody who has paid all that money
and and actually is the one
who owns the equity in the
Team should do nothing.
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