Posted on 11/23/2023 11:32:00 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
In May of 2018, at the Whitley Hotel in Atlanta — known then as the Ritz-Carlton (Buckhead) — Dave Tepper played one of the greatest games of “Big Bank Take Little Bank” of all time. He bought the Carolina Panthers for a then-record $2.275 billion…in CASH.
I'm thrilled about this. It’s more than fantastic,” he said.
There are rich people. There are wealthy people. And then there are the ones like Tepper. But just because you’re part of the one percent, it doesn’t mean you have any idea of how to run an NFL franchise. Because on that spring day in Atlanta, Tepper also foreshadowed how bad he’d be at this new job.
“I don’t know exactly what’s there, because I haven’t been there,” he added. “So for me to speak about exactly what I’m going to do is almost impossible.
“But for me, I’ve had a business for 21 years and I believe in equality for everybody, including men and women.
“The past is the past, and the future will be that.”
At the time, the Panthers were coming off a run in which they’d won the NFC South in 2013, made it to the Divisional Round in 2014, went to the Super Bowl, and had an MVP quarterback in Cam Newton in 2015, had a rough 6-10 season in 2016, and went 11-5 and made the playoffs in 2017.
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And its been downhill ever since.
They have completely lost focus, gutted the team of its star players, made awful draft choices and gave away their future pics for mediocre players and are chewing up a potential star qb by letting him get ground to dust weekly.
They are league jokes right now...
A B-lack journalist with a BLM agenda. He conveniently failed o mention that the black interim coach who was not hired went 3-13 with Arizona as head coach.
“After Tepper’s front office fired Ron Rivera, they tried to make a “splash” by hiring a college coach with a high-powered offense as they decided on then-Baylor head coach Matt Rhule.”
““He’s in a position to be in consideration for that position,” Tepper said about Steve Wilks when he was named as the interim coach when Rhule was fired. “I had a talk with Steve, no promises were made, but if he does an incredible job, he has to be in consideration.”
And as we all saw- Rivera and Wilks went on to have incredibly successful careers as head coaches....oh wait
Maybe the NFL could force him out, like they did to Snyder!
… and Richardson.
The star power of the opponents puts butts in seats. There is a lot to be said for burning a team to the ground and building it back again. No place to go but up. If they had picked Stroud, he could not have saved them.
Tepper is your basic globalist, liberal tool. One of our “elites”. I am enjoying his abject failure as an NFL owner.
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