The 2019 NFL season is starting to wind down. Teams are jostling for playoff position or looking at the 2020 NFL Draft class in hopes of finding a savior. For the Carolina Panthers, they opted to make an even more radical move as they announced that they have fired head coach, Ron Rivera.
#Panthers part ways with Ron Riverahttps://t.co/uXqUJpCnkq
— Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) December 3, 2019
The move comes just a few days after the Panthers suffered a humiliating loss to the Washington Redskins at home on Sunday afternoon. In that game, Carolina jumped out to a 14-0 lead but were then outplayed the rest of the game.
After a hot start with Kyle Allen taking over for an injured Cam Newton, the Panthers have gone 1-5 since their bye week.
Carolina moves on from their most successful coach in franchise history, in nine seasons he’s made four playoff appearances—the same amount as the franchise has made in its 16 other seasons—and leaves with a 76-63-1 record.
The organization thanked the coach on Twitter:
For everything. pic.twitter.com/fXI6v0lxUY
— Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) December 3, 2019
Don’t expect Rivera to be out of a job for long, if he wanted to some teams looking to replace their current head coaches would gladly turn their teams over to him.
Meanwhile, Carolina will promote Perry Fewell to the interim position:
Perry Fewell has been named interim head coach. He's served in that role before with Buffalo in 2009.
Scott Turner is now the OC. Norv Turner is special assistant to the head coach.
— Max Henson (@PanthersMax) December 3, 2019
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