Carolina Panthers receiver Robby Anderson summed up the switch at offensive coordinator yesterday—with or without Joe Brady, the offense is still the offense. And the guy who’s now heading that offense agrees.
On Thursday, Jeff Nixon took the podium for the first time as the team’s new play-caller. He asserted that, even with a change at the headsets, the attack and focus as a whole for the unit will not.
“This is not, all of a sudden, Jeff Nixon’s offense. This is the Carolina Panthers’ offense,” he said. “We have such a great offensive coaching staff, who obviously did a great job for Joe and now, obviously, doing a great job for myself and Coach [Matt] Rhule. So that takes a little bit of the pressure off me.”
Before taking on his latest role, Nixon has served as the Panthers’ senior offensive assistant and running backs coach for the last two seasons. Prior to his jump to the pros, he also called plays as Baylor University’s co-offensive coordinator under Rhule from 2017 to 2019.
Clearly, the two go back, way back when VHS tapes were a thing. So they, and the rest of the staff, will still be on the same page to close this campaign out.
“We have a lot of offense in our system,” Nixon said when asked if he’d be adding to the approach. “At this point, like I said, we’re just building on what we’ve done well this season and trying to correct the things we haven’t done so well. I think it’s impossible to put in a whole new offensive system in two to three days.”
If things go well, perhaps Nixon and Rhule can put together another highlight tape of this final stretch here in 2021.
