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Doug Farrar

Panthers WR Robbie Anderson kicked off own sideline after multiple run-ins with coaches

After Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule was fired last Monday, replaced by interim head coach Steve Wilks, rumors started hot and heavy regarding a franchise fire sale that could involve all kinds of players — defensive tackle Derrick Brown, edge-rusher Brian Burns, running back Christian McCaffrey, and receiver Robbie Anderson — being on the trading block before the November 1 trade deadline. It is unknown how Brown, Burns, and McCaffrey have reacted to this news, but we have a pretty good idea that Anderson isn’t happy with the ways in which things are going on with his team.

During Sunday’s Rams-Panthers game, Anderson was seen arguing with multiple coaches, and eventually, Wilks booted him off the field, and out of the game. Anderson hadn’t had a target in the game, and he got in the face of receivers coach Joe Dailey at one point.

The common thought is that Anderson is trying to get off the team, but that’s not a great look. It may be more that Rhule was Anderson’s head coach at Temple (as pointed out by our own Barry Werner), and he’s got a schism about how that’s all worked out.

The problem with cutting Anderson is his contract — a two-year, $20 million extension — and that the Panthers would have to eat the prorated part of the $9,719,166 dead cap if they did so.

Then again, if Wilks is trying to erase the most toxic parts of the culture Rhule left behind…

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