The Carolina Panthers have jumped into the pool of NFL teams looking for a new general manager. Carolina owner Dave Tepper fired GM Marty Hurney on Monday morning.
The Panthers are now 4-10 after Saturday’s loss to Green Bay, a disappointing fall from a 3-2 start. Thus ends Hurney’s second stint as the GM in Carolina. He has been the GM since the end of the 2017 season.
Tepper acknowledged head coach Matt Rhule will have a prominent voice in Hurney’s successor. His words offer some smart guidance for the Lions, too.
“You look at successful organizations, and there’s a certain alignment between the head coach and the GM,” Tepper said in a statement. “To think that you can do that without some sort of alignment is nuts. So to not have a head coach with some input into that is stupid. I don’t want to be stupid, OK?”
Carolina joins Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Washington and NFC South rival Atlanta as teams in search of a new GM.
