That is the gist of Jerry Richardson’s interview with Stan Olson: Panther fans should be grateful we even have NFL football.
Worse, Richardson does not begin to grasp what a mistake it was for him to burden Julius Peppers with team leadership responsibility back in training camp, a move that immediately seemed out of place to many Panther fans. The Big Cat also betrays a huge double-standard here when he does not step up to accept some of the blame for Peppers’ horrid season. Recall that Keyshawn Johnson earned Richardson’s ire by not stepping up to accept responsibility for some of Jake’s INTs during Johnson’s lone season as a Panther.
Maybe we should call him the Big Hypocrite from now on.
Richardson, like many sports owners, is a blunt autocrat with an inflated self-image. No harm there. But he is an owner without any urgency to win, who is satisfied to just be in a very exclusive club. This is a recipe for mediocrity.
As we shall soon find out.
Bonus Observation: The Big Cat relates that “it’s not going to be a ho-hum off-season.” Really? More or less ho-hum than last year, when we fired a long-time OC and spent a ton of money on a free-agent QB? Or the tear-down and rebuild this team needs? No way it is the latter.
