The Carolina Panthers have settled on a brand new offensive coordinator. On Monday, the staff introduced that that they had agreed to phrases with former New York Giants head coach Ben McAdoo.
As The Athletic’s Joe Particular person famous, McAdoo interviewed for the Panthers quarterbacks coach job in each 2020 and 2021 however didn’t get it both time. Now, he would be the staff’s offensive coordinator.
McAdoo was the Giants offensive coordinator in 2014 and 2015, then the staff’s head coach in 2016 and 2017. He went 11-5 in his first season in New York, however was fired after a 2-10 begin the next yr. He was out of the league for 2 years earlier than returning because the Jaguars quarterbacks coach in 2020 and a marketing consultant for the Cowboys in 2021. Previous to the Giants, he had labored because the tight ends and later quarterbacks coach underneath Mike McCarthy with the Inexperienced Bay Packers.
Carolina fired former offensive coordinator Joe Brady throughout the 2021 season amid a reported dispute with head coach Matt Rhule over offensive philosophy. Rhule reportedly needed to run the ball extra typically, whereas Brady most well-liked a pass-focused offense. McAdoo, famously, is a proponent of the “rule of 53,” which proposes that groups win extra typically when their whole variety of speeding makes an attempt and completions in a given recreation is 53 or larger. (This rule notably makes a correlation/causation error.)
In 4 years main the Giants, McAdoo’s groups have been common to below-average offensively. They ran performs at a excessive quantity and thus ranked simply inside or exterior the highest 10 in whole yards and factors, however have been far much less environment friendly on a per-play foundation. They ranked fifteenth, nineteenth, twenty first, twenty third in Soccer Outsiders’ DVOA and fifteenth, ninth, twenty ninth, twenty seventh in EPA per play throughout these 4 seasons, for instance.
The Panthers have struggled offensively in every of Rhule’s first two seasons on the helm, largely resulting from subpar quarterback play. They haven’t been capable of put both Teddy Bridgewater or Sam Darnold in satisfactory place to succeed. They apparently really feel that McAdoo will be capable of change that.