Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule has quite the hole to try and dig himself out of in 2022. And although he’s helped piece together a relatively encouraging offseason for his team—with a handful of solid additions on both the coaching staff and the depth chart—he hasn’t earned the benefit of the doubt.
That showed in Pro Football Focus’ recent rankings of the NFL’s non-rookie head coaches, which applied the Pythagorean Wins Theorem and a multi-level model to fix effects in establishing an even playing ground of sorts. Basically, how well would each coach do with an average roster based off their results from 2011 to 2021?
Out of the 26 charted, Rhule comes in at a lowly 24 (which may actually be a surprise considering he’s right on the ledge with the franchise entering a pivotal campaign).
