
On Friday, The Athletic published one spicy meatball of a story about Matt Rhule’s rugged reign over the Carolina Panthers. And, as any story about a three-year tenure that ended in a midseason dismissal would go, there weren’t too many flattering details.
One of those specifics—in a move that didn’t go over well with players according to longtime team reporter Joseph Person—concerned Rhule’s firing of offensive coordinator Joe Brady last season: