SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Matt Rhule enters his third season as the Carolina Panthers head coach appearing quite confident for a man who Las Vegas oddsmakers have deemed the heavy favorite to be the next NFL coach to be fired.
If that happened, it wouldn’t be the first time Rhule has been dismissed from a coaching job. But the coach firmly believes that the Panthers will turn a corner in 2022, just as his college teams at Temple and Baylor did in their third seasons.
And going 9-8 — even though that would constitute Carolina’s first winning season since 2017 — is not the goal.
