CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It was inevitable that Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper would move on from general manager Marty Hurney. It was just a question of when.
Tepper kept Hurney for almost a year after firing coach Ron Rivera, even as he cleaned house to hire Baylor coach Matt Rhule, which was maybe the biggest surprise.
Hurney is "old school," a term that Tepper said on a Zoom call he doesn't like using. As effective as Hurney is as a talent evaluator and as easy to get along with as he was for Rhule and Tepper, Hurney wasn't the analytical and data-driven person they wanted in the role.