Tag: Bobby Maffei

Report: Panthers part ways with big-name assistant coach

The Panthers have now moved on from four defensive coaches this offseason.

The Carolina Panthers are continuing to reshape their defensive coaching staff.

As first reported by Mike Kaye of The Charlotte Observer on Friday morning, the team has parted ways with assistant defensive backs coach DeAngelo Hall. Hall joined the Panthers at the beginning of last season, under former head coach Frank Reich.

The former eighth overall pick and three-time Pro Bowl cornerback played for 14 years in the NFL. He split his long and successful career between the Atlanta Falcons (2004 to 2007), the Oakland Raiders (2008) and the then-Washington Redskins (2008 to 2017).

His first coaching gig came in 2023, when he was hired by the Panthers to the assistant defensive backs coaching position.

Hall is now the fourth defensive coach, and fifth in total, to be let go from the organization this offseason—joining outside linebackers coach Tem Lukabu, secondary coach Bert Watts, defensive quality control coach Bobby Maffei and offensive passing game coordinator Nathan Carroll.

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Report: Panthers part ways with another coach

The Panthers are moving forward without passing game coordinator Nate Carroll.

The Carolina Panthers have decided to leave behind another staffer ahead of the 2025 season.

According to Joe Person of The Athletic, the team has decided to part ways with passing game coordinator Nate Carroll. Carroll was hired as part of first-year head coach Dave Canales’ staff for 2024.

Canales and Carroll spent 12 seasons together under Nate’s father, Pete, in Seattle. Carroll served in numerous roles for the Seahawks, including defensive assistant (2011 to 2012), offensive assistant (2013), assistant wide receivers coach (2014 to 2017), wide receivers coach (2018 to 2021) and senior offensive assistant (2022 to 2023).

Carolina has now parted ways with four assistant coaches since the conclusion of the 2024 campaign. Along with Carroll, Carolina is moving on without outside linebackers coach Tem Lukabu, safeties coach Bert Watts and defensive quality control coach Bobby Maffei.

Person also noted that “rumblings” about Carroll’s future surfaced with his father drawing interest from multiple organizations. Pete has been linked to the head-coaching vacancies for the Chicago Bears and Las Vegas Raiders.

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Reports: Panthers make more changes to staff on Monday

The Panthers reportedly made a few firings on Monday.

The Carolina Panthers made a few more adjustments to their staff on Monday.

As first reported by Joe Person of The Athletic, the team has fired head athletic trainer Kevin King and health/performance/nutrition director Andrew Althoff. Team beat writer Sheena Quick and Mike Kaye of The Charlotte Observer later confirmed the moves.

King started with the organization in 2013, when he was hired as the assistant athletic trainer. He’d be promoted to head athletic trainer in 2020.

That’d be the same year in which Althoff arrived in Carolina, coming over with then-head coach Matt Rhule from Baylor University.

The departures of King and Althoff are just the latest for the Panthers, who also parted ways with three defensive coaches last week. Carolina, this past Wednesday, dismissed outside linebackers coach Tem Lukabu, secondary coach Bert Watts and defensive quality control coach Bobby Maffei.

2024 saw the Panthers allow 534 points, a new single-season NFL record.

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Report: Panthers make several coaching changes to defensive staff

The Panthers are reportedly parting ways with several defensive coaches.

Carolina Panthers defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero may be retaining his job heading into the 2025 season, but a handful of his assistants won’t be sticking around with him.

According to ESPN senior NFL report Jeremy Fowler, the team is making several coaching changes to the defensive staff. Fowler posted on Wednesday that the Panthers will be parting ways with outside linebackers coach Tem Lukabu, secondary coach Bert Watts and defensive quality control coach Bobby Maffei.

Head coach Dave Canales, after affirming Evero’s return on Monday, didn’t rule out changes to the staff.

“We have a lot of things to evaluate, you know, over the next couple of days and into the offseason to reflect on our schemes, to reflect on personnel, to reflect on the guys we have here going forward,” Canales told reporters. “There’s a lot of important conversations to be had on all of those factors and that will be great to have.”

The Panthers set a new NFL record for most points allowed in a season (534) in 2024.

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Panthers retain 13 assistant coaches, including entire defensive staff

Panthers DC Ejiro Evero will have his entire staff back for 2024.

The Carolina Panthers did more than just roll out the hirings of six new faces on Thursday. They also announced the returns of 13 familiar ones.

In addition to their additions, the team is retaining 13 assistant coaches—headlined by defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero. Evero will be joined back by his entire defensive staff.

The group is as follows:

  • Dom Capers (defensive assistant)
  • Todd Wash (defensive line coach)
  • Bert Watts (secondary/safeties coach)
  • Jonathan Cooley (secondary/cornerbacks coach)
  • Peter Hansen (inside linebackers coach)
  • Tem Lukabu (outside linebackers coach)
  • DeAngelo Hall (assistant defensive backs coach)
  • Mayur Chaudhari (defensive assistant)
  • Bobby Maffei (defensive quality control coach)

Carolina will also keep a few offensive minds in senior assistant Jim Caldwell and offensive assistant Mike Bercovici. Game management coordinator George Li will be staying on as well.

Along with Evero, the organization previously announced the hirings of their two new coordinators in Brad Idzik and Tracy Smith—who will lead the offense and special teams, respectively.

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Panthers announce 5 additions to coaching staff on Thursday

The Panthers officially announced five additions to their coaching staff on Thursday.

The Carolina Panthers are putting the finishing touches on their all-star sideline.

As announced by the team on Thursday afternoon, five men have been officially named to head coach Frank Reich’s staff. Two of the five were first reported on last night—by Joe Person of The Athletic and Mike Kaye of The Charlotte Observer, respectively—in offensive assistant Michael Bercovici and defensive assistant Mayur Chaudhari.

Bercovici, a former quarterback for Arizona State University and the Alliance of American Football’s San Diego Fleet, comes over with three years of experience in a similar post with the Arizona Cardinals. Chaudhari, most recently, served as a special teams assistant for the Los Angeles Chargers in 2021 after spending three seasons in the same role with the Atlanta Falcons.

Joining them are Jamel Mutunga and Tyler Boyles. Mutunga, who was an offensive assistant with the Indianapolis Colts last year, will take up the same duties in Carolina while Boyles, a two-year assistant to Reich in Indianapolis, is on for offensive quality control and as an assistant (again) to the head coach.

As for the fifth name, the team has retained Bobby Maffei as a defensive quality control coach. He, under former interim head coach Steve Wilks, worked with the safeties to close out the 2022 campaign.

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