The next chapter in the New Orleans Saints' rivalry with the Carolina Panthers will be written on Sunday when both teams kick off their 2024 regular season. And for much of recent memory, it's been all New Orleans. The Panthers have only won just three of their last nine games with the Saints since rookie owner David Tepper made the decision to fire longtime head coach Ron Rivera.

Still, the Saints are only ahead 31-28 in the 59-game series (if you include a playoff win in Jan. 2018, which you should). A couple of convincing wins this season would do a lot to help extend that lead and build Dennis Allen's credibility as someone who can compete in the NFC South. Here's how the various Panthers coaches to walk the opposing sideline have fared over the years:

Dave Canales (2024-Present): 0-0

Canales gets his shot on Sunday. He's done well for himself as an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach before, but he has a tall task in front of him turning around one of the NFL's biggest laughingstocks. Carolina's problems extend beyond Bryce Young's struggles adjusting to the NFL.

Chris Tabor (2023): 0-1

Tabor was tabbed to replace Frank Reich after his surprise midseason firing in 2023, but the Panthers special teams coordinator didn't fare much better. Carolina went 1-5 with him as their interim head coach, including an ugly 28-6 loss to the Saints that wasn't as far out of reach as you'd think by the final tally. It was 14-6 until the New Orleans offense livened up with a pair of scoring drives in the final six minutes.

Frank Reich (2023): 0-1

Reich was widely seen as the best head coach in the division last year, so it came as a big shock when hotheaded owner David Tepper fired him so early in his tenure. Among Reich's losses was a 20-17 defeat to the Saints in Week 2 on "Monday Night Football" which wasn't as close as that score would have you think. A late Adam Thielen touchdown catch against the New Orleans prevent defense cut into Carolina's deficit, but they managed just 239 yards of offense on the evening.

Steve Wilks (2022): 1-0

Wilks took over for Matt Rhule after he was dismissed early in the 2022 season, and he took the Panthers to heights they've struggled to reach in the years since. He achieved a 6-6 record as their interim head coach and ended his season with a 10-7 win against the Saints in New Orleans. That was a game in which Sam Darnold led Carolina with just 43 passing yards. But Wilks wasn't retained, and he has since been made into the fall guy after San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan choked in another Super Bowl loss.

Matt Rhule (2020-2022): 2-3

Rhule only beat the Saints twice since he was hired to turn the Panthers around, and the first time was when most of New Orleans’ offensive coaching staff missed their Week 2 game in 2021 due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Carolina won that day 26-7; the other three losses under Rhule have seen final tallies of 27-24, 33-7, and 18-10. He bought himself a few weeks on the job in 2022 after an injury-ravaged Jameis Winston quarterbacked the Saints into a 22-14 loss. When healthy and playing at full strength, the Saints took care of business.

Perry Fewell (2019): 0-1

Fewell was named interim head coach after Ron Rivera’s dismissal late in the 2019 season, coaching the Panthers’ final four games. That included their regular season finale with the Saints in Charlotte, where New Orleans capped a 42-10 victory with a 45-yard touchdown pass from Drew Brees to Taysom Hill in the fourth quarter.

Ron Rivera (2011-2019): 8-10

Credit where it’s due: Rivera’s teams gave the Saints as good as they got, winning three in a row from 2014 to 2015 and picking up a couple of division titles along the way. Sure, the wheels fell off later (almost literally, once a series of injuries limited the ways electric quarterback Cam Newton could threaten opponents as he aged) and the Saints ended Rivera’s tenure by winning five of their last six games against him.

John Fox (2002-2010): 11-7

Fox is one of two Panthers head coaches to achieve a winning record against the Saints, winning nearly twice as many games as he lost to New Orleans. And he didn’t just beat up on the pre-Sean Payton teams in the NFC South’s inception; Fox achieved a 6-4 record against the future Hall of Famer, winning their first three games against each other and sweeping Payton’s Saints in 2008. The strong defenses he built laid the groundwork for success that Ron Rivera sustained after him.

George Seifert (1999-2001): 1-5

Seifert’s Panthers teams really struggled against the surging Saints, who made up for a 45-13 loss at the end of the 1999 season with two sweeps in 2000 and 2001. New Orleans won their other five games against Seifert by a combined score of 117-74, powered by some strong running from Ricky Williams — who averaged 121.5 rushing yards per game from 2000 to 2001.

Dom Capers (1995-1998): 5-3

The first coach in Carolina’s history got off to a strong start, beating the Saints 20-3 in their very first meeting and winning three consecutive meetings from 1995 to 1996. The Saints finally paid him back with back-to-back wins in 1997 and 1998, but the early Panthers teams still proved a tough out.

This article originally appeared on Saints Wire: Every Panthers head coach's record against the Saints