On Monday morning the Panthers fired Frank Reich, just 11 games into his tenure, but the Panthers didn’t really have a Frank Reich Problem. They (probably) don’t have a Bryce Young Problem. They definitely have a David Tepper Problem.
Carolina’s impetuous owner, a man who has shown a wild proclivity for firing people under his employ, is exactly why Reich’s dismissal wasn’t a surprising fire.
Just a few hours earlier on Sunday night I pointed out the end was coming sooner rather than later. That much was obvious when Reich ceded play-calling duties to offensive coordinator Thomas Brown only to grab them back three games later, a sure sign he’d received some kind of ultimatum. Reich’s now been canned midseason in back-to-back years and while this year’s toss to the curb is less embarrassing than being replaced by Jeff Saturday, Reich’s first year in Carolina lasted just 11 games, the shortest stint for a first-year head coach in 45 years. Even Urban Meyer got 13 games with Jacksonville two years ago.
And Reich probably won’t be the last person from this Charlotte-based dumpster fire who gets canned amid a seemingly non-stop churn of coaches, personnel men and quarterbacks.
Under Tepper, the Panthers have become The New Browns, which is not a good thing. Just like Jimmy Haslam, Tepper is a former Steelers minority owner and bombastic businessman hellbent on believing he will win in the NFL because he won in business. Tepper won big-big in business too. He’s a hyper-aggressive hedge fund billionaire with his name on Carnegie-Mellon buildings. Until the Waltons dipped their toe in the game, he was the NFL’s richest owner.
He knows how to read markets, he knows how to flip assets, but he clearly doesn’t know how to run a professional football team. Unless he’s trying to run it into the ground, which he’s currently succeeding in doing.
Take into account draft capital and the…
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Author : Will Brinson
Publish date : 2023-11-27 17:54:52
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