Tempest Tepper has once again blown through Charlotte without warning, carving yet another path of chaos and instability through one of the professional teams he owns.
On Monday, the Carolina Panthers announced they’d fired head coach Frank Reich only 11 games into a fully guaranteed four-year contract, a tenure so short it has Josh McDaniels wondering how he can get a gig like that.
Team owner David Tepper reportedly stormed out of the Panthers’ locker room after Sunday’s 17-10 road loss to the Tennessee Titans, shaking his head and shouting a curse word as he did. Earlier Sunday, NFL Network reported that Tepper was more likely to wait until the end of the season to evaluate Reich.
But in his relatively brief time as Panthers’ owner, Tempest Tepper has shown himself to be the most impatient owner in the NFL.
And the really wild part is that Reich is the second coach Tepper has fired this month: On November 8, he fired Christian Lattanzio, the head coach of Charlotte FC, Tepper’s Major League Soccer club.
With special teams coordinator Chris Tabor taking over as interim head coach, he becomes the sixth man to be in charge of the Panthers on-field since Tepper bought the team.
For the record, he became owner just five years and six months ago.
Carolina Panthers team owner David Tepper has fired yet another head coach. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images) (Perry Knotts via Getty Images)
Before purchasing the Panthers in 2018, Tepper owned a minority share of the Pittsburgh Steelers for about a decade, but clearly he didn’t learn much from that period. If he did it certainly wasn’t anything about franchise stability, which Pittsburgh has been a model of for decades, famously hiring just three head coaches since 1969.
After firing Lattanzio, Charlotte FC’s next coach will be its third.
For the record, that team has played all of two seasons.
Mind you, in their inaugural season Charlotte FC was 13-18-3, not a bad showing for a new team. This year, they were 10-11-13 and qualified for…
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Publish date : 2023-11-27 18:55:59
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