By STEVE REED (AP Sports Writer)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Frank Reich period in Carolina is over after solely 11 video games.
The Carolina Panthers fired their coach on Monday following the workforce’s NFL-worst 1-10 begin in his first yr on the helm.
Panthers proprietor David Tepper introduced the transfer hours after a number of information retailers reported that he used a profanity as he was leaving the locker room following a 17-10 loss to the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.
Tepper employed Reich to repair one of many league’s worst offenses over the previous few seasons and develop Bryce Young, the No. 1 total choose whom he gave up 4 draft picks and prime vast receiver D.J. Moore to accumulate this previous offseason within the hopes of profitable a number of Super Bowls.
Instead, the Panthers are assured a franchise-record sixth straight dropping season.
The Panthers are 30-63 since Tepper purchased the workforce from Jerry Richardson in 2018 for $2.275 billion and have by no means made the playoffs.
Special groups coordinator Chris Tabor will take over as interim head coach. Offensive coordinator Thomas Brown will grow to be the workforce’s play caller, with senior assistant Jim Caldwell serving as his particular adviser.
When Tepper makes his subsequent head teaching rent after the season, it will likely be the seventh full-time or interim head coach to serve underneath him.
Tepper is scheduled to handle reporters Tuesday at a information convention at Bank of America Stadium. The Panthers canceled all media entry Monday.
Reich is the second NFL head coach to be fired this season, becoming a member of Josh McDaniels of the Las Vegas Raiders.
Reich was fired earlier in his tenure than any head coach since Pete McCulley, who went 1-8 with San Francisco in 1978. He is the fifth NFL head coach within the final six years to be fired throughout or after only one season, becoming a member of Nathaniel Hackett (Denver, 2022), Urban Meyer (Jacksonville, 2021), Freddie Kitchens (Cleveland, 2019) and Steve Wilks (Arizona, 2018).
Phone calls and textual content messages despatched to Reich searching for remark weren’t instantly returned.
Tepper has proven a scarcity of endurance as a workforce proprietor. Reich is the Panthers’ third head coach fired throughout the season underneath Tepper.
He additionally owns the Major League Soccer workforce in Charlotte and has fired two coaches within the group’s first two years of existence.
On the NFL entrance, Tepper inherited Ron Rivera as his head coach in 2018 however fired him lower than two years later throughout the season. Perry Fewell completed out the season earlier than Tepper gave Matt Rhule, who beforehand coached at Baylor, a seven-year, $63 million contract. But Rhule lasted lower than 2 1/2 season earlier than Tepper dismissed him and changed him with Steve Wilks on an interim foundation.
Tepper then employed Reich, who as offensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles helped them win the Super Bowl earlier than turning into head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, who fired him final season. Wilks, in the meantime, got here from a defensive background.
But Carolina nonetheless ranks close to the underside of the league in almost each offensive class. The Panthers are thirtieth within the league in whole offense and thirtieth in passing yards per sport and haven’t scored greater than 15 factors in a sport because the bye week.
Reich had signed a four-year contract with the Panthers that runs via the 2026 season. Tepper might be on the hook for an estimated $9 million per season over the following three seasons.
Reich had expertise operating good NFL offenses, however that didn’t translate over to the Panthers.
Young has been sacked 40 occasions this season, and the Panthers’ offensive line has allowed 43 total over in 11 video games, fourth most within the NFL. Young has been underneath heavy strain a lot of the season, making it tough to guage his progress as a quarterback.
But the previous Alabama product has did not progress as a quarterback and ranks close to the underside of the league in most statistical classes. He has but to throw for 250 yards in a sport and has almost as many interceptions (eight) as landing passes (9).
Because of their file, the Panthers may presumably land the No. 1 choose in subsequent yr’s draft, however that instantly would go to the Chicago Bears due to the commerce for Young.
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