By STEVE REED (AP Sports Writer)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Frank Reich period in Carolina is over after 11 video games.
The Carolina Panthers fired their coach on Monday following the workforce’s NFL-worst 1-10 begin in his first 12 months on the helm.
Panthers proprietor David Tepper introduced the transfer hours after a number of information shops 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 general decide whom he gave up 4 draft picks and high extensive receiver D.J. Moore to amass this previous offseason within the hopes of profitable a number of Super Bowls.
Instead, the Panthers are assured of a sixth straight dropping season since Tepper purchased the workforce in 2018 for $2.275 billion.
Special groups coordinator Chris Tabor will take over as interim head coach.
Offensive coordinator Thomas Brown will change into the workforce’s play caller, with senior Jim Caldwell serving as his particular adviser.
Phone calls and textual content messages despatched to Reich searching for remark weren’t instantly returned.
Tepper is 30-63 since taking on because the workforce’s proprietor, and the Panthers have but to have a profitable file, not to mention make the playoffs.
Tabor will change into the fifth head coach or interim head coach since Tepper purchased the workforce. He fired Matt Rhule early final season and changed him with interim head coach Steve Wilks.
Tabor has by no means served as an NFL head coach.
After final season, Tepper employed Reich, who had labored two years because the offensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles, serving to them win the Super Bowl, earlier than becoming a member of the Indianapolis Colts, who fired him final 12 months. But Carolina nonetheless ranks close to the underside of the league in practically 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 been scheduled to fulfill with the media Monday afternoon adopted by the workforce’s open locker room session with gamers, however all media entry has been canceled.
Reich had signed a four-year contract with the Panthers that runs by the 2026 season. Tepper might be on the hook for an estimated $9 million per season over the following three seasons.
Reich now has the second-shortest head teaching tenure in NFL historical past behind Pete McCulley (1-8 with San Francisco in 1978). Reich can be the fifth NFL head coach within the final six years to be fired throughout or after one season, becoming a member of Nathaniel Hackett (Denver, 2022), Urban Meyer (Jacksonville, 2021), Freddie Kitchens (Cleveland, 2019) and Steve Wilks (Arizona, 2018).
Tepper has a proven an absence of persistence all through his dealings as a workforce proprietor.
He additionally owns the Major League Soccer workforce in Charlotte and has fired two coaches within the group’s first two years of existence.
Several different high-ranking executives that labored for Tepper have both left or been fired.
On the NFL entrance, Tepper inherited Ron Rivera as his head coach earlier than the 2018 season however fired him lower than two years. Perry Fewell completed out the season earlier than Tepper gave 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 Wilks on an interim foundation.
Reich had expertise working good NFL offenses, however that hasn’t translated over to the Panthers.
Young has been sacked 40 instances this season, and the Panthers’ offensive line has allowed 43 general over in 11 video games, fourth most within the NFL. Young has been below heavy stress many of the season, making it tough to judge his progress as a quarterback.
Because of their file the Panthers might presumably land the No. 1 decide in subsequent 12 months’s draft, however that can instantly go to the Chicago Bears due to the commerce for Young.
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