A National Football League head coach has been fired on the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend, week 12. Out the door, and it’s somebody who is fired in the middle of a season last year and Frank Reich who does not deserve the fate that he has now suffered in back-to-back seasons. He has become the first coach in the Super Bowl era since the merger to be fired in the middle of a season in back-to-back seasons. This man does not deserve having that on his resume.
Expectations for Carolina Panthers
He was hired to go to Carolina and hook himself up to at the time, you know a future quarterback that nobody knew the name of, to try and take a team that had just missed the playoffs last year. Despite bouncing their head coach in the middle of the season last year in Matt Rule, and having Steve Wils take over the team and Dan Meir win the division that was wide open for anybody to win, despite finishing 7-10. And now they have the same number of losses through 11 games that they had in 17 games last year.
The numbers are not pretty, especially since this team went all in to go get Frank Reich, in their mind the best quarterback in last year’s draft, in Bryce Young out of Alabama. And instead what they have is clearly the second best rookie quarterback at best in this league this year, as we’re watching others win games elsewhere. Will Levis now has more wins as a starting quarterback in the NFL in the rookie class than Bryce Young. Yikes. Tommy DeVito now has more wins in this rookie class for the dreadful Giants than the Carolina Panthers Bryce Young has.
This offense is 30th in total offense, this offense is 30th in passing yards per game. They haven’t won a single game on the road, 0-6, part of the 1-10. So it ain’t pretty, but it usually is not going to be framed and placed in the Lou in your first year as head coach in the NFL, especially when you go get the guy in the draft and he may not be ready to win in the league because more often than not they are not. CJ J stoud is 100% the outlier, although he couldn’t win on Thanksgiving weekend again but that’s again for later on in the program. Usually there’s going to be a lot of hiccups, especially when in acquiring the rights to draft the quarterback you want, you would trade away your best playmaker on offense to catch the ball from him, right?
If you’re the owner who says yes to that, and you are the owner who says yes to the entirety of that trade for draft capital, and you are the owner who says yes to Frank Reich to come in, and you are the owner whose general manager 100% needs to fix this offensive line and get the weapons for Bryce Young so he can be properly evaluated for a head coach who knows how to coach quarterbacks in this league. Young and old, Andrew Luck to Nick Folos, then it’s on you as the owner to kind of let it percolate and work. And David Teer, I don’t believe lets much percolate. I don’t know, I’ve never seen him grab a cup of coffee, I assume he’s on caffeine. I don’t know, when you’re a billionaire and you’re making money, I mean money doesn’t sleep. I once heard that someone said that somewhere.
This is your wakeup call though for David Teer because he now has, since 2018 he’s owned this team. Since 2018, by the way, he now has with Chris Taber, the special teams coach now taking over the reigns of this team, he now has as many interim head coaches as head coaches. Ron Rivera, Matt Rule, Frank Reich. Head coaches Perry Fuel took over for Ron Rivera after Ron got bounced, Steve Wils took over for Matt Rule, and Chris Taber now for Frank Reich. Oh, and in the 20 since 2018, they have traded away Christian Mcaffrey, DJ Moore, next year’s first round draft choice. And by the way, the second round draft choice of 2025 belongs to the Chicago Bears as well.
Also, there’s been a revolving door at quarterback. That one hopes Bryce Young will stop. Nine different starting quarterbacks since 2018, since David Tepper’s taken over, and this is his record too. I’ll go over the names, you want to hear them? All right, I do. Taylor Hinei, Will Greer, Kyle Allen, Teddy Bridgewater, Cam Dam, Sam Darnold, PJ Walker, Baker Mayfield, Bryce Young.
And here’s the thing too, if you think that the rumors are true that Bill Belichick knows he’s out in New England, right? And Carolina has been eyeing him from afar, even though Bill was asked on the Greg Hill show locally in his usual Monday local spot in local Boston radio that he, there’s a rumor that he already knows his next destination, he answered, quote unquote, that’s ridiculous. But let’s just go there, right? Let’s just go there, sure, why not?
Or how about what RG3, our friend from the worldwide leader, has suggested on his social media feeds? If Bryce Young needs to get back his old Alabama ways, how about the Alabama head coach getting back into the pros? Nick Saban taking the job. And I know there’s going to be word on the streets in the next month, six weeks over the final, hopefully three games of the Michigan Wolverine season that got extended. I don’t know if you heard about Saturday, that’s for later on. There will be talk about Jim Harbaugh, oh yeah going there. And there’ll be all sorts of talk of big name coaches. And my question for you, who thinks that’s possible? Why in the hell would they take this job when they’ve seen not one, not but three coaches replaced by three interims?
Why Frank Reich got 11 games? The owner is in the locker room, apparently, after this loss in Tennessee, overheard screaming the F-bomb. Yeah, really, yeah, yeah. I know that he’s F-bombing, shaking his head, walking in. You think Bill wants a piece of that in his last swing? Nope. You want you think Nick Saban leaving Alabama for his return, like for by the way, that’s nuts. He ain’t leaving Alabama, certainly not to see if David Teer wants him to make Bryce Young a viable NFL threat. Get out of here with that noise. Jim, even if he’s got like a show cause staring him in the face, he’ll sit around doing something else. Yeah, then take this guy’s money after what he’s shown with NFL head coaches, and that’s something he’s going to have to deal with flat out. Now he might have, break off something proper off of his billions and have a head coach go, oh yeah, for that amount of money I’ll roll the dice with you. I’ll dice roll. This is an ugly situation and you know, no offensive line, no weapons, oh but the coach eats it. Okay. Catch The Rich Eisen Show every single day on the Roku Channel, 12:00 to 3:00 Eastern for free.