“The owner is an issue to me,” Ryan Clark, a former Pro Bowl safety, said Monday morning on ESPN show Get Up. ”When you have a superfan as an owner who wants to play with the team like it’s a toy, you have a lot of issues.”
“This is probably the best thing to happen to Frank Reich, because now he’s going to have the guaranteed money to go away,” former NFL head coach Rex Ryan said Monday on Get Up. “I saw a man that literally looked like he aged 10 years. And this is what happens when you make the wrong decision on the first pick and set your team back so much.”
It’s a (darn) joke is what it is,” Mike Golic, former NFL defensive lineman and ESPN radio host, said on DraftKings’ GoJo and Golic live internet show Monday morning. “Frank Reich doesn’t even get a year? That’s a joke. Your organization … guess what, you’re not getting better when you keep changing the landscape like this this quickly.
“Unless there’s something that was going on in the locker room, I will not understand this move at all. You have now stopped the progress and will now go backward bringing in a new coach and a new system.”
“Not sure I quite understand what David Tepper is doing here,” former ESPN host Trey Wingo said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter. “Yeah, it’s been a bad season, and you have a rookie quarterback. Maybe you’re upset that you picked the wrong rookie quarterback, we’re seeing that from what CJ Stroud is doing. But I’m not sure firing Frank Reich is going to fix any of the problems the Carolina Panthers have right now.
“Seems like a panic move, and something he’s done on more than one occasion.”
It honestly pisses me off listening to the NFL insiders and “experts” criticize the firing of Frank Reich. These were the same “experts” praising this staff at the beginning of the season and praising the offseason signings that we had. It’s very clear that they don’t watch this team each week and are just talking out of their ass.
We’re 1-10 in a league where results matter. I like Frank as a person, but if he’s such a great coach where are the adjustments? I get we have a bum roster, but if that becomes apparent to you in the first few games then don’t keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results. Try something new, change your schemes. And to top it all off, our rookie QB looks unconfident and uncomfortable out there. I could 100% live with the 1-10 record, or justify another season for Frank, if Bryce was putting up good numbers and we were just having unfortunate luck, but he hasn’t cracked 250 yards in a single game and is getting hit on damn near every play. That’s 100% on coaching and he 100% deserved to be fired. The only person more deserving of being canned is Fitt, and hopefully that one comes soon