We all can’t coach an NFL team.
In fact, only 32 of us can, concurrently.
And now, there’s one less of us – and a vacancy.
The Carolina Panthers have fired head coach Frank Reich after 11 games.
Let me say that again with a little bit of editorializing, if I may: knowing that they needed massive amounts of re-tooling and were way more than a quarterback away, the Carolina Panthers, who have shown absolutely, completely, totally, absolutely no patience with anybody in the coaching position the last half-decade, have dismissed yet another coach.
One can somewhat understand the position of owner David Tepper, a Pittsburgh native, University of Pittsburgh grad and former credit analyst and head trader at Goldman Sachs who created Appaloosa Management, a Miami-based global hedge fund.
Tepper has had success in everything he’s touched and he’s likely not going to have a lot of patience.
Since he bought the team from Jerry Richardson, Tepper has had to have a LOT.
The Panthers, as this Associated Press story about Reich’s firing points out (Panthers fire coach Frank Reich), are 30-63 since Tepper became the owner. Yeecccccch.
But if you keep firing the coaches, how can you establish any continuity? The next head coach that Tepper hires will be the seventh since he became the owner.
