It's A Lifeless Franchise And It Starts With David Tepper - DP On Frank Reich's Firing | 11/27/23

[@JeffreyTheTaylor]

Panther fan here; CJ Stroud checked all the boxes for a Frank Reich QB, we knew all that but the Teppers (the wife is WAY too involved in the team) fell in love with Bryce as a dinner guest. Further, in an alt universe there exists a Panthers team w Dalton at QB, DJ Moore and Thielen at WR, D'Onta Forman and Jahmyr Gibbs at RB.

[@dhkim3986]

What about a different owner? 😁

[@anthonylogiudice9215]

Is that a rumor or has it been confirmed that Reich wanted CJ Stroud?

[@russellcarter8709]

Frank was a horrible coach. He has been bad for the past five years

[@SpaceDragonX783]

​@@anthonylogiudice9215Bit of a rumor but it'd be unsurprisingly if true given the Teppers' background.

[@danpalmer4820]

Forget Dalton, Sam Howell was right there. And we drafted Matt Corral. (who's currently out of the league)

[@burpmcgurp9176]

Ex Panther Front Office Employee here. That stadium is a cesspool of ego and horrible leadership. They don't value anything but dollars and cents. I've met and interacted with Tepper. If something doesn't equal $$ to him, he won't do it. He never interacted with employees and him and his wife walked around expecting you to worship them. They've created a horrible culture and now a horrible franchise. It will be hard to get players and coaches to come play for this owner moving forward. He knows nothing about football. Once sat in a meeting where he asked what the difference between a "cornerback" and a "defensive back" was. smh

[@benl4707]

Pnp, Carolina cat chronicles (c3)

[@SwampFoxMike]

Please reach out to Dave and rashaad from pnp, cody and Tony from c3, pat coletrain, etc...this story needs legs

[@harrisongelles685]

He definitely shouldn’t be yelling at anybody in locker room without any football knowledge. He sounds like a douche! The culture is toxic

[@johnfarr2738]

Sounds like another Dan Snyder

[@nathanjonesmoore]

Thank you for this. It doesn't surprise me at all.

[@lighthouseclimber]

Tepper also owns the MLS team in CHA, next year will be its 3rd season, they'll also be looking for their 3rd head coach, despite making the playoffs this year. Tepper is a laughingstock and is quickly becoming the James Dolan of the south

[@jjerrodaustin]

Are you serious?

[@brandonmcadoo7815]

Dan Snyder of the Carolinas

[@ShimmyD-u7g]

Reminds me of Antonio Brown, buying a team and flat out destroying it.

[@jjerrodaustin]

@@Conehead0708 I can believe it.

[@narddog2151]

I had no idea he was screwing up in other sports as well...what a clown. As much as I love seeing egomaniacs get put in their place, it's a totally different thing when he's dragging so many people down with him. Their careers are ruined but he still has his team and his billions, free to do it all over again. It's the worst part of professional sports.

[@St.CrimsonTweets]

Congrats Tepper, you've successfully made this team no longer "mediocre", they are simply the laughing stock of the NFL, they are everybody's get right game.

[@nasis18]

This would be funny if it weren't the sad truth.

[@alcaldealer8515]

Someone in the NFC SOUTH… ALWAYS holds that chip. It’s a paradox

[@stvnbgnss]

As a Panther Fan - Tepper is a colossal failure as an owner - he has single handedly destroyed the Panther culture and this franchise - we have an owner problem. He wanted more involvement in the Steelers and they would not let him - guess we know why now.

[@michaeljohnson7945]

The thing that should be worrisome to Carolina Panthers fans about David Tepper is that his actions may be by design. Since Tepper bought the team, the speculation has been that he wants to relocate the Panthers. A lot of his antics come across that he is burning bridges with the Charlotte community to where people are no longer interested in the team, and then he can get the other owners to side with him on moving the team.

[@NotADoctor330]

The issue with moving the team is that there aren’t really any great options for where to go when compared to Charlotte. Charlotte is the 15th largest city in the country and pulls fans from two states who combined would be the 5th largest state in the nation and the largest with only 1 team. The Panthers inability to attract fans is not a market issue, it’s a marketing and product issue. Additionally, there isn’t a city to go to that has a larger potential fan base where the team wouldn’t be the lil bro in the region. Where would he relocate to? Oakland? Portland? Austin? San Antonio?

[@michaeljohnson7945]

@NotADoctor330 I believe David Tepper's ultimate goal is to relocate the Panthers. Almost all of his moves have burned community support in the Charlotte area - the training camp talks with York County, S.C., the failed center deal with the Eastland Mall property in Charlotte, the constant turnover with the head coaches, now he has moved the training camp out of Spartanburg, S.C. The moves seem to be by design to erode the fan base. Not to mention, Tepper has been making some noise about a new football stadium in the future. I believe he wants fan and community support to be low to the point that he demands a stadium and can justify moving the Panthers.

[@ericparker163]

@@michaeljohnson7945First time I've seen it mentioned, but if that is his intent, what a piece of trash. I would hope the NFL strip him of his team before letting it happen. If not where's home for him in this scenario? Where would he want to go?

[@Chalk89]

Dan's nailing it on the head - in his line of work, David Tepper is a great white shark, but football...you're just a business owner, let the experts make the personnel decisions. This is why I don't go too hard at coaches - you never know who's making the decisions, pulling the strings.

[@PhilAndersonOutside]

David Tepper, typical American CEO mentality. Make bad decisions, but blame your staff. Pressure everyone to perform immediately, threaten them with their job with negative reenforcement, or just fire them, over and over.

[@fowlmood96]

well said.

[@Dennis_Reynolds_Golden_God]

So painfully true. Don't forget about dropping players like Cam and Olsen who are the greatest at their positions in franchise history with not so much as a "thank you". Not to mention he got rid of them incredibly unceremoniously.

[@Biz613]

This is football. This ain’t finance. He mastered insider trading in rigged markets. Love seeing dudes like this fail.

[@EsotericSyncretism]

super underrated comment

[@jsm530]

Immensely based and true pilled but oye vey can't bash a greedy jewish rich boomer. That's mean. Lolz

[@TroySteele17]

Dan we here in Carolina need your help getting Tepper the hell out of here. Call the NFL for me dog

[@TL2354]

Dog?

[@bekindrewind1145]

Jerry Richardson was setup.. probly by tepper! @@TL2354

[@Don-md6wn]

The best way to get Tepper to sell the team is to stop going to games and buying gear.

[@michaeljohnson7945]

@@Don-md6wn Unfortunately, those tactics may lead David Tepper to do what people speculate is his endgame: relocating the franchise to another city.

[@howardmcelfresh4248]

Are you kidding me? The NFL owners love David Tepper. They need idiot owners that they can pound every year. They are always looking for the idiot at the poker table, and Carolina found him.

[@EsotericSyncretism]

David Tepper is the new Daniel Snyder

[@underconstruction590]

The idea that CJ Stroud would be doing anything but running for his life behind the Carolina O-line is absurd.

[@DanielLee-xo5us]

Dalton looked decent the game he played lol

[@xJinRaGna]

Scouting reports also said Texans preferred Bryce Young. Let's be real. The Panthers have 0 talent on offense but whats worse is that offensive line.

[@BattmanMattman]

@@DanielLee-xo5us dalton was running for his life that game and literally threw the ball 60 times for only 360 yards thats terrible

[@DanielLee-xo5us]

@@BattmanMattman dalton is not a good qb but looked competent on a bad team, something Bryce doesn’t he looks bad, but he’s a rookie on a bad team so I understand to a degree and won’t say he’s a bust, but I don’t know if he’ll ever look good he’s on a bad team that mortgaged their future for a draft pick. He’s probably the next Sam darnold given his situation

[@nasis18]

​@DanielLee-xo5us well said. It's too early to tell what the team has in Young.

[@jrmiv69]

Should have never got rid of Jerry Richardson,he loved the team and the players

[@saphirejewelscoward]

Loved them so much he sexually harrassed and spewed racial slurs at his employees 😂 gtfoh

[@jsm530]

​@@saphirejewelscowardmeanwhile this guy is worst owner I've seen... hilarious

[@jossphcohen724]

This owner has ruined this franchise. Frank Reich is a respected coach in this league. Who would want this job now. Someone will take it of course. Tepper needs to let the football people run the team. The only thing this owner has done is prove he's the most incompetent owner/GM/Coach in the NFL.

[@carrite]

Frank Reich is a terrible head coach. Tepper's crime isn't firing him, it's hiring him.

[@charlesbullard4604]

And for a young franchise the Carolina Panthers have had some success and with countless star players Julius Peppers and Luke Kuechly being all time greats

[@jossphcohen724]

@@charlesbullard4604 Tepper forced Bryce young on frank Reich. After signing off on that disaster of a trade to move up to get him. That trade alone set us back 3 to 5 years.

[@iloveyoumadhuri]

Maybe Steve Wilks or Jim Caldwell.

[@jossphcohen724]

@@iloveyoumadhuri they're crazy to take this job unless it's for the money. Tepper has plenty.

[@samflynn3670]

Tepper is quickly becoming the worst owner in sports. Because of what the Panthers gave up for Bryce Young, that will set the Panthers back another 3 or 4 years in the best case scenario. And by best case scenario, I mean, the Panthers realize Bryce Young is not the franchise QB and get lucky in the draft or free agency.

[@Geech843]

Honestly I can say Frank was never the guy….granted we need a long term QB, but also we needed a well known “winning” head coach with a great track record and Frank didn’t fit the description imo

[@FiveFigsDigital]

AL QBs suck. Pats fan here.

[@Don-md6wn]

Yeah, Jalen Hurts and Tua are really struggling. Your coach is a washed up prick who has run your franchise into the ground and has a career losing record without Brady.@@FiveFigsDigital

[@josephm3615]

Too early to say about bryce. Trevor lawrence was a bust yet he is not now. If you are in top 5 sacks how can you judge accurately

[@jsm530]

​@@josephm3615no one declared Lawrence a dud. You are brain dead.

[@TT41401]

The Panthers are a great job for HC as long as you make sure you have a long term contract. Getting paid millions to not work does not sound so bad. :-)

[@jjerrodaustin]

Okay 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jjerrodaustin]

@@latituderider when you fired two coaches in two seasons. Especially this year. It is funny and jokes on Tepper wasting millions of dollars. But hey I'm not a 8.4 billionaire. So more power to him. But when its all said and done. You still need butts in the seats to promote your business. I don't care who you are.

[@ravensoath]

Outside looking in of course, but Arthur Blanke is more supportive to coaching staff/players then maybe any other owner I’ve seen.

[@Don-md6wn]

Blank is also incompetent, which is why he was blown out of Home Depot within a couple of years of finally becoming the CEO.

[@im2insaine]

i love that they brought up the gear - i was wondering the same thing ... i'm a colts' fan and was thinking reich had to get rid of all his colts' gear last season and now his panthers' gear this season ... what do they do with all their stuff from t-shirts to ball caps to sweatshirts? i'm thinking goodwill ...

[@Don-md6wn]

This situation with Bryce Young reminds me of another QB named Young - Steve Young. He started his NFL career on a horrible Tampa team and was 3-16 as a starter. And he had already been in the USFL, so he was something like 26 years old. Bill Walsh traded for him, and he didn't become the starter in San Francisco until he was 30. Good thing he didn't play in this era, everybody would have declared he was finished after a dozen games.

[@jsm530]

Those players aren't similar in the slightest one was a tall athletic guy. Young is a midget who's scrawny and unskilled. Bama QBs suck

[@HonoluluBlue81]

Frank Reich is currently being paid by two teams he no longer coaches for.

[@brettbanta2100]

Good gig if you can get it

[@AP81BABY919]

Please just leave Charlotte and the Carolinas Tepper.

[@alazkaalazka6087]

Fuck No

[@kungfupurpz]

tepper acquired the team summer of 2018. later that same year, the panthers were 6-2 when cam reinjured his shoulder against the steelers in october, finishing the season at 7-9 and its literally been all downhill since then. a pure shit show

[@randyquinn5277]

A thought: when looking to trade Matt Stafford, Carolina had submitted a request for medical records. Which is a step when completing a trade. Maybe Stafford said "no way " to that trade

[@kevykev388]

He did! I remember it. Stafford declined.

[@mikek7050]

Charlotte has an AWESOME airport. Rocking chairs with indoor palm trees. And some really cool old school planes suspended from the ceiling. Also, some really good food options.

[@tod3msn]

No good coach with other options will touch the Carolina job.

[@LeonD445]

The biggest problem with middle management is telling rich people their dreams won’t come to fruition. The Panthers GM and Head Coach wanted CJ Stroud. Owner wanted Bryce.bOwner gets Bryce…team really stinks and the Coach gets fired. Middle management!

[@Fretjoe]

and Stroud would look horrible if he were on the Panthers, don't fool yourself, he has a decent O line and weapons to throw to with the Texans

[@B3GINNER]

If you've ever seen Undercover Boss, the CEOs usually can't do the jobs that their minimum wage employees do with ease. Stay out of the way Tepper

[@MrMegaGamerMan]

PLEASE let Frank Reich do an exposé!! 🙏🙏🙏

[@bekindrewind1145]

He has to do an expose? He's fired 5 coaches from panthers so far and 3 from the soccer team.

[@carrite]

Frank Reich is bland as mashed potatoes. Ain't happening.

[@jsm530]

​@@carritehe's a smart coach which tepper is allergic too. No one wants to go to that shit hole now

[@harleywise557]

y'all remember when cam made it fun to root for the panthers lmao!!!!!!

[@TL2354]

Good thing that Jerry Richardson was forced to sell

[@Johnbones23]

TEAMS CURSED SINCE DISRESPECTING THE GREAT MR RICHARDSON

[@NatePropst]

Yes, the Charlotte airport is the one with the white rocking chairs that look out large windows.

[@austinkeithgrant]

Charlotte has a MAJOR Tepper problem. Long long story.

[@Cjrf11butonyt]

Keep applying the pressure to David tepper

[@gametime2473]

Panthers need to take a look at the Steelers... they hire a coach and stick with him. 11 games in and firing your HC is just absurd.

[@ianhart727]

Frank’s going back to Buffalo as the next OC

[@timothycunningham3983]

Once Reich gets his settlement, do you think if asked, would he say if he really was sold on Young or was for Stroud?

[@Don-md6wn]

I think he's got too much class to scapegoat Bryce Young for the Carolina shitshow that has been going on since Tepper bought the team.

[@jsm530]

He wanted Stroud I can assure you

[@DklassEnt]

Yes, Charlotte airport has the White rocking chairs. LOL

[@Raugturi]

Losses are better than having Sean Payton. Reich clearly wasn't right, and there's lots of big problems. The biggest is Tepper, clearly. But I'd rather suffer a 100 year curse of 150 coaches that never last more than half a season than see Sean Payton coach this team.

[@taflem3]

He was the 1st starting qb in Panthers franchise history.

[@brad4231]

Frank Reich deserved to be fired but the organization shares a ton of blame. They missed on Bryce Young. Trade him if you can. I bet Atlanta would love to have him. Just reboot - trade away as much as you can.

[@JarvisCosric885]

Or the Giants.

[@reginaedmondson9114]

No team would trade for Bryce Young! For what???😂

[@Don-md6wn]

Everybody isn't as dumb as you people who are trying to pin everything on Bryce Young.@@reginaedmondson9114

[@brad4231]

@@reginaedmondson9114 I said what I thought they should do but apparently you know everything. I should probably just edit my comment to what you want it to say

[@reginaedmondson9114]

@brad4231 no offense, my comment was taken totally wrong.

[@alazkaalazka6087]

My worst fear is that he’ll damage the franchise beyond repair & sell the team to a different city.

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

Carolina should've kept Steve Wilks as head coach and went with a veteran QB instead of selling the house for undersized Bryce Young. Could have found a young QB in the 2024 draft and saved some draft picks.

[@m.iramiles9310]

They went 4-2 with Wilks coaching & Darnold starting at QB.

[@kevykev388]

​@@m.iramiles93106-6

[@jesusislord3321]

@@m.iramiles9310 6-6

[@jesusislord3321]

We ALL know why he didn't hire Wilkes.

[@HumilityisaVirtue]

He has been an owner of the MSL Football Club for just two years and just fired his third head coach.

[@stingrey1571]

@8:00 YES!!!! i live in charlotte. charlotte douglas is in perpetual construction.

[@sidviscous5959]

"When everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking." -- Gen. George S. Patton

[@tfderpin]

Thank you, Todd.

[@kevinvonderscher3971]

Panthers are toast as long as tepper is around. Fans are the real losers. Good luck finding a quality coach now.

[@TS1r731]

Yes.. we do have all the white rocking chairs at CLT Douglas hahaha

[@austinshannon4197]

David tepper needs to sell the team so the panthers get get an elite owner or atleast an average owner. David tepper is an nfl owner bust. Your job as an owner is being the top boss and leading your team to a Super Bowl win. He’s been terrible for years now as being the top commander.

[@middleagedjabroni]

So you get 11 gms to turn a franchise around??? Tepper needs to sell this team now!

[@billyyank5807]

Frank can chill and collect his money. He doesn't need a bunch of b.s. either.

[@wildwytemusic8125]

when a coach states that all they have to do is drop a qb in and we win and that dont happen its not the owner its the coach

[@The_Mace]

The airport in Columbia, SC has rocking chairs positioned by the windows.

[@joelsingleton3312]

Tepper will eventually move the team, the whole city of Charlotte and the Carolina's are sick of him.. I'm sure st. Louis, maybe Oakland would like to have a new team come back.. by the way he owns the stadium that's part of the deal.. he has single handedly ruined Jerry Richardson's legacy!! Screw tepper

[@Don-md6wn]

Jerry Richardson's legacy as a racist scumbag is still secure.

[@patrickmoylan5983]

Tepper is going get punched in face if he keeps on yelling at players right after a game.

[@patrickmoylan5983]

Only matter of time. He is going get in face of player like Charles Haley and player is going to punch him right in face. Then the team suspends player then other players on the team refuse play game without the player and NFL has there first game on by a forfeit .

[@ebrules50cent]

Gotta control your Tepper🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rturner9]

You guys do know that Frank has deep roots/ties to Charlotte, right? He's been a part of church there for decades. He owns a house in Charlotte and Indy where his foundation is still going strong. He has family in NC still.

[@EdmundAspelund-vv9xs]

As a bears fan I would like to thank them for dj Moore and the first pick in draft potentially

[@SpaceDragonX783]

Panthers fan. You're welcome 😢 boneheaded move on Carolina's end but aye Chicago's on pace to have DJ Moore and Marvin Harrison Jr as WR 1 & 2.

[@rx2878]

We just owed you guys for Giving us Riverboat Ron Rivera, Greg Olsen and Julius Peppers.....

[@RG-xi3rd]

Just let Bryce Young call his own plays and be done with it.

[@lewisinnorthcarolina2204]

Ron Rivera kept his Charlotte home

[@rodburner-hz8db]

... and Dan Snyder's toxic ghost has moved onto Carolina and Tepper's soul.

[@LeroyBickerstaff-IV]

Tep Snyder

[@floridagator1765]

😂😂 😂😂😂😂

[@survivor5044]

David Tepper reminded us all that our NFL franchises could be in worse shape. Please take the Carolina Panthers head coaching job at your own risk. You could be fired after one season and the team has lost a lot of draft capita for 2024. Good luck!!

[@SoDakJason]

David Tepper is one of the greats at the stock market game, and one of the worst at the football ownership game.

[@TWP13]

Colts fans tried telling you guys Frank wasn't it.

[@Chalk89]

Frank Reich went 10-6 with Andrew Luck, 39 touchdowns and 4500 yards - with T.Y. Hilton, Eric Ebron. Then dealt with the unexpected retirement of a HOF quarterback. He followed that up with a 7-9 season with Jacoby Brissett, Brian Hoyer, 11-5 with Philip Rivers, 9-8 with Carson Wentz then shortened season with Matt Ryan. Maybe, just maybe...Chris Ballard is the problem.

[@WhyBigjordan]

@@Chalk89he just got fired mid-season back to back and won’t get another HC job… ok

[@carrite]

@@Chalk89 - Ummmmm, spoken like somebody who isn't a Colts fan but who has just read a page of stats.

[@TWP13]

@@carrite exactly. Frank calls plays like it's 1995 and wouldn't give it up. He never evolved with the game and was carried by Luck.

[@TWP13]

@@Chalk89 L take.

[@christopherbattle5161]

Did the trans cheerleader get the axe as well?

[@corneliuspraeda6452]

The Jim Harbaugh era's gonna be fun to watch...

[@htvlogs80]

Carolina is a place where rookie QB careers gets ruined. Cam Newton, Sam Darnold, Young is next.

[@JarvisCosric885]

Jets ruined Sam Darnold

[@RandalHodges]

He wanted to get Fired ! He will go to the Chargers ! The Million Dollar question to the Owner is Who are you going to Hire ? And who wants to Work for You ? Merry Christmas Mr. Reich . Best Christmas Present You Could Get !

[@TimMcElwain]

So far, I've read and listened to 15 different "talking heads" about this subject, they all come up with the same conclusion......Tepper is the issue

[@Timothy.365]

You remember the Seinfeld episode when Kramer was smashing Kenny Rogers chicken and the light went out when they got shut down? Kenny? Lol, that would be the Bears right now, they all just spit out their coffee, they definitely wanted everything to stay the same!

[@vknight7497]

The biggest problem for the Panthers was that they missed on Ikey and Zavala. If that left side of the O-line wasn't historically terrible. Literally the worst I've ever seen, their record wouldn't be this bad.

[@legiox3719]

Man how things change. Remember when the Carolina Hurricanes sucked for what? 8-9 years straight without a single playoff appearance. Now they have a new owner and are expected to be in the playoffs now. Great owner and coach. It’s amazing how a good owner can turn around a franchise. Maybe one day the Panthers will get back to a winning formula. Might take awhile though.

[@jsm530]

Panthers are worst run organization. Don't be naive

[@lgwalljr.5878]

If you were a coach at the NFL level would you ever take a job at Carolina? How do you, as a new hire, Uproot your entire family to Charlotte, NC knowing theres a better than above average chance that youre goingnto benfired within a year, maybe two at most if youre lucky. If its true that the owner forced their QB pick of Bryce Young over CJ Stroud then nobody would want that job. The only reason i can see anyone taking this job is for a quivk money grab thats all. No oyher reason to go.

[@nasis18]

Exactly. That's why the Lion's OC took his name out of consideration last year. He didn't want anything to do with this quagmire.

[@BigHoss33]

Spot on Dan. we were 6-2 and consistent with an idenity when tepper took over. the rest is history. a billionaire that knows NOTHING about football.

[@ShimmyD-u7g]

Is Tepper pulling an Antonio Brown, buying a team and flat out destroying it?

[@mitchelll3879]

Dan, Belichick lives in Nashville, not cape cod

[@michaelhudson4080]

As a fan of the panthers, I say we are screwed. GM Scott Fittier can't draft or sign players worth damn but yeah it's all coach Reich fault

[@maxxjames325]

Yes Charlotte has the rocking chairs.

[@alanbeckham9093]

Jerry interferes WAY more than Snyder did. Tepper seems to be following Jerry's example. Carolina will not be able to attract any name coach. Rookie HC is all Carolina will be able to hire.

[@WhyBigjordan]

Tepper is good at firing bad coaches. Bad at hiring good ones. We will get right.

[@spoonsz]

The man is correct the Bojangles saves Charlotte airport almost missed my flight because I had to get a half gallon of sweet tea 😂

[@natesmith9305]

As a charlottean the stereotypes based on an airport is ridiculous

[@1pittmanj]

I think the Panthers will become the first team in NFL history to have the 1st pick in the draft three years in a row. Of courses they won’t even be able to use that pick from this season.

[@21quepasa]

The Panthers had the 6th pick in 2022 not the first.

[@Truthhurts2022]

He thinks they are going to suck next year too which I agree

[@alex042687]

The team was not bad last year! They beat some good teams and surprisingly they were in NFCS contention last year. Tepper messed up with the Young pick and giving away Moore and boatload of picks for the little midget

[@kevykev388]

Seahawks are the only team they beat that went on to the playoffs if I'm not mistaken

[@raynovicio7332]

Tepper is the new Dan Snyder. Good luck Panthers it's gonna be a long 30 years.

[@clubbertruck]

5'2" quarterbacks dont work in the NFL. I seriously had no idea he was so small

[@kendraftman]

If Jimmy Haslam and Paul DePodesta were Moonbeam and Dan Snyder were Kohan, what is the Mall owner equivalent of David Tepper?

[@edgarmalone7694]

This is funny. Frank can just Air BNB his house for the next head coach

[@jcolespartan]

This is just like Jerry Jones and Dallas (and I am a Cowboys fan). The word is out now, and people are seeing how involved he is. The ONLY thing keeping Jerry is the past (which Jimmy Johnson won), the marketing dollars, and he keeps the name in the media, like ESPN and Stephen A. Smith (who has received Jerry’s blessing to play the bad guy and talk bad about them to rally all others that do not like the Cowboys). Otherwise the media would talk bad about Jerry’s control and not winning a Super Bowl for 30 years.

[@Don-md6wn]

Jerry looked and acted like he had dementia when he told Jimmy Johnson he was finally going into the Cowboys Ring of Honor - in 1923.

[@jcolespartan]

@@Don-md6wn Yeah.. I am sure he was just excited, but that definitely made me wonder if something else is pushing him to get this done NOW!!

[@rx2878]

​@@jcolespartan Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable NFL team perhaps of all sports teams in the world. Jerry will never change his ways.

[@jcolespartan]

@@rx2878 No, I wouldn’t expect him to. Although his “football knowledge” is more self-taught and A LOT of trial and error (I know he played college football, but there is a difference being on a team and leading a team), he is better by far than David Tepper (who is basically a rich kid wanting his play toys to be idolized).

[@rx2878]

Agreed

[@Lola23339]

I'm pretty sure Frank R. is owed 36 million by Tepper post his firing. His buyout will probably be a bit less but not much. I'd be happy to be Frank despite his miserable experience in Charlotte.

[@ChocolateAfterDark]

FR didn’t want a short QB. He knows it won’t work. He got fed up and said screw it….

[@Don-md6wn]

How dumb do you have to be to think this would be a good team with Stroud?

[@jake8169]

Owners really have to stop making draft picks. It never turns out well. I'm relieved for the Frank because he doesn't have to be apart of a mess in Charlotte. It will be until Tepper butts out and stops playing GM.

[@PiyachonYuenyongHYDE]

the owner force the coach to do what he wants which also put him in a bad situation and then get angry when the coach can't succeed with said bad situation. some people are good with money but they're shit at an expertise position.

[@future_teknokrat7585]

It's silly to not want the owner in the locker room after a game. It's like saying your high school principal nor your parents can ever come to the locker room lol. After a game, who cares? Now hovering over practice and the sidelines during the game is a different matter.

[@connormaggs1405]

Confirming Charlotte airport has the white rocking chairs. As does O’hare.

[@TheCaptainApe]

to be fair, Frank Reich still has to show that he really is a good coach

[@rwayneb]

Then give him some players.

[@Chalk89]

'Hey Frank, Dave here, I traded one of the most versatile RBs ever, traded a bunch of picks and your best wide receiver...go get 'em!'

[@patrickwilkinson7351]

I don't think he's that good of a coach myself, but the Panther's are simply a trainwreck from top to bottom, starting with the owner. Even great coaches would probably fail there with all of the meddling Tepper gets up to.

[@Chalk89]

That's my argument as well. I'm tired of fans judging players and coaches as if it's all equal. Some owners stick their nose out of it, others have some, others have too much input. Meanwhile, David Tepper is going against the advice of football guys and getting rid of talent like it grows on trees.@@patrickwilkinson7351

[@Don-md6wn]

Reich has won in the NFL, which is a lot more than you can say for David Tepper. Only the Jets have a worse winning percentage than the Panthers in the 5+ seasons Tepper has owned the team. He is the common denominator.

[@estebancee]

Hey Dave, I hear Josh McDaniels is available.

[@jacksonterrance8833]

If you watch ekonwu every play you see everything crumble around him its like hes the only one playing football

[@richardhincemon]

Ickey is a bigger problem at left tackle 😂 he is really for protecting Bryce Youngs blind side 😅

[@User-zzyyxxvv]

I am convinced Ekwonu and half that Oline hates Bryce 😂

[@jedishacknobi5937]

You gotta control your Tepper!!! LOL!!!

[@paulschwarz5927]

Frank Reich has lived in Charlotte ever since he played for the Panthers. So the talk about him renting a house there is irrelevant.

[@johnfarr2738]

David Tepper is quickly replacing Dan Snyder as the worst owner in the NFL.