There's a lot to digest here, and a lot of people are saying it's Bryce Young, or it's the terrible OL, or a combination of both, some are saying the owner is a maniac and it's on him because he wanted Young over Stroud, some are even saying he was meddling in playing time...
Look at it from this vantage point though. Frank is the 1st coach since 1970= 53 years, to be fired mid season back to back. That's over 50 years of some real trash coaches, 50 years!
Look at the similarities to what we saw here last year. Everyone was complaining about how bad the QB play was and how the OL was atrocious. Remember this team just could not put any points on the board, the QB was holding the ball over and over and over and we were all frustrated as hell by it.
Man, it's the same exact thing in Carolina this year, watch the game and read the comments, it is a mirror image of the Colts last year.
Look back to last year, Carolina was a relatively solid team which battled for the playoffs even after losing their best player to trade.
Jump forward to this year, the Colts are a relatively solid team which is battling for the playoffs even after losing their best player (at least viewed as their most dynamic potential to shift games) to injury.
This year, without what looked like one of the scariest offensive weapons to ever hit the league, with a QB with a pea shooter arm, with backup linemen and seemingly no real development of a guy like Pierce, with no meaningful contribution from TE's that were supposed to be a bad ass group, with our all world RB missing the first 3 games and sort of babied in his first 2 back, through all of this- this team is putting up points. We rank 11th in scoring- just behind Kansas City!
There are certainly factors beyond Frank that contribute to the Panthers being shit. However if you objectively look at it, Frank Reich as a HC has been doing something magnificently wrong. His offensive system seems to have just completely collapsed. Not sure why, not sure how, but it is nearly impossible to dispute this to be the case. I am apt to believe it is overly reliant on perfection being necessary for success, overly coached, calling plays predicated on exact defensive schemes and when the scheme isn't what the play was called against the whole model breaks down- and Young is not good enough as a rookie to improvise (and may never be)- and I don't think Ryan was capable of doing so either at the late juncture of his career.
I don't see this as being a Bryce Young, OL, or Tepper issue, I see this as being a reflection on Frank just not being able to be a head coach in this league.
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