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I’ll preface this by saying that the GM and owner are more at fault for the current mess in Carolina than Frank Reich is.

That being said, trust me as a fan of his former team that he needed to go as well. My main reason for this is that he just shouldn’t have been hired in the first place. His best years with the colts were when he had Andrew Luck in 2018 and Philip Rivers in 2020. Both of them were good QBs that didn’t need development at that stage of their careers. Reich is the ideal HC for if you have an established pro bowl level QB so that he can scheme the rest up. He’s not the guy to develop a rookie QB whether he had Stroud or Young.

To further go into this year, Bryce Young has shown zero development. The offense seems to be doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results as evidenced by Kenny Moore getting him for 2 pick sixes. I know the roster is lacking talent all over the place but you’d think maintaining a scheme for 11 straight games would at least see some improvement in executing it and looking better even in defeat. The panthers pretty much look like the Colts did at the end of his Indy tenure.

I want to again go back to my first point. You don’t hire a retread unless that coach has proven he can consistently get his team in contention (think Mike Tomlin). Reich didn’t mess up the roster, he just wasn’t a good hire in a vacuum