Alright, let's start with the obvious… the Carolina Panthers have been a complete and total mess this year, so historically inept that owner David Tepper pulled the trigger so quickly on a shocking personnel change that we haven't seen anything quite like it in over four decades, according to a tweet from Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated.

“Frank Reich's 11-game run in Carolina was the shortest tenure for an NFL head coach in 45 years. Even Urban Meyer made it 13 games in Jax. Last time the plug was pulled this quick? Pete McCulley only made it 9 games as Niners coach in 1978 (Bill Walsh replaced him in '79).”

Allow me to state another obvious point… the fact that Frank Reich got the hook quicker than Urban Meyer did in Jacksonville is actually insane. I just assumed we'd never see a coach get fired in the middle of his first season with a team again, mostly because it seemed unlikely that another coach would be hired who would berate his coaching staff, kick his kicker, or come into the job without the knowledge of who the best players in the NFL were.

But here's the problem with that assumption I made… I didn't factor in just how terrible some owners are at owning a professional sports team, and that includes David Tepper. Tepper, a multi-billionaire who also owns the Charlotte FC soccer team, has now fired four different coaches for his two teams in the last 18 months, per a tweet from Gregg Rosenthal of NFL.com.

Since Tepper purchased the Carolina Panthers, the team has gone five consecutive seasons with double-digit losses and are 30-63 since the 2018 season. That's the second-worst record in the NFL in that time period, only ahead of the “unlucky” New York Jets. There's a reason why Panthers fans staged a protest outside of Carolina's home stadium just a few weeks ago. It's been one institutional failure after another since Tepper arrived.

It would be awfully convenient for the Panthers if they were able to hire their own version of Bill Walsh in the aftermath of firing Reich, but I have no faith in Tepper's ability to course-correct a franchise that is floating aimlessly in the open waters of the NFL.