Only a few quick weeks in the past, Carolina Panthers coach Frank Reich determined to relinquish play-calling duties amid the staff’s struggles on the offensive facet of the soccer.
The Panthers fell to 1-8 final Thursday, however this week, Reich introduced that he would as soon as once more assume the duty of calling the offensive performs throughout video games. Carolina’s offensive coordinator, Thomas Brown, dealt with the play-calling duties for the previous handful of video games.
Carolina had a 1-2 document throughout Brown’s transient stint because the staff’s play caller, however the offense solely managed to attain two touchdowns over these three video games.
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Then-Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich stands on the sideline within the first half towards the New England Patriots, Nov. 6, 2022, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (AP Picture/Charles Krupa)
The Panthers received off to an 0-6 begin this season with Reich calling the performs.
Below Reich, Carolina’s offense went from averaging slightly below 295 yards and 16.3 factors per sport to 237.3 yards, 16.3 first downs and 11.3 factors per sport in three video games with Brown calling the pictures.
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The Panthers are thirtieth within the NFL in offense and twenty ninth in scoring coming into Week 11.
“This isn’t about Thomas, that is about me and the staff,” Reich stated Wednesday. “I’m on this place I’m in due to my years of being a profitable offensive coordinator and play caller. We have now eight video games left, and I need to give my full consideration and do all the pieces I can do to assist the offense take the following step.”
Bryce Younger, left, and head coach Frank Reich of the Carolina Panthers are proven through the first quarter of a preseason sport towards the Detroit Lions at Financial institution of America Stadium, August 25, 2023, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Pictures)
Reich stated Brown will proceed to run the offensive set up conferences and have enter on play calls.
“I perceive how this may occasionally seem to some, and there’s nothing I can do about that,” Reich stated. “As I’ve stated from the start, the entire course of is fairly collaborative anyway.”
Reich stated the choice has nothing to do with concern over his personal job safety. The Panthers final made the playoffs in 2017, once they had been a wild-card staff. Billionaire David Tepper bought the franchise in 2018, however the staff has but to have a successful season below his management.
Carolina Panthers proprietor David Tepper speaks through the introduction of Frank Reich because the staff’s new head coach, January 31, 2023, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (David Jensen/Getty Pictures)
“I’ve not been given any ultimatum like that,” Reich stated. “Can we need to be in command of our personal future? After all. That is about if I’ve one thing I can provide to the staff, I need to give it.”
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Quarterback Bryce Younger stated the transfer received’t change a lot for him.
“It’s the identical system,” Younger stated. “You hear a unique voice [in your headset], however you might be calling the identical performs. From the start, each coaches have at all times had a giant hand collectively in molding the sport, molding the offense. And it’s nonetheless that. It’s not like we’re going to [use] utterly totally different performs or utterly totally different terminology. It’s the identical stuff.”
The Panthers host the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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