CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers owner Dave Tepper hopes he got the right coach this time around and he’s bullish on Frank Reich. But on Tuesday at Reich’s introductory press event, Tepper also sounded like an owner who was admitting to some previous mistakes the last time he hired a head coach three years ago.
Speaking after Reich’s news conference, Tepper opined that “it’s a mistake to have a CEO-type head coach.” That’s what Matt Rhule was with the Panthers, rather than a coach who specialized on one particular side of the ball.
And Tepper, the self-made billionaire who bought the Panthers in 2018, also said he made some errors in the coaching search that ended up bringing Rhule to the Panthers from Baylor in January 2020. He didn’t specify exactly what those errors were.
