The #Panthers are hiring former #Colts coach Frank Reich as their new head coach, sources tell me and @TomPelissero. The organization’s first QB, he now becomes their coach.

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1. Worth noting we play the Panthers next year 👀

2. Panthers gonna have to climb that mountain.

3. Good for Frank. Wish him nothing but the best…except when we play them next year. Gotta put that 💩 on primetime TV

4. Good for him!

   Edit: I really mean that, I hope he succeeds in Carolina

5. 1% better. Good luck to Frank besides when he plays us

6. Well, good luck Frank. Don’t hate you but glad you’re gone.

7. Hope the panthers like short screens on 3rd and long

8. Hope he does well there. It was time for us to part ways, but he’s a better coach than a lot of this fanbase thinks. It wasn’t working here, but I don’t dislike him

9. Good luck with that 👍🏼

10. Good for Frank, he’s a good head coach who got the sort end of the stick here. I think he can have a lot of success if they can figure out the qb situation

11. Just don’t jump us in the draft for a QB please and thank you

12. I’m old enough to remember when people on this sub thought he wouldn’t get a head coaching job and would have to take a coordinator role

13. Give him a competent QB and he makes the playoffs. Give him Jacoby, Carson, or Matt and he still gets you to at least .500.

14. I just want vengeance for the downvotes I got right after Reich got fired and commented that Reich would have no issue finding a new head coaching job this off-season when he was fired.

    Dude is a solid coach. He pulled way more wins out of our QB-carousel team that anybody else would’ve been able to.

    I think if Sirianni was replaced with another fire-y guy on the offensive coaching staff, the 2022 Colts wouldn’t have been trash and Reich wouldn’t have been fired. The team showed no fire or will to win this season.

15. Would guess they trade up for a QB.

16. Surprised he got another head coaching job so soon. Not really sure what he showed with us that would make another organization think he’s a good head coach.

17. Can you imagine if frank takes them to the playoffs next year and we end up with Saturday and still suck…😐

18. Good for him, I’ll miss him

19. Atta baby Frank

20. Good for Frank

21. Almost as if he wasn’t the problem here …

22. I thought Frank overall was a solid coach

23. I wish nothing but the best for him. Hope he has success.

24. Happy for Frank, who was scapegoated by Irsay and set up by Ballard.

25. Liked him as a person but coaching was a different story. Showed a lot of promise with Luck & Rivers with some great playcalls but after that…

    I think he’ll rebound and be a decent coach in Carolina. They need a QB badly tho

26. I’ll just Ctrl C + Ctrl V what I posted in the free talk thread.

    Really pulling for Frank Reich to Carolina. His time was over in Indy, it had ran its course, but he certainly has talent and I think he’s a great guy. To Carolina fans saying you just need a QB for him to develop I would temper expectations. He never did demonstrate an ability to develop, but he did demonstrate he can work extremely, extremely well with cerebral quarterbacks. When he has someone who can see the field the same way as he can that dude is straight lethal.

    Edit: Yay

27. Platitudes and Bible quotes

28. Good for him! I hope CAR likes watching WR screens.

29. I’m glad to hear this. Reich is a good man who deserves another opportunity.

30. Best of luck, Frank!

31. Irsay is happy too. Now he doesn’t have to pay Frank his contract.

32. Panthers fan here, checking in to see the general thoughts. Seems like the consensus is that he’s a good coach who has a tough situation.

    He wasn’t my top choice, but I like him. Just wish he wasn’t 61 years old.

    Fun Panthers history lesson – He threw the first touchdown in Panthers history as a QB way back in 1995.

33. Hopefully Panthers fans enjoy going for it on 4th instead of kicking field goals

34. Wentz to the Panthers, when?

35. I think Reich is a good coach and used to think Irsay is a good owner. For a little over a year Irsay has been making every decision off of emotion – I am now convinced he is just a delusional billionaire that has had such a charmed life he thinks he can “trust his gut”.

    His tweet about 2 lombardis this decade now reads like pure “laws of attraction” lunacy – I want him nowhere near football decisions anymore.

36. Guess ya all will be hiring Carson Wentz cause he was in love with that man.

37. Another yr reich won’t have qb feels bad for him

38. This is a plus for us Colts fans. Depending on the contract with Carolina. We might catch a break from paying him. Now only if he could buy out the rest of Matt Ryans contract from us….