Tepper Denies Having Lack of Patience

The Carolina Panthers owner reveals why he made a coaching change.

For the second year in a row, the Carolina Panthers will enter a search for a new head coach. Team owner David Tepper made the decision on Monday morning to fire Frank Reich after a 1-10 start to the season. 

Tuesday, Tepper didn't get into the reasoning as to why he made the move but made it very clear that he does have patience, which is something many around the league believes he lacks.

"Every coach that we've had here has had contributions to this organization. Frank has contributions to the organization, Matt (Rhule) had contributions...and quite frankly, if I had my druthers, I'd like to have a coach here for 20 years or 30 years if I can do that. I'm not going to get into the individual sort of things. You guys can just speculate as to that, but we just moved on yesterday and that's that.

"In other aspects of my life we have people for 20, 30 years that work for me. Nobody ever leaves me...I do have patience. My reputation away from this game is one for extreme patience. There's no reason why that doesn't come here too, it does. Now, that patience comes with good performance and things that you want to see - progress being made in different aspects. As I said, I would like to have somebody here for 20, 30 years. I'd like to have somebody that would say eulogy at my funeral in 30 years. Maybe it's 40 years, I hope."

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