The Carolina Panthers have fired their Head Coach already!
The Carolina Panthers have parted ways with head coach Matt Rhule, the NFL team announced Monday.
The Panthers are currently sitting on a 1-4 record on the season.
Rhule, who coached the team to an 11-27 record in two-plus years with the Panthers, is the first NFL head coach to be dismissed this season.
Rhule's firing Monday came less than 24 hours after a 37-15 loss to the San Francisco 49ers and less than three years into a seven-year, $62 million contract he was given in January 2020 to turn around the Panthers the way he did college programs at Temple and Baylor. Rhule is still owed north of $40 million.
He will be replaced on an interim basis by defensive pass game coordinator/secondary coach Steve Wilks. The 53-year-old Wilks spent one year as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, and six years on the Panthers staff from 2012-17.
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