The Panthers’ decision to fire Frank Reich only 11 games into a four-year contract was unfair.

It disrespected an NFL lifer with a winning track record — 40-33-1 over five seasons coaching the Colts, after winning a Super Bowl as an assistant with the Eagles and orchestrating the biggest playoff comeback ever as a backup quarterback for the Bills.

It made meddlesome owner David Tepper look like a petulant over-reactor to the early signs that the Panthers took the wrong quarterback atop the 2023 draft.

It set back rookie quarterback Bryce Young’s development by making him learn two (or three, depending on the amount of changes implemented by the interim staff) playbooks in his first two years.