A month after turning over the Carolina Panthers’ play-calling duties to offensive coordinator Thomas Brown, coach Frank Reich has taken them back.

Reich announced on Wednesday that he’d be sending in the plays to Carolina quarterback Bryce Young when the Panthers play the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.

“This is not about Thomas,” Reich said. “This is about me. It’s about the team. I’m in the position I’m in because of years of being a successful offensive coordinator and play-caller. We have eight games left, and I just want to give my attention and everything I can do and everything I can bring to bear to help the offense take the next step. It’ll still be collaborative. Thomas is still running the show as far as the offense and all the install meetings and game planning. He’s still right at the center, he and I working together like we’ve been all year.”

Among the NFL’s 32 teams, the Carolina offense ranks 29th in points, 30th in yards, 27th in rushing yards and 26th in passing yards.

The Panthers weren’t tearing it up in the six games when Reich was calling the plays, but they were even more unproductive in the three games with Brown calling them, with an average of five fewer points and 57 fewer yards per game, although Carolina’s lone victory this season came in Brown’s first game as the play-caller.

“I didn’t look at any stats,” Reich said. “What were the yards per game or points? No, it wasn’t any of that. It’s just what I think is the right move.”

Reich announced on Oct. 16 that Brown would handle the play-calling. Before becoming the Carolina coach this year, Reich had four seasons as an NFL offensive coordinator and five seasons as the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. While with the Colts, Reich retained the play-calling duties.

Reich said Carolina’s second change in play-callers this season shouldn’t be cause for alarm.

“I know this will be made a big deal about,” Reich said. “But internally for us, because it is that collaborative, maybe there’s only a 10 percent difference in the way the game gets called. The offense is the offense. We game-plan together. But every play-caller has their own personality.”

Young agreed with Reich’s assessment.

“It doesn’t hinder me,” Young said. “It doesn’t affect my ability at all. It’s the same system. You hear a different voice, but you’re calling the same plays. Throughout, coach Reich and TB from the beginning all the way through have always had a big hand in molding the game plan, molding the offense, and it’s a combination of stuff and them bringing things together, and it’s still that. It’s not like we’re going to completely different plays, completely different terminology. It’s the same stuff.”

But the Panthers don’t want the same results. Carolina has the NFL’s worst record at 1-8.

“We got to change,” Young said. “We got to be better and just have an urgency about it.”

Young stepped into the role of Carolina’s No. 1 QB after the Panthers picked him from Alabama at No. 1 in the NFL Draft on April 27.

Young has completed 182-of-290 passes for 1,560 yards with eight touchdowns and seven interceptions. He missed Carolina’s third game because of an ankle injury.

In five games with Reich as the play-caller, Young had 967 passing yards, six touchdown passes and four interceptions. In three games with Brown as the play-caller, Young had 593 passing yards, two touchdown passes and three interceptions.

The Panthers and Cowboys square off at noon CST Sunday at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.