MechaZain

The mythos is that Bryce Young is an elite QB trapped in an undersized body but since they've been saying it for his entire time in the league I guess it doesn't count to you. Don't know what else to tell you. Until Rico gave them another storyline to work the national talking point after every Panthers win was how it looked like Bryce Young was starting to turn the corner.

I think we have some revisionist around it here because of all the drama around Tepper's involvement. If you pull up any scouting report from the time you'll see the same take. WalterFootball's report sums up the media's thoughts on him well: "Young has everything the NFL is looking for in a quarterback except in terms of weight and height." He was the consensus top QB of his draft and the only real question mark they had about him was whether his body could hold up in the NFL. The infamous Steph Curry comparison the Panthers latched onto came from Albert Breer. The excuses I've heard for him are more anecdotal. Bryce Young's development is the only bullet point most NFL fans have on the Panthers right now. That and the coaching turnover. If you're not actually watching our games it's easy to believe this is just a dysfunctional organization that doesn't know how to unleash this talented Heisman winner. I've seen media and fans alike run with that narrative way more than criticizing Young outright. Whenever we win there's flocks who use it as proof that the Panthers just need to be patient.

DEI/woke is out edgelord trolling is back in

This was always the plan with Bryce. It shouldn't be controversial. Now he's just gotta get to where defenses fear his accuracy and it'll open up the field for Rico

The media created the mythos around Young and they’re going with it until the wheels fall off

The aversion to tying up too much money in the ground game when it’s what’s winning us games is crazy to me. I get letting Rico walk if you think he’s easily replaceable but I don’t see many people arguing that, just applying an arbitrary salary cap based on what we think RBs are currently worth. I’d rather be stuck with Hubbard as an overpaid backup (not the worst one to have, mind you) than lose out on the most productive player on the offense personally.

Chuba was a fourth round pick

Doesn't matter to me whether it was for Chuba's sake or a strategic move it was amateurish. I'm not against trying to make a two headed running game out of them but that was the worst way he could have went about it.

Tepper remotely controls from his box seat with a VR headset. Codename "Football Person".

The leash is long and there's still time but he definitely exposed himself as not the offensive wiz he was cracked up to be. Looking like your average OC cosplaying as head coach. I feel like you could swap him and Evero and the results would be about the same

If no competition we should really consider a situational backup like Taysom Hill instead of someone who can simply fill in for Young. Imagine a big guy with a cannon we could throw out there for certain downs to keep defenses on their toes.

miss bryce tbh

Still believe Horn and Brown were the right choice but good for Burns. I think more about an alternative universe where we kept McCaffery. Probably for the best we moved on when we did but he might have been the perfect weapon for Bryce, and it would have been nice to see him used more strategically than Rhule did.

I really don't think it's some Polynesian thing. I grew up with an unusual name too. People love to just shorten it instead of bothering to learn how to pronounce a name that's hard for them to say. It's not uncommon for parents to tell their kids to push back on that and demand others respect their given name. There was a meme not long ago about how white folks act like foreign names are too hard to say but can rattle off Game of Thrones characters no problem.

Nah Leggette just hasn't panned out yet. The move wasn't crazy considering his potential and our needs at the time. The mistake was overlooking McConkey because we had Theilen on rental. The Brooks pick on the other hand never made sense from the get and now it's pro bowl or bust for him.

I think his size is to blame for that though. Dude has pretty high level awareness within his field of view IMO but it's limited because of his height.

Slow down there Gettleman. Took us ten years to get the line in this state and you’re trying to blow it up. Fug a PFF.

If he can lock this in we've got our guy.

Madden 16 Cam and Luke were cheat codes. Cam was a better runner than Stew and regularly broke tackles. I pissed off a countless number of opponents

Last drive. The turnovers are worrisome

If Bryce can consistently look like that he’s got it

Eric Collins hyping up the Dolphins is breaking my brain

It's not all on Bryce but he ain't helping

You do that by showing him Bryce can’t do what’s being asked of him, not by calling dumb plays and being like “trust me bro.”

Young’s bummy but if you can only work with a specific archetype of a QB you’re not a good coach and you definitely shouldn’t be calling plays. Felt the same way about Reich not even trying once he realized he didn’t have Andrew Luck to make him look good anymore.