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I swear, even after his arm fell off Cam Newton took more shots deep than this. It's just cowardice to only call screens. I want to see throws down the field. I get it's a monsoon but seriously, this isn't acceptable playcalling.

Screen pass, of course. Can't press downfield to save our lives.

A lot of this is genuinely footwork. He has to take an extra step and that means he gets balls out slower, combine that with a bad line and poor separation and it's just not gonna work. Even if he fixes the footwork I think his arm strength is still bottom-half leaguewide, though.

All you have to do is do this a few times and defenses will be scared and react accordingly. Run a naked bootleg or a HB pass or something to make anything but a run up the gut the only thing they defend for. It really shouldn't be hard, you're right.

Its the short-yardage calls. You HAVE to be under center there. It makes no sense to force Chubba to get 6 yards to gain one yard. App State does this all the time and it drives me crazy, but they pretty much refuse to ever go under center as part of their scheme.

What the hell is with these shotgun runs on 3rd and 1?

Should have put Dalton in there for a QB sneak.

Give Hubbard the damn ball. Kid can play.

The throws definitely need more zip to them. Doesn't matter if a throw is on money if a defender can catch up by the time it gets to the receiver.

This is a solid drive.

3rd and medium, time for an Ian Thomas sceen

Bryce might not be able to make that throw

That was a really good throw from Bryce

Not even 3 plays in and we've got an Ian Thomas screen.

This can happen when your team is on David Tepper

What’s lame is drafting busts

Also an assistant coach now, too, with his play calling demands. And Nicole is assistant GM. We’re screwed.

I won’t even bother watching games next year, then.

This team is the Carolina Panthers, not the Carolina Bryce Youngs. I hope he succeeds but I’m not going to pretend like what I’ve seen is good.

Well yeah, by that point it was clear we’d win the division with competent QB play and Dalton had our best game by far. There would have been no downside for going into win now mode in terms of draft:.. But benching your #1 overall pick for Andy Dalton of all people would probably be a sufficient enough embarrassment that no team in the league would do it. It would probably also have been disastrous to his development. I don’t think it was necessarily the wrong decision. The wrong decision was trading CMC for a bag of chips and then offloading our only receiver + next years first.

When’s the last time our offense got shut out? That’s what worse looks like.

There's no reason to play Horn, we are 1-10. Maybe we can trade him in the offseason

A good player on a bad team doesn't necessarily look bad. And Young hasn't just looked bad - he's looked like the worst QB in the league, and perhaps in the last decade. That could change but you can't just blame how bad he looks on everyone around him.

Don’t worry, once Bryce gets an all-pro offensive line and league-best skill position players he might even consistently hit 225 yards a game!

We can pull excuses over and over and over but fundamentally Bryce just hasn't shown the ability to lift other players up. Maybe he'll look better with an all-pro offensive line and a great receiving corps, but there's a solid chance he'll be gone before that happens. He's gonna have to be able to make do with less until 2025 at minimum.