Mr. Scot

Pretty much. We've seen almost this exact take more than once in this thread.

Waaaayyy too early... I can't get on board with appealing to the team's history either since we're just starting out with a new braintrust. Might be more trauma than panic, but either way it's more emotion than logic.

From what we've seen since, it appears that came from Matt Rhule. He was trying to insert his Brand/Process crap in place of what was already here.

Dom's association with Sam Mills goes back further than just their time with the Panthers. He knew Mills from his USFL days and had even served as a defensive assistant with the Saints before taking the Steelers DC job that eventually lead to getting the Panthers head coach position. So yeah, we've definitely got people that understand what it was all about.

It's actually a pretty common thing for coaches of rookie quarterbacks to "dumb down" the attack so that the rookie doesn't have to think too much. A lot of times, it leaves rookies looking like they've got a greater command of the offense then you might know because they aren't being asked to do all that much. Like say, audible out of a pre-snap read. For the record, Young did that three or four times on Monday night.

I don't think he is. In discussions I've had with him, he doesn't strike me as that kind of character. I think he just doesn't know. Maybe too young to remember.

Trust me. There's a way.

Uuuhhh...you sure about that?

I've mentioned this in a couple of other places.... You've got some people who panic at the first sign of tough times whether it's warranted or not. You've got others who love the attention they get when things are bad more than they actually do cheering for the team. And then there's some who will continuously predict that everything's going to be bad whether it actually is or not, and then when they're right one time in ten years proclaim themselves geniuses. All of these groups include people who love to be able to say "see, I said it first" if things continue to be bad. Said folks will typically disappear if things actually get better, or sometimes come back and claim they were just trolling. Bottom line of course is devotion to ego and being able to say "I told you so". None of these people are ever much fun to discuss football with, but they fit the modern sports talk landscape very well

If you actually think there's more rational reaction than emotional overreaction on the board right now, you must be reading different threats than I am.

There's also a "we don't know what this is yet" camp. (that's where my membership is) I referenced a literary character by the name of Cottard in another thread. It's pretty clear to me we've got a few of those here.

To quote Achmed the Dead Terrorist, I'd kill you for a Klondike bar. Thing is though, I'm just not a "hot take" guy. I've watched out football seasons to know that what you think you know early on often proves very very wrong. That's why I'm cautious.

To be fair, a good number of people went into "full meltdown" mode in preseason.

Emotion is the enemy of logic. And right now, emotion is the rule.

You sure about that? I said before the season ever started that I wasn't gonna be ready to talk about how good or bad we really were until around midseason. That's true any year honestly, but even more true in a year when you're starting with a new staff.

Gun to my head, I get shot.

I was starting to wonder where the "24 hour rule" went

The previously discussed 24-hour rule doesn't really seem to be applying this week.

And yet you keep following me around... Strange behavior for someone who's "not interested"

You sure about that?

I'm not. I genuinely think you are smarter than this. Read what I said to Linville above.

After two games...

So are you saying you know that the other teams have been putting the same workload on those guys as we have Young? If so, what's your evidence?

I think it's dumb to suggest that we know anything at this point, or even that it's trending a certain way. Fitterer was shackled to Rhule for his first two years. Even if you don't factor in the final say thing, he was (like any GM) beholden to get the kind of players that Rhule and his staff wanted. Reich and his people are going to be looking for players that fit their schemes, so there's going to be some turnover. That doesn't necessarily mean the guys they let go were bad. They just might not fit what we want to do. Combine that with the fact that it takes a few years time to really know how good a draftee truly is and you're left with very little to go on. People assume I'm saying that Fitterer is good. I'm not. He could be, or he could not be, but the situation isn't one where we can definitively know much of anything yet. I get that people don't like having to wait to make judgments (especially today) and heaven knows people love to be able to claim they said something first, but that's all pretty silly.

Would likely depend on their depth (which I won't blame to be up on).