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Cards weren't really blitzing that much the entire game. The ones they sent just wrecked Bryce. My opinion is you are over fixated on what happened as we got close to the goal. The one possession we had in the 3rd quarter? That was a freebie to get down there. It was literally just checkdowns to the TE when we weren't running the ball down... taking up the entire quarter. Next quarter Cards were inviting the exact same behavior. Which is why you got those back to back clock eating small ball 14 play drives. Featuring RB and TE easy catches.

You have to make the best of it and find moments of happiness. So, I picked up the Falcons D in my money league for this week.

it's sports. Where anything can happen. A punt returner can basically decide the outcome of a game just by muffing 2 punts. That said, these teams lineup 5 times and no matter the site, Atlanta is winning the majority. They are better. They are favored by 5 at our home. Which is more than a TD on a neutral field.

I think Canales paired w/ Bryce has been figured out. I think Canales is pretty simplistic. Which he told us when we hired him. You need a QB like Baker he is flat out going to make big throws downfield. Or a Jake. He isn't some modern day scheme dude. Run run set up the downfield stuff. It's not going to be the scheme but players that win. I mean, it's not literally every possession but that was every passing O Canales has ever been around and it's the core of what his O is structured to be. Bryce doesn't fit that. Bryce needs a modern day playcaller and scheme w/ the weapons to go with it. Dave issue is the same as the Frank issue ultimately. We got a front office that is building something that actually syncs up. Failure by design. If you wanted Bryce, you don't hire Frank. Or Dave. And you don't draft XL. You draft Ladd. Carolina makes simple hard. Which you see that a lot in life.

and most really good QBs are nickel and diming folks these days because the league really fixates now on sitting in 2 high shell these days to take away those deeper balls (big shift to those 2 high S looks in recent years). But with Bryce teams aren't having to devote energy to taking that away and it impacts coverage elsewhere. You see that with S play for example vs Bryce. Makes his intermediate passing more difficult.

I think his placement on deep balls is more often than not, just bad. When it comes to downfield balls, Bryce generally makes life hard. You actually don't need a cannon for the vertical stuff on the sidelines. Some of the best deep throwers really are just well placed lobs. . Now the deep middle? Yeah, I like a strong arm. Bryce never really sets up a WR to go get it. If you get in position and beat your guy he is going to turn it into a 50/50 letting the defender contest it or make you have to worry about staying in bounds.

Every pass over 30 or more in his career has been incomplete if NexGen is correct. I don't think it is all on the coaches just not asking him enough.

I can't find an incompletion over 44 yards. And I can't find a completion over 28. Not saying they don't exist but NextGen doesn't have anything greater for either on his passing charts. Bryce probably could get it 50 but like most big throws he makes he isn't going to make it unless he pretty much has enough time to get set

Teams running prevent and giving a team yards for clock….is generally what goes down between the 20s. You can’t run prevent D on the goaline.

PJ Walker has a winning record as a starter

What did Parcells say…..he better walk on water? Well, he can’t. And if he can’t….well you need to move on quick. I think we already a clear a year late in that

Not the biggest fan of PFF grades long but they made an interesting point on their commentary this week Bryce Young is presently per them one the worst “deep passers in the NFL” this year. Which was the comeback narrative of being great at it. But PFF deep is actually intermediate. It’s 10 yards. During his comeback he was able to get off those intermediate passes because of the big shift defenses went running man and blitzing. where Bryce struggles the most to date is just being asked to stand in the pocket and throw into coverage. And really struggles on top of that if folks start disguising stuff. (This part is me….and his small stature and arm struggle facing that) so I would expect people just don’t give him man. Dial back the blitzing and just ask him to play into coverage with his arm.

Generally speaking, as bad as we are, we aren’t trailing by 24 the first time we touch the ball in the second half. and he finished how we started. Really bad

No, clearly I responded to your statement that no QB would have been successful. Which means you are actually opening up the door for us to think about much better QBs than a washed old Dalton (who as I mentioned, drastically outperformed Bryce in the one game glimpse). so I’m not even comparing him to Dalton. I’m looking at the narrative you put out about what it would have looked like with other QBs and yeah, it reasonable to assume others QBs would have had a much different season. * summary, you can’t actually dimiss Bryce’s rookie season. See this season as an example of why

Bryce Young averaged 179 pass yards per game as a rookie. we had a one game glimpse that season of the O without Bryce. An old washed Dalton threw for 361 yards (more than double the Bryce average). Pass game had a totally different feel. Nothing close to it with Bryce. I would think an actual good QB….would have been substantially more successful with Frank that could play the way his O asked.