Varking

So you are picking to remember bits of what I have written in the past and dismiss the other bits. To be clear I have never been fully anti Bryce. My questions around him were always, and will always be his size. I worry that at his weight he will have a hard time taking hits over the years compared to some bigger guys. I never questioned his leadership, his talent, his mental makeup, none of it. The most you could say I have ever critiqued any part of his game is that he has an NFL average to below average arm. I have also been very clear in my posting history to note that I feel like anyone who we drafted was going to have success here. We have talent along the line, at WR, at TE and at RB. Its the most complete unit we have had on an offensive unit in some time here. We also have majorly experienced coaches. All the recipes are there for our young QB to succeed. If Bryce balls out, I will say he balled out. If he sucks I will say he sucks. And anything in between. I am sure he will flourish here. I'm not some hater who cropped up recently on this message board I have been around a long time and been honest in what I see for as long as I can remember here. I have no need to get defensive or be a homer about a specific player. I'm also a Florida Gator fan and I never let that get in the way of how I project these kids to be as pros which is why I never pitched for us to draft Kyle Trask despite him having the greatest passing single season in Gator history. As far as pooing, I believe pooing is stupid and I only ever use it in one scenario: I poo the guys who poo me. Its a message board. Just type your thought process and have a dialogue. I just click the dude who poo'd my post, go to their most recent post and click poo and chuckle.

This is actually a fair bit of logic that I haven’t thought about. Bryce was treated, rightfully, as a prospect with no flaws and the only question around him was can he stay healthy? So if he is healthy, and has minimal flaws, should he not be held to the same standard as previous first round QBs? And then when you look at those QBs that were day 1 starters after being drafted, how many were in better situations than Young? Burrow had more questions entering the draft than Young with the potential of being a one year wonder playing a fifth year of college ball playing against younger guys on a loaded team. And Burrow had a worse offensive line than we do. Sanders to Mixon is basically a wash. We have solid TEs now and should have three solid pass cachers at WR. I don’t know how the bar can be lower than rookie year Burrow numbers. Young should have 65%+ completions, 20 passing TDs and 3400+ yards. If we had this QB play last year we go to the playoffs. We should be competing for a playoff spot this year.

You spell my name right and then add “or whatever”. It’s cute. Just tag me next time.

Exactly how you draw it up!

I’m confident we are a good team this year. Just sucks we saw basically nothing to validate that.

This. We were a borderline playoff team last year with some of the worst Qb play in the NFL. By all means we should be significantly better this year.

Ughh my poo of your post has nothing to do with Stroud or Young. Swing and a miss. I’ll give credit to any player when they deserve it. I’m not a hater. I’ve also said in the thread about “have we given Young too much for his plate”‘or whatever that Young didn’t look overwhelmed at all and trust he can handle more. But that doesn’t fit your narrative so just ignore that.

Did Bryce look overwhelmed to you today? He didn’t to me. It’s game one of the preseason. He’s a bright kid. He can handle all this.

Panthers: Beyoncé put on a much better show at Bank of America Stadium on Wednesday than Bryce Young did Saturday. Fortunately, Beyoncé wasn't behind the Carolina offensive line. The group that was supposed to be a strength never gave Young a chance to develop any rhythm in his preseason debut. The top pick of the draft was hammered by a Jets defender on two of his first three throws and sacked before he could get off a final attempt. So he was hit three of the seven times he dropped back to pass. The pressure came from the outside against left tackle Ikem Ekwonu, last year's first-round pick, and the inside against the guards trying to replace Austin Corbett (physically unable to perform list). Young was a respectable 4-for-6 for 21 yards, but was 0-for-2 with a sack on third down. The third-down passes, both on sideline routes, were uncatchable. A lot to clean up here. -- David Newton

Bryce was just ok. Nothing flashed. Didn’t feel pressure at times but it’s game one of preseason. I can’t really buy into folks thinking he’s not the answer or folks thinking he’s the answer. I got hyped leading up to this game and his performance, along with the line, left every disappointed for game one.

I wasn’t impressed today by much other than our punting. It’s just preseason but this was a dreadful performance all around.

Didn’t help him today. Hopefully we show a little bit more next week.

I said I’d be happy just for our guys to finish each game healthy this preseason but I didn’t think we would have the most boring game of football in the whole league this week lol

I mean I’m always here but I told myself have low expectations for the first preseason game. But knowing the first overall pick was playing a few drives I couldn’t help but get a bit pumped. I know there’s no game planning but I let myself get hyped and figured we would at least move the ball a bit.

This has been less than I expected lol

Their blocking almost got him killed on the second TD. Their line is sus.

Kyle Allen just got pick 6'd

Ive told myself for months I wouldn't get excited until the regular season started but here I am all decked out ready to see us ball out.

I wouldn't hold spot starting against him. He has a couple NFL season under his belt working in trash environments where he did great, better than anyone we have trotted out at QB since prime Cam.

Love Minshew. Wish we had him here as the backup in case our rookie gets dinged up. I trust him over Dalton and Minshew got a nothing contract.

I have always liked Minshew.

I just tuned in and saw the td pass from Fields to Herbert. If he is a smidge slower he gets nailed here by two defenders. Then once Herbert catches the pass he has one of his offensive lineman out of bounds, another on the ground and EQS at WR is just running behind a secondary player with his hand on his back. I know its preseason but this was rough to watch despite it turning out well.

Bears offensive line still looks like garbage.

I don't care who has better backups to the backups. So wins a losses in preseason doesn't matter to me. I want one thing this preseason, and that is for our guys to stay healthy. Bottles used to be a preseason monster and then do nothing in the regular season and too many guys play like trash and then light it up during the season. Just please stay healthy.

Thanks for making these threads.