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Quite frankly, id do Dalton and the 3rd string What does it matter at least they both can see and throw the ball

Read Fowler for many many years. He is usually not this verbose. I watched this game on cable from Southern CA. I heard some sustained boos at halftime. Apparently it was a lot more Not doing a synopsis here. I bolded a few things. Overwhelmed Panthers QB Bryce Young got booed Sunday. He should have been benched BY SCOTT FOWLER [email protected] 15hrs ago I’ve covered the Carolina Panthers for 30 years, and I’ve never heard boos at the home opener like these. They came so early and so often, from a fan base so angry at a home team that doesn’t score touchdowns and doesn’t throw the ball deep but does enjoy a 2-yard pass on third-and-8. The Panthers — and particularly quarterback Bryce Young — were booed in the second quarter. They were booed off the field at halftime. They were booed at the end of the game — a 26-3 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. It felt like a late-in-the-season bloodbath, one where a coach was about to get fired and a quarterback about to get benched. But this was only Week 2, and it was the first game the Panthers had played at home. But such is the mood when you lose the first game 47-10 and, somehow, look even worse on offense with a week to work on things. The Panthers saw Young throw for a career-low 84 yards. It was a Jimmy Clausen-esque level of ineptitude, an endless time loop of three-and-outs. This time the Carolina defense was somewhat presentable. But the offense, directed by a quarterback who appears to have lost all his confidence, was atrocious. Again. Said Young of the frequent booing at Bank of America Stadium: I respect the passion that the city has for the team. So obviously that’s part of it.” At halftime, I would have inserted veteran Andy Dalton for the rest of the game. Los Angeles had a 20-0 lead by then. It had been 30-0, Saints, the week before in the second quarter. The team needed a spark. A match. Anything. I don’t mean play Dalton permanently. But he should have been brought in like a relief pitcher when the starter is getting shelled. Longtime Panthers fans know that Jake Delhomme entered the game at halftime of the 2003 home season opener and took off like a rocket. It can happen. Alas, Dave Canales is determined to see the Young experiment through to the end, because in large part he was hired to fix Young. So he kept Young in the entire second half, and the Panthers kept refusing to ever take a deep shot and the boos kept coming down in torrents. That wasn’t good for anybody. Bryce is our quarterback,” Canales said firmly after the game, a couple of times. The coach promised Young would start next week at Las Vegas, too. OK, sure. But at some point, you have to give Panthers fans some hope. Dalton in the second half would have at least given the Panthers a smidgen of a shot at winning the game. With Young, there was none. You could tell this was just going to be one of those days for him, and you could tell because we’ve all seen a lot of days exactly like it. ****this is appalling for a pro team Dating back to the end of last season, the Panthers have lost their most recent four games 26-0, 9-0, 47-10 and 26-3. They haven’t led a game for a single offensive play in the fourth quarter since the 2022 season (last year’s two wins came on final-play field goals). Young, the player the Panthers mortgaged so much of their future to draft No. 1 in 2023, is a very nice young man who is now 2-16 as an NFL starter. Meanwhile, former Panther QBs Sam Darnold (Minnesota) and Baker Mayfield (Tampa Bay) are starting, playing well and are 2-0 this season. I’m starting to think it’s us. Panthers fans are all pulling out their hair and their AAA cards. I’m not talking about flat tires. Every game starts with annoyance, then anger, then apathy. At halftime of this one, Carolina had been penalized 55 yards and had 54 total yards. Young made a slew of poor plays, as usual. There was the interception that looked remarkably like the one on the first offensive play of the season a week ago. There was the third down in which he had plenty of time to throw the ball out of bounds but instead took a sack, taking the team out of field-goal range. There were all the checkdown throws so short of the sticks, the throws that basically said: “Let me give up on this play, and we’ll punt.” Young threw 26 passes. The longest gain was 12 yards. That’s nearly inconceivable in an NFL game not played in a snowstorm. First-round draft choice Xavier Legette didn’t get a single target. All the other wide receivers combined had 36 yards worth of receptions. The team fell to an NFL-worst 31-70 in the David Tepper error, I mean era. Young’s teammates, as usual, publicly stuck by him and said 0-2 wasn’t the end of the world. “This is not a Bryce issue,” said receiver Adam Thielen said. “This is an offensive team issue. We are all in this together.” Said center Austin Corbett: “We cannot let negativity crush this locker room.” Said guard Robert Hunt: “We can’t let the house burn down.” Of the frequent home-crowd booing, Hunt added: “Yeah, that’s miserable. That sucks. But I’ve heard it before (at a previous NFL stop)… And we turned that thing around.” All true. But in the NFL, you also have to have great — or at least good — quarterback play to win anything that matters. Last week, after the loss to the Saints, I wrote that Young looked overwhelmed and undersized and that I was unsure if it was ever going to work out for him and Carolina. After this game, I’m less unsure. Now it simply feels like it’s not going to work out.

I believe the saying goes ‘the Lord ,helps those who help themselves’ aint no helping’ happening by Young

What draft position did Mahomes go….jackson…Allen…and others …it is not necessary to have the first pick in the draft to find a a good qb 51 other players aren’t going to tank because fans want the number one pick…those players give up their bodies in a short career, they need the chance at their incentives…they deserve their chance to out decent work on film this isn’t madden this is real life for those players and coaches and for the fans who put out hard earned money for years to see the panthers poo show which hasn't hit rock bottom yet with Tepper

You are setting the limbo rod far too low We are hoping for a pass over 5 yards and an occasional TD now and again

He had guaranteed $30 million to make him feel aaaaallllll better

They have been on the field all day because their number 1 draft pick who cant do poo that defense was gutted to sign those guards as well

Is there one pass Young can complete…to one oh his teammates

I’d say…full nose dive

This right here

Chubba.

Stop

Price paid for Young’s hundred million $$

I pray for a good outcome today for you and for your Dad’s spirit sports means nothing in this world…yet in other ways, it can mean everything on a personal level with time shared. some of the best times of my life were shared with dear friends at the ‘Bank’

Hey, with Young throwing those bombshells, there is a chance, right sorry. Had to

I’m sorry I had to say it there is no excuse for anything we have seen in the last 7 years other than straight up ineptitude there is no lipstick left for this pig i just wish for the fans tomorrow there was some hope. People like hepcat whose Dad passed…it is hard to remember how magical that stadium used to be

He killed. It is dead…graveyard dead

I just don’t have any words…anymore …followed this team in person and otherwise from the beginning and when I think during the Tepper years it can’t get any worse, here we are franchise destroyed for a midget wearing any panthers attire now is a privacy of my own home kinda thing

I’m so very sorry my sincere prayers for you and your family I was there during that 2003 playoff game. See Parcells get stomped was great your Daddy sounds so very special.

Didn’t realize they had also given away a 2nd rd next year my god

Friend, you really believe Young can throw a bomb lol

the Panthers are bad devoid of stars no one is going to rescue them and the answer isn’t on the roster if we choose to watch, fine … drink to their ineptitude for 3 hrs and let it go otherwise go out and enjoy the beautiful NC fall or watch real teams play. Ps. They sure as poo aren’t a real team Let’s just face it pps. As I’ve said many times, in the NFL, if a team ain’t got a qb, it ain’t got nothing and that is a fact …and nothing is what they are right now

Thomas. Thomas. I love you but the comment on Bryce is a quite a stretch

With psls, no such thing as sales plummeting particularly when the are at 4 or 6 or 8 year commitments

No team in the league is that desperate end of season rankings showed him at 36 out if 32 qbs, i believe, that means there are backuos better than him i see nothing to show that had changed