Grant and Danny
Bryce Young Has Been Benched By The Panthers
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Dave Canales met with the media, said in that media session that he was sitting Bryce Young because it's what's best for the team. He also thinks long term it's going to be what's best for young. They're going to reset the young quarterback who has really struggled since last year. Everyone beat up on Zach Wilson thought he was the worst quarterback in history of the world. His net drop back per ETA through his first 18 games. If you add up all of the bad for Zach Wilson was minus 101.8 after 18 career games. You tracking this? I think so. Yeah. Minus 101.8. Same sample size for Bryce Young. Minus 162.5. Good Lord. And expected points added. I mean, this is my all time I was wrong. I mean, now, you know, who knows? Maybe the turnaround happens. Doesn't look likely now. Now that he's been bench for any Dalton, then we're doing the gives us the best chance to win nonsense in Carolina. He was so accurate, but gosh, decisive and anticipatory with his throws in college. And I don't remember anybody that didn't think he'd be good. Now everybody thought his size could be a problem. But that's different than him being terrible at quarterback. And it's very different than this guy will be better than CJ Stroud, which was the prevailing thought everywhere. The question was, would Stroud go to or would he fall way down the board? Would Will Levis go in the top five? Or would he end up sliding? Which he did? There was really never any question about who was going to go one one in the months leading up to the draft for the Carolina Panthers. But everybody was wrong on Bryce Young. I mean, loud wrong to watching that game where he went back and forth with him and Hooker and Tennessee. Remember that game that Alabama Tennessee game? Just the best college football theater over the last couple of years. It was the offensive performances were just stupid, right? As they were going back and forth. And you're going, this is poetry watching this kid just eat, just glide out of trouble, you know, throw him back across his body, hitting guys in stride. As you said, anticipatory throws, everything that you could do to say, I'm ready for the next level. He was doing and then some he looked so incredible. That's as good as you look then is as bad as he looked now. I mean, the lowlights write themselves, but you've all seen the montages where there's a guy open and he can't literally see over his center. So he tries to jump like he's up, you know, like Anthony Hardaway coming down the lane, looking for someone to pop open. Just it was embarrassing at this point. Yeah, there's very little redeeming happening for that offensive for him. He was completing 55% of passes. No touchdowns, three interceptions. They had lost both games, not competitively. And in his career in 18 starts, they're two and 16 as a team, but he's completed sub 60% more interceptions than touchdowns. And that only begins to scratch the surface on how bad it's gotten. But I saw this from Jordan Scholz, who's plugged in with all the agents. He tweeted today. According to his sources, Panthers quarterback Bryce Young and those close to him were quote, very shocked at the organization's decision to bench him this morning. It came out of nowhere. One source said safe to say no one anticipated the plug being pulled after just two games with a new coaching staff. Ask me. Call on me a grip. I mean, you can't keep playing and playing at that level. I'm all for giving guys a chance and continuing to play them. Sure. Absolutely. But in in his case, you lose a locker room. If you keep playing a guy playing as badly as he was, when everybody's at practice and knows Andy Dalton's at least going to find me when I'm wide open. Andy Dalton's at least going to get the ball out in a timely manner. Like what was happening was unacceptable. There's he's struggling. He's got to figure it out. And then there's a this is disqualifying and he was playing at that level. Doesn't mean he'll always play at that level, but you unplug. This is the hard reset. You know, this is you're talking to the the IT guy and they go unplug, sit there for a cut the hard line here and plug it back in. This is the football version of that. You're going to bench him for a month. And then you want to put him back in later in the year when the season's over and it's developmental time and see how much different he looks. Go for it. But this is the turn it off and turn it back on part. Yeah, I am almost in every case a if you're going to be bad, you should be bad with developmental intentions, right? You should be purposely bad. Hey, if you're not you're not winning any games if you're Carolina, having an adult and get you to three and 14 versus two and 15 doesn't help anybody. That's there's no benefit to that. It's a waste of time. 99.9% of the time. That's how I feel. In this case, you already said it. It's that bad that nothing can happen. Like he's he's playing so poorly. It's only didn't give him a chance because I don't know how much of a chance they have with anybody back there right now as bad as that roster is and as bad as that organization is. And I feel for him because I have been there. I know what it's like. But it's a non starter. Like it's non competitive. You know what I mean? It's like it's like calling up a major league pitcher and going, this kid's got great stuff. And then tell me, oh, he has control problems. He cannot throw a strike. He's and killing in a playoff game. And you're like, you can't just try them out there every fifth day. We got to put them on the injury list. We got to send them down. You got to do something else because it's not competitive. And that's what it is right now. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. 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