Bryce Young benched, Andy Dalton the starter

[Mizak]

Panthers bench Young, to start Dalton vs. Raiders

Veteran Andy Dalton is replacing Bryce Young as the starting quarterback for the Panthers after the team's 0-2 start, coach Dave Canales said Monday.

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what a bust.

 

[CallMeADawg]

Oof. That's gotta hurt.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Imagine being a Panthers fan. Ouch. They took him OVER C.J. Stroud.

oops

Then again, the Bears traded UP for Tribisky and passed on Mahomes.

 

[GetNjigbaWithIt]

Sucks, because he's the type of guy you want to see succeed. But right now, there's no case to be made that he should be starting.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

No doubt. By all accounts, a good kid.

 

[Lennie]

CFL bound Kid might succeed in the CFL.

 

[AROS]

Ouch.

That play yesterday where he kept fading back, fading back towards the sideline, clearly seeing a sack was imminent and he still held onto the ball was all I had to see that this kid is shell-shocked. Done.

 

[BirdsCommaAngry]

Panthers fans are living a football fan's nightmare.

 

[vonstout]

Is he really that bad or do they have no talent around him. Reminds me of David Carr in Houston. Young had a lot of talent around him at Bama. Would you offer a 4th or 5th rounder for him? Our OL may not be good enough, but we certainly have the skill players. I wonder if the Panthers are ready to dump him yet

 

[GeekHawk]

I got to experience that last year when I was TDY in Norfolk VA for most of the football season. Many of the people I was working with are Panthers fans. Nobody held out any hope.

 

[Bobblehead]

Is he really that bad or do they have no talent around him. Reminds me of David Carr in Houston. Young had a lot of talent around him at Bama. Would you offer a 4th or 5th rounder for him? Our OL may not be good enough, but we certainly have the skill players. I wonder if the Panthers are ready to dump him yet

We don't have a OL
he'd probably do fine as a 49er.

 

[hawkfan68]

I'm not a Bryce Young fan but I believe people would be raving about him if he was the QB of the Arizona Cardinals. Give him the weapons that the Cards have, it's a different story altogether.

 

[rjdriver]

Panthers fans are living a football fan's nightmare.

From what I’ve read and heard on various platforms, anyone beholden to David Tepper in any capacity is living a nightmare.

 

[Ostatehawk]

He is the NFL version of a midget - with a very slim build. I don't care what his roster measurements say - he is about 5'11 - 190 (at best) - the guy looks like a bobblehead out on the field. He was going to get killed - and the fear of getting killed put the Zap on his head.

He is done. Maybe arena league.

 

[warden]

More to football then just the QB but everyone thinks to think the QB is the answer to all the problems

A QB gets picked by a crappy team, he has to try to develop with a crappy team. Hard set of circumstances

 

[TheLegendOfBoom]

Man, that sucks.

But, I liked CJ Stroud over Bryce Young in that draft. I don’t know why Young was graded higher than Stroud.

That last bowl game Stroud played with JSN, man, Stroud was balling!

Young never looked as polished and a playmaker to me and for Young to go first overall, man, I don’t know why scouts and GMs or at least the Panthers what they saw in Young that they totally whiffed on Stroud!

Insane!

 

[Hawkinaz]

Man, that sucks.

But, I liked CJ Stroud over Bryce Young in that draft. I don’t know why Young was graded higher than Stroud.

That last bowl game Stroud played with JSN, man, Stroud was balling!

Young never looked as polished and a playmaker to me and for Young to go first overall, man, I don’t know why scouts and GMs or at least the Panthers what they saw in Young that they totally whiffed on Stroud!

Insane!

It was the sports media that put Young on a pedestal the real NFL talent evaluators had Stroud rated higher. I went on social media including this forum and said Young isn’t worthy of a top 10 pick and i was ridiculed. Panther fans do blame the owner for making the pick

 

[AnimeAmore]

I am convinced of 2 things:
1. NFL teams mishandle QBs all the time, and it destroys careers, hurting the player, the team, and the NFL as a whole
2. QBs are overdrafted, which also destroys careers, hurting the player, the team, and the NFL.

My solution: make it *mandatory* that every drafted QB sits out their first year. As in, completely ineligible to play a single snap.

Some of you may find this idea outlandish, but hear me out. By forcing drafted QBs to sit out a year it prevents desperate teams from inflating the price of QBs because they wouldn't even get to use that player in the upcoming season. Drafting a QB would automatically make it a project because even someone like Mahomes would've had to sit for a year. Teams would be forced to take a longer view on QBs instead of throwing them in the meat grinder and then discarding them when they fail to come out on top.
A rule like this would mean QBs are drafted closer to their actual talent level instead of hype and desperation, and they would all have a year of practicing on an NFL team before they go out and play a snap. No longer would a QBs career path be determined by his first season. I believe fewer QBs would wash out because they would continue making progress instead of having to put it all together immediately and being demoralized by their failure. QB is the most important position in sports, and that means when the QB isn't performing he will get the most criticism right up front on all sports channels. His name will be blasted and people cursing him. There's now hundreds of millions in contact money on the line so there's even more pressure. Just give the damn QBs some time

 

[Hawknight]

Is he really that bad or do they have no talent around him. Reminds me of David Carr in Houston. Young had a lot of talent around him at Bama. Would you offer a 4th or 5th rounder for him? Our OL may not be good enough, but we certainly have the skill players. I wonder if the Panthers are ready to dump him yet

I remember those days, I always felt David Carr got the shaft in Houston. I felt he could have flourished somewhere else. It's those things that make you wonder, but you can never be 100% certain, just a what if that QB played somewhere else with a little bit more help.

 

[chris98251]

I remember those days, I always felt David Carr got the shaft in Houston. I felt he could have flourished somewhere else. It's those things that make you wonder, but you can never be 100% certain, just a what if that QB played somewhere else with a little bit more help.

More than a few of those, Dan Pastorini, Archie Manning, David Carr syndrome is real, guy was put in a meat grinder.