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Tom Brady was on the injury report basically every game of his career. I also think there is some wiggle room. I think the Panthers have a very broad "high ankle sprain" definition. With both of Bryce's high ankle sprains he has been up on his foot 24/7 from the moment it was announced. High ankle sprains used to take players off their feet and you would be out weeks. With Bryce, it's hard to tell there is anything there.

We pretty much spent a fortune on the OL to buy time in the pocket, which okay right now they are out. But normally we should not be incapable of protecting long enough for a guy to take a drop and step up and send the ball down the field. We aren’t talking about Hail Mary stuff here. Just deeper than red zone depth. Right now we don’t have the guy for that. Ours is slow to get back and when he does he needs time to turn his hips and get his feet set before he steps into the throw. or he has to bail out and concede one side of the field so he can get a run up to launch the ball down the half he left himself to work with. Seems like that is where most of the issue is with having that in the playbook. And trends. One thing thing about football trends is going too far with that leaves you open to be exploited somewhere else. As we always see eventually. Someone bucks the trend and it works. Now you have a new trend.

I disagree. We were down 3 defensemen and 2 forwards. We worked hard and the refs were doing everything possible to make this a game. If we were full strength we win that game by 2 goals. Also, whoever is advising Rod from the truck needs to do a better job. Their second goal, was not a goal.

"They're playing the way they have to play on offense with Bryce Young at QB." - Greg Cosell

It's so funny because I made a post saying how the Panthers needed to get back to their roots of being a run first team and playing good run defense after they started 0-2 and here they are running the ball well and playing good run defense. I'd like to take full credit for the team's turnaround.

Bet he suits up but as the emergency QB. Would be very irresponsible to start him after no practice and battling an ankle injury. See where he's at next week.

the deep ball is going away overall because teams are going out of their way to take it away from opponents via their coverage and S play. Big armed QBs and freak WRs you couldn't touch could flip games too easy and every went to conservative 2 high looks playing the deep ball trying to erase it. Every D isn't doing that to every QB. that's not what is happening with the Panther deep ball. We know S play vs the Panthers cheats down to play intermediate not respecting or trying to take away the deep stuff.

Darnold has an arm Bryce could never dream of having. Darnold also required a level of coaching that was not available to him during his time on the Panthers.

Probably 0, but he might suit up as the emergency 3rd stringer.

Wow, Young really brought the league average down that far?

This is a quick reference that refreshes the memory bank. https://sogsports.com/greatest-nfl-tight-ends-of-all-time/ It doesn’t list their draft position or I didn’t see that but you bet some of these guys were not 1st round picks.

I ain't buying it. You run to set up the pass and pass to set up the run. You gotta have at least the threat of legit deep shots. And, last I looked, a deep pass is only 20 yards, so what are we doing here? Football 101 by Top Dawg: Look, you draft the best players (and that's perhaps even more important at offensive skill positions). You develop them. You keep your pipeline active year after year. On game days, you run to set up the pass, and pass to set up the run. If they can't stop the run, you run it down their throats. When they do stop the run, pass it, even if you dink and dunk it. But, you have to pepper in deep shots to keep them honest. When they get comfortable with stopping or trying to stop the pass, you run it. Rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat. Being a one-winged bird on offense is not optimal.

It's actually incredibly funny how we had an effective power run offense under Wilkes and then Tepper blew it up and we're only just now winning again once we shifted back to a power run offense.

Because quarterbacks are at the center of everything, when you’re winning, your QB is playing well, when you’re losing, he’s playing poorly. As long as we play well, we’re not getting a new quarterback. The only way Bryce gets replaced is if the team completely falls apart and people start getting fired. There’s no middle ground.

The way opposing teams are playing us says otherwise. If you have the QB, protection, separation, and timing what else do you need? You acting like completing a deep ball in the NFL is pulling off some exercise of black magic.

Open up the field to motivate the other side to defend more of it. We are so constrained without the threat of a quick strike.

I don’t know why that would happen when the team around Bryce has been showing progress. But with the Tepper factor guess it is on the table.

with that list, we might as well go find the QB of the Mud Dawgs or Keanu Reeves

The threat is there. Execution requires more than QB, adequate protection, separation and timing.

If he has already forgotten how Wilks went run heavy in 2022 to become more competitive, and the hubris that spawned, we may as well just figuratively shoot ourselves. edit: my hope would be if we do beat them with Andy playing it will be a different kind of reaction.

you also could argue the adverse

We are not getting a QB, if we move on, everyone is getting fired and they’re going to start from scratch

But the threat of the deep ball still sets up the underneath stuff. When the defense only has to worry about covering about 20 yards of grass the underneath stuff gets a lot harder.

I can’t see how it would be wise to risk making the injury worse, so unless you had zero other options, you don’t put him on the field.

Evans may be the steal of the draft