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You're right but not sure where we can find a QB for trade at the moment. Just looking at bottom dwellers that might be looking for draft capital... Dolphins have Tua, Raiders have Geno, Giants have Wilson and Winston (sounds like a really bad radio Zoo Crew team), is Arizona ready to give up on the Murray experiment? There are some second stringers floating around out there...

scape goat since the next games are against Buffalo and Green Bay. Bryce returns for saints and resumes winning

His biggest strength at QB is deep throws outside the numbers to the boundary. Deep in NFL terms is over 20 yards. It's why I joked earlier in the season that all you had to do was run a zone focused on the flat and deep boundary and you take away most of his throws. I posted this earlier in the thread. "Carolina is no longer forcing him into a box as a quick-game distributor, which could be the weakest part of Young’s game and the one most affected by his height; instead, Canales is setting him up for more downfield throws aimed outside the numbers. Young has the touch, timing, and accuracy to pull those throws off." Those deep boundary throws is what he's excelled at since becoming the starter again.

The fact that you recognized that we're likely to go back to losing soon is the whole point. Some of us can look beyond unimpressive wins against crappy opponents and realize we're not in good shape for the long haul. And we're doubly frustrated because we think the rest of the team is pretty good and one key position is holding his back.

Whatever it is, alternating drives ain't it. As said above, ride the hot hand. Give Chuba 10 carries a game, but right now that means spelling Rico until he falters.

This is getting ridiculous. Fantasy football numbers are all some of you care about. Wins are the last thing you care about. I've seen you type that out. Some only care about a single player and whether or not they get they're yards. I think im fanning wrong. If a win causes this much angst for some of you i dont understandwhy you even watch. Don't worry though, they will return to loosing soon enough and you can go back to bitching about that too.

Need to bring in russ wilson

This is the only correct answer when you have two RBs who are so similar. Realistically splitting RB carries only works when they're different enough that the swapping of them changes what the defense wants to do against them. Rico and Chuba are just too similar, neither are the quick twitch make you miss and run away from them type of RB. So when we sub them for each other, the defense doesn't need to make any personnel or scheme adjustments.

Sure, all fair points that can't be argued against. But not a single one of them changes his arm strength problem. And pointing to a Heisman trophy winner being able to throw the ball a max of 60 air yards in college, isn't exactly helping your case about him having average arm strength. He was college great and had college adequate arm strength, but that doesn't cut it in the NFL, not by a long shot.

65-35 split and play to their strengths. Not alternate drives since that outs your offense in a weird position.

If Legette can build on this game it's such a waste to have this receiving corps thrown to with Bryce. Need someone who can fling it down field and let them make plays even if they're not necessarily the "best" QB. Like how Daunte Culpeper played with Randy Moss.

But that's not what we're talking about, nor what you said earlier. You said he "has an average to below average arm strength" which in itself is an extremely disingenuous argument to make for a starting QB if in your head, you're comparing him to all draft eligible QB's (which even then, I'm still not sure it would be accurate anyways, but that's beyond the point). We're not talking about whether or not Bryce is good enough (or if just his arm is good enough) to be a backup or practice squad QB. We're discussing the merits of him being our starting QB of the future, so by nature, comparing him to anything other than the other starting QB's is just asinine. I'd bet my life savings, that if you ranked every QB over the last 5 years to attempt to make an NFL roster, Bryce would not crack the 80th percentile of arm strength, and that still might be generous of me to say he could be that high up the list. You keep pointing to him throwing the ball 50-60 yards in college. Well I hate to break it to you, but I'm not sure there is any starting QB in college who can't throw the ball that far when they have perfect balance and can step into a throw, that's basically the bare minimum requirement at that level. And I'm not saying this to say Bryce is the worst QB in the history of the game of football. He does have certain things that he does well, and I do think he'd be a more than serviceable backup and the type of guy who can bounce around year to year as a gap year starter at times. But objectively, he has one of the weakest arms of any starting QB in recent memory, that's not really debatable.

Ride the hot hand until he gets tired and spell him as needed. Rince and repeat.

Damn it didn’t look that serious. Hopefully Dalton keeps feeding Legette

Start with giving the ball to Rico. Give him the first 10 carries and then make a decision from there.

Add on to this. That means I thought Bryce needed the same amount of time on the sidelines before starting because his mechanics needed fixing before being thrown on the field. Additionally if starting him, you need to be able to scheme him a throwing lane up the middle so the whole field is open to him when he drops back. The Panthers didn't fix his mechanics, they didn't have an offense set up to scheme him throws over the middle consistently and didn't draw off his biggest strength as a thrower which is numbers out to the boundary. None of the above even started happening til Canales got here and Bryce was benched. Throwing him on the field as a rookie in an offense that didn't fit his traits and skills set literally ruined what chance he had at being an NFL starting QB.

Ride the hot hand. The hot hand is Rico. I don't get what's so hard about that to Canales, but that's why I'm just a fan.

Also hard to throw INTs when most of your incompletions end up landing in the dirt before even reaching the WR or DB

That's how the draft works, dunno what to tell you. QB has the lowest hit rate I'll use Bryce as an example. The scouting department that drafted him (one that is still largely the same now) thought he would excel in a quick strike offense when his size and ability to read a defense literally makes that the worst aspect of his game.

Analysis? Is that what you call the OP. It read more like an opnion piece to me. I just don't agree with those opinions at this point in either of their carreers. But, I am all with you in wanting them to do well. Time will tell though.

I know according to the huddle that Chuba sucks now that Rico has had two great games. Regardless, the splitting drives just seemed off. How is a back supposed to get rhythm if his drive is a 3 and out with two inclomplete passes? Word is Canales is going to stick with this plan again. Rico was gassed by the end of the Cowboy's game, giving him 40+ touches just isn't sustainable. What's the best way to go about it? Give Rico the majority and let Chuba spell him? I DEMAND ANSWERS!

This is a very good point. Like sure it's easy to not throw many picks when you don't or can't challenge a defense and just let the running game do most of the work.

Excellent young defensive building blocks. Brown is our best DT since Jenkins and Horn our best CB since Norman. Very happy with how these two turned out. We got exactly what we were hoping for.

If you've paid attention I've said already multiple times that he isn't a starting NFL QB. I said this before the draft, I had him rated third at QB. I had him rated behind AR, who I said would need a year or two on the bench before starting.

That's what an All-Pro DT looks like.