Mr. Scot

Contrast this with last year... A lot of times when coaches decide not to give first-round quarterbacks first-team reps from the jump, it’s in an effort to make them earn their way up the depth chart. But that really wasn’t it with Bryce Young, back in May, when Reich and his staff started OTAs with Andy Dalton in the huddle with the starters. At that point, it was a nod to the work the rest of the team had done leading up to the arrival of the rookie class—not wanting to have to stop that progress to accommodate the development of a single player. At the same time, that decision would be baked into a plan that Reich, Brown, Caldwell, Frazier and QBs coach Josh McCown had hatched for Young, using the early parts of OTAs to get him up to speed, before getting him in there with the first team organically, when he was caught up, a plan that would also allow for Young to get to see Dalton, a 13-year veteran, operate the offense. As part of that plan, a goal was set to elevate Young for the last two weeks of the spring. “He’s going into training camp as the No. 1 quarterback; we made that transition with about two weeks to go into OTAs,” Reich says. “We didn’t make any big deal of it; we didn’t hold any big press conference. We just did it. That was always the plan. … We’d started talking about, O.K., Andy’s going to take first-team reps. Let’s just assume that everything goes the way we think it’s going to go—when’s the best time to make that transition? And that’s kind of what we had determined. And then things went the way we thought they would go. “We were willing to adapt and adjust, if needed, but we didn’t need to.” That’s because Young, for the most part, has come as advertised, and a lot of that has been a result of things Reich and his staff knew about the 2021 Heisman winner.

On a related note...

Quoting the article...

I like to pretend it was just a really long nightmare...

...and Reich has a lot to say. Breer's interview with Panthers head coach Frank Reich is the lead in this week's MMQB, and it's pretty extensive, covering a range of topics. One of the key things I got from it is near the end. Specifically, that Reich wants to make this job his swan song, and finishing out his coaching career with the Panthers means he's going to give it every single thing he's got.

That's the same thing they did the year John Fox took over; reviewed the prior year only very briefly and spent most of their time talking about the new staff and the season to come instead. Nobody really wanted to relive that season anyway.

It may well be run heavy either way...

But possibly not as good of one... Granted it's all speculation right now, but I'm pretty optimistic about this bunch.

It's from an Eagles fan page.

If we were still running McAdoo's offense, maybe. Sanders is a way better fit for what Reich and Brown will be doing.

Spartanburg Weather Forecast...

Oh yeah, his and McCaffrey's contracts are damn near identical

If I remember correctly, when it was rumored that would be the name, some guy applied for a trademark on it. Back in 95, some dickhead did the same thing to the Panthers.com web domain thinking the team would pay him for it. They didn't.

In a word, no

The source is a Philly sports fan page. There's a chance they might be a tad...biased Math isn't really your thing, is it?

Unfortunately, it's true. Here's a prime example...

The Snyder era is over...

His previous tenures took three years to build a winner.

Rhule these days is a source of amusement to me. Anytime I hear about him now it serves as a pleasant reminder that he's not in charge here anymore.

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That...I missed

Rhule wasn't that great in college even before the Panthers. He coached some winning teams but never to any sort of championship. And he pretty much lost to any actually good team he played. I won't be especially surprised if he fails at Nebraska.

Lord almighty

People laugh when he talks a big game then stumbles at understanding even the most basic football knowledge. As to Young, I don't think anyone has ever questioned his football ability, only his durability. And if we're being honest, those questions still remain to be answered.

I'm admittedly a longtime fan of Frank Reich, so that helps