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Patrick Mahomes to Josh Allen to Caleb Williams....all the names you can watch this weekend play football. Sounds like the goal is about a quarter for most.

we are still largely the same clown show. This isn't a rebuild. We basically changed offensive playcaller and scheme. Same owner, largely the same front office outside of a face swap, same QB, same O advisor, same D staff.

I don’t know much about Plummer, just based on his highlight tape from last year he does look downfield though. downfield QBs are at least entertaining one way or the other

Yeah, which doesn’t sound like a formula for much success. Seattle needed those YOLO plays and while old man Brees was successful he was a legit top 10 all time QB going into that neutered brand of football…..not just some hyped up super processors (which we while Bryce is smart isn’t actually that)

every offense he has been involved with has relied on chunk pass plays downfield. Not just relied on them but more often than not tops of the league as well. That’s not a good pairing for Bryce now you could argue he suddenly do something different but to date he has never been around a successful O that didn’t rely on it. and his first major investment was a downfield jump ball WR so that leads me to believe that’s still his ideal brand of football. Hope I’m wrong and he is some grand wizard and invents something Bryce would thrive in….but I’m a need to see it guy at this point to believe it

How I feel as we roll into the preseason

this picture sums up the pinnacle of the David Tepper era

in all honesty, I just want him out there so that reality comes quicker rather than later. Bryce Young might of worked out in some ideal landing spot. He isn't going to work here. We have already seen that. And this is about to a real bad marriage of putting him into a Canales O.

yeah, but I think it is still the big picture red flags of us remaining poorly run. In many ways. This is prime developmental time. Prime get ready time. And we spend our time doing mental gymnastics about why the Panthers not doing the obvious is okay. Meanwhile, they just confirmed Patrick Mahomes and KC are playing their starters for the opening quarter this weekend. I mean, that's what preseason is. Outside of hosting a team for a week that can skew it....the first 2 preseason games are what you use to get ready. That's the new model in the 3 game era. Not the 3rd game. There isn't a good coach in the NFL that is going to sit a bad 2nd year player in the preseason. That's just not the signs of a well functioning team. Not saying it's all Bryce. But it's a clear sign we aren't in a good spot today IMO.

well, we already know the #1 overall pick from last year won't play we know our 1st and 2nd round picks this year ain't playing. We can watch the Pats starters and all their QBs rep though. Outside of that, no clue what the Panthers are willing to show

isn't the new general consensus that preseason 1 and 2 are the games you actually should be using your starters in. Dip the toe game 1, real work game 2, rest game 3. Joint practice skews that some but overall teams aren't looking to get banged up in the 3rd one to ensure the healthy start of the season.

Young needs to be developed. That's why he should be getting preseason reps now. Not only developed, he has to learn this O. That's another reason he needs rep now. The evaluation is going to be really easy if you just wait to play him in the regular season. It will be bad. That's why he needs to be developing and learning before the season starts. Like every team does with young, green and bad QBs. They play and develop them. Not hold them out like some ancient version of Peyton Manning. only thing I get, is Canales gets that Bryce Young would look bad presently in an uncontrolled scenario. Which is fine. He shouldn't look good in live action in Canales brand new O. Go ahead and start working out what he can and can't do in it.

Bryce just had nothing to benefit from by throwing. He knew Carolina or Houston would take him. Throwing had 0 chance of helping and could only hurt him. So he didn't throw. That's different than being the consensus #1 overall QB though of 32 teams. The bad teams at the top dictate the convo. Bryce's size and skill set alone would obviously make him not #1 for many teams and schemes. He isn't a generic fits all offenses QB. Tons of teams paid zero attention to him in reality to even rank the top guys. Plenty of teams weren't going to invest any energy into breaking down Stroud, Young, etc. Fruitless time and energy. Can go all the way back to Cam. Everyone slated Cam to go #1 overall leading up to the draft....but only once people basically knew Carolina was going to take him. Change who is at the top of the draft, Cam easily could of had an epic fall.

people calling this conservative are deep in the cope spiral of denial. Conservative is what Andy Reid is with Mahomes. And Mahomes basically got the same overall volume of work as a ROOKIE Bryce did last season but got it in just 2 preseason games. I think it clear, Bryce can't do what the team needs him to do yet. And that gets highlighted when you aren't in control and an opposing D takes away Bryce's bread and butter and goes after him. Too much of what Canales' base is plays to things Bryce is bad at. They are protecting Bryce and frankly Canales from having to do deal with it all at this stage. It's not conservative QB management. You do think with Cousins or Mahomes or someone like that. Great QBs, old QBs, injured players. Not bad 2nd year QBs.

yep, we follow 1 team and it was split in house until the powers that be declared it was Bryce. Which makes sense that people viewed it different. There was no player all 32 NFL teams were going to be in agreement on. Ian knows his job. He said what he was supposed to on camera at Panthers camp.

he is literally at Panthers camp. He has been in the game a long time. There is no way 32 NFL teams all with different schemes and offensive emphasizes are going to agree on any QB as #1 outside of the most rare drafts. Which this one wasn't.

yep, not sure I really blame him so much. But I think if he puts Bryce out there and knows he has a lot to work on in his scheme.....it's just easier on everyone not to play him. Saves Bryce heat. Him from dealing with it before he has to. That's what it smells like. Freaking Mahomes played the first two preseason games last year. Canales talking about potentially holding out the worst starting QB from all of preseason out of possible "injury" concern? What something doesn't smell right....it generally ain't right.

looks like this isn’t just a topic for the opener…

Someone call PJ Walker up. He ain't scared.

Schemes might of been different, and you can dress anything up different, but the overall identity and concepts weren't though IMO. All we have to go on is what we have to go on. Every O he has been involved with has checked certain boxes and leaned on the same general run and pass principles. And his first investment as a HC (Leggette) plays right into his history way more so than what Bryce would excel with. I largely assume football guys will be what they have been until proven otherwise. Stubborn run that attacks downfield. Dress it up anyway you want IMO but every O he has been part of breaks down to that simple formula.

just going off his prior Os, his QBs have always been part of setting the top bench marks in downfield pass attempts. So while the pass game has shrunk down.....Canales hasn't been part of that. No variation of that really in his profile.

CJ Stroud appears to be playing this week. Jordan Love too. Heck, even the folks like the Eagles aren't ruling their dudes out (and they had a joint practice this week). but yeah, Bryce doesn't need to be out there.

I get it. Canales knows Bryce isn’t going to look good right now and flat out doesn’t want to deal with what comes with that. That’s what it is. reality is Bryce needs to be out there if the real goal to get a bad QB as ready as he could get