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I mean if their QB was touted as so cerebral, a football savant, ball placement specialist, great anticipator, and most pro-ready QB then they'd start their rookie QB right away as well.

Just listened to his interview and despite sounding very scripted, he does sound like he’s been humbled. He said he expected to come in and have a smooth transition, but that’s not the NFL. Maybe he took his opportunity for granted and didn’t care to work on the little things. Maybe this will change him for the better.

The Golden Calf of Bristol is a good dude but folks were ready to move on from him because he was a terrible QB. The same criteria that were used to judge The Golden Calf of Bristol apply to Bryce.

Yes, but the Lord can't make you care about your craft. He can't make you passionate about your game. He can't make you work on your deficiencies, you have to want to. Bryce hasn't shown that he wants to. I hope this lights a fire under him and instead of taking it as a victim, take it as a growth opportunity (as Canales puts it) and proves everyone wrong about him (myself included).

It's even worse when you attach numbers to what we've seen for 18 games. For folks who factor in analytics and stuff...the analytics say that benching Bryce is the right move.

Those are two Andy's I don't know or am familiar with.

I have confidence in every Andy I know: Andy Reid, Andy Dalton, Andy Barclay, Toy Story Andy.

This is Canales holding people accountable and it don’t matter if the team traded many assets to get you.

Still early to accurately evaluate Dan because the offense has been hindered by Bryce. Because the offense has been trash it has a direct impact on the defense. I’ll reserve judgment until later. Dan deserves more than 2 games.

If true, it’s the most emotion he’s shown since he’s been here. Well, I take it back. That last interception he threw he sure showed a lot of emotion there as well.

Bryce should've reframed it to seeing Casper instead because he's a friendly ghost.

all I know is that Bryce couldn't get the ball out in under 2.7 seconds, so he was benched before he played 2.7 games this season.

Plummer showed more progress in 3 preseason games than I'd say Bryce ever shown throughout 18 games. I was ready to go all in on Bryce following the Green Bay Game, but he followed up that performance with a quick regression to the status quo. I agree that Morgan and Canales went out and addressed the biggest criticisms of Bryce's rookie year, that he had no WR and no O-line. They went out and did exactly that, yet Bryce remained the same and/or regressed from an already regressed state. I feel bad for Bryce the person, but I don't for the football player. I also feel the Dawg mentality Morgan preached was a shot at Bryce as well because, like you said, his nonverbal communication conveyed that he was there just to be there.

The most Panther thing to happen would be that Dalton gets injured during the game against the Raiders and Bryce has to come back in =/

I think Canales also said yesterday in his presser that he wanted guys who loved football. I didn't know until yesterday that Bryce spent his offseason playing games and watching Netflix, and distancing himself from all-things football. That is a huge indicator of where his heart is.

When he was hired, Canales said he was excited to work with a number one overall pick. Maybe he forgot that Baker was #1 overall as well? But it sounded more like he was excited to work with Bryce. Once OTAs started he said that being new he wasn't emotionally tied to anyone and that he can make objective decisions. During camp Morgan (and maybe Canales as well) stated that this was a big man's game when talking about the team. Around the time of the second preseason game, Canales stated that he was hoping Dalton would be ready to play so that they can properly evaluate the guys. I think knowing that Bryce did not have the tools to succeed in his offense or NFL is what led to him not playing Bryce and "hiding" him until the third preseason game. The guy has an outside perspective on Bryce as an opponent. Then he gets to know Bryce as coach and QB. Somewhere along the way he realized that what he saw on tape and what he saw on the practice field day in and day out, that there was no progression, that Bryce had hit his ceiling. Like many of us fans, Canales wasn't basing his decision to bench Bryce off a 2-game performance. This was based on 18 games. Bryce may have the durability to take hits but his height matters. He didn't regress nor did he lose his confidence. We've seen the same Bryce since September 10th, 2023.

I’d like to believe that it was Canales’ decision but all last year Reich was saying the same thing too once things started changing. Time will tell if Tepper is still meddling.

eh, victim mentality. he earned his benching.

David Tepper's failure is now complete. - Darth Vader voice.

With Young off the field anything is possible. I hope Dalton doesn’t get injured again because I don’t want to see Bryce play another down for the Panthers.

Before the season started my bar for him was to just pass for at least 100 yards by halftime. He can't even do that.

I don't, but I'm glad he had it. It's painfully obvious to us as fans that Bryce is terrible and I'm sure it's even more painfully obvious for the players because they practice and play with the guy. You can defend the human being, but the player? nah, get him out of here.

Mayfield and Darnold may look better with what we have now on offense. I think it did Darnold good to sit for a year and recompose. He looks good in MN now but that's been consistent with his play: start out good then crash. I hope Tepper has grown awareness into the negative impact of his meddling and will change his ways.

Only works in Madden, rookie mode.