Proudiddy

I agree completely. I’m not absolving XL of his errors and shortcomings, but week 2 was definitely less an issue with him as it was QB and coaching/scheme. It’s becoming abundantly clear, not just with XL, but with everyone on the offense, our coaches are not crafting a game plan to play to their players’ strengths, but rather they’re creating a game plan and then trying to fit guys into it where each position is treating each player as interchangeable and they’re not. The breakdown I watched also discussed how no one expected XL to be destroying people with his route running coming out - that would have to be refined. So, the poo we’re seeing, we can’t really blame him for. He has gotten open enough often, but the passes are often off-target. And he would likely excel more as a guy who can threaten with the deep ball to take the top off the defense, but we don’t have a QB that can throw that pass.

I watched a breakdown on XL recently, maybe it was here, but I’m less critical of him afterwards. He showed every touch he had against AZ, and most of them were doomed from the start. And I know it seems easy and convenient, but I think it all starts and ends with Bryce. Until we have someone who is a threat to throw the ball downfield, guys are gonna keep loading up the box and being super aggressive blitzing and closing out on tackles because they have no consequence for NOT doing so. And then a lot of the targets he got against AZ weren’t even on target. Much like with those jump balls Bryce threw to Renfrow, just because you get your hands on it doesn’t mean it’s catchable ball.

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Multiple people have said AT was actually more of a QB in the field than Bryce is. He apparently helped diagnose coverage, help make adjustments, etc., so it’s possible his departure is having an effect.

Yeah, Smitty is up there with Cam and Pep as not just my favorite Panthers, but favorite players ever. But the poo he’s been doing since Tepper brought him back? Save that poo and stfu. Him getting on air and picking on Joey Slye while singing the praises of Matt Rhule and how he believed in him, and then Rhule gets canned and now he tells us it was horrible under Rhule. The poo about Mingo being the real deal. He is a fuging bullhorn for Tepper and it’s fuging pathetic. As a professional, and as many have pointed out, imagine Smitty being on the field with a Rhule, a Mingo, a XL. He would’ve fuged all them up because they weren’t pros. Smitty had a MJ mentality - you either coming or get left behind, but you’re not gonna drag me down. And now all of sudden you preach understanding and patience? He’s a bully to people he can bully, and here he is punching down again (ask Anthony Bright and Ken Lucas about it) because somebody’s paying him to push bullshit.

Yeah, it was pissing me off when he started all the “you ever watch guys, and just tell they’ve got IT?” once the Cards went into prevent. You can clearly tell when these pundits have an agenda. Like you’re a former player and you’re hyping him up for throwing 6 YPA (as you pointed out) against a prevent defense that lost 3 corners, a DL, and their best player at safety by the last drive? And all of that after he put his own team down 3 scores? SMH.

That may have been the thing I was most embarrassed about at the end of the game. Those last few times he got ran down by guys much, much bigger than him. It was like Bryce was running in slow motion. One of my friends sent me a message and was like, “but, I got these tiny legs, coach,” after Bryce got sacked in what should’ve been the end of the game. And then one of the subsequent pressures, the DLineman grabbed him with one arm up around the torso while he was being blocked, and all of Bryce’s momentum stopped immediately, and the DL’s arm slid down to Bryce’s legs, wrapped them together, and he sacked him with ONE fuging ARM. It was like a parent roughhousing with their toddler. And again, be it the arm strength or the escapability, he just doesn’t have it.

Yeah, ever since he got exposed for rearranging other men’s wive’s IUDs, raw dogging mind you, he has really let loose. It’s a weak ass city you made your home and birthed and raised kids in. STFU.

It’s definitely not looking good. I’m giving him some benefit of the doubt because it’s just his second year and he showed some good things as a rookie… but I agree, so far this season, he looks to have regressed drastically. I noticed starting in preseason. But, Rozeboom has been in the league long enough that we should know what he is by now. They went and signed him in FA so he could stand in the middle of the field with concrete blocks in his feet? Show up to the play late and throw a forearm whiff? Get smoked in the pass game? I just haven’t seen any positives.

Except Reich showed what he could do with a guy like Luck. You can’t always make chicken salad out of chicken poo. This seems pretty self-serving…. Maybe some early campaigning and excuse making for Arch from Peyton. Because on the flip side, the argument has to be made, either a guy has it, or they don’t. Even with turnover and bad coaching, you see enough flashes of greatness that you know “this guy is going to be good.” Bryce doesn’t have that.

Rozeboom may be the worst starting MLB I ever recall us fielding. I know the sample size is small but damn… instincts are poo, fundamentals are poo, he really just out there taking up real estate.

The defense doesn’t even matter, really. When we are down 3 scores before anyone has taken their first sip of Gatorade because the offense won’t stay in the field, what does any of it matter?

I wish Zod would return just so he can auto-replace Bryce Young with Mr. Limited like he did The Golden Calf of Bristol.

And the crazy thing is, there have been guys that have done it at his size. Flutie and Russ are the first that come to mind. He just doesn’t have the physical ability to PASS the fuging ball where it needs to go, nor the ability to escape pressure on any meaningful snaps.

I feel like with Bryce, our defense is always guaranteed to give up 25 minimum. It’s built-in.