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A lot has been made of how heavily the Carolina Panthers have invested in their offense to support Bryce Young — yet, despite that spending, he continues to struggle. Most here believe it’s Young’s lack of size and arm strength that is to blame and no amount of investment could compensate for what he supposedly lacks physically. That’s just BS. Yes, the Panthers allocate more of their salary cap to offense than to defense, but nine other NFL teams spend even more. And while those teams generally have established franchise quarterbacks, they also share another important characteristic: they invest heavily in wide receivers and tight ends. When ranking teams by total dollars devoted to receivers and tight ends, the Panthers sit dead last. So, while Carolina may appear to spend heavily on offense overall, that spending is not reaching the positions that most directly supports Young and the results are predictable. Against the Dolphins, for example, the Panthers’ receiving corps consisted of a rookie, a practice squad call-up, a reclamation project, an undrafted free agent, and Xavier Legette. The tight end group included Tommy Tremble, another rookie, and yet another practice squad player. Five of the seven pass-catchers who played in that game had never appeared in an NFL contest the previous season — three were still in college, one was watching games from home, and another was buried on a different team’s practice squad. And yet when the offense struggled, it was blamed on Bryce’s lack of physical talent - not on the lack of experience around him. The lack of spending on the receivers and tight ends isn’t a one year thing either. The Panthers have ranked near the bottom of the league in receiver and tight end spending in each of Young’s seasons. Their draft investments at wide receiver — Jonathan Mingo, Legette, Coker, and Terrace Marshall Jr. — have yet to yield consistent production. In addition, the front office has signed around nine free-agent receivers during Young’s tenure. Six were former practice squad players with little or no NFL experience. The remaining three — DJ Chark, Diontae Johnson, and Adam Thielen — offered mixed results. Johnson proved to be a distraction and lasted only 13 games before being traded to Baltimore, where he was released after four appearances. Chark was serviceable but unspectacular and departed after a single season. That leaves Thielen as the only proven, reliable receiver Young has played with in Carolina — and notably, he is also the only free-agent wideout from that group still active in the NFL. In other words, over two seasons, Young has had just one receiver who could reasonably be considered NFL-caliber. Combined with questionable draft evaluations, it’s been a recipe for persistent offensive struggles. Even with all of that said, in the second half of last season, Young showed significant progress. He played with poise, threw accurately and on time, and demonstrated command of the offense. With Thielen and Coker as his primary targets, he looked like a potential top-10 quarterback with pff and other pundits regularly praising him. This season, however, Thielen is gone, Coker is on injured reserve, and Young is left throwing to rookies and reclamation projects. Given that lack of talent, it should come as no surprise that both he and the offense have regressed. The quality of a quarterback’s supporting cast has a direct impact on performance. It’s that simple. When Young had receivers who could run precise routes and find soft spots in coverage, he did well. Without that, his production has suffered just like it would with any QB. Blaming the Panthers’ offensive struggles solely on him is not only unfair — it ignores the broader context of poor roster construction and misallocated resources and judging him within that context is simply unfair and shortsighted. -
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By LinvilleGorge · Posted
I appreciate your concern, but I'm fine. LOL This white knight act is pretty cringe too. -
It's not about calling a perfect game, it's about not calling a terrible one, something Canales has basically done in every game he's been our coach (there may have been a couple good ones scattered in there last year, but it hasn't been this year). And the timing isn't new, I've said it after every game because it's been crap from the start, so not like I just jumped on it after a win. The point of the thread was really just to not see the 200 yard rushing game and think the coaching staff all of a sudden figured poo out. It was a Rico effort, not a coaching staff gameplan, 169 of his yards were after contact. But everyone just took it as "oh you're just upset T-Mac isn't getting 25 catches a game and 19 TDs so far"
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