Frank Reich: Bryce Young’s command was “10 out of 10” on first day of OTAs

[poundaway]

OTAs have gotten going on Monday with No. 1 pick Bryce Young taking the majority of first-team snaps at the Panthers’ first spring practice.

Head coach Frank Reich was complimentary of all three quarterbacks on the roster in his post-practice press conference, saying Young, Andy Dalton, and Matt Corral displayed strong decision-making and ball placement. But the story with the club’s QBs is going to be how quickly Young adapts to the pro game as the club gets this year’s top draftee ready to play.

When asked specifically about Young on Monday, Reich called the young QB’s command “10 out of 10.”

“Just complete command, control, poise,” Reich said. “You could tell the way he was seeing it, the way he was working through progressions, accuracy in the throw, ball placement of the throw, it was all very good.”

Reich also noted that he feels like it’s a good thing to have a veteran like Dalton on the roster, too.

“It’s really good for Bryce to kind of see Andy handle things the way he’s handled things,” Reich said. “And, obviously, Bryce has picked it up extremely fast. But it feels like we’ve got a good plan and we’re doing the right thing.”

While there aren’t any contact practices in the spring, the Panthers still plan to have Young get his reps with the first-team offensive line, Reich said. The club is especially cognizant of who’s playing center when Young is in.

There’s a long way to go between now and Week One, but so far Young has checked every box when it comes to potentially being a Day One starter.

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[Eric4280]

We didn’t have a welcome parade and party to prop up Andy Dalton week one. Bryce’s biggest strength is his head and that’s the part that slowly adjusts to the game. Can’t wait until September.

[Luciu5]

1 hour ago, poundaway said:

The club is especially cognizant of who’s playing center when Young is in.

In comparison to last year, with whatever the hell they were doing.

[gakonline]

1 hour ago, Luciu5 said:

In comparison to last year, with whatever the hell they were doing.

Rhule handled the whole situation like college. He was way over his head. 

[rebelrouser]

3 hours ago, poundaway said:

OTAs have gotten going on Monday with No. 1 pick Bryce Young taking the majority of first-team snaps at the Panthers’ first spring practice.

Head coach Frank Reich was complimentary of all three quarterbacks on the roster in his post-practice press conference, saying Young, Andy Dalton, and Matt Corral displayed strong decision-making and ball placement.

But this board says Corral can't be developed and will just take snaps away from Young. Strange. 

[ForJimmy]

4 minutes ago, rebelrouser said:

But this board says Corral can't be developed and will just take snaps away from Young. Strange. 

I'm liking our QB room.  Young is the QB our staff wanted to lead this team, Dalton is a decent vet/solid backup, and Corral is a young project QB with potential.  I hope we keep all 3.

[Jackie Lee]

26 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

I'm liking our QB room.  Young is the QB our staff wanted to lead this team, Dalton is a decent vet/solid backup, and Corral is a young project QB with potential.  I hope we keep all 3.

With teams now being allowed to carry a 3rd qb on game day as a 47th active player it should be a no brainer. He's going to know the play book, we traded away a pick for him, we wouldn't get anything worthwhile in trading him away. I imagine he's going to play a lot of the preseason game snaps since Dalton won't really need them. Curious is Bryce will get more preseason time since he's a rookie or if they'll just let him play a half of game 2 like most other QB1's play now. 

[ACobra289]

What else is Reich going to say? They are going to hype him at every opportunity regardless if it's actually true or not.

[Jackie Lee]

Easy Frank don't be too tough on the young guy! Definitely a different HC style than what we've had in the past. Makes sense that he got Brown/Duce and Evero to add some edge to his coaching approach

[rebelrouser]

3 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Young is the #1 QB my man.

 

Why are you so focused on Matt Corral development. That indeed is strange...

I'm not. I'm pointing out how stupid the Corral haters are.  There was never a good reason to cut him, but I bet you wanted that. 

[1of10Charnatives]

7 hours ago, rebelrouser said:

But this board says Corral can't be developed and will just take snaps away from Young. Strange. 

Not strange. 

You have a finite number of snaps. Those limited snaps can be divided any way you choose to prepare the number one pick in the draft (whom you mortgaged a meaningful chunk of future draft capital to get) for his rookie season as you anticipate he will be the face of your franchise for the foreseeable future. Every snap that goes to Corral is a snap of preparation Young will not have.

It's not that Corral can't be developed, it's that organizational priorities rightly regard developing him as a low enough priority in the grand scheme of things that his share of the finite snaps should be trivial. None of this is any comment on Corral's potential beyond the obvious fact he's a third round drafted qb in his second year who looked god awful in the only action he's seen to date. HIs ceiling and odds of success are extremely low compared to Young, therefore he shouldn't be invested in through finite snaps.

Arguments to the contrary fly in the face of the weight of historical evidence regarding later round drafted qb's vs number one picks. No one is a guaranteed success, but the number one pick has far greater odds than any random third rounder, so that's where your focus is as an organization.

Nothing strange to see here.

[MasterAwesome]

12 hours ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

Not strange. 

You have a finite number of snaps. Those limited snaps can be divided any way you choose to prepare the number one pick in the draft (whom you mortgaged a meaningful chunk of future draft capital to get) for his rookie season as you anticipate he will be the face of your franchise for the foreseeable future. Every snap that goes to Corral is a snap of preparation Young will not have.

It's not that Corral can't be developed, it's that organizational priorities rightly regard developing him as a low enough priority in the grand scheme of things that his share of the finite snaps should be trivial. None of this is any comment on Corral's potential beyond the obvious fact he's a third round drafted qb in his second year who looked god awful in the only action he's seen to date. HIs ceiling and odds of success are extremely low compared to Young, therefore he shouldn't be invested in through finite snaps.

Arguments to the contrary fly in the face of the weight of historical evidence regarding later round drafted qb's vs number one picks. No one is a guaranteed success, but the number one pick has far greater odds than any random third rounder, so that's where your focus is as an organization.

Nothing strange to see here.

No QB plays 100% of the snaps in the offseason.  That's why there's a 1st team offense, 2nd team offense, 3rd team offense, etc.  It's not like we're going to be putting Bryce back there running plays with the 3rd string o-line/receivers who probably aren't even making the roster at the end of the day.

Once Bryce officially pulls away from Dalton in the QB1 "competition" and starts taking the dominant share of snaps with the 1st team offense, then it'd be more a case of taking snaps from Dalton and giving a significant portion of those to Corral.  Dalton is a 12-year vet, he doesn't need all those back-up snaps.

[rayzor]

one beneficial thing that could happen from a percentage of snaps in offseason practices going to someone other than Young, and this is probably uniquely true for Young, is that he will be able to see what the offense is doing from another perspective which will help him notice things that work well or, more importantly, work better when he is back on the field. 

granted, those instances need to be limited, but they will still be beneficial. he needs, though to be able to work with this OL and these receivers, TEs and RBs to get to a point of complete trust in each other. no doubt this will be more experienced during game situations, but the more trust in each other they have heading into week 1, the more likely it is for us to have success right out of the gate.

one thing to consider, though, in letting someone else take reps is to help ensure that his arm doesn't get worn out in a potentially much longer NFL season than he had in college. i think this is probably the case for all rookie QBs, though. it's going to take an adjustment to get used to a more rigorous and lengthy football season. you need to make sure he's still got gas when/if you get to the playoffs.

[Ricky Spanish]

Any snaps that Corral gets this pre-season will be more than he had last pre-season. I hope Corral succeeds one day, but his road to NFL Starter got 10x harder the moment he was drafted under Matt Rhule, and then another 10x harder the moment he got hurt.