Kudos to Bryce Young

[Hoenheim]

If he can do this repeatedly down the stretch against playoff caliber teams, we have a QB.

Until then, I'll count this game as positive progress but one game doesn't prove he's the franchise savior.

[frankw]

He hung in there through adversity and kept throwing the ball and he actually moved it downfield like you expect a #1 pick to do.

Also. Again. We clearly have weapons. This is what happens when you get them the ball in opportunities that can open up the whole offense.

As for Bryce Young vs any team not the Atlanta Falcons....We'll save that difficult discussion for another day.

Right now I'm just going to enjoy sweeping the Falcons

[AceMan]

Bryce and Canales needed this game; S/O for still fighting to win this game

[LegioX]

I just feel like we are reliving late season last year. Get our hopes all up about his “progression” and then get it swiped away at start of next season. He had a good game, but his ass needs to be gone after this season. Putting up numbers against below average teams does not warrant an extension.

Edited 4 hours ago by LegioX

[rodeo]

3 minutes ago, LegioX said:

Bryce has shown he can throw for 400 yards against teams that are below .500 for the season. Has it put up numbers like this against playoff caliber teams? Nope

Have the plays been called for him to do that, or does Canales clam up with limited gameplans against winning teams? ATL has a pretty high-dollar secondary and Bryce shredded them.

[rmoneyg35]

3 minutes ago, mav1234 said:

Yup. Agree. Coker is just teh better option.

I know he probably had to get in game condition after being injured and missing many games but I think he’s found it. For some reason our coaching staff wants to use XL over Coker and I don’t get it.

[Mr Mojo Risin]

IT was a great game. Where the fug was this offense against NO? Just insane the Jekyl and Hyde performances you get from this team on a week to week basis. It's definitely an improvement over the last few years though I will say that. Jury is still out on Bryce even though I think we need to still seriously consider bringing in some serious competition next year. We may not need to go out and spend a 1st on a QB but definitely need to grab one in the top half of the draft and consider a vet or two that can still play. Great job to Bryce today though it was nice to be able to watch an entire game of Panthers football and still win at the end.

[Stuart Smith]

6 minutes ago, rmoneyg35 said:

XL only caught 4 out of 8 passes too. Meanwhile Coker caught all 4 of his passes. Coker needs to be our #2. He’s more consistent than XL.

Coker caught one very difficult pass. Tommy Tremble on the game winning drive was unreal! 

[45catfan]

6 minutes ago, LegioX said:

I just feel like we are reliving late season last year. Get our hopes all up about his “progression” and then get it swiped away at start of next season. He has a good game, but his ass needs to be gone after this season. Putting up numbers against below average teams does not warrant an extension.

Also when we face a defense that is good enough to sell out for the run and still play solid pass defense.  This is the Rico Dowdle effect.  

Edited 4 hours ago by 45catfan

[mav1234]

3 minutes ago, rmoneyg35 said:

I know he probably had to get in game condition after being injured and missing many games but I think he’s found it. For some reason our coaching staff wants to use XL over Coker and I don’t get it.

we could ask the same question about a certain OLman...

[rmoneyg35]

1 minute ago, rodeo said:

Have the plays been called for him to do that, or does Canales clam up with limited gameplans against winning teams? ATL has a pretty high-dollar secondary and Bryce shredded them.

It’s not like Atlanta has a bad defense either.

 

I went back and looked and they haven’t even given up 300 yards to a QB this season. The most I think they gave up was 255 to Drake Maye. Josh Allen only got 180 yards against them. So it’s not like Bryce just got lucky against a bad defense.

[mav1234]

4 minutes ago, rodeo said:

Have the plays been called for him to do that, or does Canales clam up with limited gameplans against winning teams? ATL has a pretty high-dollar secondary and Bryce shredded them.

I think it's Bryce. The intermediate routes were open in past games and Bryce wasn't taking them. He owned up to that.

[rmoneyg35]

Just now, mav1234 said:

we could ask the same question about a certain OLman...

Considering the injuries on the offensive line, I think it’s hard to complain about that considering we are down to our 3rd-4th string offensive linemen.

[Navy_football]

13 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Also a Bryce hater here, and yes, I'll give him credit for having his best game of his career.

But at the same time, he still had so many just baffling plays and terrible throws.

It's a very weird feeling after this one, as I still very much don't think he is a viable long term solution at QB, but it was his best game of his career, I can admit that.  But also admittedly, my fear is he just played his way into having his 5th year picked up and given the starting position again next year.

Your expectations aren't realistic. No QB makes every throw in any game. Watch KC play right now. Let me know how many passes you think Mahomes could have made but didn't. Heck we saw Josh Allen miss passes against Carolina a couple of weeks ago.