Your Feelings on Bryce Through 3 Seasons? (POLL)

[Montsta]

On 1/11/2026 at 4:36 AM, CRA said:

Bridge tier QB.  If you put Atlanta to the side, great games flat out have never existed in his 3 year career.  And his good isn’t on par with good games of other NFL QBs.   There comes a ceiling with Bryce that isn’t undeniable and that just isn’t what any team in the NFL longs for. 

He can be the QB next year, you just can’t pay him because we have to be looking for the actual future at the QB spot.  

he played a very good game for Bryce yesterday…..and every QB that played yesteray (and no one was great) generated more offense for their teams.   And we got legit weapons.  I don’t care where Coker was drafted.  No one feels sorry for Stafford because Puca was a late pick.  

My biggest fear with Bryce Young is that he will always do just enough to stick around. He shows flashes and then drops a turd so the hopium is always there. Like his career highlight reel if you cut it up to some hype music and did a YouTube video would actually be quite good. His great plays really, really look good. But after that video you look at his yearly averages for completion percentage, yardage, touchdowns, and virtually every other metric and it is meh as fug. Like you know Bryce is gonna be 13/23 for 157 yards a touchdown and probably a pick. 

I will 100% give him his flowers for his athleticism and ability to scramble outside the pocket. I haven’t seen the mythical “super processing ability” he was touted for per se, but he has shown flashes of absolutely elite awareness when it comes to scrambling. The little basketball move he does to shake defensive linemen has almost become a signature move. It’s hard to explain but you know it when you see it he stops on a dime and pivots like he is gonna hit a step back jumper and it has gotten him out of a lot of trouble. 

I sincerely, truly, as a vocal Bryce HATER, hope that since we are obviously running with him next year the coaching staff actually tailors plays around his strengths. He needs to be in a pure spread IMO. His size is much less of a hindrance when he can play QB in open space. I feel like most of his highlight reel is from scrambles and play action/bootlegs.  

[DeAngelo Beason]

9 hours ago, shaq said:

Yeah the 23rd ranked defense is so ready to compete for a championship right now!

I'm going to say what probably shouldn't need to be said but I guess I have to break it down anyway.  They were the 15th ranked scoring defense.  This matters because Evero's style is bend but don't break, which we did a lot of.  The Panthers ranked around 20th in the league in time of possession.  The longer the defense is on the field, the more yardage and points they're going to give up.  We were toward the bottom of the league at like EVERY offensive category.  In essence, we hung the defense out to dry.  So I say, once again, Bryce Young is a plague that has infected the entire team.  He's horrible, and he's dragging everyone down with him.

[carpanfan96]

He's pretty much exactly what I thought he was during the draft process. A really good backup or meh starter. 

[shaq]

1 hour ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

I'm going to say what probably shouldn't need to be said but I guess I have to break it down anyway.  They were the 15th ranked scoring defense.  This matters because Evero's style is bend but don't break, which we did a lot of.  The Panthers ranked around 20th in the league in time of possession.  The longer the defense is on the field, the more yardage and points they're going to give up.  We were toward the bottom of the league at like EVERY offensive category.  In essence, we hung the defense out to dry.  So I say, once again, Bryce Young is a plague that has infected the entire team.  He's horrible, and he's dragging everyone down with him.

First off let’s just establish we were not the 15th ranked scoring offense we were the 16th. Secondly, the 16th scoring defense is even by your own chosen statistic chosen totally average and not special. To anyone that actually cares about defensive advanced statistics, EPA per play is much more effective in determining the actual quality of a defense we ranked 23rd. We were 30th in sacks as a defense, Everos defense is exactly bend don’t break. It naturally gives teams the opposing team the time of possession advantage. This defense is by no means good, in fact at best it is a marginally below average group. I’m not even trying to defend the offense that is also a below average group, but it’s pretty clear we need to upgrade the defensive significantly before we’re close to being Super Bowl contenders.

[strato]

17 hours ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

I’m 70/30 on it leaning towards that as well. The 30% is the times I’ve seen him have chances down the field and he just checks down. Could also be confidence in the receivers he had in those scenarios as well. 

That can be a chicken or the egg scenario. Canales knows what the QB is good at and is not good at better than we do. 
He would have reasons for not calling deep shots, if he is holding back. They could include protection concerns, as well as any Young related motivations. 
I think there always the chance Bryce doesn’t see the man open down the field and it is just that simple, more than a confidence issue. Probably a mix of the two. 

 

[DeAngelo Beason]

57 minutes ago, shaq said:

First off let’s just establish we were not the 15th ranked scoring offense we were the 16th. Secondly, the 16th scoring defense is even by your own chosen statistic chosen totally average and not special. To anyone that actually cares about defensive advanced statistics, EPA per play is much more effective in determining the actual quality of a defense we ranked 23rd. We were 30th in sacks as a defense, Everos defense is exactly bend don’t break. It naturally gives teams the opposing team the time of possession advantage. This defense is by no means good, in fact at best it is a marginally below average group. I’m not even trying to defend the offense that is also a below average group, but it’s pretty clear we need to upgrade the defensive significantly before we’re close to being Super Bowl contenders.

5 of the top 10 defenses in the league didn't even make it to the playoffs.  To suggest that the roster isn't built to compete right now because the defense isn't ranked highly is not backed up by reality when the majority of the top defenses didn't even make the playoffs.  I'm not arguing that the defense doesn't need to be upgraded.  So does the offense.  Every team in the league could say they need upgrades at various positions.  I'm arguing that upgrading the defense won't matter, at all, so long as Bryce Young is the QB.  

[Joe Bear]

50 minutes ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

5 of the top 10 defenses in the league didn't even make it to the playoffs.  To suggest that the roster isn't built to compete right now because the defense isn't ranked highly is not backed up by reality when the majority of the top defenses didn't even make the playoffs.  I'm not arguing that the defense doesn't need to be upgraded.  So does the offense.  Every team in the league could say they need upgrades at various positions.  I'm arguing that upgrading the defense won't matter, at all, so long as Bryce Young is the QB.  

Bryce Young's performance and whatever anyone thinks of it shouldn't become a built-in excuse, let alone a crutch, for the worst pass rush in the NFL. 

[SmokinwithWilly]

27 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

Bryce Young's performance and whatever anyone thinks of it shouldn't become a built-in excuse, let alone a crutch, for the worst pass rush in the NFL. 

And if it wasn't for the defense holding the Jets to 6 and GB to 13 we'd be 6-11 because teams don't generally win when they only score 13 and 16 respectively. Let's not let the defense become a built-in excuse, let alone a crutch, for one of the worst offenses in the NFL. 

[Joe Bear]

1 minute ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

And if it wasn't for the defense holding the Jets to 6 and GB to 13 we'd be 6-11 because teams don't generally win when they only score 13 and 16 respectively. Let's not let the defense become a built-in excuse, let alone a crutch, for one of the worst offenses in the NFL. 

I mean if we wanna pick and choose, if the defense held the Rams to just 30 points we'd still be in the playoffs.

[SmokinwithWilly]

Just now, Joe Bear said:

I mean if we wanna pick and choose, if the defense held the Rams to just 30 points we'd still be in the playoffs.

If Bryce hadn't folded like a cheap suit on the last drive, we'd still be in the playoffs. Probably could have done a lot better if we'd spent some of the huge amount of resources to get Bryce to mediocre on our defense. 

[Joe Bear]

Just now, SmokinwithWilly said:

If Bryce hadn't folded like a cheap suit on the last drive, we'd still be in the playoffs. Probably could have done a lot better if we'd spent some of the huge amount of resources to get Bryce to mediocre on our defense. 

You mean if the defense didn't go prevent and give Stafford 30 minutes to throw right after Bryce threw the go-ahead TD, then yes, but I'm assuming you tuned in for the first time with 40 seconds left.

[Joe Bear]

There are plenty of games to blame Bryce Young for. Not scoring with 38 seconds left because the Rams consistently got home in 1-2 seconds while only rushing 4 is not the time to do it. He had one bad throw, was hurried so much he had to bail out or get sacked (somehow would also be his fault) and then his last throw was a drop in stride.

Yep, just like gas prices and COVID, only Bryce's fault.

[shaq]

1 hour ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

5 of the top 10 defenses in the league didn't even make it to the playoffs.  To suggest that the roster isn't built to compete right now because the defense isn't ranked highly is not backed up by reality when the majority of the top defenses didn't even make the playoffs.  I'm not arguing that the defense doesn't need to be upgraded.  So does the offense.  Every team in the league could say they need upgrades at various positions.  I'm arguing that upgrading the defense won't matter, at all, so long as Bryce Young is the QB.  

10 of the top 14 defensive teams in EPA per play made the playoffs. Defensive EPA is the gold standard for how we grade and value defenses. Having a good defense is imperative to having a successful team. To your point of this team being a QB away I adamantly disagree I think we’re realistically 1-2 good off seasons away roster construction wise from truly competing for a Super Bowl. To your point that the offense needs to be upgraded I entirely agree, we were far too inconsistent last year and our running game fell off a cliff the last 6 weeks.

[SmokinwithWilly]

40 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

You mean if the defense didn't go prevent and give Stafford 30 minutes to throw right after Bryce threw the go-ahead TD, then yes, but I'm assuming you tuned in for the first time with 40 seconds left.

You'd be wrong in your assumptions. I watched the whole thing start to finish. Wasn't a fan at all of the prevent, but I think it had more to do with Horn being out and a CB that had barely played on the field. 

 

40 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

There are plenty of games to blame Bryce Young for. Not scoring with 38 seconds left because the Rams consistently got home in 1-2 seconds while only rushing 4 is not the time to do it. He had one bad throw, was hurried so much he had to bail out or get sacked (somehow would also be his fault) and then his last throw was a drop in stride.

Yep, just like gas prices and COVID, only Bryce's fault.

The middle of the field was wide open and we had 3 time outs to burn. Bryce is supposed to read the defense, change the play if necessary, which it was, and go from there. Get some yards, call the TO. 

A franchise QB, an elite processing QB, any QB, has to be able to do these things. Bryce is mediocre at best. 16 games to break 3k yards on the last play of regular season, c'mon. 

But we're picking up his 5th so there's that now. Teppers commitment to mediocrity continues.