It’s naive to believe that there is anything happening in Carolina without Tepper greenlighting it, he may not have initiated the process, but let’s be honest anyone with eyes has seen this has to happen. The problem is that we all collectively know too that the head coach had to gain permission from the owner to do this, which is why we are in this mess in the first place. Tepper is very invested in this team, which is not a bad thing, and he is a very proactive guy, which again is not a bad trait to have, the problem is he is terrible at football.
Forget Bama prospect Bryce Young, he doesn’t even look like year 1 Bryce. 100% he’s got to be benched, but with everything we’ve invested you’ve got to keep him around and try to build him back up for the future.
I also wonder if Andy Dalton will help Canales smooth out this head coach transition a little more. Rather than all the focus on Bryce, he can just be a coach and let the red rocket fly.
Two points that I thought were interesting here. I thought the point regarding whether he comes back in makes a lot of sense. There are really two ways it could go here. If Dalton really struggles, it would suggest that the situation is actively detrimental to the quarterback, and it wouldn’t be good to put Bryce back into that situation because he’s shown through 18 games that he can’t overcome it. And if Dalton is better than Bryce, then you can’t really look your players in the eye and tell them Bryce gives you the best chance to win. Canales is a first-year coach, and he can’t afford to bullshit his players like that.
And then the other point was the parallel with Tua being benched. Obviously that’s not a 1-to-1 comparison because our level of investment in Bryce is wildly beyond what the Dolphins invested in Tua. But *even if it were a 1-to-1 comparison*, keep in mind that the guy benching Tua was Brian Flores, and Flores had absolutely no intention of going back to Tua and getting the best out of him. He hated Tua. Tua has turned it around after being benched because the head coach changed.
I think people would benefit from seeing this benching as the bandaid rip that it is. Canales is pulling the plug on Bryce. Canales doesn’t trust Bryce, and he doesn’t think Bryce is in a position where he’ll get better any time soon. We’re admitting that we whiffed here. Bryce is in contention for the worst starting QB ever and has not yet shown a single skill or trait that plays at the NFL level. He doesn’t have the physical upside where you give him chance after chance knowing that he will be dominant if he figures it out. He has to win mentally because he is physically outmatched, and unfortunately, he has looked mentally outmatched every step of the way, too.
If you read between the lines of both Canales’s press conferences and Bryce’s interview since Monday, those guys have no plans of working together going forward. Anything is possible, especially because I think we’ll struggle to find a buyer for him, but the Panthers are not planning around Bryce Young anymore. He will have to make an unprecedented turnaround to convince Canales and the organization to rethink things.
I thought [NFLSE’s take on the situation](https://youtu.be/QDTPu-Za5QQ?si=LNXWbg57EdViOEa9) was balanced and insightful. Both of those guys had Bryce #1 coming out of college and really wanted him to be great, but they have paid close attention to the situation, and they know what’s up here imo.
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It’s naive to believe that there is anything happening in Carolina without Tepper greenlighting it, he may not have initiated the process, but let’s be honest anyone with eyes has seen this has to happen. The problem is that we all collectively know too that the head coach had to gain permission from the owner to do this, which is why we are in this mess in the first place. Tepper is very invested in this team, which is not a bad thing, and he is a very proactive guy, which again is not a bad trait to have, the problem is he is terrible at football.
Forget Bama prospect Bryce Young, he doesn’t even look like year 1 Bryce. 100% he’s got to be benched, but with everything we’ve invested you’ve got to keep him around and try to build him back up for the future.
I also wonder if Andy Dalton will help Canales smooth out this head coach transition a little more. Rather than all the focus on Bryce, he can just be a coach and let the red rocket fly.
Two points that I thought were interesting here. I thought the point regarding whether he comes back in makes a lot of sense. There are really two ways it could go here. If Dalton really struggles, it would suggest that the situation is actively detrimental to the quarterback, and it wouldn’t be good to put Bryce back into that situation because he’s shown through 18 games that he can’t overcome it. And if Dalton is better than Bryce, then you can’t really look your players in the eye and tell them Bryce gives you the best chance to win. Canales is a first-year coach, and he can’t afford to bullshit his players like that.
And then the other point was the parallel with Tua being benched. Obviously that’s not a 1-to-1 comparison because our level of investment in Bryce is wildly beyond what the Dolphins invested in Tua. But *even if it were a 1-to-1 comparison*, keep in mind that the guy benching Tua was Brian Flores, and Flores had absolutely no intention of going back to Tua and getting the best out of him. He hated Tua. Tua has turned it around after being benched because the head coach changed.
I think people would benefit from seeing this benching as the bandaid rip that it is. Canales is pulling the plug on Bryce. Canales doesn’t trust Bryce, and he doesn’t think Bryce is in a position where he’ll get better any time soon. We’re admitting that we whiffed here. Bryce is in contention for the worst starting QB ever and has not yet shown a single skill or trait that plays at the NFL level. He doesn’t have the physical upside where you give him chance after chance knowing that he will be dominant if he figures it out. He has to win mentally because he is physically outmatched, and unfortunately, he has looked mentally outmatched every step of the way, too.
If you read between the lines of both Canales’s press conferences and Bryce’s interview since Monday, those guys have no plans of working together going forward. Anything is possible, especially because I think we’ll struggle to find a buyer for him, but the Panthers are not planning around Bryce Young anymore. He will have to make an unprecedented turnaround to convince Canales and the organization to rethink things.
I thought [NFLSE’s take on the situation](https://youtu.be/QDTPu-Za5QQ?si=LNXWbg57EdViOEa9) was balanced and insightful. Both of those guys had Bryce #1 coming out of college and really wanted him to be great, but they have paid close attention to the situation, and they know what’s up here imo.