Carolina Panthers QB Bryce Young on track to return

Carolina Panthers QB Bryce Young on track to return

Bryce Young, he got to live out the most cynical, the most we don’t talk about that part of our brain dream that an athlete possibly dreams. You’re on a three-game win streak with me playing. I get hurt. You try to quiet down the little devil on your shoulder saying, “What if they stink without me? What if I’m the key? What if everybody realizes that I’m the one holding all this together, right? Your little little devil on on your shoulder is talking all that kind of uh selfish not team first mess. And and you would never say so publicly, but I promise you every elite athlete, every super competitor, you definitely don’t want the offense to play better without you. You may think like, well, if we win this game three nothing, that would be okay, right? If our defense plays so well, but our our my replacement, you know, that doesn’t work publicly. Oh, I’m rooting for him. I’m helping him. I’m a resource. I want to He’s He’s a great friend. He’ll thrive. That old devil on your shoulder. I hope they don’t do too good without me. Well, guess what? Bryce Young was on a three-game win streak. They had won four of their last five. He got hurt, came out of the lineup. They lost 40 to nine. And everybody blamed his backup, even though there was, you know, blame pie to go around, right? Plenty for everybody. Uh Andy Dalton definitely got his his share of the blame pie, right? big old slice. And now Bryce Young might get a chance to go back, might get a chance to play again. Uh the latest for for today that we’ve learned. Um prior to the show, the what what I was aware of is he he stretched, right? He was out there stretching with the team, which is something he did not do last week. Um we’ll play Dave Canales uh after practice today, I believe, saying the the latest on Bryce Young, and then we’ll dive in a bit further. Here’s Dave Canales on the the latest for his young quarterback. Bryce had a really good day. We’re going to take it each day. Um try to push it a little bit more. Um had a little bit of a modified mode at practice today. Um but he handled it, handled the load. Tomorrow we’ll push it again and and we’ll uh we’ll make a decision in the next couple of days. But he looked good. The official designation for his practice today, full participant, which is good, which is a good sign. Um you know, starting about Tuesday of last week, when did they first practice? Was it Tuesday? Wednesday of last week, uh, whatever their first practice was when he was off to the side doing the the resistance bands and the light jogging. I said it right here on the show. I said, I don’t think he’s going to play this week, but the fact that he’s already moving around the way he is moving around, I think changes the expectations for next week, which is obviously now this week, right, the Packers week. Um, the other part that’s making this a bit interesting is Andy Dalton did not practice today. He injured his thumb in the first quarter against Buffalo. Again, for more details, here’s Dave Canales. It was early. It was in the first series of the game. Um, and uh, you know, I can I can tell he injured his he injured his thumb really early in the game. Um, he was a stud. You know, he he gutted it out and and was able to be out there and allow us to finish the game that way. and uh you know just really blew up on him after the game and we got imaging on it and took did our process over the last couple of days. So um we got to you know see where he’s at you know going into this weekend and and uh make decisions from there. It’s always an Andy Dalton thumb injury that accelerates the return of Bryce Young. Remember benched last year Andy Dalton takes over. He gets the thumb injury in the car accident. Uh Bryce takes over and he keeps the job the rest of the year. this year. Uh, Bryce gets hurt. Who knows when he’s going to be back? Two to four weeks. We’re hearing Andy Dalton gets a thumb injury. Maybe that’s the deciding factor. Bryce, I don’t care if you’re 75%. You got to play because Andy can’t go or because Andy’s also 75% and quite frankly, he wasn’t good enough at 100% to to justify us forcing him back into the lineup. Also, maybe that’s that makes us feel a bit better about Andy Dalton. First quarter, thumb injury. Thumb injuries hurt when you’re playing quarterback. And uh maybe a little distraction, a little rattled. Maybe that explains some of it. Maybe maybe at least to make him sleep at night, he’ll pretend that it explains some of it. I think I’ve told this story before. One of the first games I ever played, it was a high school level uh quarterback because I, you know, eventually played quarterback in college. Uh the school I was in was K through 12. So we was seventh, eighth, and ninth. We had one game where we were gonna blow it blow the other team out and the B team, right? the second, third stringers were going to get in. I was a seventh grader and I got I got to play one like two series at the end of the game for uh the the freshman team essentially. First play, low snap, bend down to pick it up, get leveled, break my collar bone. Am I going to come out of the game? Absolutely not. It’s the only game I’m going to play all year. Coach comes up to me, “What play you want to call?” I said, “Four verts.” I threw a quacking duck. Like not like a wounded duck. Go back to the sideline. What play you want? Four verts. coach threw a wounded duck after the game. They did that like three or four more times. Like really not a great experience. Uh after the game, they found out that my collar bone was broken. The reaction from my parents, “Oh, thank goodness.” Because they thought I just was bad. Instead, they’re like, “You’re hurt. That makes so much more sense. We Okay, we don’t have to pretend like what you were doing out there was admirable.” Uh Andy Dalton might have a little bit of that, right? It was a really rough game for you, Andy, wasn’t it? I really hurt my thumb in the first quarter. Oh, thank goodness. I don’t have to pretend like what she did out there was admirable. Maybe anything. Anyway, uh listen, here’s the deal with Bryce Young. Here’s here’s the way I look at it with Bryce Young. If if he’s not 100%. Right. And or if he’s not at least close enough to 100% that you’re treating him as if he’s 100%, right? calling all the same movement plays, trusting him to run the ball, giving him the RPOS’s where he might be, you know, running downfield exposed to to getting hit by the defense. If he’s not 100%, I have no problem if they want to look at him and and tell him point blank, play like an old man, right? Play like you’ve lost a step. Go get your your old guy with two knee braces at the YMCA on, right? Like don’t even try to jump and block shots, right? Just just move your feet and do your best. Protect the football, the ankle, the foot, the knee. They’re a long way away from protecting the football, right? Do your arms work? Get two hands on it in traffic. That’s I mean that’s really the way I look at it. The way I look at it is uh when Bryce throws for less than 200 yards is sometimes the best way the Panthers can play. Now, obviously game on the line, things change, right? If if if you need a first down and it’s fourth and seven, yeah, don’t protect yourself there, right? That’s where you got to put your body on the line for your team. But first quarter, second quarter, just take care of the football. Get rid of it quick. I’m trying to think of who the miked up is. I absolutely loved NFL miked up. Um, and there was an edge rusher. I forget who it was, but they were playing Tom Brady. And uh, Tom Brady was it was one of those games where he didn’t trust his offensive line. So, he just got rid of the ball in like 1.7 seconds every time. And the trash talk of the the edge rusher to the offensive line uh was hilarious because it was like it was it was more logic based than it was what you would think like the macho just yelling at each other saying you know mean things. It was literally like the only reason I don’t have a sack is cuz Tom’s getting rid of it quickly. It has nothing to do with what you’re blocking. You can’t stop me. He knows it. That’s why he’s getting rid of the ball quick. If that’s Micah Parsons, if if that’s Rashawn Garry, that’s good, right? If they’re yelling at at, you know, whoever ends up Taylor Motton didn’t practice today, did he? Taylor Motton didn’t practice. So, whoever is on the offensive line. If if you have Micah Parsons yelling at them, miked up going, I you have nothing to do with me not getting sacks. It’s Bryce getting rid of the ball too quick, that’s fantastic. whether he’s throwing it away, whether he’s dirting it, or whether he’s giving his guys a chance on on quick routes, if that’s what it’s got to be, that’s what it’s got to be. Here’s the way the the the Panthers pass game is going to be judged by me for the rest of the year, the same way I judge a running quarterback. I want them to throw the ball the and and have success and all of that the minimum amount that you have to throw the ball to make sure a defense can’t bank on you not throwing the ball, right? Like with with with Lamar Jackson as a runner or or name your Justin Fields, any of them, right? I don’t like those guys exposing themselves to hit hits hits. So, the the amount I want Lamar Jackson to run is the absolute minimum amount that they have to worry about Lamar Jackson running every play, right? That they have to put a spy that their edge rushers can’t uh come after the quarterback, collapse the pocket as much because they have to keep contain. I want him to run the absolute minimum amount that they have to worry about him running every play. That’s how I want the Panthers passing game to be. I want you to throw it the absolute minimum amount that they can’t put like eight and a half guys in the box to stop Rico Dao. The absolute minimum amount to keep defenses honest and then within that minimum amount, make sure a line share of it is going to Tedro McMillan or or Jaylen Coker, right? Then you divide it up to to your playmakers to make sure they’re getting the opportunity to make plays. Uh, but I I do not have a problem with looking at Bryce Young and saying, “Listen, your ankle’s not not 100%. We’re going to play you anyway because the the options that we have obviously didn’t live up to expectations last week and and we think you give us the best chance to win. But don’t be a hero out there, right? Throw it away. Dirt it. Punt. Let Rico be the engine. and have some sense for the moment, right? When there is the the jugular, if you want to go for the jugular, fine. If when there is the fourth down that you need to convert, yeah, don’t don’t throw it away then, obviously. But I don’t need you out there trying to be a superhero. Canales talked about the availability of the quarterback and how that will impact the offensive game plan, which is kind of what I’m getting at here. Here’s Dave Canales talking about the uh the game plan and and Bryce’s availability and and how that might uh make things different. you know, we have to consider who’s out there and uh what they’re capable of doing um as we put put our game plan together. And you know, the hope is that we can do as much as as possible in the same way that we’ve been functioning. And uh that goes into the decision, you know, to you know, for for Bryce last week, you know, how much can we ask him to do in this game and didn’t feel like, you know, it was time. And this week, as we’re evaluating him to see what he can do, just making sure that we have our full complement of plays, uh, you know, to to balance out our our attack. I don’t think you’re going to have the full complement of plays, but I don’t think he did last week. Like, I don’t think Andy Dalton opened up the playbook 100%. I I think at times Dave Canal doesn’t trust Bryce fully healthy with the full complement of plays. Find the ones you need. That’s and and trust the defense and trust the running game. Might be a little bit more difficult to trust the defense after seeing them get gashed by James Cook, but you got to you got to trust something. And the defense has been the the more dependable of the bunch over the last month and change.

Tim Donnelly & Dennis Cox discuss how the Carolina Panthers are looking to get Bryce Young back at quarterback against the Green Bay Packers.

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