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A little over a year ago, I was sitting with someone from the New York Jets and we were discussing where it all went wrong with Zach Wilson. It was a lengthy conversation about all manner of things that impact a young quarterback’s growth — from maturity to confidence to patience and team-building ideology. In the grand analysis of everything, the tapestry of errors made by the organization boiled down to one regret.
Wilson never should have started as a rookie. The team wasn’t built for his success, and he wasn’t built to overcome the organization’s shortcomings. And that ultimately fractured whatever he could have been for the Jets.
That’s the conversation I was thinking about Monday, when the new Carolina Panthers regime benched No. 1 overall draft pick Bryce Young after just two games this season. Young looked about as defeated as you can as a young quarterback. His body language — along with him just making the simplest of mistakes — ultimately led to this moment. Like Wilson with the Jets, something in his confidence looks broken. And it traces back to the punishment he took his rookie season behind an offensive line that was beaten up and ill-equipped to protect anyone, let alone a rookie quarterback.
Without a doubt, there’s a mental component here with Young — a confidence component — that is disrupting his ability to make some of the plays that he’s been making his entire life. At one point during the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, Young badly missed wideout Adam Thielen on a simple third-and-2 throw into the slot position at the line of scrimmage. A free rusher came into his field of vision, but all Young needed to do was turn and make a quick, standard 5-yard throw. He missed it badly, zipping the ball nearly 3 yards in front of Thielen.
Later that day, an area scout who had done a lot of work on Young prior to the 2023 NFL Draft called me after seeing that clip.
“That’s so crazy. That’s a throw he…
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Publish date : 2024-09-17 19:07:48
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