Andy Dalton Reveals Bryce Young's Latest 'Wow' Moment
Bryce Young hasn't wasted any time impressing those inside the Carolina Panthers building and appears to be doing so every day. Last week, quarterbacks coach Josh McCown raved about the advanced level of thinking and questions that he asks during meetings, some of which are not expected to come from a player of his age.
"It's clear every time we step into a meeting with him, it's clear that he's taking the material, whatever was presented the day before, he's taking that and he's spent time with it at home. And he's digested it and he comes with questions. That's what a pro does," McCown said. "He's got great questions, very insightful. A lot of times well beyond what a rookie would ask, so that's encouraging. That expedites the process for us meeting-wise because we can get to some second, third, fourth level-type answers. He's doing a great job of taking the information, processing it, and this is kind of the downloading phase right now of all that information he's doing a good job of that."
Monday morning, he impressed his mentor, Andy Dalton.
"I think he just has a good understanding for the game of football," the veteran QB stated. "There was even an example today - we were talking over the script and one of the plays was written wrong. He brought it up and said hey, this is supposed to be this, right? And yeah, it was supposed to be a different tag on there. So I think just his understanding of football is really high level. You can tell early on that he's got it."
Young walked us through how he recognized the error in the script and talked about the importance of small details, such as this.
"Just getting the script before practice I'm going through it in my head practicing everything and it was just a tag based on the formation that didn't make much sense but it was just because it was a different tag. It was an easy fix. They actually already fixed it by the time we got here in the morning once I talked to coach about it. But again, I just want to be prepared. I want to look through everything and go through everything. I'm learning, so as much time as I can spend studying stuff and being in the playbook and trying to learn whether it's calls, scrips, installs, or whatever that is, that's what I'm trying to do."
With each passing day, it's become easier to see why the Panthers fell in love with Young in the pre-draft process, particularly at their dinner. He's a film junky and takes his work very seriously. With his attention to detail and investment in learning the offense, the chances of Young starting Week 1 in Atlanta are pretty darn good.
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