Tepper Believes Young Gave Carolina the Highest Probability of Winning Super Bowls
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The goal for every NFL franchise is to win Super Bowls, obviously. For the Carolina Panthers, they have yet to bring back a Lombardi Trophy to the Queen City in its 27-plus years of existence. David Tepper believes that will change very soon and even told the fans that shortly after the pick down on the field at the draft party.
'What do I want to say? Super Bowls," he said when asked what the pick of Bryce Young means to the organization.
Tepper was involved in the decision-making process but mainly from an analytical perspective. He let the football guys do the football work while he assisted by running through all sorts of numbers and data to help back the pick. Why does he feel so confident that Bryce Young can deliver Super Bowls to Carolina?
He explains.
"Well, when we went through the process of quarterbacks, as you guys know it was a very deep process with the head coach. We found what we believe is the best head coach that we could find and then set the head coach free to find the best staff he could find. So that was what we did. Going through the process of these quarterbacks, one of the questions we asked ourselves was which one of these guys can take us there (Super Bowl). What’s the probability that this guy can take us there? It was no sure thing. Not to talk about all the other guys, but this guy had the highest probability of winning Super Bowls. I speak for myself, and not to speak for Frank but I think Scott feels the same way, you want to win Super Bowls. There’s no sure thing here, but it was probability. We thought this guy has the best probability of winning us Super Bowls. The way he throws the ball, the way he’s a point guard, how you can use the different players on the field, how you might not have to have as many elite receivers because he’s the point guard, right? So he distributes the ball to people with routes. So we can save some money there, we can save money in other places and put that money on the defensive side of the ball.
"So this is a guy that when you talk about here, for us, for this Carolina Panthers team, from the draft with Matt Rhule and the process of putting the defense first and getting the defense set, then with Scott get the offensive line. This year with Frank we went out into free agency with different pieces we needed for wide receivers. We think we have some great route runners with [Adam] Thielen and Hayden [Hurst] and other people here, so that’s somewhat intentional and get what we need and now we have a point guard. And then with Scott, he has other people in this draft he’s going to be thinking about. So it’s a process."
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