Thing is.....Dalton been a pro since Bryce was a little kid.
He's already experienced and developed.
Bryce may not have it but has Carolina done the best job possible developing him? Would any rookie succeed there? Probably a little of column A and a little of column B.
You can't develop something that fundamentally can't do basic shyt because they can't build on it. Bryce was a #1 pick but still isn't better than PJ Walker. Sunk cost is a bytch but better deal with it early.
Bryce should have sat his first year.
Also, nobody has patience anymore.
I concede that Carolina seems to have more talent than I gave them credit for. Still, you also have to consider that the vibe from the Raiders postgame was that the players expected to walk through Carolina after they heard Dalton was starting and got a rude awakening.
Bryce hasn't played well, but if everybody agrees that Bryce's rookie year was a wash/deserves a pass -- and I'm assuming most believe that -- then what the hell have you learned about the kid after 18 games when you have the Bakers, Fields, and Darnolds of the world having career resurgences after changing teams and being in the league 4+ years?
No he hasn't played well, he's been the *worst* in the league and never shown flashes over even two consistent quarters lol... we gotta stop dancing around it. He's objectively been terrible at everything. Deep, intermediate, short. Arm strength, touch. Before the playcall and protections. Set and scrambling.
And when yal keep bringing up Darnold and Baker, please acknowledge the fact that no team considered them franchise QBs then or even now. Because that's why they're gone. And that's not even a knock on them. Further, they were never as bad as Bryce.
This always comes back to people literally not grasping how objectively bad Bryce is. Like if you compare Bryce and Fields - you've never seen Bryce play for the Panthers.
So look at this real quick. Panthers fans even know where his blind spots are - this is the same problematic throw. When his vision is even slightly obscured, he starts to 'assume' instead of 'anticipate'. He was supposed to be so NFL ready that this could never happen. Now any team has to unfukk this habit.
play em on mute, same contested angle - same week delivery and guesswork
So why is Bryce benched? Because his idea of improving is to simply stop trying. 3&out better than an embarrassing pick.
If you can't even put up effort in garbage time after your own play removes your team's chances of winning, then you earned the bench.
Andy isn't starting week 4 because he had 300/3TDs, he locked the job up simply by giving the Panthers their first quality opening drive in over a year and converting third and long btw. Media really trying to push this "he can't do that again" but we do not care.