Steve Young
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1,298 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 10 Jul
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Just keep reversing.
I'll run it.
Okay.
I think if you stand back to who they were last year, fully loaded, and Christian McCaffrey and Brandon Ayoub probably, other than George, the most important people on the field, and then Trent and not – no, Trent. It's, you know, it's going to – it's hard, right? But I think it was going to get harder anyway.
So I think what's happened is they got punched in the mouth in Green Bay, got punched in the mouth in Buffalo, and got – and we got embarrassed. And this is a team, yeah, short of some guys. We get that. But as a group, 50 guys – have been at super bowls or at championship games.
And all of a sudden people are, you know, treating them like dogs, like, like something's, you know, and, and I think that this is their answer back, like, Hey, we're wounded, but we're not gone. And so when you say, Hey, can they, can they clap back and get something done? I think this is a group of people that have proven some real resilience. I mean, this is some, some hardy folks.
That's why last week I talked about grit with, you know, during the week about them is like, where's the grit? Where's the natural grit that you guys have had for years? And I think they answered that on Sunday. So I would say to your question, can they clap back and make something happen? They're under duress. They got to win. They got to go to Miami and win.
They got to win against the Rams who are hot. And they got to come back home and beat the Lions. They have to win those games. And so, yeah, it's absolutely possible. It's possible. Hard, but possible. Yes, fundamentally.
You can be ceremoniously benched and unceremoniously benched. They're both the same.
No, it's an arc. I know where you're going.
Well, I was a lefty. People back then didn't want to coach a lefty. They freaked out.
Ray Perkins got the head coaching job and he looked at me like, bro, I hate lefties and I hate scramblers. Anyone who could run was like weird. You should stand there. Don't go anywhere. And I look, that was prototype. I get it. It's still, look, you got to be a sophisticated pastor of the football today.
matter what but i always thought it was a bonus and he thought it was terrible they ran i mean he thought i left in a scrambler you're out i hate you yeah lefties do look weird no but but but but getting thrown out like when you talk about bryce young look there's there's crappy places to be as a quarterback today you can go to teams and it just it just sucks being a quarterback there because they they have people running the organization i'm not speaking about carolina specifically i'm talking about
There's a number of places where they still don't, from ownership on down, don't understand the position's importance and then how to, they tend to look at it from a defensive perspective. I'm not going to coddle a quarterback. I'm not going to, they don't need special treatment, you know? And so it's like the paradigm is wrong. It's not that they need to be coddled or need special treatment.
There's expertise to the nature of Building a situation, an organization from the ground up to make the job for the quarterback as easy as possible so they can thrive and be great. And if you do that, then you have a chance. And so for Bryce, it's getting to a place where you can actually show who you are. Look at Sam Darnold's a perfect example. Jets flailing around. Boss goes to Carolina.
Oh, show some signs. Let's be honest. He set up some smoke signals in Carolina when he was there. Like, I can still do this. I don't suck. But you still need more help. And then he gets to San Francisco. And what does Kyle Shanahan say? I love this guy. This guy's career arc could be great. And we all kind of said, oh, yeah, what are you talking about? That's crazy. He's nuts. What does he do?
And then he goes to Minnesota. And now, and so Bryce – Unless you – look, there's some guys that hit the pro game who have really thrived in college who look prototype. Bryce looks prototype. Probably not big as strong as the prototypes, but runs around, makes big plays, like, and been in the big games. Like –
bryce doesn't know his ceiling we don't know his ceiling and there's filters he's got to go through even if he got all of that help but what you're seeing today in the last few weeks is hey look i i can survive here And if you can survive, then you can thrive.
And so I don't know where this ends up for Bryce, but he's showing me, um, like, like Sam did when he was in Carolina, like we're losing, but I can figure this out. And, and that's a, I always say it's called sending me smoke signals.
Like, like I'm, I'm dying down here, but I'm sending you, uh, something that tells me that you're going to, you, you, you have a chance to thrive at some point, even either there or somewhere else.
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