Lavonte David On Bryce Young And Dave Canales
December 21st, 2025
Offers up takes on Carolina and Bryce Young.
Joe is not a huge fan of Stinking Panthers quarterback Bryce Young. He seems to be more of an inconsistent runaround quarterback than skilled passer.
Oh, he has his moments. And he can make plays with his feet. But at the end of the day a quarterback gets paid for how he can throw the ball and more importantly, how he can score points when needed.
Young hasn’t quite shown he’s on Steve Young’s level yet.
Last week, Joe asked Bucs legend Lavonte David to give a breakdown on Young.
“He’s a different dynamic,” David said. “His mobility, the way he moves in the pocket, very dual [dangerous with arm and legs]. He can get the ball out right on time and place it right on the money.”
And David indirectly gave former Bucs offensive coordinator and current Stinking Panthers coach Dave Canales credit for turning Young around.
“His improvement is amazing,” David said. “I love the way he’s playing the game, I love the way he’s seeing the game now.
“He’s a very competitive player.”
With Canales, in his second season, being tied with the Bucs for first place in the division, Joe asked David if he sees anything from Carolina’s offense on tape and say to himself, “Hey, I remember that.”
“Yeah, somewhat,” David said. “There were a lot of battles between us in practice. It is definetly going to be a challenge [this afternoon].
“We pick some things up [on video that Canales used with the Bucs] which makes it fun going up against those guys.”
Huge, huge game today. If the Bucs can’t pull out a win, they have then backed themselves into a corner with no escape but to win each of the final two games or have the earliest start to the offseason in six years.
December 21st, 2025 at 1:51 am
They own your head coich. Fuggettaboutit.
December 21st, 2025 at 1:54 am
Your reports are just trash. This gossip is equivalent to the trashy NFC south and this false hope that your team is good. You constantly have to come up with crap stories because what else is there to talk about when your team, once again, found a way to suck. But, somehow, wins a division. The sad thing is you support whatever stink keeps you in a job. So not only does the team just suck and get lucky, you do too because you really suck at writing and hope that the dickhead fans keep following your crap reports. You won’t post this.
December 21st, 2025 at 2:15 am
Glazer – you’re venting in the wrong direction. Joe didn’t hire Bowsel or let Coen leave instead of making him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Joe’s not the reason Bwoles hasn’t been fired yet. Take it easy.
December 21st, 2025 at 4:49 am
Glazer says- who hurt you? 😅😅 Everything is gonna be okay man!
December 21st, 2025 at 6:12 am
I PREDICT A TIE! LIKE 70-70 & TEN TDs FOR BOTH. Nobody will stop anybody & everyone will score constantly. They’ll score like every 30 seconds.
December 21st, 2025 at 6:40 am
@ Glazer, Really dude? Leave Joe alone. No one is forcing you to come to the website.
December 21st, 2025 at 6:46 am
LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 21st, 2025 at 6:51 am
I was here for:
– the 0 win season
– the five 2 win seasons
– the two 3 win seasons
– the four 4 win seasons
– the ten 5 win seasons
– the 12 year stretch with only third and fourth place finishes in the division which didn’t end until the Arians/Bowles era began
– the earlier 14 year stretch without even a wildcard game appearance
To me, I have seen worse.
But, this year is troubling.
First, only marginal resources were used to address the deficiencies at ILB. The free agent acquisition of Hassan Reddick and the drafting of David Walker were reasonable EFFORTS improve the OLB situation. And, without injuries to Kancey and Walker, I can’t say that the synergy between Diaby, Reddick, Kancey and Walker would not be sufficient compared to just hoping that David and a healthy Dennis would somehow be enough at ILB.
More troubling is the lack of awareness of Ball Control Offense and the misapplication of risk-it/biscuit offensive mindset or philosophy. Arians and Leftwich worked Fournette hard to try to firmly establish or at least fix attention on the run before taking biscuit shots, and then they went back to the grind.
With Grizzard, too often, once he takes a biscuit shot, passing seems to be all that he can think of; he just keeps calling pass plays (or Baker checks down to them?), the defense knows what is coming, and another drive ends in flames.
With three solid RBs and an injured o-line that run blocks better than it pass protects, Grizzard needs to commit to the run and earn his biscuit OCCASIONAL shot. Grizzard just can’t seem to keep that in focus.
And, ahead in games with the time running out, instead of rushing to run out the clock, Grizzard sticks to his well know passing tendencies and saves time on the clock giving the other teams last minute chances to steal wins from the Bucs.
And, finally, the pressure seems to be getting to Bowles in ways that are detrimental to team confidence when he should fix the play calling problem and support player confidence.
December 21st, 2025 at 7:03 am
I def agree toopanca, everyone knew about the weakness at ILB, and banked on SVD to be the answer. I have no idea why we didn’t address it in the draft at all. He is a pretty good blitzer and decent tackler, but still not great in coverage. The middle of our defense has been exploited over and over again. Reddick to me has been a massive disappointment as well, and is why we have brought in JPP. Also, Licht paid Zyon too soon, and was a real head scratcher to me. I really hope David Walker pans out next year, but we shall see.
December 21st, 2025 at 7:58 am
Yeah Joe, this is all your fault. lol