ESPN ‘Sunday NFL Countdown’ crew obliterates ‘laughingstock’ Panthers after Bryce Young benching
NY Post
Rex Ryan, Randy Moss and the rest of ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” crew didn’t hold back while obliterating the winless Panthers — who have benched starting quarterback and 2023 No.1 overall draft pick Bryce Young — during this week’s pregame show.
Moss called Carolina “the laughingstock of the league,” while Ryan said the Panthers’ hiring of coach Dave Canales has been a “disaster,” including replacing Young with veteran Andy Dalton for Sunday’s game against the Raiders.
“I remember being in this league where the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders were the laughingstock of the National Football League. And then it came with the Cleveland Browns. Right now, the laughingstock of the National Football League is the Carolina Panthers,” Moss said. “And it’s not because of how they’re playing. It’s everything from ownership all the way down.”
The Panthers are off to an 0-2 start after finishing 2-15 one year ago, but they included what would have been the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft and wide receiver D.J. Moore to trade up to draft Young out of Alabama in 2023.
“This organization is a disaster. You could not pay me enough money to go play for the Carolina Panthers right now,” former NFL quarterback Alex Smith added. “The idea of an organization is to accumulate talent, not give it away. We trade Christian McCaffery. We trade away D.J. Moore. Bryan Burns, like, let’s just give away our best players.
“They have no idea how to identify talent and keep it. And oh, by the way, Baker Mayfield had a stop here, he wasn’t good enough. Sam Darnold was here, he wasn’t good enough. I pray that Bryce gets out of there…Word is out, nobody wants to go there.”
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