The price is Bryce
Recently this week a prominent quarterback in the national football league was benched. Of course, I am talking about Bryce young. The young quarterback that went to The University of Alabama and was drafted by the lower half of the national football league’s Carolina panthers. A lot of conversation has been made about his benching and as an alumnus of the University of Alabama I felt it right to make this my articles topic this week.
As the starter at the University of Alabama Bryce ran the offense very well and improvised on par with former Alabama quarterbacks such as Jalen Hurts and Joe Namath. (Tua was left out due to recent and previous dangerous hits regardless of mobility.) They have also had the likes of Blake Sims and AJ McCarron. The latter of the two has been a solid back up in the national football league and a championship caliber starter in college and in the spring league.
There have been other notable benchings throughout pro football in its history. Kurt warner, baker Mayfield, Gardner Minshew to name a few. Warner was benched and changed teams and brought them to the super bowl (The Arizona Cardinals). His cards were sold during the junk wax era and autos, and such remained unchanged even after making the hall of fame. Now on to a more recent “bust”, Baker Mayfield. He came into the league with tons of hype, like Bryce, and did not pan out in the first few offensive schemes he was in. Now, and the end of the season last year, he has come back with a vengeance and his market has not gone away like many believe Bryce’s will. Minshew was similar and played back up at a stop or two before turning on the jets and realizing his full potential. He, like the others, have had to find the right fit, or the right mindset to be successful in such a hostile league. What we must realize as collectors and fans alike is there is a lot of things that go into being successful in today’s game of NFL football. It isn’t the same way it was when I was a teen, and the highly drafted quarterbacks had years of experience on the bench to learn the game and the speed of everything. Most notably Aaron Rodgers sitting behind Farve.
Before we write off Bryce young we have to look at what the possibilities for his future is. Any little change can and may bring back his card market and increase the drive to buy his cards again. As always there will be a crowd that buys the dip and some may believe in him and others will buy to be able to sell at a higher price at a later date otherwise known as “flipping”. Bryce is still a member of the team and can sit back and learn from a journeyman quarterback in Andy Dalton. If he learns the inner workings of the game better and knows them without thinking about his throws or staring down reads, he can possibly very well come back as a great quarterback in this league. Bryce is only 23 years of age. He has not experienced even half of what the NFL has to offer. In my humble, and yes biased opinion, I believe we must keep him relevant in the trading card space and wait for him to catch up. Not everyone learns at the same pace or the same way. He might need a few years as a back up and then a change of scenery to explode and become the star that many people, a lot of those from Alabama and Carolina, believed he would be in the beginning.
I will agree that benching him was the right move at this moment, but he should not be the only one to receive blame and his cards should still be collected. I have seen many young collectors in Alabama at card shows buying his cards prior to this. Even Blake Sims is collected here and he never had a shot. Bryce is still going to be around in this league, but do you believe Bryce is right for your team?
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