ATLANTA — No one has ever summed up the distance between the SEC and the NFL better than Steve Spurrier when he noted, “There are no Vanderbilts in the NFL.”
Bryce Young spent the past two years shoving around most of college football, including the SEC. He won 23 games as a starter and lost only four. No team beat him twice.
Now he’s in the NFL, and things are very different here. Sunday afternoon, the Atlanta Falcons treated Young the way Young’s old squad treated wide-eyed freshman quarterbacks: with no pause, no deference, no mercy.