Frank Reich is asking Bryce Young to do something difficult — run uphill.

As the Carolina Panthers gear up to play the New York Giants, Reich knows there is a tall task ahead of Young, who didn't get an opportunity to show much in last week's 27-0 loss to the New Your Jets. 

So, to make life easier for Young, Reich is planning another generic game plan that is easy to follow and allows guys Young to not think and go out and play. 

Reich said the Carolina game plan will “make it really simple so the guys don’t have to think and they can just go out and play and run our basic plays and we evaluate the one-on-ones. They don’t have to worry about fronts moving, backers moving. Receivers don’t have to worry about motion, shift alignments and funky things. They don’t have to worry about multiple formations, so that gives them an advantage to play faster.

“But when we do some of the things that we do to be multiple, as we say we are, that gives the players a little bit of an edge. It puts a little bit of a seed of doubt in the defense. It gives our guys a little bit of an edge. We’re not giving them that edge, and so, in essence, we’re saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to make you run uphill in this game,’ meaning, ‘We’re going to make it hard on you.’ We’re not going to do some of the little things we do to create an edge for you, so you got to make your own edge. And that’s a great opportunity for guys to step up and show us who can do that."

With an offense that will take a more cautious offensive approach, Young won't have the opportunity to unleash the full array of his capabilities. 

But that doesn't mean the Giants will hold back. And Young and Reich are aware of that reality. 

Young already admitted that he wants to improve in seemingly countless ways. What the Giants present is a defense that can give Young multiple live looks, and as a rookie, these are the reps that will make a difference for Young when it is all said and done. 

“The stuff that we did that we can build on, we got to keep doing that,” Young said, “and the stuff we got to get corrected, we’re working day in and day out to do that.”

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