Yeah I hated BY from go

[Htarnation4.0]

But above all, I'm a Panther fan. If I gotta eat crow, or suck that crow off every year (if BY wins championships) I'll do what I gotta do. Fug the Falcons. Winning is awesome!!! And I think we have a coach as well!!!

[Hoenheim]

I won't say I hated him, but I defintely didn't beleive in him from the moment we traded up for the pick 1 in 2023 draft. But I'll admit he's trending in the right direction in basically the last half of his 2nd year

I'm not crowning him the king of anything until we make some concrete progress as a franchise (ex. winning record, playoffs, etc). But as of right now, he looks like he's on the right path to lead us that way. 

I still want to see him do it in a larger sample size in the context of a winning successful season first 

[Ghostofdelhomme]

The last game of the season is the most useless datapoint you could possibly have, but this game didn’t come out of nowhere. His floor could be 1 passing + 1 rushing Td a game

[Mr. Scot]

I wanted Stroud, but Young is starting to justify his pick.

[Hoenheim]

8 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I wanted Stroud, but Young is starting to justify his pick.

thats the best way to sum up my opinions.

We gotta let it bake for a good while to really make any definitive statements about the team or Bryce.

Teams are ultimately judged by Wins vs Losses and playoff / Super bowl success, and we got none of that yet.  

If we can either get a winning season and/or playoff berth in 2025, that is gargantuan progress considering we haven't been to the playoffs or had a winning season in 7 years ongoing.   

Another step up would be back to back winning seasons and/or playoff wins. 

[panthers55]

He wasn't my first pick but his resurrection was amazing and unexpected.  To score 44 points against a team fighting for their playoff lives with a bunch of backups was far from promising.  It was the best quarterback play by a Panther QB in several years. And to beat the dirty birds at their home in overtime with a walkout TD is the stuff of panther legends. Bryce put the team on his shoulders and decided if we keep scoring we can't lose. I am still on board to draft a QB if a great one is there but Bryce had one of the best QB days from a scoring production point of view as any in franchise history.

[Bama Panther]

34 minutes ago, Ghostofdelhomme said:

The last game of the season is the most useless datapoint you could possibly have, but this game didn’t come out of nowhere. His floor could be 1 passing + 1 rushing Td a game

Not when the opponent is playing for its playoff life. 

[BIGH2001]

9 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

He wasn't my first pick but his resurrection was amazing and unexpected.  To score 44 points against a team fighting for their playoff lives with a bunch of backups was far from promising.  It was the best quarterback play by a Panther QB in several years. And to beat the dirty birds at their home in overtime with a walkout TD is the stuff of panther legends. Bryce put the team on his shoulders and decided if we keep scoring we can't lose. I am still on board to draft a QB if a great one is there but Bryce had one of the best QB days from a scoring production point of view as any in franchise history.

This team has way too many other needs to draft a QB with the way the second half of the season has gone.

[BIGH2001]

Also very impressed with Canales. He might have pulled a McVay/Goff type turnaround with young. 

[panthers55]

1 minute ago, BIGH2001 said:

This team has way too many other needs to draft a QB with the way the second half of the season has gone.

But the draft is the best place to get expensive pieces like DEs, left OTs, QBs and top notch middle linebackers. So to have your starting and backup QBs both on rookie contracts would free up a ton of money for free agents to plug in holes. Expand your point of view.....

[Htarnation4.0]

Agree there is a lot of work to be done. But I'm good this evening.