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He just figured out where the sun is a couple of weeks ago -
By raleigh-panther · Posted
Some excerpts With echoes of Cam Newton, Bryce Young leaves no doubt that the Panthers are his team now BY SCOTT FOWLER [email protected] 2 days ago I know that was actually Bryce Young on the field Sunday, leading the Carolina Panthers to a 44-38 overtime win over Atlanta with a career-best performance in the season finale. I know it was Young accounting for five total touchdowns and outplaying everyone else in Atlanta. But what I kept seeing — and what I kept thinking about — was Cam Newton. For the very first time in his two years as the Panthers quarterback, Bryce reminded me of Cam so much Sunday it was eerie. It wasn’t just the five TDs, and the very Cam-esque ratio as to how he scored them (three pass, two rush). It was the absolute joy Young played with all afternoon. It was the first-down symbol he kept throwing up, just like Newton used to. It was the jump pass he threw to Jalen Coker on that overtime touchdown drive (although, to be fair, that was more of a Patrick Mahomes special). But most of all, it was Young’s 12-yard touchdown pass to Tommy Tremble on fourth-and-1, when he fired a strike and then turned around, his arms to the sky, before Tremble ever caught it in the end zone. That was Steph Curry/Cam Newton showmanship at its finest. That was Young, showing some personality on a team that desperately needs its best players to grab the city of Charlotte by the lapels and say, “Pay attention to us again! We’re fun! Give us another chance!” Newton would later say on X that the play was “nasty” (in a good way, of course) and “Boogie Approved.” Now let’s just get Young to work on a couple of things. First, can someone get Young to spice up his postgame news conferences? He’s unfailingly pleasant and unfailingly dull there, even after five-TD games. And secondly, starting with the first home game of the 2025 regular season, Bryce needs to re-institute Cam’s old tradition of handing all of his touchdown balls to a kid dressed in Carolina garb in the stands. That tradition needs to return, and Young now has the credentials and the pull to make it happen. As for the Cam Newton comparison, let me be clear as to its limited scope. Young has never had a season remotely close to the sort Newton posted, year after year, from 2011-18. The fewest touchdown passes Newton threw in any of those seasons was 18; the most Young has had was 15, in the season just concluded. ….. For now, though, the Panthers have to focus on getting a lot better. They just missed the playoffs for the seventh straight season. My daughter is a high school senior, and the Panthers have been irrelevant nationally since she was in elementary school. They’ve still got 99 problems. But Bryce Young? He’s no longer one of them. -
I say this because a potential probowl center could be on the market to make our O-line a fab five. I'm speaking of Ryan Kelly of the Colts. He is a four time probowler at the position, and has lead the way for Jonathan Taylor's success in Indianapolis. The down sides of acquiring him is he's coming off an injury season (but he did finish the year strong), he's a veteran who is currently 31 (not too bad for a trench guy), and could want good money from the center position. (Particularly if coming to Carolina who aren't seen as a contending team as of yet). All that said, I like how Cade Mays played at the position, but the question is will he continue to progress into a top center? I'm looking at the dynamics on our line and this is the first time I've seen probowl qualities at every position left to right. The only question mark perhaps is the center position. What say y'all?
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