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Panthers QB Bryce Young makes franchise history in Week 18 win

Not even Cam Newton accomplished what Bryce Young did with his arm and his feet on Sunday.

Not even Cam Newton, in his dually-decorated decade for the Carolina Panthers, accomplished what Bryce Young did with his arm and his feet on Sunday.

The Panthers got a career day out of Young in Week 18’s 44-38 overtime win over the Atlanta Falcons, as the second-year passer scored five total touchdowns. Three of those scores came through the air and two came on the ground, making him the first quarterback in franchise history to record three touchdown passes and two touchdown runs in a single game.

Young, in the work leading up to those end-zone visits, completed 25 of his 35 throws for 251 yards—his second-highest mark of the season. He also added 24 rushing yards on five attempts.

Head coach Dave Canales spoke about his quarterback’s memorable day following the triumph.

“And how about Bryce?” Canales said to reporters at the beginning of his post-game press conference. “Being able to call whatever I wanted to call on the call sheet knowing that he was going to find a positive outcome. He was gonna find a throwaway, a big play, a scramble for a touchdown. Just the different things and how freeing that is just to be able to call whatever fits that area and not have to second-guess the calls—he gave us the ability to do that today.”

The former No. 1 overall pick finishes his second campaign with 15 passing touchdowns and six rushing touchdowns.

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Panthers set new NFL single-season record for most points allowed

Move over, 1981 Baltimore Colts. The Panthers have made NFL history here in 2024.

Your 2024 Carolina Panthers have made NFL history.

In the fourth quarter of Sunday’s regular-season finale, Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson found the end zone on a 4-yard rush to cut the Carolina’s lead to 38-37. The ensuing extra point from kicker Riley Patterson would knot the game up and stand as the 534th point given up by the Panthers this year—a new single-season record.

The previous record was held by the 1981 Baltimore Colts, who relinquished 533 points over 16 games. Those Colts, while finishing at 2-14, allowed 33.3 points per contest.

Carolina entered Week 18 having allowed 31.0 points per game and 396.3 total yards per game, both the highest marks in the NFL. They were also giving up a league-worst 176.9 rushing yards per game, more than 35 rushing yards than the next closest team (New York Giants, 141.6).

Unfortunately, this historic defensive achievement (if we want to put it that way) put somewhat of a damper on a career day for Panthers quarterback Bryce Young. Young, to the point of that Robinson touchdown, completed 20 of his 26 passing attempts for 195 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for 24 yards and two more scores.

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Panthers now within range to break NFL record for most points allowed in a season

The Panthers, in their Week 17 loss, got a lot closer to an NFL record you certainly don’t want to have.

The 2024 Carolina Panthers are on the precipice of NFL history.

After Sunday’s 48-14 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Panthers have now allowed a franchise-record 496 points on the campaign—surpassing the 470 points given up in 2019. But that’s not all!

Carolina is now 38 points away from setting a new NFL record for the most points allowed in a season. With one game to go, they sit 37 points behind (or ahead) of the 1981 Baltimore Colts—who relinquished 533 points.

While much of the blame goes on the battered and bruised-up defense, this “achievement” wouldn’t be in striking distance if not for a group effort. Head coach Dave Canales spoke about being dominated in all phases of their Week 17 defeat.

“Well, I mean, it’s all of us,” Canales stated after the game, one in which his team also set a new franchise record for the lowest time of possession. “And I know that we’ve given up a lot of yards and points, I understand that. But when you go 22 percent on third down, offensively, and make it hard like that and we’re off the field, the defense has to go right back out there against a really good offensive attack.

“So it’s about opportunity. We gave them so many opportunities to continue to build off their momentum and things they were doing.”

Standing in between the Panthers and this dubious mark will be the Atlanta Falcons, who are set to play host for the regular-season finale in Week 18.

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Panthers set franchise record (not a good one) in 48-14 loss to Buccaneers

The Panthers set a (bad) franchise record for ball control in Sunday’s 48-14 loss to the Bucs.

Instead of following through with their designs of playing spoiler in Week 17, the Carolina Panthers ended up just looking like spoiled milk inside of Raymond James Stadium on Sunday.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers smashed the Panthers this afternoon, dispatching their visitors en route to a 48-14 beatdown. They also helped their house guests make history, as Carolina’s total time of possession on the outing (18 minutes and 49 seconds) was the lowest all-time mark for the franchise.

After the game, head coach Dave Canales spoke about being outplayed in all three phases—which certainly factored into the historic lack of ball control.

“Well, I mean, it’s all of us,” Canales said when asked about his defense’s lowly performance. “And I know that we’ve given up a lot of yards and points, I understand that. But when you go 22 percent on third down, offensively, and make it hard like that and we’re off the field, the defense has to go right back out there against a really good offensive attack.

“So it’s about opportunity. We gave them so many opportunities to continue to build off their momentum and things they were doing.”

Well, they were certainly doing. The Buccaneers amassed 551 total yards, 33 first downs and converted on 10 of their 13 third-down attempts.

The Panthers, meanwhile, mustered up all of 204 yards, 13 first downs and moved the chains just twice on their nine third-down looks.

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Panthers RB Chuba Hubbard reaches career milestone in Week 14

For the first time in his NFL career, Panthers RB Chuba Hubbard is a 1,000-yard rusher.

Carolina Panthers running back Chuba Hubbard scored more than just a touchdown in the second half of this afternoon’s closely-contested matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles. He also scored a career milestone.

Hubbard, for the first time in his four-year NFL career, has now amassed 1,000 rushing yards in a single season. He clinched the landmark on a 6-yard run with just over eight minutes remaining in the third quarter of Sunday’s outing.

Then, eight snaps later, Hubbard hit the end zone for a 1-yard punch-in to give the Panthers a 16-14 lead over the heavily-favored Eagles.

Hubbard—at the conclusion of the 12-play, 58-yard drive—now sits at 1,004 rushing yards on the campaign. His previous career-high came last season, when he ran for 902 yards and five scores.

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Panthers’ Bryce Young leads all QBs in this clutch stat over the last 2 weeks . . .

This is why the Panthers selected Bryce Young with the No. 1 overall pick of the 2023 NFL draft:

Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young has activated his clutch gene.

Sunday’s outing against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did not result in a win for Young, but it did end with some more encouraging results. The second-year passer, for the second straight week, masterfully played the role of point guard in the face of constant pressure—throwing for a season-high 298 yards and a touchdown.

The 26-23 loss also yielded four “big-time throws” from Young.

“Big-time throws,” a signature stat devised by Pro Football Focus, is a way to gauge how a quarterback can “throw a receiver open.” As described by PFF themselves, it’s a “pass with excellent ball location and timing, generally thrown further down the field and/or into a tighter window.”

So, Week 13’s four big-time throws from Young, coupled with his five from the Week 12 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs, have given us this tidbit . . .

Behind Young sits Minnesota’s Sam Darnold (eight), Indianapolis’ Anthony Richardson (six), Tennessee’s Will Levis (six) and Chicago’s Caleb Williams (six).

And unless Cleveland’s Jameis Winston completes eight big-time throws or Denver’s Bo Nix completes nine tonight, Young will walk away from the last two weeks as the league leader in this stat.

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Panthers’ Bryce Young joins Josh Allen, Joe Burrow as only QBs to do this in 2024 . . .

Bryce Young led the Panthers into some elite company here in 2024.

Joe Burrow, Josh Allen . . . and Bryce Young.

Those are the only three quarterbacks, here in the 2024 campaign, to lead their offenses to at least 25 points against the defending Super Bowl champions.

Unfortunately for the Carolina Panthers, their Week 12 matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs ended in defeat. Despite a valiant effort, Young and his cats just missed pulling off the biggest upset of the year in what would be a 30-27 loss.

Nevertheless, those 27 points should mean something—especially when they were scored on one of the NFL’s tightest defenses. And they may mean even more when you consider that the only other teams to do it have a Most Valuable Player candidate and a top quarterback playing his best career ball under center.

Oh, and here’s a list of pretty good offenses that fell short of that mark versus Kansas City this season:

  • Lamar Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens
  • Kirk Cousins’ Atlanta Falcons
  • Justin Herbert’s Los Angeles Chargers
  • Brock Purdy’s San Francisco 49ers
  • Baker Mayfield’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Young finished his day with a season-high 263 passing yards while the Panthers converted on five of their 13 third-down attempts and both of their fourth-down tries. They totaled 334 yards.

Carolina was also just the third team to score on at least 75 percent of their drives against the Chiefs since they’ve been led by head coach Andy Reid (2013).

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Panthers’ Eddy Piñeiro is now NFL’s most accurate FG kicker ever . . . and he didn’t even play this week

Carolina Panthers kicker Eddy Piñeiro became the most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history on Sunday . . . and he didn’t even play. Here’s how:

Carolina Panthers kicker Eddy Piñeiro became the most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history on Sunday . . . and he didn’t even play.

Piñeiro, while enjoying his team’s bye, entered Week 11 with a career field goal rate of 89.381 percent—the second-highest ever. That mark had him barely behind Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, who sat atop the all-time list at 89.716 percent.

Well, Tucker didn’t have himself a very good showing against the Pittsburgh Steelers this afternoon.

The future Hall of Famer started off his outing by missing on a 47-yard attempt almost 10 minutes into the first quarter. He’d then miss his next try, a 50-yarder, on Baltimore’s very next possession.

Tucker was able to shake off the pair of whiffs to successfully convert on his third go, a 54-yarder with 6:12 remaining in the third quarter. But it wouldn’t be enough to recover in the ranks.

Those misses, even along with the make, now have Tucker at 89.347 percent—.034 percent below Piñeiro.

Congrats, Steady Eddy!

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Panthers QB Bryce Young sits alongside 2024 MVP candidates in this stat . . .

Panthers QB Bryce Young, since returning to the starting lineup three weeks ago, has something in common with MVP front-runners Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen.

Hey, look at Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young with 2024 Most Valuable Player front-runners Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen.

Who would have thought?

Not us.

Since returning to the starting lineup three weeks ago, Young has inspired at least a sprinkle of hope for the Panthers. The much-improved version of last year’s No. 1 overall pick has completed 62.5 percent of his passes for 521 yards, four touchdowns and three interceptions while helping lead Carolina to a 2-1 mark.

He’s also, perhaps more impressively, done this . . .

The first of those drives came near the end of the Week 8 loss to the Denver Broncos. Young orchestrated a 10-play, 98-yard possession that finished up with a 15-play touchdown throw to rookie wideout Jalen Coker.

The second happened this past Sunday, in the first quarter of the 20-17 victory over the New York Giants. That one was punctuated by a 5-yard connection between Young and rookie tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders for the opening points of the contest.

As of this writing, Carolina head coach Dave Canales still has yet to commit to Young as the starter moving forward.

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Panthers achieve something 275 teams before them did not with Week 9 win

The Panthers pulled off a historically-improbable win in Week 9. Check out this insane stat:

The Carolina Panthers’ unbelievable upset win over the New Orleans Saints on Sunday was improbable in more ways than one.

Week 9 saw the Panthers claw past the Saints on their way to a 23-22 victory. That triumph also saw, well, this . . .

New Orleans accumulated a total of 427 yards, with 197 of them coming through the ground. Carolina, on the other, amassed all of 246 total yards and 80 rushing yards.

The lone interception charged to quarterback Bryce Young also gave the Saints the lone takeaway of the outing. That robbery went down about five minutes into the fourth quarter, when Young dropped a beauty of a deep ball into wide receiver Xavier Legette—who’d have the rock snatched clean out of his hands by cornerback Shemar Jean-Charles.

But hey, the Panthers—who are now 4-22 over the last two seasons—will probably be glad to take a win any way they can get one.

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