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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If there was ever a reminder that the Carolina Panthers’ brand is not what it once was, the release of the 2024 NFL schedule made it explicitly clear where the franchise currently stands: After years of instability and an NFL-worst 2-15 record in 2023, the Panthers were the lone team in the National Football League to not receive a single prime-time game when their schedule was unveiled one week ago.
While the Panthers have five games slated for the 4 p.m. ET window — and their Week 10 game in Munich against the New York Giants will be an NFL Network standalone at 9:30 a.m. — the majority of their games this upcoming season will take place in the 1 p.m. ET window, putting them relatively out of sight and out of mind in the grand scheme of the NFL landscape. For those most faithful to the Panthers and those who both remember and experienced their glory days, such a snub has been a bitter pill to swallow: Carolina’s all-time leading rusher and franchise great Jonathan Stewart took exception to his team’s lack of a prime-time game, saying on a podcast that the current team should feel disrespected and that he would use it as motivation as a player.
On the first day of Panthers OTAs on Monday, quarterback Bryce Young — a player accustomed to the spotlight as a star at Alabama and the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft — was asked if he took his team not receiving a prime-time game as a slap in the face.
“It’s out of our control. I’m big on just focusing on us — focusing on what I can control,” Young said. “I’m not huge on trying to find external motivation from something else. I’m not huge on ‘Oh, if someone slights me or slights us I want to hold onto it.’ And there’s nothing wrong with it, everyone gets their fire and their fuel from certain places. For me, I just try to be internally motivated and push myself to be the best I can, I want us to be the best we can….
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Author : Steven Taranto
Publish date : 2024-05-20 21:40:45
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