{"id":401398,"date":"2026-01-11T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401398\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:06:06","slug":"dave-canales-i-cant-say-enough-about-the-way-bryce-young-stepped-up-and-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401398\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Canales: I can&#8217;t say enough about the way Bryce Young stepped up and played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers quarterback Bryce Young lost his first playoff start on Saturday, but he impressed head coach Dave Canales.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to describe Young\u2019s performance, Canales said, \u201cGritty. Just gritty. Tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canales acknowledged that Young threw a bad interception but said that Young gave the Panthers a chance to win against a good Rams pass rush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made plays, he extended the play, found guys downfield consistently, ran a touchdown in,\u201d Canales said. \u201cI just can\u2019t say enough about the way Bryce stepped up and played in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Canales was hired two years ago, the Panthers were coming off a 2-15 season and there were serious questions about whether they had made a mistake by trading up to select Young first overall in the 2023 NFL draft. Saturday\u2019s loss was a disappointment, but the Panthers now think they have the right quarterback in place. And the right head coach in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panthers quarterback Bryce Young lost his first playoff start on Saturday, but he impressed head coach Dave Canales.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-401398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}