Bryce Young Carolina Panthers Quarterback reflects on playoff run, finally hitting his stride, opens up on the one night that changed his mindset, pressures of being the No. 1 NFL pick , bond with CJ Stroud and why he will never eat raccoon.

“We all signed up for the criticism, and will to take a bullet for our team, that’s our job.” Bryce Young Fresh off a breakout playoff run with the Carolina Panthers, former No. 1 overall pick Bryce Young sits down with Ryan, Channing and Fred for a deeply personal and one of his most reflective conversations yet. Bryce opens up about the pressure of being selected first overall in the NFL Draft, the early adversity he faced adjusting to the speed and complexity of the NFL as a business, and how criticism fueled his growth rather than defined him. From learning how to command a locker room to embracing failure as part of development, Bryce shares the pivotal moments that shaped his evolution from highly touted prospect to playoff quarterback. From a long drive Bryce never envisioned making to the lessons the rough roads taught him, the guys talk about the complexity of Dave Canales' play calling, Bryce's unique bond with Xavier Legette, support from Cam Newton and how the Panther faithful can be hard to navigate but worth the privilege of being the team leader. He also discusses the mental side of the game — staying grounded amid expectations, blocking out outside noise, and building resilience during tough stretches. The conversation dives into leadership, faith, preparation habits, and what it truly means to “earn it” at the highest level. Sharing a close bond with CJ Stroud, Bryce talks about CJ's strength and talent will put him back on track ignoring the noise of this past season. Honest, thoughtful, and poised beyond his years, Bryce reflects on what the playoff run taught him about trust, accountability, and belief — not just in football, but in himself. Pivot Family, comment, like, hit the subscribe button, we enjoy hearing and learning from you- the good and the bad, we want to know! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:30Ryan Clark?

  Bryce Young has always been a winner. He was one of the nation's top recruits at one of its best high school programs. He won the Heisman at Alabama under Nick Saban, and he was the NFL's number-one overall pick to the Carolina Panthers. So it's crazy to think that he was driving down a highway with no destination after being benched early in his second year for Andy Dalton. Bryce takes us back to the meeting when he got the news, how the news was delivered, also how he took it, and the promise he made himself once it finally settled in. And there are some things that he'd like to change about being a rookie signal caller and the way that he approached leadership. He gives advice to his younger self, just so he knows he wouldn't make that mistake again.

• 1:15Ryan Clark?

  He talks about all the important relationships: the Carolina fans, Carolina's head coach, and Carolina's only MVP, Cam Newton. We even got into the evolution of his life with his wonderful parents. And we tried to push him on relationships, but my dogs say he keeps his private life private. But just being real, I can't help but root for Bryce Young. And after this sit-down with me, Channing, and Freddie T, if you weren't already a Bryce Young fan, I think you'll pivot to being one.

• 2:10Ryan Clark?

  That boy look like something. Like I pearls on him.

• 2:15Fred Taylor?

  What's up, baby?

• 2:16Ryan Clark?

  My dog. Good to see you, boy. Yes, sir, man. No, I feel like, it feels like yesterday, man, we were at your parents' house.

• 2:25Bryce Young?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 2:26Ryan Clark?

  You know what I mean? Before the draft, time flies. Bryce Young, welcome to the Pivot. This is Fred Taylor, Channing Crowder, I'm Ryan Clark. Pivot fam, thank you for pivoting with us. This is the second time we pivoted.

• 2:36Fred Taylor?

  The second time, but I think this might be a first. I think it's an edge up. Eating you up, RC.

• 2:42Ryan Clark?

  He shot him.

• 2:43Fred Taylor?

  Tatum, y'all was close. You and JT was close, but RC.

• 2:48Ryan Clark?

  First off, you can't, you cannot turn me against Bryce, so it doesn't matter.

• 2:53Bryce Young?

  Not a competition.

• 2:54Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, that's my dog, so.

• 2:55Bryce Young?

  We can all shine.

• 2:55Ryan Clark?

  Yeah, why, why, why can't we all? Yeah, why can't we all be in a good place, man? You know what I'm saying? Type of guys are these, man. Bryce, bro, man, first off, just excited for you to be able to show people what Bryce Young, the person and leader, was made of throughout this entire season. But I do want to take us back to last year, when you are told that Andy Dalton is going to be the starter, and you're no longer the starter. What was that experience like for you? And what did you learn about yourself?

• 3:28Bryce Young?

  That was a place I'd never, never been at before. Obviously, not something that I was, you know, you're expecting, you never think, you know, things could go that way, turn out that way. So, you know, in the moment, obviously, it was a lot, it was hard, it was really difficult. At that time, obviously, you know, you're, you're, you're working through the motions in real time, and you're figuring out. That, like, night, honestly, I drove around, like, I didn't want to go back home, like, I just drove for, like, hours. And I just, I didn't know where I was going. I put Atlanta in my, uh, in my GPS, like, I knew I was going to go all the way to Atlanta, but I was just like. I didn't know what was up, what was down in that time. And as I was driving, trying to like clear my mind. I made a conscious decision to challenge myself to be as consistent as I could be during that time and to grow from it.

• 4:13Bryce Young?

  And that was hard, like I had a lot of, you know, I'm human. I had a lot of, I was upset, I was confused, I was mad at myself, mad at other, like whatever, you know, I had those emotions. And at that time, I'm like, one, I want to challenge myself to be the same person. Like, I don't want this to change my personality. I don't want to show up to work with bad energy. I don't want to be a bad teammate, like, I don't want to be, like, I was like, I'm going to be very conscious to be the same person, be kind to everyone. I'll be honest, I'm not the best, like, texter, like, I'm not great at that. And, you know, obviously, people would do that and, um, you know, for game, good games, bad games, you know, everyone know how, you know, you get a bunch of texts. And sometimes I'm not always the best to like, and really, in bad moments, I'm really not the best at returning those texts.

• 4:58Bryce Young?

  Most of the time, I don't want to see it, most of the time, I'm just like, all right, I'm gonna figure this out by myself. And a bunch of people obviously reached out and texted and showed support, which I was super grateful for. And I was like, it probably wasn't that day, but maybe it was the next day. I was like, I'm gonna text everyone back, like, I'm going to be, and I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna say thank you. I'm gonna like, you know, I'm gonna interact with people in the same way. And that was one of the first steps. And then also, faith-wise, it was really big for me. I've always been a believer, I've always, you know, had faith, I've always had, um, you know, walked with God. But I think that it was a blessing to be able to have to experience it. I've had a lot of, you know, a lot of, as far as football goes, I've been very blessed career-wise up until, you know, at that point, it was like, you know, it was kind of all positive. And then, you know, it took a quick turn.

• 5:42Bryce Young?

  And I'd always, you know, oh, I trust in God, believe, you know, whatever it is, I always give it up to him. But that was one of the first times in a professional sense that I had no choice. Like, and, you know, I think that's, that wasn't an accident. Like, I think God put me there to know that I, you know, that the faith is real, for me to strengthen my faith, really for me to be able to experience God in a different way. That was like, you know, for me, I was, I was super grateful that, I am super grateful for that. It was just trying to be as consistent as I could. I was like, I don't want to have a different routine. I don't want to stop watching the same amount of film. I don't want to do the same little habits that I had. And I'd never done any of that as a hypothetical. You know, before, it's like, you know, I'm gonna grind in the off-season because this is what's in front of me.

• 6:23Bryce Young?

  And, you know, I'm gonna, this week, I'm watching film and I, you know, it's Thursday and I want to go home and I'm tired, but it's like, I mean, on Sunday, I know I'm gonna be happy I watched this extra film. And that was my first time I had to do it where it's like, this might be for nothing. Like, you know, I don't know what my future holds. I don't know. I don't know anything. And that was the first time I didn't, yeah, I didn't have that, that path. You know, it's not everything's guaranteed, but it's like, all right, if I do this, I can get here. High school, I was rated highs, like, all right, I can go to whatever school. I keep, you know, I keep doing, doing this, get to Bama. It's like, here's this path for however many first round draft picks they've had. Here's what I could, you know, I gotta do it, but here's what it looks like. You know, obviously you get picked, picked first, it's like, here's what you can do to be, to, you know, to.

• 7:07Bryce Young?

  And that was the first time I didn't, I didn't have a path. I didn't, I had to trust, trust God. I'm, I'm super grateful for that.

• 7:13Channing Crowder?

  What was tougher, learning to move through that adversity that you just speak about? Or the expectations and pressures and the processes that come along with being the number one overall pick in your rookie year? Having to deal with that moment?

• 7:26Bryce Young?

  Honestly, getting through that was tougher. I wasn't really a stranger to expectations. I, I, it's something I've, I've always embraced, and I think I've been able to do that just by trying to reach onto what's tangible. Like, for me, what people expect, what people think on the outside, you know, I, I, I'm, I'm a sports fan too. You know, I've been a sports fan. I'm grateful that everyone has an opinion and everyone has projections, because that's what fuels a sport. You know, that's what keeps it, keeps it going. But also, that doesn't affect me. It's not gonna be the reason, good or bad, something happens. So with expectations, I've always been able to keep it in the building. I've always been able, all right, what does my teammate expect from me? What does my coach expect from me?

• 8:03Channing Crowder?

  Right.

• 8:03Bryce Young?

  And I've had a lot of experience with that, but yeah, being, being benched, you know, not, you know, again, there being so much in the air. I, I had no experience with that. So it was a, yeah, definitely, uh, definitely a humble experience.

• 8:15Channing Crowder?

  Bro, we talked to you as the excited, young Alabama quarterback coming out. Mom and dad's here and we're all, yeah, let's go. And now you done been, you done been in the grinder, you done been in the league. What was that transition or that aha moment, rookie moment that like, that you saw? That now I'm in the league, because I always said, once I got to the league is when I started seeing dudes that I honestly in my heart knew were better at football than me.

• 8:40Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 8:40Channing Crowder?

  Never saw in high school, never saw in college.

• 8:42Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 8:42Channing Crowder?

  When was that moment for you? Or what was that transition for you now?

• 8:46Bryce Young?

  You know, honestly, my rookie year, again, I went to, went to a really good high school. My last years in high school, we were, you know, top in the country, went to Alabama. And every week in practice and in game, it was just our philosophy. It's like, you know, it's about us and, you know, how you prepare, especially at Bama. You know, Coach Saban was huge on that. How you prepare, that's what is going to show up on Saturdays in college. You know, we had, we're able to have a lot of success and then when games came on Saturday that we didn't, you know, we didn't have a good game, we lost, whatever it is, we could go back and have those team meetings of like, we know we didn't deserve this. We didn't have a good week of practice. We weren't focused. Going to, you know, my first year in the league, I'll be honest, we was doing everything right in the league.

• 9:29Bryce Young?

  Exactly.

• 9:30Ryan Clark?

  They are better than we are.

• 9:33Bryce Young?

  And we would lose, whether it was close, it was, it was, whatever it was, we get killed. And I, I remember like, you know, you go back in lockup, it's like, we weren't like the main character in this, this game. Like, they had a good week and they executed and we, we didn't really like, we couldn't, you know, obviously there's plays you want back, there's not, you can't improve, but it's like, we weren't going to win either way. Like, and now being able to, you know, be on a lot of different sides of results on, on Sundays, it's like, one, obviously it gives me a lot more excitement for where we're at now, um, you know, kind of getting that back, that like, okay, we, we're feeling in control, you know, we're, we're, the loss we had, we know, we, we do X, Y, Z better. We could have got it done.

• 10:15Bryce Young?

  And, uh, you know, the wins, like, we executed, we had that, you know, feeling more in control. I definitely took that, took that for granted. It's like, we didn't determine a lot of the outcomes like my first year. Like, it was just how the other, it was really how the other team was doing. So that was a, that was a interesting for me.

• 10:30Ryan Clark?

  One thing I love that you do, and you know, when you just pay attention to the game, is no matter what the half is like, what the game is like. Standing in front of the locker room, shaking every player's hand or dapping every player off, and giving them a message. Or saying, you know, let's come out and play well, or whatever it is. And I've seen the leadership. And I always think it's a difficult transition, especially for young, talented quarterbacks. Because you go from all of us being the same, you know, we're kind of like 18 to 22. Our lives are very similar to, you might be dapping off the 32-year-old dude that's been married six years and has three kids. His issues ain't your issues. His life isn't your life. But in that moment, you're together.

• 11:13Ryan Clark?

  How did you adjust to the leadership position in the NFL?

• 11:18Bryce Young?

  Yeah, that's a great question. That's one of the things that I look back on a lot and feel like I've learned and I've reflected on a lot. I definitely kind of came in with that mindset. That's, again, I kind of just followed my past plans. In college, I was able to, my freshman year was like, that was the year they went undefeated. You know, Mac, Smitty, Doug, Najee, Pat. Yeah, P2, Barmore. Like, it was such great examples. And those guys obviously were the leaders. There was a lot of guys that were, you know, seniors, a lot of guys that were, you know, had been there. Whatever it was, you go in, it's like, alright, I'm a young guy coming in, you know, I'm talented, I'm confident. But I want to go and learn the culture. I want to go and, you know, put the work in. I'm gonna go earn it amongst my teammates. I'm gonna show them this whole year. You know, I wasn't playing that. I'm gonna show them how I carry myself.

• 12:03Bryce Young?

  I'm gonna go at it on scouts, whatever it is. And then, my second year, I'm like, okay, I've kind of earned my strike. I've learned what this culture is about. Now I feel comfortable being that leader. And I kind of wanted to take that same approach to lead. And I realized that wasn't the case. Coming in, it was, honestly, I felt like it was easier. People wanted to be led more in the NFL. Because I think everyone's mature enough to understand the power of leadership, power of everyone being on the same accord. And I came in, you know, college, you- If you young, there's someone that, you know, you come in at, what, 18? And there's someone who's been there for four years. They're like, "You a freshman, I'm not listening to you, I'm not." And I was still trying to like, you know, trying to feel my way through. And I was still, "All right, what's the NFL like?"

• 12:45Bryce Young?

  And I think people, I think they were waiting a little more like, "No, you're the number one pick." Like, "We're here to..." And you're the quarterback. Like, "Our quarterback needs to be a leader, you know, we need to..." And I think it took me, honestly, I think it took me too long. I think it was during the season, I was like, "Okay, like, yeah, I can't, you know, I can say stuff." You know, "I can, I can challenge people." And it could have been from day one. And I didn't know that, but looking back at it now, and I always talk to, you know, when we get young guys, like, "Hey, don't, don't wait and don't feel like you have to assimilate to the culture." Like, "You've been successful your whole life, you know, when you're doing things right, you know, "We're not gonna sit here and judge you based off your age. You're doing stuff right, bring people with you." You, you wanna, you feel like you're a vocal guy, you wanna come and be vocal? Be vocal. Like, it's not gonna hurt any feelings, it's not gonna...

• 13:28Bryce Young?

  So I think that that's one of the things that I've, I've definitely learned.

• 13:31Ryan Clark?

  Bruh, it feels like we talked to you two decades ago. The, the person, I'm just gonna be honest. The person sitting here is so much more mature, self-assured, probably a little more grit than the dude we sat with at your parents' house. And that guy had always been on top. And so I just wanna say, man, just, I commend you for the growth, the self-awareness that you're speaking with now, man, because it feels like, "Hey, this is the leader, this is our guy, this is the quarterback." And when you've been through what you've been through, man, it's awesome to see that.

• 14:09Channing Crowder?

  Marcy, are those the bullets?

• 14:11Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 14:12Channing Crowder?

  Are those the bullets? Like, what he's speaking, I, I agree 100%. You a different dude than what we talked to last time. Are those you taking those bullets and figuring this thing out?

• 14:20Bryce Young?

  Maybe, you know, I don't think it's... I, I try to just grow and be, be steady, be consistent. Take whatever lessons, whether it's from, from good, from bad, from whatever it is, and try to, try to be consistent and grow, so... I guess I can't tell you the source, but I think just for me, I'm always trying to be better.

• 14:35Fred Taylor?

  And it's crazy that during the season, you guys were playing Tampa, and I'm screaming your name out for the division, right? And I'm screaming Bryce. She's like, Bryce, who's Bryce? So I tell her. And then in the Rams game, I'm doing the same thing. She's like, who you going for? Like, I want to see Bryce do good, but we also close with Coach Sean McVay. I felt like either way would be a win-win, but I want to see you do your thing, right? And she's like, so who you going for? I said, I want to see Bryce win the game, but that's another story. I do want to ask you, what was easier to understand? The verbiage, your rookie year in the playbook install? Or talking over a route concept with Xavier Leggett?

• 15:18Bryce Young?

  It's just really what it is, is like, I'm not gonna lie. So I seen, you know, I seen when he gets drafted, I see the press conference, the whole thing. I'm like, I don't, I don't know what, I don't know what, how this is gonna go. And call him like, or, you know, I reach out to him, text him. He comes to the facility, next day I talk to him. And that first day, it's same thing. It's a lot of context clues. Lot of, lot of, lot of pieces together. But honestly, I think it was probably for that first, yeah, first day. And it's, you know, it's an hour, they, you know, go over there, see the locker. The next day, like, from that point forward, next conversation, it's okay, I get it. After that, it's like, now I don't even hear it. Like, now it's just like, normal. So, yeah, it's like, you can't, you, once you're around it all the time, it becomes normal. And the funny thing is, I think it's last year, we're out in Cali.

• 16:03Bryce Young?

  We're driving and he's on the phone, he's on, he's on FaceTime. And I'm just driving and I hear someone that he's talking to. And crazy enough, it's even more like, it's even stronger of an accent than, than he has. I'm like, who's that? He's like, oh, just someone from, from back home, back in Mullins. I'm like, bro, there's more of you?

• 16:25Fred Taylor?

  You ever gonna, you ever gonna try some coon? I heard him talking about eating coon.

• 16:30Bryce Young?

  I can't, too much self-respect for that. I can't do that one. It's actually not that bad.

• 16:34Channing Crowder?

  It's pretty delicious.

• 16:35Bryce Young?

  I'm not gonna lie, if it could be on the side of the road. If it could be on the side of the road, I can't, like, count me out.

• 16:42Ryan Clark?

  If you let a cow go, a cow can get hit by a car. Have you ever had deer?

• 16:45Bryce Young?

  But that's a, you know, that's not like, that's not the.

• 16:47Ryan Clark?

  It's not a rodent?

• 16:47Bryce Young?

  Yeah, exactly, exactly. You know exactly what I'm trying to say.

• 16:51Ryan Clark?

  Man, y'all funny actors. Hey, yeah, I mean. Y'all funny actors. I went to my, I went to one of my dad's birthday parties, man, and I remember my uncles and aunts, they were fighting over the raccoon heads.

• 17:01Bryce Young?

  Oh, nice.

• 17:01Ryan Clark?

  Because it was, yeah, they had the whole coon on the table. And then when they was leaving, it's like, nah, that one's my head. You know, it's like, y'all got it? Like, I'm not really tripping on that. Like, it's not really that important. But I come from a family that lives like that, man. Um, I remember making the tape, it's Monday morning, this season, you guys just played Atlanta Falcons. You threw four, 450, three tuds, you win. And it's like, even more so than the throw, the turnaround, and the, it was like, that moment, I was like, that's the Bryce that people had been waiting on. And you finally got to show all the skills you possessed. And not only that, it turned into a big win. How did you feel after that game?

• 17:46Ryan Clark?

  Was it necessarily a turning point? Or was it an opportunity to kind of exhale and say, okay, not only can I do this, but we can do this as a team?

• 17:55Bryce Young?

  Yeah, I really think, yeah, what you said at the end, that's really the biggest part. It was like, I felt like, you know, it was just great for us as a team, as a unit, on the offensive side of the ball. Like, there was a lot, everyone, everyone was getting involved. There is a lot of, and you know, we're a young, young unit, my offense. That was really the pride I took in it. Jalen, at the beginning of the year, was, was hurt, so he was back. You know, X was, X had missed some games, he was back. And then, you know, T-Mac had been consistent. Um, you know, we, we had everyone there too. Rico and Chu played that game, like, so that was one of our first games, really, where we're at full strength. And same, good week of practice. Um, you know, everyone was in a good mindset pre-game, like. And I thought for us, it was just great for us to see, like, we're capable of doing anything.

• 18:38Bryce Young?

  Like, it's not a hypothetical, it's not just like a, oh, maybe next, you know, as we keep getting in development, it's like, we can do that right now. Um, and then, you know, obviously, it's just on us to continue to build off of that.

• 18:50Speaker 00

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• 19:19Channing Crowder?

  It's funny you talk about Rico and Chu. I think Chu Hubbard is who you're speaking of?

• 19:23Bryce Young?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:24Channing Crowder?

  When he got hurt and then Rico doubted him.

• 19:25Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 19:26Channing Crowder?

  When Chu gets hurt and Rico go out there and hit him for two.

• 19:30Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 19:31Channing Crowder?

  Then Chu comes back. How is that in the locker room where we gotta get, I had to get this ball to Rico some more. I done seen him break 60. I done dropped, I saw you dropped a little out and up on him.

• 19:41Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 19:41Channing Crowder?

  You know what I'm saying? With that transition of the starter getting hurt and that dual running back thing that happened. It was very interesting to see that you had to integrate guys back in.

• 19:51Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 19:52Channing Crowder?

  But we still gotta get Rico some carries because he done went crazy over these last three weeks.

• 19:56Bryce Young?

  Yeah, yeah, it's just, you know, that's the league, you know, that's the business of it.

• 19:59Channing Crowder?

  Yes.

• 19:59Bryce Young?

  Yeah, you know, you never, because you know, obviously Rico came from Dallas the year before. And you know, Chu, you know, Chu's been our, been our guy for a while, you know? And so it was, you know, all right, we're gonna have a one, two. Chu, you know, he, you know, we all knew what he was capable of in the building. And then, you know, you have someone new. It's like, you know, you see practice, you see training camp and then you never know. For Rico, it was just like Chu went down. So it's like now I'm getting all the carries, you know, I'm getting the bulk of it. Now I'm getting, getting stuff in, obviously, you know, show everyone what he was capable of, what he could do. And one thing that I'm super grateful for and I commend them both for is they're a really, like it's a really tight running back group. They all get along great. So for us, it was like, we got two guys that we know can go.

• 20:42Bryce Young?

  Like we know, like have juice, we know are huge for us. And they were never like. I need to get more, I need to get more. They're both supporting each other. They're both just as happy, you know, they're just as happy for each other as they are for themselves. They're both selfless guys, so it was never a thing in the locker room. It was never no weird, like, it was all. And that's one of the things I've been super, super fortunate with being in Carolina. You know, again, we've had our ups and downs. We haven't had any, like, you know, for the most part, you have your, you know, a couple outliers. We haven't had a lot of selfish guys. We haven't had a lot of, even when things weren't going great, we haven't had a lot of, what are you doing? What are, a lot of people that have been accountable, a lot of people that root each other on. Um, so we, we never really had, it was never like drama or anything.

• 21:25Ryan Clark?

  You guys played like the most anticlimactic playoff playing game in the history of playing playoff games. You know what I'm saying? It's like, yeah, if Carolina wins, they're in. But if Tampa wins, we still don't know who's in because the Saints got to play. You know what I mean? So it was all of those things and there was conversation like, hey, man, it's the Carolina Panthers. Like, I remember being on First Take and they were like, they got no chance. I was like, how can you say that? I was like, did you not watch the Carolina Panthers play the Rams the first time? And so you have all those conversations and the game comes down, it's fourth down. Uh, I think it's, uh, you throw it to Jimmy Horn, it's, he is low at the end. He doesn't come up with the catch, but you played so well, the team played so well.

• 22:07Ryan Clark?

  But what is the feeling walking off of the field in the game that you guys very well could have won against a team that at some points was favored to win the Super Bowl?

• 22:18Bryce Young?

  It sucked, man, it sucked. Like, in the moment, there's not a lot of consolation prizes. There's not a lot of like, oh, we own, like, no one thought like, one, you know, we don't, again, we have a great locker room. We don't think like that. I, you know, I get it, like, you know, I, I've been around sports, I, I know whatever to, you know, on the outside looking in, like, you know, I get it. But for us, it's like, we thoroughly believe this year, you know, we could beat anyone. We've, you know, for us, we look at it, you know, we, we, we had some good wins. We also respected enough to like, all right, we can, it's a league, you know, we can, if we don't, if we come in and we're not humble, we come in arrogant, we could lose anyone. So it's like, ton of respect for, for the Rams. I'm a huge Stafford fan, like, I, I love watching on film. We, you know, a ton of respect for them, but we're coming in like, okay, like, let's go to war. Like, let's do it.

• 23:02Bryce Young?

  Like, you know, we've worked, it was a great atmosphere, great environment, you know, we've worked for this. Like, you know, it's win or go home, let's go 1-0. Offseason, whatever, you get to reflect, like, all right, we know we're capable of, let's keep building. But in the moment, it's like. We were, you know, we're this close, we're, you know, we're all, I'm, if I could have done this better, if I could have made this play and everyone's looking like that, so this is competitors. Like, it sucks not being able to keep that, keep that season going.

• 23:27Fred Taylor?

  There's a lot of talk about the speed changing from regular season to playoffs. Could you see or tell the difference in that?

• 23:34Bryce Young?

  Less of the speed, more like the gravity, if that makes sense. Like, just the gravity of the, of the, of the plays, like, you know, it's like, you, you know, it's, you know, when you're playing week, week five, it's like, you know, ah, that, we lost that series, like, alright, well, only X, X, Y, Z left in the game, but then we got next, then we got, it's like, you know, third quarter, halfway through the third quarter, you come off the signs, like, we might have two left if we don't, in the year, if we don't get this right, you know, it's like, so is the gravity, you know, and taking care of the ball, you know, that's a big, again, your whole year comes down to that, so I think more so than that, it was just like, alright, how do we deal with, you know, like, the weight of it, everyone rising up, stepping, you know, stepping up to that occasion, you know, your details, they become that much more important

• 24:18Bryce Young?

  in those situations, so really, that, that's kind of what I felt.

• 24:21Ryan Clark?

  How did that compare to college football playoffs?

• 24:24Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 24:25Ryan Clark?

  For you, when you talk about the, the gravity, you obviously played at the highest level of it in college, but even in a first-round playoff game in the NFL, when you talk about the gravity of the moment, I always tell people this, in the playoffs, to me, it wasn't that the positives felt like so much more of a high, it was that the negatives felt like so much more of a low. Right, a missed tackle for me, or you give up a big catch.

• 24:51Bryce Young?

  He was like, damn, we ain't gonna win.

• 24:53Ryan Clark?

  You know what I'm saying, I didn't lost, hey, you're like, I didn't lost a damn game. It's the first quarter. It's the first quarter, I lost the game, y'all, my bad, you know what I mean? How did that compare to you, though, the, the NFL playoffs to the college football playoffs?

• 25:06Bryce Young?

  Yeah, it's like, you know, it's similar, but at the end, it's just, it's a lot more intensified, like, you know, I feel like in college, it was like, you know, You really go down and think like for, for, for me in college, like we're gonna score every, every series, every drive, like if we need to go and put up 50 points, then that's what we're gonna do. And obviously you don't do that, but it's like, you know, the next drive, like we're gonna score, like that's just your mindset. And obviously in pros is not like that, you know? So it's just the margin of error is so much smaller. So because of that, it's like, no, like you can't just like, you can't just make a reckless pass. You can't like, you know, you have to, all right, when is the time to go for? When is the time to be aggressive? When is the time, all right, third down, it's third and 18, like we can't,

• 25:51Bryce Young?

  we need the field position, like, all right, well, number one, if we get the dream look, if not, all right, this six yards to the tight end, now we can play, you know, now we can help the defense, we can play complimentary football. This isn't the time to be like, you know, so I think it's just like situationally, like it's, it's a lot more intense.

• 26:08Channing Crowder?

  To that point, bro, the QB1 is something special. LB1 is not that special. WR1 is not that special.

• 26:18Bryce Young?

  No, that mindset is not, man.

• 26:18Channing Crowder?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was LB1 for a while.

• 26:22Speaker 05

  They don't treat, they, they definitely don't treat you the same.

• 26:24Channing Crowder?

  They don't treat you the same. You've been LB1 in college and that's why I thought about when RC asked that question of like, now the level of holding a billion dollar organization.

• 26:33Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 26:34Channing Crowder?

  As QB1, where when they, when, when I'm watching the game, Carolina's playing whoever, it's your little ass sitting up there smiling.

• 26:42Speaker 05

  Hey, hey, taking the football throwing into this hand.

• 26:48Channing Crowder?

  You don't hear that. You don't hear that goofy shit with the ball. But like it, it, the difference between like college to NFL QB1s, it has to be a huge, and to the fact that you were QB1, then not QB1.

• 27:02Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 27:03Channing Crowder?

  And then QB1 again.

• 27:04Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 27:05Channing Crowder?

  Like what was that whole thing but just being QB1 of a billion dollar organization?

• 27:10Bryce Young?

  Yeah, yeah, it's a full-time thing, you know, obviously you're, you know, you're a reflection. One of the things I've learned and I think the biggest difference, another big difference from college to pros is like, you know, I went to school in Tuscaloosa, which is, you know, which was a blessing, you know? It's a different environment, you know, it's like, oh, I, you know, and even Alabama, I think it's one of the exceptions where maybe you speak for a little bit more of the state, but for the most part, you know, it's a lot of college towns in college and then a lot of the bigger, you know, a lot of the bigger cities in college, you got other stuff going on, you know? Being now in, in Carolina, especially in Charlotte, it's like, Now it's like you're the city, you know, you represent the city in what you do. So one, you know, you take that that responsibility, you know, whatever you do that that speaks for your city. And then also, you know, you feel a little more like, you know, it's like, you know, and again, college, you're,

• 27:56Bryce Young?

  I'm not going many places in in Tuscaloosa, you know, there's not many places to go. You know, you you out at dinner, again, I've I've felt it, I've felt when, you know, we've had a little more success. I felt we've been and you see, you know, it's a lot, there's a lot more restaurant, a lot more things to do. So you're out a lot more, you you get, you know, people are looking at you different people come and I appreciate it because it shows the passion. I've had a ton of people, especially those first, you know, especially after the first year, first two years, like come up like, bro, why you like, what are we doing? Like come up like, bro, you need to do this, this, this, like, it's like, bro, and a bunch of people, again, it's a lot of passion throughout the city. It's like I've I've I've had, you know, I've had season tickets for X, Y, Z. My dude, my grandma, like she watches every game, like, so when you mess up, don't make her mad, like.

• 28:42Bryce Young?

  Like, well, I've literally, I've I've been there, like, my grandfather has high blood pressure, like, don't be responsible for like.

• 28:49Ryan Clark?

  Don't kill Papa.

• 28:53Ryan Clark?

  So I just got here and I'm gonna be the reason an 85 year old man died is what you're telling me. I'm the call.

• 28:59Bryce Young?

  Exactly, but it's again, it but you, that's what that's what I sign up for. Like it comes, no one, no one forced me to be a quarterback, no one like, I I enjoy that, like, I enjoy the responsibility. I enjoy all that comes with, I'm super grateful, I get to live out my dreams, so, uh, you know, we sign up for it.

• 29:15Fred Taylor?

  Yeah, the season's been well, over for the most part for about a month. Have you been able to decompress, look back and reflect on year three in comparison to the first two years?

• 29:26Bryce Young?

  Yeah, yeah, for sure. Um, that was one of the things I wanted to do while it was still fresh, like just take some time to to reflect. Um, one, I'm getting, I'm getting up there. Year three, I'm getting, I'm getting old, I'm getting old.

• 29:42Bryce Young?

  Me, I'm 24.

• 29:45Bryce Young?

  I'm getting

• 29:45Ryan Clark?

  I'mma jump on you.

• 29:46Bryce Young?

  That's like almost halfway to thirty.

• 29:47Ryan Clark?

  I'mma dive on you.

• 29:48Bryce Young?

  Really? That's really like

• 29:50Ryan Clark?

  Halfway to thirty?

• 29:51Bryce Young?

  That's a quarter, that's a quarter century.

• 29:54Ryan Clark?

  Bro, they would round down for you still. Yeah. They still rounding the twenty for you, dawg. Stop it. You know, and a lot of guys playing in national championship games at your age.

• 30:04Bryce Young?

  Yeah, different time, yeah, different time. You know, I'm excited for, for our trajectory. I'm excited for where we're going, but, you know, also I feel like, for me, for, for all of us, it was like, you know, it was reassuring to be able to get to playoffs. You know, I've been able to experience that, and again, young team, and for all of us, we had a lot of young guys that game, step up.

• 30:21Ryan Clark?

  Yeah.

• 30:21Bryce Young?

  To have a, you know, a moment like that, a game like that, a lot of young, a lot of guys stepped up, and not just young guys, but a lot of guys, you know, for us as a, you know, as a, as a franchise, as a, as a building, you know, not a ton of experience in that moment, and you wouldn't tell by how people played. And for me, that just motivates me even more to just, you know, we got, I gotta be my brother's keeper. You know, we gotta, you know, we all in that moment, you know, we didn't flinch, we all wanted more, we were all in it, you know, we, no one came back to the locker room like, well, like, you know, no one thought we'd make the playoffs. Like, it's a win. Everyone's, everyone's heated, everyone's pissed, everyone's, you know, everyone's, we can't, we can't get back in, you know, so I think that is just, uh, yeah, that's, that's super, super exciting.

• 31:02Ryan Clark?

  I have two relationship questions for you. Not like that, stop it. The first one is your parents.

• 31:06Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 31:07Ryan Clark?

  Right? Uh, I talked about the difference in the level of maturity. Not that you were like knucklehead or any of those things, but you know, so many times you have the, the, the alternate draft, right? Telecast or broadcast, and they're like, this kid went through this, and his dad was never there, and all that stuff. That's not your story. You don't have a horror story of, of getting here. But I do know, when you become a professional, there are things that only you can go through.

• 31:35Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 31:35Ryan Clark?

  When you were going through the adversities, and now even the highs, what are some of the conversations like with your parents now, as opposed to what they used to be?

• 31:47Bryce Young?

  Yeah, super close with my parents, very, very grateful. They're the reason I'm, I'm here. One of the things that I've, I really appreciate is, um, you know, they, they always talk to me and, and not at me. And really, that was, at, at a lot of the times, that, that really started at a young age. You know, obviously you're a little kid, you know. Parents gotta tell you what to do. But they were always empowering of like, you know, I'm, you know, I'm still, you know, they're my parents. They're, they, what they say goes ultimately and they, but they wanted to, all right, here's the, we're gonna tell you why you're doing this. Like, it's not just blindly do it. We're gonna tell you, this is why, and, you know. And I always try to be, you know, responsive to that. I always try to be respectful and we, you know, have a respectful relationship. And now, it's more like, you know, my, my parents are like, you're, you're an adult.

• 32:31Bryce Young?

  Like, we're here to be a sounding board. I'm always asking them for advice. They helped me out a ton with my foundation, helped me out a ton with, with, uh, you know, with like, the stuff away from football, stuff with football management, all that stuff. So, we're always in conversation, but it's not, you know, obviously, it's like, I, I value their opinion. And they know that I ask them things because I actually, you know, I actually wanna hear their, their input. And they tell me the stuff that not just I wanna hear, they wanna, they tell me their, their honest opinion. We're able to have that rapport of like, you know, obviously, we're, you know, we're super close, we love each other. But it's, you know, we're talking about something that's more business related. Like, my dad will tell me like, yeah, you should do this, or no, you shouldn't do it. I'm, I don't want to, I want, like, yeah, but here's what you do. But also, it's like, if you say no, all right, man, you know, I'll go with that.

• 33:16Bryce Young?

  And that's what it is. Like, here's the, you know, here's how I see it.

• 33:19Ryan Clark?

  The pros and the cons.

• 33:20Bryce Young?

  Exactly. So, I think it was just for me, being able to have that relationship, like, I, and those are my role models, too. So, it was like, for me, I wanted to learn from them. And it was not just like, oh, how'd you get, like, I, I know a lot of like, you know, they'll tell me about decisions they made. They tell me about when I was younger, this is what we were doing, and this was what was different. So, it's like, being able to learn from them versus just like, you know, just being ordered around or being able, like, that was huge for my development.

• 33:46Ryan Clark?

  Did you call them before or after you were fake driving to Atlanta? When you got the news, you weren't the starter quarterback?

• 33:54Bryce Young?

  I don't think I called, I was, yeah, I, I definitely texted my dad right away.

• 33:58Ryan Clark?

  What was that text message to you?

• 34:00Bryce Young?

  I said, they're going with Andy. That was like, and I'm sure he called me and I was like, you know, one, it's in the middle of meetings, which sucks, by the way, like, not trying to, like, I get it, you got a business. I am not the only person to get benched or get cut or whatever. But I was like, you know, it's like, hey, you know, you know, we're going with Andy, getting benched. Like, all right, let's get back to meetings. What I'm gonna do for the next hour, like I'm not thinking about, I'm not like, I'm not the most receptive to whatever game plan is going on. Like I need a little time, like, um, but I just, you know, so, and then I think, yeah, we did talk and that's the only person I like talk to, like, uh, both my parents, like that I could like really like verbally talk to. And, um, I just, yeah, they were

• 34:43Bryce Young?

  just, but they know me well enough to know that, like, that was obviously my first, not my first hardship just in life. So they know that I'm a kind of detached, like be by myself, like I'm probably more isolate myself and they, they respect it. So.

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• 35:27Channing Crowder?

  Something financially y'all had to go through because did they, were they okay with you buying them pearls?

• 35:32Bryce Young?

  Me?

• 35:35Channing Crowder?

  I got on you earlier. Your daddy said, yeah, bro, get you some pearls.

• 35:38Bryce Young?

  These are, uh, these are a couple hundred, not a couple thousand.

• 35:44Channing Crowder?

  But is there financially where now, cause I know we went through, I talk about all the time where like I'm, I was gonna get a Hummer.

• 35:51Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 35:51Channing Crowder?

  The big dumb H1s. And I went and bought me a big dumb ass, big white H1 with no shocks and worst vehicle decision I ever made in my life. But when I, when they give me money, I'm gonna get an H1.

• 36:03Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 36:03Channing Crowder?

  Was anything that you were, you were just dead set on, bro, I'm, you can go to hell. Like I'm, I'm about to get this.

• 36:08Bryce Young?

  No, not really. I, I like to think I'm not a, there are certain things that I'll spend on for sure. Like, but I, I like to think I'm not a huge spender, like just naturally. I think my, my parents were very fiscally responsible. So it probably rubbed off on me. So, yeah, it hasn't been anything that I was like, uh, Haven't got, I'm normally trying to figure out how I can either get things the cheapest, or I can, you know, get it for free or whatever, like, I'm normally wanting to do that.

• 36:30Channing Crowder?

  You just want the pearls.

• 36:32Bryce Young?

  Yeah, the pearl, yeah.

• 36:33Ryan Clark?

  Like you.

• 36:33Bryce Young?

  The pearls were.

• 36:34Ryan Clark?

  You already said, get the cheapest or free.

• 36:36Channing Crowder?

  Oh, I'm tired of it. Everything I wear is free.

• 36:39Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 36:39Channing Crowder?

  Everything I wear is free.

• 36:40Bryce Young?

  I respect, I respect that. This is all, yeah, this is all Jordan. This is all, everything I got, not the pearls, but.

• 36:47Channing Crowder?

  2X, 13s, whatever, you know what I'm saying?

• 36:49Fred Taylor?

  You shoot your shot.

• 36:51Channing Crowder?

  Huh?

• 36:51Fred Taylor?

  You shoot your shot.

• 36:52Channing Crowder?

  Yeah, man, I didn't say it for free.

• 36:54Fred Taylor?

  He's a guest, man, stop begging.

• 36:55Channing Crowder?

  Huh? 13, 2X.

• 36:56Fred Taylor?

  Stop begging. So, but Bryce, you know, how does it make you feel to know that one of the best players in the history of the Carolina Panthers, Cam Newton, you know, he has your full support? You know, he was quoted as saying, "Just keep your head up and persevere through the benching." This past year, he said, "Keep rocking." He congratulated you for breaking his single game passing mark. And to know that he's there in full support, like, does that reassure your confidence? And what are you guys' relationship like?

• 37:27Bryce Young?

  Yeah, for sure. I'm super grateful for that. You know, I grew up watching Cam, being a big fan of his game. Obviously, all the stuff he was able to accomplish. I think one of the real eye-opening things was, you know, just being in the Carolinas, being in the city, and everyone, like, you could tell how much of, not only, obviously, they were winning and doing a lot of great things for the team, how much of an impact he had on the city. Like, even now, whatever little thing, it's like, man, like, you know, we haven't had anything close to this since Cam was there. Or like, you know, it's like, man, back when Cam was here, like, you know, whenever things were like, like, "Don't worry," like, you know, back in, you know, 2015, it was going. And it's all around the city, like, man, and also, one of the things that a lot of people probably, I don't know if they see it or not, but like, Cam, obviously what he meant,

• 38:12Bryce Young?

  but he was out in the community a lot, too. Like, there was a lot of guys, you know, "Trying to do my best to be out in the community." People was like, "Yeah, like, you know, it was cool, yeah, I'm glad you're here, too." Like, this is kind of a, because Cam was here, and he was doing, and he made, you know, a lot of people grew up, like, and now that are maybe, you know, now maybe in their 20s, there's like, "Yeah, I was in high school, and Cam came, the whole school, I'll never forget that." So, yeah, I have a ton of respect for him, and like you said, him having my support, you know, he's giving me advice on things, it really means a lot.

• 38:42Ryan Clark?

  How has the relationship between you and Dave Canales grown? You know, it's... When it's not the coach that drafts you, there's a different relationship. And then, obviously, he made a decision to go with Andy Dalton. Week eight in 2024, you're the starting quarterback and you finished the season strong. And then now you guys have this run through this season where it seems like he understands you more as you've grown in the offense. How has that relationship with Dave Canales evolved over the last two years?

• 39:16Bryce Young?

  Yeah, I think he's grown a lot. Like you said, not being drafted, you know, you, you, you lose a little bit of time, lose that initial wave of like that intro to the NFL. Yeah, exactly. I think it was a big transition from last year to this year of like, you know, for me last year, it's like, okay, I want to learn. I want to learn the system and figure out, okay, what do you call this? How do you look at this? And I think that's, you know, as a quarterback, that's our responsibility first is just to, you know, make sure you, you know that. And then, you know, you go through the year, the ups and downs. And then I think it, it shifted. One of the things that I'm grateful for, he's someone that really encourages players to be vocal. He wants to know, hey, I like this, I like that. Um, you know, I, whatever it is, so he wants the communication. And I want to be able to communicate too.

• 39:58Bryce Young?

  But my first year, it's like, I don't want to just blankly tell you like, oh, I love this one. I've never done it for your system. Like, you know, I've never really like, you know, it's like I, obviously I could draw from past experiences, but like you don't really know unless you've really, you know, you've really executed it. So now a lot more comfortable with being like, no, no, we've, you know, now I have reps in this, this is the stuff I like. This is the stuff that I like calling. I think for me as well, like understanding his intent as a play caller. It's like, you know, when you hear a certain call on a certain down and distance, understanding like, you know, before it's like, you know, you're going to go through, here's one, here's two, you know, here's one high, here's two high. There's the, the year one, you first, you know, now I'm memorizing the plays. And then when you start to learn the play caller and after reps of like, hey, on this, I'm just looking for five or hey, on this, like, you know, this means I want to take a shot.

• 40:43Bryce Young?

  So now I can hear stuff in the headset like, okay, I, I know the intent of the play, not just the read. So I think that that's been, that's been great.

• 40:50Ryan Clark?

  How much doubt was there last year, early last year, 2024, that you could be this Bryce Young? The Bryce Young people expected you to be when you were drafted? More importantly, be that Bryce Young for the Carolina Panthers at some point?

• 41:09Bryce Young?

  For me, honestly, like my, my faith comes from, from God. Like my confidence comes from the Lord. So like. Good, bad, up and down, like, it's never a waiver. Like, for me, my, my, my source never waivers. So it's like, he's, he's all powerful. I'm never, there's nothing that's ever gonna be too much for him to overcome. There's nothing that he can't do, like, I, I, I believe that wholeheartedly. You know, I've never lacked confidence. I've never been like, I don't, I don't know if this is like, I serve a great God, so he can do, he can do anything. Um, I think for, again, right after, right when I get benched, that was the first time where I'm like, I don't know what this, you know, I love, I love being, I love the Carolinas, I love the Panthers organization, I love being there. But obviously, it's two-sided.

• 41:52Bryce Young?

  So at that time, I'm like, I can't, I can't. I don't know how they feel. Exactly, I don't know what their plan is and, you know, we talked during it, but you know, obviously, it's hard to, I won't say trust, but you know, it's hard, it's a business at the end of the day, you know, you, there's always a what-if from the business side. And, you know, that's how sports is, it's nothing personal. So, for me, I was like, and I, I don't know what my, that was, again, for me, it was like, I don't know my path, I don't know what it is, I don't know what it looks like, like, I know what I'm capable of, I'm confident, I mean, I serve a great God, he can do all things, so whatever it looks like, I, I really have to let go. Um, and, again, it's been, uh, I, I still, still feel like that.

• 42:30Channing Crowder?

  And, and something, when you brought up Cam, cause, uh, we're around Cam, you know, RC blesses us by bringing us on ESPN every now and again, and, and Cam, Cam is a big old bastard now, Cam's a big bitch, he's huge. And, then like, one of the knocks, I remember when we were sitting at the house somewhere, when we, we did the first time, and one of the knocks was your size.

• 42:51Bryce Young?

  Yeah.

• 42:51Channing Crowder?

  Now that you have reference points about, you're too little to play in the NFL. Well, how would you respond to that now that you've actually played, taken a team to the playoffs in the NFL, saying you're too small to play in the NFL?

• 43:03Bryce Young?

  That's, that's other people's opinions, you know, they got it. It's just, you know, for me, I don't, yeah, I, I wasn't, I wasn't 6'3", like, a couple years ago.

• 43:10Channing Crowder?

  Ever life.

• 43:11Bryce Young?

  And I shrunk, like, I've been, like, I'm, I've been my same height, like, you know, the people, obviously, people get better in the NFL, people, people get, they don't really get that much taller, like, people aren't like, it's not, I didn't walk out like, oh.

• 43:24Channing Crowder?

  You didn't hit 24?

• 43:25Bryce Young?

  Yeah, yeah, like, they didn't, they didn't get, so, yeah, I mean, yeah, like, it's not something I don't drop back, like, if I was 6'3", this would be easy, like, I don't drop back with that frame of reference, like, I go out and be myself, so, uh, I guess that's my really only thoughts about it.

• 43:39Channing Crowder?

  Yeah, speaking of quarterbacks, maybe the last two years, you would probably have gotten a call from Tua.

• 43:45Fred Taylor?

  To sort of help big you up. But it seems like this year you can kind of return the favor. Do you guys speak?

• 43:52Bryce Young?

  Yeah, I've talked to him a couple of times. One, so when I first got to Bama, he had just left. So that was like my intro to like, to me, you know, I think college NFL is like that next elite. You know, you could, you see real football, you know? And it's like, that was my intro to real football. Like when I'm learning the plays, I'm watching all Tua tape. And I'm super close with his little brother too. He was there while I was there. We've been able to run into each other a lot of different times. And yeah, like you said, he's always been, always given me great advice, always been, been super kind, really cool to chop it up with. And from the times I've been around him, the people that I've been around that have been around him a lot more, I know he's gonna be, he's gonna be fine. He's a special player. He's got a special, there's a lot of stuff and you know, you're watching film. And me and Andy talk about it a lot too.

• 44:35Bryce Young?

  And it's like, there's certain plays that you watch that it's like, only Tua makes this throw. Like he, he's the only person who even thinks to do it. He's the only person that takes this and, and gets it. He's on like, the anticipation what he throws with is like, it's super fun to watch. Like, I'm a big fan of his game. Have a lot of respect for him as a, as a dude. So God's got him, whatever that, that looks like.

• 44:56Fred Taylor?

  I got one last question, just for me, one last question. You didn't put Tuscaloosa in your GPS. You put Atlanta. Is there a specific destination in Atlanta?

• 45:05Bryce Young?

  Nah, that was just the first major city. I was like, I was just, I was just driving. I was, in my mind, I'm like, I'm like, I don't think I'm getting there.

• 45:11Fred Taylor?

  It wasn't Louisville Wingstop?

• 45:14Bryce Young?

  Nah, it wasn't a, yeah, it wasn't, wasn't the Louisville special. But I was just.

• 45:18Ryan Clark?

  Hey, yeah, don't go there.

• 45:20Channing Crowder?

  Speaking about that, I gotta ask, is, is there, you got an old lady or?

• 45:24Bryce Young?

  Me?

• 45:25Channing Crowder?

  Cause before, last time we talked, now I'm starting to reference back in my old mind. No, I'm, I'm dedicated and married to football. Is what you were saying. Now you got a little something to you.

• 45:34Bryce Young?

  That's still what I'm saying, you know, I just play football.

• 45:35Channing Crowder?

  You ain't got no old lady, man. You a good looking, light skinned man. Like, if I had a 22 year old daughter, I might, you know, give her a nap.

• 45:42Bryce Young?

  I try to keep the personal, personal. Play football, you know?

• 45:45Ryan Clark?

  You knew that was coming. Sort of to Fred's question, and it was his question that made me think of it. You are forever connected to CJ. From the same place, right? Came out of school together, go 1-2. And your careers have definitely been sort of the paths haven't matched. To watch what he went through in the divisional round against the Patriots, and then some of the rhetoric afterwards. What's some advice? Or how do you see kind of how CJ can come out on the other side of this? Knowing that you know what he's made of?

• 46:22Bryce Young?

  Like you said, like I know exactly that. Like I know the character he has. I know the person he is. I know the how much he's persevered in all aspects of his life. And especially, you know, in football for sure. Yeah, that's my brother, man. Like it's the stuff that how hard he works, how he carries himself. Football stuff is like media is, you know, obviously everyone knows like it's a lot of narratives, a lot of stories and it's, you know, it's wild to look at this. You know, everyone wants to jump to extremes because sometimes the truth is not as exciting. When you're posting on media, it's not going to get the same amount of clicks. It's not going to get the same amount of views. So, you know, it's easy to try to jump. All right, like now we can make it as extreme as possible because it's going to help my,

• 47:07Bryce Young?

  you know, it's going to help my platform. It's going to help get engagement. At the end of the day, like we know what's like we let's not like. I don't know why people act like they haven't watched him go and dominate this league. Like we've all seen it. Like and also one thing like quarterback position in general, like this is one of the rare sports. Like you can't call ISO on in the NFL. Like it takes it takes 11 on on on one side of the ball, 11 on the other, 11 like for everything. And, you know, we all sign up for that criticism. We all sign up for the credit, you know, we all want to take the bullet for the team. That's, you know, that's our jobs. But at the end of the day, like we can't control everything. And like we, again, we know what what he can do. We know what he does.

• 47:48Bryce Young?

  It's a we've watched him have such crazy, you know, do such crazy things in this league. And like, that's who he is. Like, don't get that twisted like ever like that's that's who he is. And media wants to make things, you know, fans, that's part of the thing. It'll be up and down, whatever it is. But I know who he is as a player. I know who he is as a leader, as a person. And like.

• 48:12Bryce Young?

  He knows that too. I know that as well. So it's like, I'm excited to watch what he does.

• 48:17Ryan Clark?

  That's my guy. The last question, because we all asked Biggest Pivot, I think we asked you that before, even though you were a baby. He's still a baby. He's still a, he's 24, right? He's 21 when we met him the first time, okay? It's only been three years, and you know, I've talked about the growth repeatedly throughout this conversation. If you could go back in time on draft night, when you're sitting in the room and give yourself one piece of advice from this person that has grown through these three years, what would you tell yourself before they call your name with the first pick to Carolina's Panther Select, Bryce Young?

• 48:53Bryce Young?

  Just don't be afraid to be you. I think that was, you know, I was talking about it a little bit earlier. Like, I wanted to ease my way in, kind of feel out, you know, what's the temperature like in the league, you know, what's it, how are the interactions? And I didn't understand early on how much it was the other way. It was like, you know, coming in my situation, it was, alright, what are we doing now? What are you gonna bring? How are you gonna change this? So I think that that would be the biggest, is just like, you know, be yourself. And for me, it's like, you know, I try to do all the things right. I try to make sure that if I'm holding other people accountable, I gotta hold myself accountable first. And definitely don't lose any of that. But, you know, don't be afraid to ruffle feathers. Don't be afraid. Don't feel like you're too young. It's not just a selfish thing either. It's what, you

• 49:36Bryce Young?

  know, it's what the team is looking for. It's what the team needs. It's what, as an organization, we need. Like, I have to go be that. Like, I want to, I embrace it, and it's what's best for us, for me to be able to do that. So I think that'd probably be the thing.

• 49:49Ryan Clark?

  You never know what you're gonna get sometimes when you sit down here. I am extremely happy we got another opportunity to sit with you, man. Like, I am proud of you, you know. I text randomly, and you're right, you're a bad texter. Sometimes you text back, sometimes you don't. What I've learned is to not get my feelings hurt. I just text you and Craig at the same time, because he always responds.

• 50:08Bryce Young?

  That's my dog.

• 50:09Ryan Clark?

  You know what I'm saying?

• 50:10Bryce Young?

  That's my dog.

• 50:11Ryan Clark?

  So I do get to talk to one young, I'm like, see, somebody ready. You know what I mean? But nah, I'm always rooting for you, man. Extremely happy for you that you are where you are, man. I just can't wait to see what you do going forward, bro.

• 50:22Bryce Young?

  Appreciate that.

• 50:23Ryan Clark?

  Man, thank you, bro. Yeah, Craig always got me. That's why I don't even trip. You on that group thing? Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, sure, I'm gonna text them both. Because if Bryce don't hit me, I know Craig gonna text me back, and I'm gonna feel alright about it, you know what I'm saying?

• 51:06Speaker 06

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