CHARLOTTE — There are some old dudes on this Panthers team right now, but they're old in the right places, like long snapper, backup quarterback, and punter.

Because at the moment, the Panthers have a very young energy about them, with all that entails.

You see the exuberance on game day, whether it's Tetairoa McMillan and Xavier Legette celebrating together, or Tommy Tremble going full Viking berserker on the Falcons to set up the game-winning field goal. There's some real puppy-dog energy as they learn to grow into the dogs Dan Morgan keeps looking for.

But this team is young, which manifests itself in other ways. They're still learning how to be what they want to be, and they're learning how to win games by multiple methods. It's not just running the ball 40 times a game and bl

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