Chuba Hubbard (now) knows how to deal with adversity

As quarterback Bryce Young struggled for a touchdown last week — and generally showed a greater willingness to run — the old conversation about his unconventional approach to sliding has resurfaced.

And Young is the first to admit that it’s not a textbook.

“We’ll see,” he said with a laugh when asked about learning to slide. “I feel like I had some good attempts. I had some not so good attempts. Hopefully one day I’ll just magically be able to do it.”

Hubbard also joked about it, but his quarterback’s style was “all’s well that ends well.”

“Yeah, he definitely needs to work on his slide, but he made people miss it,” Hubbard said. “He hasn’t had to slip like that yet. So he will do it. He’ll be fine.”

“I mean, I’m not trying to hate my dog’s slide. It’s just a work in progress. But nothing will happen to him. Like I said, he makes people miss and stuff. So he fell in the end zone.” . He didn’t have to slide.

Panthers head coach Dave Canales also couldn’t help but grin when asked about it, but he also stressed to Young that it’s important to protect yourself, no matter what it looks like.

“Well, he has his own ways of getting it done,” Canales said. “And I think you’ve seen him kind of move around and find ways to avoid those contacts and those big hits, and that’s just his style. He doesn’t have much baseball in his background, you know.”

“But that’s definitely something we talk about, just making sure you have a plan to protect the quarterback. And then I try to remind him that you’re the quarterback. So I’m trying to keep it light, but at the same time, it’s serious. And when you go into the end zone, when you go out of bounds, when you’re in the middle of the field, you have a plan when the defenders come at you.