Got any room on this team for a Panthers fan?

I was always high on cj stroud and was absolutely ecstatic when we traded up for the #1 pick. No way we pass up on this guy right? Then a narrative started to unfold: Bryce was Einstein with dwarfism, and CJ Stroud was a dumb giant who couldn't find his way out of a mall parking lot. The most obvious slandering campaign possible to get CJ Stroud to drop. The Panthers bit, and now we're in a carousel of excuses like the bears with Justin Field years prior. I knew Stroud would be this good, and I don't want to suffer from being right.