This won't sound positive but please bear with me:
A few weeks ago, NFL Radio was speaking of how bad the Panthers were. Bill Polian acknowledged that this was the case. That's when he started saying some of the most encouraging things I've heard this year.
First, I'll say it was encouraging because he was not trying to compliment our team. He was blunt about our flaws (and about other teams' flaws). So it was an honest evaluation from a tremendously knowledgable HOFer.
He said stats may not show it but he has seen very nice growth from Young each week. (Remember, this was before our win). Then he spoke of what he had said before the season. He saw in training camp that we were having great growing pains with new coaching, new system, etc. He also saw that we still had quite a few players that don't fit the system.
His determination back then (that he stated back then) was that our team would have a much better 2nd half of the season than first half as things started clicking.
This not only gave me a bunch of encouragement about the rest of this season, but that we will continue to see incremental jumps forward as we move into next season and beyond.