Carolina Panthers general manager Dan Morgan confirmed the team’s long rumored plan to exercise Bryce Young’s fifth year option in a press conference this morning. Young, who has generated considerably mixed opinions from fans due to his low production and inconsistent play, will be under contract for the Carolina Panthers through the 2027 season. When […]
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Hello CSR! Welcome to Ask Brian, your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! The Panthers playoff hopes unfortunately fizzled out over the weekend, though a hard fought game showed us the team can realistically try to compete in the very near future. Actual football may be over for Carolina, but the NFL grind never truly […]
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Greetings, internet users. Welcome to The Scratching Post and the new year. Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here. You know the drill. This is now an […]
29 days ago | 1 read
How is it that the 8-9 2025 Carolina Panthers landed squarely in the middle of everybody’s preseason win predictions, skipped leaving anybody confident in their evaluation of the team’s future, yet also finished the season with a strong and wildly optimistic playoff loss against a legitimate Super Bowl contender in the Los Angeles Rams? Carowinds […]
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The regular season may be over, but football never truly stops in the NFL. The Panthers will be bringing back Ejiro Evero for the foreseeable future, per Joe Person of the Athletic. According to Joe, Evero is under contract through the 2027 season. The details on Evero’s contract situation were kind of murky, as going […]
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The Carolina Panthers may have been the first team eliminated from the 2025 playoffs, but they won’t be the last. That’s how the playoffs work, and we know that now from recent experience. Go us. For the first time in months, none of the remaining games have any effect on the Panthers playoff chances or […]
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It was delayed by a week, but the Panthers are officially on to the offseason after being eliminated by the Rams in the Wild Card Round of the 2026 playoffs. Carolina’s draft position is now locked into place at No. 19. The rest of the teams that lose this weekend will fill in slots 20-24. […]
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First quarter recap: The Panthers got the ball first in front of a rocking Bank of America stadium. They started the game with an ineffective run up the middle. They were quickly faced with a 4th and 1. They tried to get Bryce Young in space on a rollout, but the Rams covered everything up […]
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The fun, surprising ride of the 2026 season is over for the Panthers. Carolina was eliminated in stunning fashion 34-31 to the Rams in the Wild Card Round. This one is going to sting. The Rams were heavily favored by 10.5 points, but the Panthers showed the fight they’ve shown all year. They fought back […]
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This is the first Carolina Panthers playoff game in eight seasons and the first playoff game of the 2025 season. Hold onto that theme ladies and gentlemen, because today could be a day of many more firsts. It could be the first time an underdog this big pulled off a playoff upset. It could be […]
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It looks like fans of the Carolina Panthers didn’t waste all of their well wishes, gratitudes, and thankfulness on the holiday season this year. Despite being 2-3 since Thanksgiving, the Panthers managed to win the chaotic NFC South and sneak their way into the playoffs. Fans could hardly be happier. We have well documented the […]
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In Week 13 the Carolina Panthers shocked the world with their upset of the then 9-2 Los Angeles Rams. Our first iteration of an interview with a Rams blogger barely accounted for the possibility of a Panthers win, let alone a playoff rematch. Look at us now. Recent history aside, however, expectations going into tomorrow’s […]
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Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! This may be the final mailbag for the Panthers 2025 season, and you all came firing with questions, so I will make it count! I have decided not to get into Bryce Young related questions once again, as I […]
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Somehow we’re here. Despite a season of ups and downs and more losses than wins, the Carolina Panthers find themselves hosting a playoff game. It just so happens that it’s against the Los Angeles Rams, the team the Panthers defeated at Bank of America Stadium about a month ago in what was arguably the most […]
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The Carolina Panthers are one of 14 NFL teams still standing. But not all 14 of these teams are created equal. With an 8-9 record and backing their way into the playoffs in a less-than-impressive fashion, there are plenty of Panthers skeptics out there. There are probably plenty of Panthers skeptics here, too, but for […]
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The Carolina Panthers are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2017, and are division champions for the first time in ten years. That means we get bonus football! Unfortunately, it comes against a Rams team, and more specifically their offense, that will likely be looking for blood in this rematch from the […]
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For those of you who believe in fate, there was never a doubt the Carolina Panthers would be sitting where they are right now – that is, hosting a home playoff game for the first time in forever. After all, who can argue with such foolproof analytics based off of Jennifer Lopez’s marital status, the […]
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For Carolina Panthers fans, the term X-Clown brings back elated memories. Images of Steve Smith crossing the goal line, arms stretched wide fill their minds. Before the Panthers embark on their next playoff journey, let’s take a look back at this scene from Panthers history. The Scene On January 10th, 2004, the then St. Louis […]
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The Carolina Panthers are going to the playoffs despite ending the season with an 8-9 record. It’s a rare but not unprecedented occurrence. It’s happened four times previously—the 2010 Seahawks, 2014 Panthers, 2020 Washington Football Team, and 2022 Buccaneers. As you can see, the Panthers have become the first multi-time entrant into that exclusive club […]
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The Carolina Panthers are in the playoffs. That’s the bottom line after a roller coaster season full of unanswered questions. Yes, they have a losing record; yes, they are the biggest underdogs in the league heading into wild-card weekend; yes, they exceeded expectations this season; and yes, they play in the NFC South. It is […]
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Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mail bag for everyone! Congratulations Panthers fans it’s playoff season! Somehow against all odds, the Panthers squeaked into the playoffs and we have bonus football for the 2025 regular season. It wasn’t always pretty, in fact, it was often ugly, but the […]
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The Carolina Panthers have officially made the playoffs for the 2025 season, their first trip since 2017. They are in the second year of a new coaching and general manager regime, which got me thinking about another Panthers group that had a similar story, namely the 2003 squad. So let’s take a closer look at […]
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The Carolina Panthers earned the dubious honor of being the only team in NFL history to enter the playoffs with a losing record more than once. Of the five teams to have earned a playoff berth while sub .500, the Panthers are two of them. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are another, for the record, which […]
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The Carolina Panthers are in the playoffs. Say that out loud sometime today so that you can hear it in your own voice. It’s been long enough that you might need a minute to really hear it. At 8-9 the Panthers are going to be this year’s “least likely to” in every category in every […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Greetings, internet users. Welcome to The Scratching Post and the new year. Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here. You know the drill. This is now an […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read