It’s a short list, but there are some clear favorites

The 2024 NFL playoffs have reached the conference championship games. The Philadelphia Eagles will be hosting the Washington Commanders and the Buffalo Bills will be visiting the Kansas City Chiefs. None of these teams have particularly storied, on-field rivalries with the Carolina Panthers. Figuring out who to root for, from the perspective of a Panthers fans, got complicated this weekend with the early exit of the fellow cat mascot and long-time poverty franchise of the Detroit Lions.

The Eagles and the Chiefs are excellent teams that the Panthers played surprisingly...

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We bring you another edition of this week’s mailbag. Not so many questions so we’ll get a bit deeper with the answers!

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We approach the divisional round of the NFL playoffs, and the NFC South is eliminated. It's the offseason for Panthers fans, but I called on any participants who wanted to to share their favorite NFC South memories from this season as the topic of the week. I’m going to share mine, just for fun!

My favorite part of this season for the...

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As the 2025 NFL Draft inches closer, let’s dive deeper into each position group to see where the talent and depth are.

Now that the regular season is over, the Carolina Panthers are locked into the number eight overall pick of the first round. They also have the Los Angeles Rams’ second round pick (currently projected to be pick 57), their own third (74) and fourth (109), the Dallas Cowboys’ fourth (112), the New York Giants’ fifth (139), their own fifth (145), the Baltimore Ravens’ fifth (projected to be pick 163), and the Arizona Cardinals’ seventh (227). The exact number...

The Panthers might not be able to fix every hole in one offseason. If they can’t, which current players could they turn to in 2025?

Believe it or not, the Carolina Panthers used to be a team with much less interesting offseasons. That’s probably not a good thing, as most prefer the actual football games to be more interesting, but it is fair to say that some of the more entertaining times as a Panthers fan happened between March and August for the past half a decade.

Fans of the Panthers may remember times when pleas to find upgrades at...

Let’s take a closer look at one of the prospects the Panthers could select in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Since it’s never too early to look forward to the NFL Draft, this weekly series will take a closer look at some of the prospects the Carolina Panthers could select in the 2025 iteration of the Draft. In this series, we’ll only be looking at prospects the Panthers could seriously consider. This week our profile will focus on Alabama Crimson Tide linebacker Jihaad Campbell.

Jihaad Campbell (6’3”, 245 lbs) finished his high school career as the top edge rusher in the...

Former Panthers quarterbacks did not fare well over Wild Card Weekend

Wildcard weekend was not kind to former Carolina Panthers quarterbacks Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield. Darnold led the Minnesota Vikings to a 14-2 record, one game off the #1 seed, but flopped in his playoff debut, losing 27-9 to the Los Angeles Rams. Mayfield at least put up a fight with his Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the Washington Commanders, but ultimately fell in a tight, 23-20 contest.

That leaves only Teddy Bridgewater, a recently signed back-up quarterback for the Detroit Lions, as a former Panthers quarterback still in the...

We bring you part one of this week’s Offseason fan mailbag!

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, part one of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We kicked off the offseason along with the Falcons and Saints following last week’s games, however one NFC South team still had some meaningful football to play. Unfortunately for the Buccaneers, their playoffs hopes came to a halt against the Washington Commanders on Sunday Night Football, meaning all 4 of the NFC South teams now gear up for the off-season, free agency, and then the Draft in April. So, this week’s topic of...

For the first time in a long time, Carolina has good will to burn

The Carolina Panthers have entered the off season with a rare commodity: the good will of their fans. After years of disappointing finishes and snake oil pitches, fans of the Panthers were near the end of their collective ropes. A 5-12 season is hardly worth celebrating, but it does match the best efforts of a single, full-time head coach since Ron Rivera was fired.

The efforts of the team down the stretch, actually matched what Dave Canales was selling fans throughout the year. The team was...

Jadeveon Clowney graded out as the Panthers top defensive player while Jaycee Horn’s grade was comically low.

The good people at Pro Football Focus spend enormous amounts of time breaking down every player’s performance on every individual play throughout the season. In the end, players can then be given a final rating somewhere between zero (poor) and 100 (elite). Panthers players who did not receive a position rating in 2024 by PFF will show as “NA” in the table below.

If you want to learn more about PFF’s methodology, you can read their Player Grade overview.

Most of us as...

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