Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! The Panthers let us down on prime time, a tradition almost as old as Thanksgiving. You asked questions, and I got answers for you. We’ll dive right in, and join us during next week’s Ask Brian column to have more of your fan questions answered!

Schammgod: Why do the NFL refs and God hate the Panthers??? But in actuality, do you think the Panthers should pick up Bryce’s 5th year option and grab a late round QB in the draft to develop? Thanks!

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The 6-6 Carolina Panthers are looking to play spoiler this week when they host the 9-2 Los Angeles Rams. To gain a deeper understanding of what it’s like to root for a team that is “good” and has “a promising future,” I spoke with Evan Craig of Turf Show Times. The poor guy seems confident, not just against the Panthers, but in the Rams season as a whole.

Read on for an objective take on a how a competent team could meet the strength and weaknesses of our beloved Carolina Panthers. It’s a sobering look that gives a cleaner picture...

The Carolina Panthers are thankfully at home, licking their many, many wounds today. We’re blessed with better offensive teams for Thanksgiving football. Join us here to discuss the Detroit Lions at the Green Bay Packers at 1:00 PM ET, the Kansas City Chiefs at the Dallas Cowboys at 4:30 PM ET, and the Cincinnati Bengals at the Baltimore Ravens at 8:20 PM ET.

You know the drill.

This is now an open thread!

Even though the 2025 NFL season just started, it’s never too early to look ahead toward the 2026 NFL Draft. This weekly series will take a closer look at some of the prospects the Carolina Panthers could select in the 2026 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 Utah Utes offensive tackle Spencer Fano.

Bio

Fano has been one of the top tackles in the nation since becoming the starting left tackle for the Utes as a true freshman. He has...

The Carolina Panthers showed up on the west coast to a San Francisco 49ers team that was in a generous mood. The 49ers were determined to gift the Panthers a primetime victory, a 8-6 record and top position in the NFC South.

Instead, the Panthers did what has now become the completely expected thing after they’ve earned a morsel of respect from their fans and the national media – they embarrassed themselves. Only this time, it happened in front of every football fan in America who decided to tune in to the one game on television.

Call it whiplash inducing,...

Hello CSR! Welcome to Ask Brian, your weekly Carolina Panthers fan mail bag for everyone! Unfortunately, we are coming off another week of the seesaw performance of Bryce Young and the offense throughout this season. They got beat in their first Monday night, football game in quite some time, and unfortunately, Bryce Young regressed well below with a mean following a huge performance against Atlanta. Now, the Panthers face what is likely their toughest opponent of the season in the Rams, who are currently vying for the top of the NFC. While most of the discussion this week has been...

The Carolina Panthers, on the verge of controlling the NFC South and their own playoff destiny through December, laid one of their biggest offensive eggs in years. It would be sadder if it didn’t feel like a Carolina primetime tradition that transcends regime and player.

The ever lively comment section here on Cat Scratch Reader has been confident in their opinion of quarterback Bryce Young and his responsibility for the Panthers largely absent passing game. Now we’re asking the wider community how they feel about Young and we’re asking in a new way. Take a look below at that along...

The Panthers were destined to look bad on Monday night — after all, it was a primetime game. Carolina’s propensity for laying goose eggs on the brightest stage has been a calling card of the franchise for the better part of 30 years, so why stop now? First you get mad about it, then you accept it, finally all you can do is laugh, but the frustration at seeing the offense continuously vacillate from world beaters to absolutely abysmal is simply nauseating.

Dave Canales offered cold comfort in the wake of another loss. It was more of the same from...

Every ounce of momentum the Carolina Panthers have generated this season has been met with a bone-jarring stop. That hurt all the more last night in their 20-9 loss to the San Francisco 49ers when the Panthers were presented with a gift wrapped and golden opportunity to win their first primetime game in two years and take the division lead over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in late November for the first time in ten years. A battered to hell and back offensive line, Bryce Young, and Dave Canales couldn’t score more than three points in the first half despite three...

Welp, with the Carolina Panthers dreams of a wildcard berth and actually making some noise in the post season quietly washing away last night, we’re back to our weekly ritual of acknowledging the team’s well-earned status as an underdog. This week they are favored to lose to the Los Angeles Rams, one of the best teams in professional football at this time.

Y’all, it’s not going to be pretty.

Week 13

Spread

Rams: -10.5 (-110)

Panthers: +10.5 (-110)

O/U

45.5 (-110/-110)

Moneyline

Rams: -750

Panthers: +530

Remember that home-field advantage is traditionally accounted for by spotting...

The Carolina Panthers and San Francisco 49ers played a mistake-filled game on Monday night, but if the Panthers were able to pull it out, they would lead the NFC South. That did not happen, and Carolina falls two games out of the wild card and a half-game back of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for first in the NFC South.

Carolina and Tampa play twice over the last three weeks of the season, so there is a very clear path to the division crown even if two of their remaining games are against the NFC-leading Rams and the strong Seattle Seahawks....

A first half so full of incompetence that it was entertaining eventually turned into a total stinker as the Carolina Panthers put out another dud in primetime. They lost to the 49ers, 20-9.

First Quarter

The Christian McCaffrey revenge game started with five straight touches for the former Panther. He ended up with nine touches on a long, methodical drive to open the game. The Panthers defense did a good job containing most plays to modest gains, but they couldn’t get the stop or force the mistake they needed to upend the drive. It was finally capped off a...