The Carolina Panthers fell apart in spectacular fashion after a shocking 30-0 win over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 3. It didn’t look that way in the beginning. Bryce Young and company got the ball first and took it 76 yards on just seven plays to open the scoring. That was the peak of the afternoon. Here is how the subsequent drives went:

• Punt
• Punt
• Missed field goal
• Punt
• Punt
• Downs
• Punt
• Downs

The Panthers finally scored their second touchdown in garbage time with Andy Dalton leading the charge. Outside of the...

Hello CSR! We’re onto week 5, hopefully putting a horrific week 4 loss to the Patriots behind us. The Panthers will welcome the Dolphins to Charlotte for their second home game of the season, and currently the Panthers have surrendered ZERO points at home this season. That trend should continue, right? Let’s dive right into the matchup for the Panthers defense!

• Show me the plan at EDGE! The Panthers edge rushers and subsequent pass rush has been all out of sorts since the very beginning of the season. And against what should have been a decent matchup for them...

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 Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza.

Bio

Mendoza’s college football career almost ended before it began. He did not have any D1 offers and was set to attend Yale University. At the eleventh hour,...

The comments sections in this week’s posts have not been, to describe them generously, optimistic. The Carolina Panthers seem to have convinced many of their fans that they are a bad team from whom they can expect bad things. This is a crushing realization for many, as a majority of fans thought the 2025 Panthers would clear the low bar of ‘better than the 2024 Panthers.’ Alas.

This week’s confidence poll, which I won’t be surprised to see hit single digits, is paired with one question designed to see just how desperate our fellow faithful are for change.

There are...

Trying to understand the Carolina Panthers is a fool’s errand in that the less effort you make to understand them, the better off you’ll be. In this week’s Optimist, Walker described being a fan of the Panthers as a “senseless act of hope”, which is the perfect way to describe it.

Whenever the Panthers show you one thing, there’s little to no chance you’ll see it again next week. One week, they’ll perform better and you start to think they figured it out and have started heading in the right direction. The next week, well, the game we saw on...

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, part one of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! The last couple of weeks have been a series of extremes, as the Panthers defeated the Falcons 30-0 last week, and then were promptly squashed 42-13 by the Patriots this past week. This has led to a major shift in the mood for Panthers nation, as we went from feeling better about the team’s overall direction to thinking week 3 might have just been a flash in the pan. I know there’s been several discussions going on in the comments, and you all know...

The sky is falling. The end is nigh. The 1-3 Carolina Panthers are the worst team in the NFL and everybody knows it. Everybody except for sportsbooks, apparently. For the first time this season, the Panthers are favored to win a game against an NFL team.

The 1-3 Miami Dolphins—whose sole win came last week over the 0-4 New York Jets—are one of the few teams that can lay claim to a worse season than the Panthers so far. Here are the odds to date:

Week 5

Spread

Dolphins: +1.5 (-115)

Panthers: -1.5 (-1-5)

O/U

44.5 (-105/-115)...

The 2025 Carolina Panthers are officially a bad team. Some things about them are funny. Like how they dominated the Atlanta Falcons in Week 3, then lost to the New England Patriots 42-13 in Week 4. That is funny because the Falcons turned around to beat a solid Washington Commanders team 34-27. Given the Panthers second string outscored their first string yesterday 7-6, that means the Falcons came within two points of outscoring the Panthers over two weeks despite losing to them 30-0 in the first week of that period. While some things are funny, nothing is exactly fun.

The...

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The Carolina Panthers reverted to their substandard level of play and were blown out by the New England Patriots, 42-13.

First Quarter

Bryce Young completed a pass to David Moore in the flat to get the game started, and Moore was tackled awkwardly and immediately forced to leave the game. The offense was still able to keep its rhythm though, as Young completed all four of his pass attempts to four different receivers. The last of those was a ball over the top to Tommy Tremble from just inside the ten for a Panthers touchdown. Ryan Fitzgerald shtoinked the...

The Carolina Panthers reverted to their substandard level of play and were blown out by the New England Patriots, 42-13.

First Quarter

Bryce Young completed a pass to David Moore in the flat to get the game started, and Moore was tackled awkwardly and immediately forced to leave the game. The offense was still able to keep its rhythm though, as Young completed all four of his pass attempts to four different receivers. The last of those was a ball over the top to Tommy Tremble from just inside the ten for a Panthers touchdown. Ryan Fitzgerald shtoinked the...

The Carolina Panthers are looking to build on their one-game winning streak today in a momentous game against the New England Patriots. No one knows quite what to make of the Panthers this year. Are they the team that gave up a 10-point lead to the Arizona Cardinals in the first two minutes of their Week 2 game or the team that nearly won that game with a second half rally? No one really thinks they’re the team that drubbed the Atlanta Falcons 30-0 last week, but maybe they’re closer than we thought.

Panthers fans are primed for a big...