Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald react to Carolina’s 27-10 loss to Seattle on Sunday, setting up a regular season finale battle with Tampa Bay for the NFC South. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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What’s funny today is, uh, my dad had a bunch of his friends over, and they’re all Panthers.
Fans, right?
Andoh.
… You know, when that game is going in the first Half, they’re hooting and hollering.
I can hear them from my room.
Yeah.
…
Going crazy, and then all of a sudden, Deathly quiet.
Deathly quiet.
And I was like, “What happened?”
Oh, halftime happened.
That’s what happened.
And, you know, the, the whole… Bryce Young hadwas it 16 yards?across his first 16 passing attempts.
Uh, woo!
That, that, that was a rough one.
Yeah.
… For the Panthers offense.
And like, I know, uh, T-Mac, he was sick out there.
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It, it looked like he wasn’t 100%, butyeah.
… Man, Seattle’s defense absolutely gave it to them.
And the running game on the other side played well.
Like, Zach Charbonnet had a great game.
Ken Walker had ayeah.
… You know, his chaotic carry on 3rd and 30.
That he absolutely lives for.
Um, but outside of that, Man, the NFC South is garbage.
Seahawks’ pass defense, because it was just Like the, the, the Panthers couldn’t operate.
It was just…
There’s also, there’s some cool color play.
I’ll say that.
They had a 9% conversion rate on third down.
Which is the second-lowest rate, conversion rate this season.
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The gain on third down: eight yards on third and seven.
Three yards on third, third and 12, one yard on third and two.
Gains of zero, zero, zero, zero, zero.
So five of them.
Lost two yards, lost 11 yards.
So if you’re doing math at home, The Panthers lost more yards on third down today than they gained.
They had, they had one… You didn’t mention it.
But they finished with 1.7 net yards per pass attempt and 2.7 yards per play.
Zero explosive plays.
It’s only the fourth time that’s happened this season by an offense.
And the Seahawks offense could really just Kinda make mistakes.
Darnold could throw interceptions in the red.
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Zone can just have these moments.
It doesn’t matter because their defI mean, the Panthers could not throw the ball.
Whatsoever.
And their run game has dropped off in the back Half of the season, it’s turned into like a bottom-five run game.
Which was a super strength for them.
Yeah.
Um, it’s…
It’s just because defenses aren’t threatened.
They know.
Kind of know what the, you know, the gig is up.