{"id":1037067,"date":"2026-10-25T22:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1037067\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T22:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:42:52","slug":"we-got-to-stop-the-bleeding-panthers-defense-wants-to-quickly-evaluate-run-defense-breakdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1037067\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We got to stop the bleeding&#8221;: Panthers defense wants to quickly evaluate run defense breakdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That momentum built through the first half as the Bucs capitalized on multiple Panthers turnovers. By game&#8217;s end, they had 20 points off turnovers, plus two more off a blocked PAT. With that cushion, and in an effort to protect quarterback Baker Mayfield&#8217;s thumb, which was in a protective glove in his first action back since a Week 3 dislocation, Tampa Bay barely put the ball in the air all day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They threw the ball 11 times, think about that,&#8221; posed defensive lineman <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/bobby-brown-iii\/\" title=\"Bobby Brown III\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Brown III<\/a>. &#8220;Seven completions, four of them were screens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayfield&#8217;s 11 passing attempts were the second-fewest by a Panthers opponent in team history, trailing only seven thrown by Chicago in a 2017 matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the defense did enough to force Mayfield to throw with a hampered hand, Brown admitted, &#8220;I mean, no, because if we did, that wouldn&#8217;t be the result.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That momentum built through the first half as the Bucs capitalized on multiple Panthers turnovers. By game&#8217;s end,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1037068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[79,235,260,2567,7,81,6,236,134194],"class_list":["post-1037067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-app-news","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-latest-news","tag-nfl","tag-panthers","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-at-carolina-panthers-2026-reg-7"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117503970700672858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}