{"id":277548,"date":"2025-08-10T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/277548\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:33:18","slug":"offense-has-moments-but-panthers-fall-38-20-to-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/277548\/","title":{"rendered":"Offense has moments, but Panthers fall 38-20 to Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE \u2014 A funny thing happened near the end of the first half. The Falcons were driving for a touchdown. And the Panthers were calling timeouts.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what a team does when it has confidence in its offense to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/andy-dalton\/\" title=\"Andy Dalton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Dalton<\/a> immediately answered with a touchdown in the final minute and a half of the first half, evidence of his increasing comfort in this system. The Panthers couldn&#8217;t get enough stops and fell 38-20 to the Falcons, but the point stands.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers \u2014 wracked by injuries on defense \u2014 are struggling to stop opponents. But on the other side of the ball, things were going reasonably well early.<\/p>\n<p>Dalton was a sharp moving the ball, keeping the Panthers in the game throughout against a high-functioning Falcons offense.<\/p>\n<p>After those statement timeouts before halftime, Dalton drove the Panthers the length of the field in a hurry, hitting wide receiver <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/xavier-legette\/\" title=\"Xavier Legette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Legette<\/a> for the touchdown and another of the rookie&#8217;s patented Dolla Bill celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 A funny thing happened near the end of the first half. The Falcons were driving for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[79,223,254,2554,224,7,12186,81,6,34146],"class_list":{"0":"post-277548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-gameday","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-rapid-reactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115005909011859331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277548","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=277548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}