{"id":290301,"date":"2025-08-15T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/290301\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:31:19","slug":"5-things-to-watch-as-panthers-visit-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/290301\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things to watch as Panthers visit Texans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Can the first team &#8220;finish&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For as well as the Panthers&#8217; defense held against the Texans&#8217; offense on Thursday, CJ Stroud was still able to march down field during the two-minute drill. On the other field, the Panthers&#8217; offense started and ended strong, but lagged in the middle with penalties and what Canales described as &#8220;fatigue.&#8221; The touchdown during the final two-minute drill, though, was the push Canales wanted to see from his offense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just keep convincing our guys that&#8217;s who we are,&#8221; Canales said after practice. &#8220;We finish. Games can get ugly in the middle. We have to be able to focus and rebound. So I was really excited about that part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both sets of starters\u2014offense and defense\u2014have a chance to push through and prove they can &#8220;finish&#8221; again Saturday. Canales said the plan, for now, is still play the group around three drives each. It will be dependent on how they came out of Thursday&#8217;s practice, and barring no injuries arose in the aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can the first team &#8220;finish&#8221; For as well as the Panthers&#8217; defense held against the Texans&#8217; offense on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[23699,79,235,260,2567,11404,7,81,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-290301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-2025-training-camp","9":"tag-app-news","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-carolinapanthers","13":"tag-derrick-brown","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115033268977685152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290301","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=290301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}