{"id":579137,"date":"2025-12-05T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/579137\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:59:15","slug":"panthers-rest-of-the-season-offensive-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/579137\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers rest of the season offensive preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, we looked back<\/a> at what has gone well and what has gone poorly for the offense. The up-and-down nature of the season has given us plenty to look at on both sides of that conversation. It\u2019s made it impossible to predict what is going to happen on any given week. After exploding against the Falcons, most people expected at least a competent performance on Monday Night Football. Instead, the Panthers had one of their worst offensive performances of the season. Naturally that was going to be followed by a blowout loss to the Rams, but instead the Panthers hung 31 points on arguably the best defense in the league and came out with one of the biggest upset wins of the season.<\/p>\n

Now the group is on bye to gear up for the home stretch. The schedule isn\u2019t easy, but it also sets the Panthers up to control their own destiny. They come out of the bye against the Saints, which looks easy on paper but we\u2019ve already seen what happens when we expect something to be easy. That\u2019s followed by a closing stretch of Buccaneers, Seahawks, Buccaneers. That\u2019s three straight games against very good defenses to finish out the (regular) season. If the Panthers sweep the Bucs, they need to win just one of the two games against the Saints and Seahawks to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

In order for that to happen, the Panthers are going to need more good performances than bad from this offense, and that\u2019s proven to be a big ask in recent seasons. Here\u2019s what we\u2019ll need to see from the offense in the final month of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, we looked back at what has gone well and what has gone poorly for the offense.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,85337,2567,7,781,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-579137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolina-panthers-analysis","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-general","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115669445411059739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579137","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=579137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}