{"id":662315,"date":"2026-01-07T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/662315\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:20:12","slug":"the-panthers-defense-is-healthy-and-loaded-for-what-stafford-sees-as-their-best-challenge-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/662315\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panthers defense is healthy and loaded for what Stafford sees as their best challenge of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/nick-scott\/\" title=\"Nick Scott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Scott<\/a> played with Stafford in L.A. He appreciates the QBs words but also understands the veteran knows how to play the gamesmanship card.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s probably just trying to butter us up a little bit,&#8221; Scott grinned. &#8220;But, no, he&#8217;s a good dude and I appreciate him saying that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coach E (defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero), (defensive passing game coordinator Jonathan) Cooley, Noddy (secondary coach Renaldo Hill), all those guys, I mean, they&#8217;ve created a lot of clarity in this back end; they did a tremendous job developing the guys and making sure that we fully understand not only the game plan but how this defense is supposed to operate from a whole, and then it just comes down to communication at that point.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Scott played with Stafford in L.A. He appreciates the QBs words but also understands the veteran knows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[79,235,260,2567,7,6457,81,10118,6,236,11204],"class_list":["post-662315","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-jaycee-horn","tag-latest-news","tag-mike-jackson","tag-nfl","tag-panthers","tag-trevon-moehrig"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115856384008984059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662315","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=662315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}