{"id":674106,"date":"2026-01-13T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674106\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:56:14","slug":"ask-brian-the-off-season-has-officially-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674106\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Brian: The off-season has officially begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hello CSR! Welcome to Ask Brian, your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! The Panthers playoff hopes unfortunately fizzled out over the weekend, though a hard fought game showed us the team can realistically try to compete in the very near future. Actual football may be over for Carolina, but the NFL grind never truly stops. Now that the Panthers have confirmed they are bringing back defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero, and it appears they aren\u2019t making any other major coaching staff changes, all eyes go to the off-season. The Panthers will likely have several moves to make in free agency, some extensions to discuss, and tons of scouting ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, as always, you know the drill. This is your safe space to ask any questions you like, whether they be Panthers related, football related, or even completely off topic! Sound off below in the comments, and I\u2019ll have some answers for you later on this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello CSR! Welcome to Ask Brian, your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! The Panthers playoff hopes unfortunately&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2570,4789,9939,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":["post-674106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolina-panthers-draft","tag-carolina-panthers-free-agency","tag-carolina-panthers-rumors","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-panthers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115888140142921715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674106","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=674106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}