{"id":687084,"date":"2026-01-18T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:58:14","slug":"live-carolina-panthers-fan-discussion-and-reactions-for-the-divisional-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687084\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Carolina Panthers fan discussion and reactions for the Divisional Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Carolina Panthers may be out of the running, but that doesn\u2019t mean the race is over. The Houston Texans are visiting the New England Patriots at 3:00 PM ET this afternoon and the Los Angeles Rams are on the road again against the Chicago Bears at 6:30 PM ET tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Texans\/Pats game is one of those where I wish it could end in a tie. On the one hand, I\u2019ll never root for the New England Patriots. On the other hand, I don\u2019t want to spend another offseason hearing about how the Panthers should have taken C.J. Stroud, regardless of his performance. Bah humbug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rams against the Bears has an easier angle for me to root for this weekend. Go Los Angeles. Simply put, I want the team that the Panthers took down to the wire in the wild-card round to go on and win the Super Bowl. That, more than anything, will help cement my optimism for the 2026 offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is your open thread to follow along with us for all the action today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is now an open thread!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Panthers may be out of the running, but that doesn\u2019t mean the race is over. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,85462,2567,7,710,6,236],"class_list":["post-687084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolina-panthers-discussion","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-game-day-threads","tag-nfl","tag-panthers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687084","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=687084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}