{"id":980693,"date":"2026-08-23T04:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/980693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:21:45","slug":"a-sign-to-my-father-jonathon-brooks-on-his-special-preseason-touchdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/980693\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A sign to my father&#8221;: Jonathon Brooks on his special preseason touchdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I missed that block, and that&#8217;s unfortunate, but it happens, and you just got to bounce back and throw it in the past, and just be better for the next time,&#8221; said Brooks. &#8220;I definitely tried to hone in and be more efficient with my technique,&#8221; he laughed, of not missing the next block.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers are going to lean on Brooks a lot this coming season, his unique combination of size, speed, and vision on the edges making him a special piece. So this preseason is about him working through the kinks that come from being sidelined for almost two years, letting him make those mistakes and fix them quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the rhythm of all the special stuff that he brings, that happens when he&#8217;s down the field and when he can break tackles, when he can find his legs again,&#8221; explained coach Dave Canales. &#8220;To see him running aggressively was so important for me and I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s had these opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I missed that block, and that&#8217;s unfortunate, but it happens, and you just got to bounce back and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":980694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[123190,79,1476,235,260,128523,2567,7,8811,81,6,236],"class_list":["post-980693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-2026-training-camp","tag-app-news","tag-bryce-young","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolina-panthers-at-jacksonville-jaguars-2026-pre-2","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-football","tag-jonathon-brooks","tag-latest-news","tag-nfl","tag-panthers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117142911918936116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980693","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=980693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}