How is it that the 8-9 2025 Carolina Panthers landed squarely in the middle of everybody’s preseason win predictions, skipped leaving anybody confident in their evaluation of the team’s future, yet also finished the season with a strong and wildly optimistic playoff loss against a legitimate Super Bowl contender in the Los Angeles Rams? Carowinds […]
From Cat Scratch Reader
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With the Green Bay Packers finishing with the second-worst record among NFL playoff teams, following their loss and the loss of the Carolina Panthers in the wild-card round, the team will now officially send the 20th overall pick, their original first-round pick, to the Dallas Cowboys for the Micah Parsons trade. As a reminder, the […]
From Acme Packing Company
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The Los Angeles Rams are a 4.5-point favorite against the Cinderella Chicago Bears in the Divisional Round, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Chicago, with Caleb Williams under center, has been the comeback king all season long, pulling out the most frustratingly miraculous wins you’ve ever seen. The Rams won a surprising 34-31 thriller over the Panthers in […]
From Turf Show Times
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The Arizona Cardinals head coach search has expanded to 10 names they have requested interviews with. After the Los Angeles Rams first round win over the Carolina Panthers, the Cardinals have requested to meet with both of the Rams coordinators. Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur is the 38-year old younger brother of Matt LaFleur, the […]
From Revenge of the Birds
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The regular season may be over, but football never truly stops in the NFL. The Panthers will be bringing back Ejiro Evero for the foreseeable future, per Joe Person of the Athletic. According to Joe, Evero is under contract through the 2027 season. The details on Evero’s contract situation were kind of murky, as going […]
From Cat Scratch Reader
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Holy cow, what a start to the 2025-26 NFL playoffs. The Rams and Panthers battled to an afternoon thriller filled with multiple fourth-quarter lead changes and go-ahead drives. Then the Bears and Packers closed it out with an epic collapse from Green Bay and yet another improbable recovery from a Bears season that is going […]
From Pride Of Detroit
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The Carolina Panthers may have been the first team eliminated from the 2025 playoffs, but they won’t be the last. That’s how the playoffs work, and we know that now from recent experience. Go us. For the first time in months, none of the remaining games have any effect on the Panthers playoff chances or […]
From Cat Scratch Reader
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Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford suffered an injury to a finger on his throwing hand in the opening round of the playoffs against the Carolina Panthers. Whether it was due to the injury or not, Stafford easily had one of his worst games of the season. Both games against Carolina were his two-lowest graded […]
From Turf Show Times
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Whew! Take a sigh of relief Rams family. The Los Angeles Rams and Carolina Panthers opened up the 2025-2026 Wild Card playoffs and the first game of wild card weekend did not disappoint. The Rams (-10.5 favorites) defeated the Panthers 34-31 with a game winning touchdown with less than a minute remaining to move onto […]
From Turf Show Times
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The Seattle Seahawks will have to play another game against an NFC West rival; they just don’t know which one yet. On a dramatic opening day of the 2026 NFL Playoffs, the Los Angeles Rams rallied late to avoid an upset loss to the Carolina Panthers, while the Chicago Bears pulled off another absurd comeback […]
From Field Gulls
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The Los Angeles Rams survived the Carolina Panthers to advance to the divisional round of the NFC playoffs. LA corrected the record and got revenge after falling to Carolina earlier in the year. The final score was 34-31. Let’s take a look at the Pro Football Focus (PFF) grades and data from the game. Who […]
From Turf Show Times
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The opening game of the NFL playoffs is usually a bloodbath. The Los Angeles Rams were 10.5-point favorites over the Carolina Panthers coming into Saturday, and the game was much closer than anyone could have realistically expected. Bryce Young hit Jalen Coker in the end zone to give Carolina a late four-point lead. Matthew Stafford […]
From Turf Show Times
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The Los Angeles Rams survived an upset attempt by the Carolina Panthers to advance to the Divisional Round of the 2026 NFL playoffs. Now it’s time to see the matchup between the No. 2 Chicago Bears and the No. 7 seed Green Bay Packers. Assuming the Philadelphia Eagles beat the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday […]
From Bleeding Green Nation
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It was delayed by a week, but the Panthers are officially on to the offseason after being eliminated by the Rams in the Wild Card Round of the 2026 playoffs. Carolina’s draft position is now locked into place at No. 19. The rest of the teams that lose this weekend will fill in slots 20-24. […]
From Cat Scratch Reader
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First quarter recap: The Panthers got the ball first in front of a rocking Bank of America stadium. They started the game with an ineffective run up the middle. They were quickly faced with a 4th and 1. They tried to get Bryce Young in space on a rollout, but the Rams covered everything up […]
From Cat Scratch Reader
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The fun, surprising ride of the 2026 season is over for the Panthers. Carolina was eliminated in stunning fashion 34-31 to the Rams in the Wild Card Round. This one is going to sting. The Rams were heavily favored by 10.5 points, but the Panthers showed the fight they’ve shown all year. They fought back […]
From Cat Scratch Reader
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The Los Angeles Rams beat the Carolina Panthers on Wild Card Weekend by a score of 34-31. This was a tight contest as both teams had moments of great play, and stretches of mistakes. Neither team was exactly able to put the other away, but it was the Rams who found a way in this […]
From Turf Show Times
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The Los Angeles Rams lead the Carolina Panthers by a score of 17-14 after the first half of play. The Rams jumped out to an early 14-0 lead after two Puka Nacua touchdowns, but the Panthers got themselves back into the game after a touchdown of their own to the make the score 14-7. Late […]
From Turf Show Times
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The playoffs are here, Rumblers! Super Wild Card Weekend gets underway this afternoon with a pair of Saturday playoff games heavy on NFC action. The Buffalo Bills don’t play until Sunday, with a 1 p.m. EST game in Duval County, FL against the Jacksonville Jaguars. But for today, we’ve got plenty of action to enjoy! […]
From Buffalo Rumblings
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The NFL’s Wild Card Weekend is here! The first game on today’s two-game lineup features the 4th and 5th seeds from the NFC. The Los Angeles Rams and Carolina Panthers will feature this season’s potential NFL MVP Matthew Srafford looking for another ring as his career continues to wind down. Third-year QB Bryce Young has […]
From Hogs Haven
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The Carolina Panthers host the Los Angeles Rams in the first of two Wild Card playoff games today. Carolina enters this game having backed into the NFC South title, while Los Angeles dropped from first in the NFC to fifth, by losing two of their last three games. This is a rematch of one of […]
From Canal Street Chronicles
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Happy Postseason! The first matchup of Wild Card Weekend will feature the Los Angeles Rams (12-5) on the road against the Carolina Panthers (8-9). The Panthers actually lead the all-time regular season series between these teams, 13-10, but the Rams have won two of their three most-recent meetings. However, they last faced off back in […]
From Bleeding Green Nation
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The NFL playoffs start today. The Panthers host the Rams, followed by the Packers visiting the Bears. This is an open thread for game chat.
From Blogging The Boys
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Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young makes his playoff debut. Historically, quarterbacks making their first postseason start have struggled. Even the elite quarterbacks like Joe Burrow. That also includes Super Bowl-winning ones, like Jalen Hurts, who trailed 31-0 after three quarters in his first start. Young has seen his opponent, which may help his cause. When […]
From Niners Nation
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The 2026 NFL Playoffs gets underway in rainy, windy Charlotte, where the NFC South champion Carolina Panthers are looking to shock the world (again) against the Los Angeles Rams. Part of why the Seattle Seahawks can sit back and enjoy the number one seed is because the Rams lost to the Panthers in Week 13, […]
From Field Gulls
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