Greetings, internet users. Welcome to The Scratching Post and the new year. Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here. You know the drill. This is now an […]
16 days ago | 2 reads
The Carolina Panthers may be out of the running, but that doesn’t 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. The Texans/Pats game is […]
17 days ago | 3 reads
The Carolina Panthers may be out of the running, but that doesn’t mean the race is over. The Buffalo Bills are taking on the Denver Broncos at 4:30 ET/2:30 MT in Denver this afternoon and the San Francisco 49ers are visiting the Seattle Seahawks at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT this evening. The remaining results […]
18 days ago | 5 reads
Greetings, Panthers fans. Welcome to the weekend. Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here. You know the drill. This is now an open thread
19 days ago | 1 read
Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! We got a ton of questions as we dive right into the off-season, and they touched on all sorts of subjects. Let’s jump right in! Bruce Guild: Brian who would yopu put as you biggest player performance surprises on […]
19 days ago | 2 reads
The Carolina Panthers are retaining assistant quarterbacks coach Mike Bercovici, who had interviewed with a couple teams for a job as quarterbacks coach. They are promoting him to passing game coordinator to get him to stay. Who? Bercovici is not a long-time Dave Canales assistant. He entered the ranks of NFL coaches in 2020 as […]
19 days ago | 5 reads
The Carolina Panthers have been eliminated from the playoffs. Besides rooting against the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos, there is not much for Panthers fans to pay attention to between now and next season. Besides from little things like the 2026 NFL Draft and Free Agency, I suppose. With more holes once again […]
20 days ago | 1 read
The Carolina Panthers shocked many around the NFL in making their first playoff appearance since 2017 this season. Despite a great showing at home in front of legends like Cam Newton, Luke Kuechly, Steve Smith, and Jake Delhomme, the Panthers ultimately lost and their season has ended. After taking some time to reflect on this […]
20 days ago | 3 reads
While the Los Angeles Rams emerged from Saturday’s wild card classic as the victor, the Carolina Panthers gave them everything they could handle. Until they didn’t. Despite playing solid defense for a majority of the second half to allow the Panthers offense an opportunity to take the lead multiple times, the moment eventually became too […]
21 days ago | 1 read
Now that the Panthers have officially entered their offseason, we look ahead toward the 2026 NFL Draft. This weekly series will take a closer look at some of the prospects the Carolina Panthers could select in the 2026 iteration of the Draft. In this series, we’ll only be looking at prospects the Panthers could seriously […]
21 days ago | 3 reads
The Carolina Panthers fought valiantly in a playoff game they probably didn’t even deserve to host, but they came up just a bit short of pulling off an all time upset. With the loss, the season came to an end, and you know what that means. It’s the offseason, which for a lot of fans […]
22 days ago | 3 reads
Carolina Panthers general manager Dan Morgan confirmed the team’s long rumored plan to exercise Bryce Young’s fifth year option in a press conference this morning. Young, who has generated considerably mixed opinions from fans due to his low production and inconsistent play, will be under contract for the Carolina Panthers through the 2027 season. When […]
22 days ago | 0 reads
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 […]
22 days ago | 3 reads
Greetings, internet users. Welcome to The Scratching Post and the new year. Feel free to use this thread to chat about (almost) anything you want: video games, food, movies, non-football sports, you name it. As long as it’s allowed by the site’s ToS, it’s fair game here. You know the drill. This is now an […]
23 days ago | 1 read
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 […]
23 days ago | 1 read
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 […]
24 days ago | 2 reads
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 […]
24 days ago | 1 read
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. […]
24 days ago | 0 reads
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 […]
24 days ago | 0 reads
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 […]
24 days ago | 1 read
This is the first Carolina Panthers playoff game in eight seasons and the first playoff game of the 2025 season. Hold onto that theme ladies and gentlemen, because today could be a day of many more firsts. It could be the first time an underdog this big pulled off a playoff upset. It could be […]
25 days ago | 0 reads
It looks like fans of the Carolina Panthers didn’t waste all of their well wishes, gratitudes, and thankfulness on the holiday season this year. Despite being 2-3 since Thanksgiving, the Panthers managed to win the chaotic NFC South and sneak their way into the playoffs. Fans could hardly be happier. We have well documented the […]
25 days ago | 1 read
In Week 13 the Carolina Panthers shocked the world with their upset of the then 9-2 Los Angeles Rams. Our first iteration of an interview with a Rams blogger barely accounted for the possibility of a Panthers win, let alone a playoff rematch. Look at us now. Recent history aside, however, expectations going into tomorrow’s […]
26 days ago | 0 reads
Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Answers, part two of your weekly Panthers fan mailbag for everyone! This may be the final mailbag for the Panthers 2025 season, and you all came firing with questions, so I will make it count! I have decided not to get into Bryce Young related questions once again, as I […]
26 days ago | 1 read
Somehow we’re here. Despite a season of ups and downs and more losses than wins, the Carolina Panthers find themselves hosting a playoff game. It just so happens that it’s against the Los Angeles Rams, the team the Panthers defeated at Bank of America Stadium about a month ago in what was arguably the most […]
27 days ago | 0 reads