There already was a ton of intrigue surrounding the Carolina Panthers\u2019 \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d game, given how infrequently they play in prime time and the presence of a certain running back on the other sideline.<\/p>\n
Then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost to the L.A. Rams on Sunday \u2013 and lost Baker Mayfield to a shoulder injury in the process \u2013 and you can almost feel the buzz in Charlotte from out here on the West Coast.<\/p>\n
The Panthers (6-5) can end the night in sole possession of first place in the NFC South, a position they haven\u2019t held this late since Week 17 in their Super Bowl season of 2015. But first there is the matter of beating the San Francisco 49ers, which is no small task.<\/p>\n
Over the next several minutes, let\u2019s go over what I\u2019ll be watching at Levi\u2019s Stadium (where the Panthers ended that 2015 season in Super Bowl 50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There already was a ton of intrigue surrounding the Carolina Panthers\u2019 \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d game, given how infrequently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-306606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}