{"id":76146,"date":"2025-08-17T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76146\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:44:07","slug":"nfl-com-states-the-obvious-about-carolina-panthers-starters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76146\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL.com states the obvious about Carolina Panthers\u2019 starters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In their first preseason outing of 2025, the Carolina Panthers<\/a> faced a Cleveland Browns\u2019 team that finished with a 3-14 record a year ago. On Saturday, Dave Canales\u2019s team faced a little tougher assignment in a club coming off back-to-back AFC South titles.<\/a> It was a rough outing overall for the Panthers, who finished the game with 164 total yards and two turnovers in a 20-3 setback<\/a> to the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturday wasn\u2019t the best of days for the Carolina 1s.\u201d explained David Ely <\/a>of NFL.com. \u201c\ufeff\ufeffBryce Young<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff and the first-team offense, which showed promise last week versus the Browns, regressed against a tough challenge in Houston. Young didn\u2019t complete a pass in two series and the starting group had a discouraging minus-2 net yards on the day, with its lone first down coming via penalty. The defense didn\u2019t fare much better, allowing chunk plays on the ground and a fourth-and-goal conversion when \ufeff\ufeffC.J. Stroud\ufeff\ufeff<\/a> found \ufeff\ufeffNico Collins\ufeff\ufeff for six.\u201d<\/p>\n

As mentioned, Young led the offense on his team\u2019s first two series. He threw an interception on the club\u2019s first offensive play of the contest, but he got a reprieve as the turnover was wiped out by a penalty. Nevertheless, the Panthers were three-and-out twice in the first quarter with him at the helm. Six plays added up to minus-2 yards. Young was 0-for-2 in passing, ran once for two yards, and was sacked once for minus-eight yards.<\/p>\n

\"Texans<\/p>\n

Aug 16, 2025; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Texans cornerback Damon Arnette (41) runs with the ball after making an interception during the fourth quarter against the Carolina Panthers at NRG Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images \/ Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

All told, it was a disappointing performance given how the first team offense looked a week ago against the Browns, when on its second series of the game marched 73 yards on nine plays for a touchdown. Of course, the rest of the team, including quarterbacks Andy Dalton<\/a> and Jack Plummer, didn\u2019t fare much better\u2014the latter serving up a pair of interceptions while being sacked twice.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it\u2019s already been reported that Canales won\u2019t play his starters this week vs. the visiting Steelers on Thursday. An interesting decision indeed. Obviously, this team has some work to do before they kick off the season three weeks from today<\/a> when they face the Jaguars at Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

Takeaways from Carolina\u2019s confusing, ugly preseason loss to Texans<\/a><\/p>\n

Fantasy label for Bryce Young shows how far he\u2019s come since benching<\/a><\/p>\n

National NFL insider says sneaky Panthers TE looks like \u2018real weapon\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Stock up, stock down for Panthers from their second preseason game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In their first preseason outing of 2025, the Carolina Panthers faced a Cleveland Browns\u2019 team that finished with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-76146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76146","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=76146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}