{"id":69295,"date":"2025-08-09T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69295\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:06:08","slug":"panthers-qb-andy-dalton-trips-sacks-himself-in-nfl-preseason-game-vs-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69295\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers QB Andy Dalton trips, sacks himself in NFL preseason game vs. Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Dalton<\/a>\u2018s age showed itself in the Carolina Panthers\u2019 preseason showdown against the Cleveland Browns on Friday. In the third quarter, Dalton pump-faked a screen pass to his left, only to fall to the ground after attempting to turn and look down field.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old quarterback couldn\u2019t help but smile and throw his hands up after the play. Dalton is entering his 15th season in the NFL<\/a> and his third with the Panthers.<\/p>\n

Last season, Andy Dalton made six appearances and five starts for the Panthers after the team benched 2023 first overall pick Bryce Young<\/a>. In his six showings, Dalton completed 66.3% of his pass attempts for 989 yards and seven touchdowns, compared to six interceptions.<\/p>\n

Alas, Dalton lost the starting job after suffering an injury to the thumb on his throwing hand in a car accident. Young remained the team\u2019s starter for the rest of the season, even after Dalton fully recovered.<\/p>\n

On February 18, Dalton signed a two-year contract extension with the Panthers. His contract is worth $8 million and has a maximum value of $10 million. Young was excited for Dalton to secure his future with the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Andy are super close,\u201d Young said<\/a>. \u201cFrom when I first got here, just being able to talk with him through things, him having perspective on a situation that I had never been a part of, I was always leaning on him, always having conversations and just from a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t add up the hours we spend here; we\u2019re here every single day, and just being able to have someone that you can bounce stuff off of, ask how you see things. Whether it\u2019s Xs and Os or it\u2019s philosophical things or stuff outside of football or somewhere nuanced in between. He is always there, just trying to help me out. And again, having a guy like that who really does it for the right reasons and wants to help, that\u2019s super rare. So I\u2019m super grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Andy Dalton isn\u2019t expected to be the Week 1 starter for the Panthers this fall, he\u2019ll need to stay ready. After all, quarterbacks suffer injuries on nearly a weekly basis across the league. Dalton is excited for the Panthers\u2019 future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the trajectory of this team is trending in the right direction, and you want to be a part of it,\u201d Dalton said<\/a>. \u201cFrom when it wasn\u2019t as easy to win games and to see where it\u2019s going to go and to feel where it\u2019s going to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right people are here, and they\u2019re going to keep adding to it, so it\u2019s something that I didn\u2019t want to just be part of at the beginning of it and then be away and then see the success and see where it goes. But now I want to be part of the whole building of this thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Dalton\u2018s age showed itself in the Carolina Panthers\u2019 preseason showdown against the Cleveland Browns on Friday. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[50314,349,99],"class_list":["post-69295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-andy-dalton-06-katy","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}