{"id":782217,"date":"2026-07-24T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/782217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:21:08","slug":"panthers-owner-david-tepper-we-are-a-playoff-team-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/782217\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers owner David Tepper: We are a playoff team this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panthers owner David Tepper\u2019s team won the NFC South last season and he\u2019s expecting more of the same in 2026. <\/p>\n

During an event discussing the extension of a naming rights deal for Bank of America Stadium and the ongoing renovation of the building, Tepper was asked what a championship team looks like. His answer made it clear that he believes the Panthers should be vying for the top of the NFC this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have here<\/a>,\u201d Tepper said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cYesterday, I said last year going into the year, we weren\u2019t a playoff team, we were a team that could get to the playoffs. This year we are a playoff team.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Panthers won three more games in 2026 than they did in 2025 and won the division, so it\u2019s realistic to expect the team to continue to improve in head coach Dave Canales\u2019s third season at the helm. That expectation doesn\u2019t come with any mandate, but failing to meet the owner\u2019s view of how the season should play out would make for some questions about how the franchise would react to falling short. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panthers owner David Tepper\u2019s team won the NFC South last season and he\u2019s expecting more of the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-782217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782217","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=782217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}