{"id":1528303,"date":"2021-12-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1528303"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:12:51","slug":"matt-rhule-is-putting-faith-in-jeff-nixon-to-help-fix-the-panthers-hes-earned-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1528303","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rhule is putting faith in Jeff Nixon to help fix the Panthers. He\u2019s earned it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jeff Nixon was being recruited out of high school in Pennsylvania, Matt Rhule, then his teammate and best friend, used to make VHS tapes of his football highlights to \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article256482976.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article256482976.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article256482976.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Matt Rhule is putting faith in Jeff Nixon to help fix the Panthers. He\u2019s earned it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jeff Nixon was being recruited out of high school in Pennsylvania, Matt Rhule, then his teammate and best friend, used to make VHS tapes of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894336,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528303\/revisions\/1894336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}