{"id":296,"date":"2010-10-04T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:10:48","slug":"panthers-should-have-stolen-a-victory-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Panthers should have stolen a victory in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/10\/07\/27\/15401\/Carolina-Panthers.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 272px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/10\/07\/27\/15401\/Carolina-Panthers.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Ok, so the Carolina Panthers aren&#8217;t very good this year but they really had a chance to steal one in New Orleans&#8230; and they should have.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being winless and using a rookie quarterback and being without injured Steve Smith, the Panthers were within John Kasay&#8217;s field goal range, just barely at the 36-yard-line, with time running out.<\/p>\n<p>But then they ran a slow-developing, deep-in-the-backfield running play to DeAngelo Williams that lost four yards. Even then, at 57 yards, the Panthers had a chance to win it on a long field goal. <\/p>\n<p>But the Saints predictably blitzed QB Danny Clausen who was sacked for another four-yard loss. The Panthers elected not to try a miracle 61-yard field goal attempt and failed on a fourth-down pass. Saints 16, Panthers 14.<\/p>\n<p>It was right there for the Panthers as the Saints have not been playing like Super Bowl champs. The Panthers would have been better off running a couple of off tackle dive plays and try a 50-yarder than running those two slow plays that went backward.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t get easier for the 0-4 Panthers as they play the 3-1 Bears next week without their star receiver Steve Smith, who is expected to be out with a high-ankle sprain. The Panthers have a bye week after the Bears game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so the Carolina Panthers aren&#8217;t very good this year but they really had a chance to steal one in New Orleans&#8230; and they should&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}