{"id":386771,"date":"2016-09-17T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=386771"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:22:36","slug":"flag-day-hits-on-panthers-qb-cam-newton-could-change-officials-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=386771","title":{"rendered":"Flag day? Hits on Panthers QB Cam Newton could change officials\u2019 behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL faced a public relations firestorm because of hits on Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton in the season opener at Denver. That brought a new wave of awareness to the issue of player safety and raised speculation that officials will be on high alert for questionable hits on quarterbacks, particularly Newton.<\/p>\n<p> \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article102308507.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article102308507.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article102308507.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Flag day? Hits on Panthers QB Cam Newton could change officials\u2019 behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL faced a public relations firestorm because of hits on Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton in the season opener at Denver. That brought a new&#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-386771","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\/386771","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=386771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901214,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386771\/revisions\/1901214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}