{"id":404609,"date":"2016-12-09T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=404609"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:16:48","slug":"espns-stephen-a-smith-maybe-its-time-to-lay-off-panthers-qb-cam-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=404609","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith: maybe it\u2019s time to lay off Panthers QB Cam Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers QB Cam Newton has taken a beating in the national media and on local talk radio following tie-gate in Seattle and Carolina nose-diving to 4-8 after a Super Bowl \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/panther-tracks\/article119951698.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/panther-tracks\/article119951698.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\/panther-tracks\/article119951698.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith: maybe it\u2019s time to lay off Panthers QB Cam Newton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers QB Cam Newton has taken a beating in the national media and on local talk radio following tie-gate in Seattle and Carolina nose-diving to 4-8&#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-404609","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\/404609","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=404609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900659,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404609\/revisions\/1900659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}