{"id":551077,"date":"2017-11-08T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=551077"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:01:47","slug":"panthers-punter-michael-palardy-waited-years-for-his-shot-now-hes-the-best-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=551077","title":{"rendered":"Panthers punter Michael Palardy waited years for his shot. Now he\u2019s the best in the NFL."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2014, punter Michael Palardy was just an undrafted rookie free agent out of Tennessee hoping for a chance. Thomas McGaughey, then the special teams coordinator for the New \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article183528676.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article183528676.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\/article183528676.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers punter Michael Palardy waited years for his shot. Now he\u2019s the best in the NFL.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2014, punter Michael Palardy was just an undrafted rookie free agent out of Tennessee hoping for a chance. Thomas McGaughey, then the special teams&#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-551077","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\/551077","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=551077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899037,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551077\/revisions\/1899037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}