{"id":558084,"date":"2017-12-27T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=558084"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:57:36","slug":"week-17-nfl-picks-can-panthers-close-out-season-with-a-win-at-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=558084","title":{"rendered":"Week 17 NFL picks: Can Panthers close out season with a win at Falcons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Tom Sorensen is taking a week off from column writing. Here are his NFL picks for Week 17, a week that will settle the league&#8217;s final playoff spots. \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article191879309.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article191879309.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\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article191879309.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Week 17 NFL picks: Can Panthers close out season with a win at Falcons?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Tom Sorensen is taking a week off from column writing. Here are his NFL picks for Week 17, a week that will settle the&#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-558084","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\/558084","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=558084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898619,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558084\/revisions\/1898619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}