{"id":833048,"date":"2019-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=833048"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:39:56","slug":"panthers-defense-analysis-more-versatile-in-2019-that-doesnt-mean-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=833048","title":{"rendered":"Panthers defense analysis: More versatile in 2019. That doesn\u2019t mean improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stagnant. That&#8217;s how Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera described what became of his team&#8217;s defense by the end of the 2018 season. In Rivera&#8217;s view, the Panthers&#8217; look became so \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article234231107.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article234231107.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article234231107.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers defense analysis: More versatile in 2019. That doesn\u2019t mean improvement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stagnant. That&#8217;s how Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera described what became of his team&#8217;s defense by the end of the 2018 season. In Rivera&#8217;s view, 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-833048","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\/833048","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=833048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896780,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833048\/revisions\/1896780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}